Gajalakshmi Paramasivam
So that All May Believe
[The
Protecting the Rights of People with Disabilities Act (No.28 of 1996) would be amended soon, said the Secretary to Ministry
of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage Shirani Weerakoon.
This
was revealed last Wednesday (11) at a multi-sectoral stakeholder meeting held
at the Galle Face Hotel to discuss the ways and means of improving the
accessibility to Assistive Technology by the persons with disabilities and
elders in Sri Lanka.
Organised
jointly by the Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine and the WHO, the meeting saw the presence of
both service providers and health care receivers who acknowledged the need to
improve the country’s level of medical, social and administrative response
towards clinical disabilities in people.] Island Report – ‘About 10% of Lankans physically or mentally impaired; laws to be
amended soon’
As indicated yesterday through
my article ‘Media’s Mental Disorder’, a fair proportion of Sri Lankan media
must be part of the 10%. In that Daily Mirror article, Indigenous Sri Lankans
known as Veddas were claimed to be descendants of King Vijaya known to have
come from India. To my mind, a major distortion is with Buddhist monks in
Politics and the placement of Buddhism foremost provision in the Constitution.
As per my discovery through the
spiritual path, all of us make our own structures as per the Truth that gets
recorded in us. When we use Laws and Common principles – we clear the ‘message’
more quickly than when we are influenced merely by our senses. Hence hearsay is
not admissible in good Administration. When this recording happened long ago we
are not usually conscious of it and hence are not aware of its form. But every manifestation that we contribute to
of our own freewill – is influenced by this component also. Where the current
forces that influence our actions and expressions – including through external
knowledge are absent the manifestation is the current form of that deep rooted
recording like our DNA. It may be positive or negative to us if manifested in
our current environments. Mental disorder happens when we are not able to
identify with the reason why a pain happens to us or when we enjoy without
having earned the pleasures/benefits, including through this deep seated memory.
Laws and principles regulate our endurance
and enjoyment respectively of pain and pleasure. Where we have earned benefits
but have not enjoyed them for whatever reason, they become structures that
guide us from within. Hence conscience driven decisions. Structures that
support others’ enjoyment eventually become Energy – especially when we do not
get credit for developing a structure nor for contributing to a structure that
others have developed. This is Soul value. This becomes the ‘Root-Cause’ of our
actions and expressions when we are free of external influence. This Root-Cause
Naturally connects us to others at Energy level. Hence our intuitive powers.
Whether they are positive or negative depends on the time and place of
manifestation.
Let’s take for example the Ministry that
is managing the above issue. As per the
above mentioned report – it is the Ministry of Social Empowerment,
Welfare and Kandyan Heritage.
Kandyan Heritage is different in
its makeup to Thesawalamai Heritage in Northern Sri Lanka and Mukkuva Heritage
in Eastern Sri Lanka. It is also different to the Roman-Dutch and English law
heritages commonly applicable to all Sri Lankans. If therefore those who are
treating the alleged mental disorder are of Kandyan mind structure, and those who are
being treated are of Thesawalamai mind structure the difference between the two
becomes the source of mental disorder in both groups.
During Post-Tsunami Reconstruction
service in Mankerni, Eastern Sri Lanka, a group of Western Medical officers
came to the village. They were distributing medication in a way they would not
have done in their home-nations. To my mind, the status of the people of
Mankerni was low in the minds of these medical officers who were unsupervised
by the leaders of Mankerni Community – who are largely descendants of Veddas
who live close to nature. The lady of the house where I was accommodated also
brought home a parcel with her. I asked her ‘Thilagawathi, what did you need
medication for?’. Thilagawathi said that she may need it for headaches etc. I
concluded that the suppliers were not service oriented but were there for
selfish reasons.
Indigenous communities are often
targeted by ‘converters’ due to the minds of Indigenous folks being clean of
current values and its excesses. Central Government that claims to be Common,
needs to ‘wait’ until objectively measurable evidence of wrong-doing is
manifested, before seeking to exercise authority over such groups. Treatment by
outsiders to that community, would lead to mental disorders.
The most needy group to my mind, is the Buddhist clergy active in Politics.
Lord Buddha’s pathway is known to be through Renunciation of inherited benefits
as a Royalty. Every practicing Buddhist would have invested in that pathway.
When Royal / Political status – is actively used by Buddhist leaders including
Buddhist clergy, they invest against Lord Buddha’s mind structure. They in fact
become Lord Buddha’s opposition and when left unaddressed they become Lord
Buddha’s enemy. When they are on their own – there is conflict within their
mind due to two opposing values being recorded. This when surfaced cannot be
received through an orderly mind – especially of one who genuinely follows Lord
Buddha through renunciation of high status.
Sri Lankan Buddhist Politicians –
are known to worship Lord Vishnu – known as Hindu by wider world. Lord Krishna
is known as Avatar / incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Whether this is true or not –
that is the way it is recorded in the minds of Hindus who worship Lord Krishna.
Lord Krishna was also King Krishna and part of the Royal family until the last.
Lord Krishna approved of weapon based war as a last resort for the purpose of
upholding Dharma. The rules of war were
strengthened during the time of Lord Krishna. As per my knowledge, there is no
such support for Buddhists from Lord Buddha. Hence Buddhist soldiers may resort
to other forms of belief that would support them in their jobs. This would in
turn dilute their investments in the path of Lord Buddha.
It was around this point that I
received an email message headed ‘Video from Fatima’ from Mr. Raja Perera, a member
of the St. Joseph’s College, Colombo, Alumni, living in the USA where it is 13
October today. https://www.americaneedsfatima.org/Rally-News/message-from-fatima-portugal-october-12-2017.html
I immediately read the message and forwarded
it to my dear friend Mrs. Malar Fonseka with whom I share faith in Our Lady.
The significance is explained as follows by Wikipedia:
[Beginning in the spring of 1917, three Catholic
shepherd children living near Fatima reported apparitions of an Angel, and
starting in May 1917, apparitions of the Virgin
Mary, whom the children
described as the Lady of Fátima. The children reported a prophecy that prayer would lead to
an end to the Great
War, and that on 13
October of that year the Lady would reveal her identity and perform a miracle
"so that all may believe." Newspapers reported the
prophesies, and many pilgrims began visiting the area. The children's accounts
were deeply controversial, drawing intense criticism from both local secular
and religious authorities. A provisional administrator briefly took the children
into custody, believing the prophecies were politically motivated in opposition
to the officially secular First Portuguese Republic established in 1910.
Estimates of the number of people present
range from 30,000 and 40,000, by Avelino de Almeida writing for the Portuguese
newspaper O Século to 100,000, estimated by
lawyer Dr. José Almeida Garrett, the son of a professor of natural sciences at the University of Coimbra.
Various claims have been made as to what actually happened
during the event. According to many witnesses, after a period of rain, the dark
clouds broke and the sun appeared as an opaque, spinning disc in the sky. It
was said to be significantly duller than normal, and to cast multicolored
lights across the landscape, the people, and the surrounding clouds. The sun
was then reported to have careened towards the earth before zig-zagging back to
its normal position.[19]Witnesses reported that their
previously wet clothes became "suddenly and completely dry, as well as the
wet and muddy ground that had been previously soaked because of the rain that
had been falling". Not all witnesses reported seeing the sun
"dance". Some people only saw the radiant colors, and others,
including some believers, saw nothing at all.[21][22][23][24] The only known picture of the
sun taken during the event shows nothing unusual.
The three children (Lúcia dos Santos and
her cousins Jacinta and
Francisco Marto) who originally claimed to have seen Our Lady of Fátima also
reported seeing a panorama of visions, including those of Jesus, Our Lady of Sorrows, Our Lady of Mt.
Carmel, and of Saint Joseph blessing the people. In the fourth edition of her
memoirs, written in 1941, Lúcia said that on the occasion of their third visit
to the Cova da Iria, on 13
July 1917, she asked the lady to tell them who she was, and to perform a
miracle so that everyone would believe. The lady told to her that they should
continue to come to the Cova each month until October, when the requested
miracle would occur]
I
am a Hindu and yet I believe in Our Lady and say rosaries before I go to bed
every night. Hence to me, receiving the above message from Mr. Raja Perera with
whose group also I share my thoughts especially about the Sri Lankan war, is a
manifestation of that faith. I thanked Professor Henry Sathananthan who
connected me to the group well before he merged with the Lord. I felt good that
the Sri Lankan war would end through Belief in Sri Lanka – whatever the form –
including Catholic form.
Each Sovereign group needs to be
left to its own powers, so they would use
their inner capacity to find their own
solutions. The problem starts when ‘outsiders’ try to takeover one side or the
other or in some instances ‘both’. Global minded groups must seek and find
global minded Sri Lankans for such services.
A global mind is needed to offset the surfacing of Natural ancestral structures
in the name of tradition and enforced on others through majority power. Where
the common Sri Lankan does not have global mind structure, each group needs its
own separate pathway to be facilitated towards curing its own mental disorders.
That is what we live with eventually as a Sovereign Individual/Community/Nation.
Once we identify with our inner strengths – we would be ready to use the
intellectual pathway to Administer through rights and wrongs. Belief has no
rights nor wrongs.
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