Gajalakshmi Paramasivam
30
September 2020
Is
Velanwita Village an Orphanage?
There is personal belief and there is Universal
power of Belief. The value of meditation is to access our truth within. Truth
is perfectly balanced and hence the identification with our truth would balance
our own minds. Then to the extent of our needs, we would access the Universal
power and direct ourselves accordingly. This is also Soul Power.
Towards this, every nation is taken to be Sovereign,
until known otherwise. The voting system is to facilitate the voter to access
that Sovereign power through her/his personal belief. It is the duty of the
elected person to become that central pool and confirm that in action in the
form initiated by the believing voter. Hence if the voter writes, the leader
must write back. If the voter expresses verbally the leader needs to verbally
confirm the other side. If the voter does neither but believes - the voter has direct access to the power of
belief of the whole relationship. That is the way of Universal powers. When we
for example write articles without expecting any returns they are declarations of
our belief. Hindu Vedas are of this category. They are complete in themselves
and hence confirm Independence.
In his Colombo
Telegraph article ‘Need For
Systems To Maximise President’s Commitment To Development’, Dr Jehan Perera,
the Executive Director of National Peace Council of Sri Lanka seems to endorse
verbal orders as valid:
[President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s statement that his verbal orders should be considered as circulars to
be implemented has generated considerable interest as it goes against the norms
of state administration. There has been much commentary on it, not all of it
positive. The president issued this directive at a meeting organised for him in
one of the country’s most underdeveloped areas. His desire to cut through
layers of bureaucracy on the spot could be based on his previous experience as
a serving military officer and later as Defense Secretary. The large number of
requests made by the residents of the village of Vilanwita in the Badulla
District could have been the reason the president made this announcement to
ensure that the decisions he was making would be implemented.
Velanwita
which was the focus of the president’s attention will be a fortunate
beneficiary of his visit. It was clear that the president was not satisfied
with the findings he made regarding the living conditions of the people who had
voted for him in very large numbers. He visited the homes of people and also
their agricultural lands to get a firsthand experience of the problems that
needed the government’s attention. While in Velanwita he issued another
directive that if a written inquiry from one institution did not receive a
reply within fourteen days from another institution, it would be deemed to be
approved. This may solve the problem for those who seek the approval. However,
the potential to adversely affect the rights of others needs to be considered.]
According to the above
– there is no need for a local leader through whom one’s belief is channelled towards
the Nation’s central pool of Governance power. The elected leader is like the
mother of the local electorate. The Administrator is like the father. This
president has acted as if this village is an orphanage under the direct care of
the President. Adaderana reports ‘20A will not make Prime
Minister a nominal post – Mahinda’. But this action by the President makes even
the Ministers responsible become dummies.
The British established a reliable Administrative system in Sri
Lanka. This included written Administrative communications. Such is needed when
there is lack of belief. The British as foreigners needed visible evidence. Verbal
only communications confirm subjective powers. Silent communications confirm
governance powers. As a governing president, Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa would have
just listened and then shared his feelings informally without any visible Administrative
power. That sharing would cure the needy – Energy to Energy. In turn, the
president would have felt deeper ownership in rural Sri Lanka through rural
issues other than Defence which is his expertise. Unless the problems as
expressed by the people were within his ministerial portfolio, the president
had no Administrative authority to make direct orders.
I am therefore disappointed with Dr
Jehan Perera’s views which include the following:
[Among the decisions
taken by the president to improve the life of the people was to upgrade the
road, provide drinking water and to provide electricity to the village within
three months. In addition, he ordered that the village school be provided with
a new building and to increase the number of teachers. As there were also
people from neighbouring villages who attended the meeting they too presented
their problems which received solutions. All of these people can consider
themselves to be fortunate as they will be getting first priority among all
other villages when it comes to obtaining funding from the government budget
which is presently in deficit due to the shortage of financial resources. The
national economy needs to expand and wastage needs to be reduced if this
largesse is to reach a wider population.]
The president has confirmed highly subjective
approach which is the enemy of democracy. One would expect that from this
president who is empowered by family. The parallel of this at family level is
the attempt to bring president’s brother - Mr Basil Rajapaksa into government through
the 20th Amendment, by removing the ban on Dual Citizens in
Parliament. Family dynasty extends as religious dynasty and beyond as racial
dynasty followed by Communist dynasty.
This is not democracy. The vision of National
Peace Council of Sri Lanka is presented as follows:
[A just and peaceful Sri Lanka in which freedom, human and democratic rights of all people are
assured.]
If Dr Jehan Perera had been true to himself he would have distanced
himself from the above claim through National Peace Council or from the
President’s subjective pathway. The problem with dual citizenship has been
manifested through Dr Jehan Perera who seeks to be promoting Democracy as well
as Autocracy at the same time. That is like being on the side of American
Government and the Chinese Government at the same time. Hence the timing of
this manifestation.