Gajalakshmi Paramasivam
09 January 2021
MAHINDA
– HAWK, HAS BECOME DOVE?
“It is too early
to say whether Mahinda is a hawk or a dove. On the other hand, what
the peace activists and the western media should be concerned about isnot
so much whether Mahinda is a hawk or a
dove, but to make a dove of the LTTE leader. If they could do that today, peace
will dawn on this land tomorrow – that’s for sure”. – Island Editorial -
2005 Looking Behind The Terror Curtain: The New Challenge For Journalism
Right
now, Mahinda is more a dove than a hawk. Did this happen due largely to Western
Media or due to Buddhism Foremost in the Sri Lankan Constitution? A true Hindu
would seek within. Likewise true Buddhist.
Many
parts of the Sri Lankan constitution are reports of what happened rather than
experience based logic which becomes a heritage once the experience is
completed. Article 9 is based on former. This article is not directly invoked
by Parliamentarians, largely because they did not write their own experience as
law. The Parliamentarians became the medium through whom the Buddhist clergy
wrote the law.
Yesterday,
we learnt through Australian media that Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has been
released from prison early, on the basis of Covid19 pandemic. In Sri Lanka, the
Presidents need no such reason to release their supporters who were sent to prison by the judicial system.
In
the case of Abu Bakar Bashir, he was seen as violent leader by the West –
actively after Bali bombing in 2002.
Bali itself is Hindu heritage area where Vishnu presides and Vishnu uses
Garuda – the hawk as His vehicle. As separate entities Vishnu preserves and
Garuda destroys. But when the higher power uses the lower power as vehicle, the
latter becomes harmless.
Bashir
– a Muslim, violated the above Hindu order through majority Muslim power, when
he claimed in support of Bali bombing “There is no nobler life than to die as a
martyr for jihad. None. The highest deed in Islam is Jihad. If we commit to
Jihad, we can neglect other deeds, even fasting and prayer.”
But as per Hindu epic Mahabharatham, Vishnu in
the form of Krishna insists on fighting on the basis of Common Law and Rules. It
was Hindu Bali power that punished Bashir. The net Truth of a place is preserved as its Natural Laws. Hindu Bali was
no place for preaching Islamic Jihad.
Interestingly, Bashir who claimed that the Bali
Bombings happened due to American micro-nuclear power was eventually punished
for plans of terror and military training in Aceh – a predominantly
Muslim part of Indonesia. Interestingly, Bashir accepted release due to fear of
Corona virus which is also like nuclear power. He did not practice Jihad against
the virus and die in prison.
The Sri Lankan parallel of Hindu power v Buddhist
power – is in the article 9 of the Sri Lankan constitution. This article
demotes Buddhism to relative level by allocating Buddhism the foremost status. This demotes other religions to junior levels.
In terms of Hinduism, Dr Kalinga Seneviratne
presents his interpretation of his community’s mental order as follows:
[If you are
familiar with the history of the country and the religious beliefs of the
two communities you will know that this cannot be a religious conflict. The two
religions and their religious cultures are closely linked in Sri Lanka. As a
child, before my exams, my grandmother took me first to the Buddhist temple for
a ‘puja’ – religious blessing – and after that she took me to the Hindu temple
close-by for another ‘puja’ to get the blessings of the Hindu god Ganesh. In
Sri Lankan Buddhism, Hindu gods are considered a higher level
of existence, where they would have the power to protect you. Even god Vishnu,
the Sinhalese believe has been assigned by the Buddha to protect Buddhism in
Sri Lanka. Thus, almost every Buddhist temple in Sri Lanka has a shrine for
Hindu gods.]
First of all – our Hindu hierarchy requires us to
pay our respects to Lord Ganesh – who was driven by His faith in his parents.
Going to Ganesh after getting the blessings of Buddha is a corrupt
manifestation of Hindu philosophy. The return came through attacks by elephants
in the elephants in Perahera turning wild and attacking through exponential
power.
As per the above, a Buddhist considers Vishnu (who
travels on the Hawk) as being junior to Buddha. The expression “Vishnu, the Sinhalese believe has been
assigned by the Buddha to protect Buddhism in Sri Lanka” confirms this.
This has its origin in article 9 – according to
which Buddhism is foremost. The practice of other religions as per Universal
principles of Democracy, is assigned by Buddhists through article 9 to the
government. Hence Buddhists are considered ‘Seniors’ with the authority to
direct other religious followers.
This
means in essence – that Buddhists do not have the confidence that they are a
Sovereign power in their own rights. This was highlighted by me recently in my
article ‘SINHALA BUDDHISM IN AUSTRALIA’ – on the basis of Professor
Stephen C. Berkwitz’s paper ‘Resisting the
Global in Buddhist Nationalism: Venerable Soma's Discourse of Decline and
Reform’
First Buddha was elevated and Vishnu was demoted;
Later as per the system of karma – Buddha himself was demoted and Buddhist monk
Gangodawila Soma Thera was promoted.
As per Hindu philosophy
god appears in the form of our belief. Where Buddha was worshipped Buddha
became that god. Where Buddhist monk Gangodawila Soma was worshiped the common
Lankan Buddhist saw god in the form of monk Gangodawila Soma.
Dr Kalinga Seneviratne goes
on to interpret as follows:
[Meanwhile,
the Hindus believe that Buddha was a reincarnation of Vishnu,and he was born in
this world to relieve human beings from suffering. Even at the annual Kandy
Esala Perahera, the world famous festival held in Kandy in August every year to
pay homage to the tooth relic of the Buddha, the adjoining Hindu temples join
in the colourful procession. It has happened for centuries and even though the
Tamil Tigers bombed the temple in 1998, this tradition has continued until
today, because Buddhists don’t see this as an attack by Hindus on a venerated
Buddhist shrine. There is a strong belief in Sri Lanka today
that some “faith based” western organizations and governments are using the
Tamil Tigers to destabilise the region. It will be an interesting investigative
reporting exercise for an
Australian journalist to investigate who are the people in Australia who are promotingthe
concept of Tamil Eelam (homeland) and raising money for Tamil refugees. You
will find many of them are Christian Tamils and Christian churches. If you
investigate further, you will find that many of these churches are
fundamentalist sects who use this money for so called “charitable” work in
north-eastern Sri Lanka.]
As a Jaffna Tamil I believe that our main basis of
discrimination was caste which in most instances was based on work that one performed
through inherited skills. In terms of religion, we were common with Christians
due to our investment in higher education which brought us the opportunity to
show merit based status which from time to time was higher than that of a
Buddhist in multicultural circles. As per our family heritage – we respected
Christianity – especially Catholicism in our case, which facilitated us to
reach our higher potential through higher education.
Buddhist government’s karma returned through
Communists who tried to make juniors of Buddhist politicians. The LTTE copied
them. Almost all of the Tamils known to me as those who support the LTTE are
Hindus. I share my wisdom with them and even though they do not absorb all of
it – many appreciate and treat me as their senior. Thereafter it is a continuous
flow of Energy which transforms them.
Like in the case of Bashir, whenever we left the
Sinhalese-Buddhists to themselves the
false junior position reversed itself and went global exponentially. So long as
Tamils carry their religious heritage as heritage and do not venture to ‘write
history’ we would continue to go global exponentially.
As per Virakesari , the monument celebrating LTTE
combatants has been removed from the University of Jaffna, by government
forces. This restores the sovereign power of the University – born out of
Jaffna’s pain of standardization. LTTE’s reaction through armed revolution is a
relative power – and is the parallel of Buddhism foremost. The removal is
service to Goddess Saraswathi – the Goddess of Education.
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