01 November 2021
FROM FOREMOST TO SEPARATION
‘Sri
Lanka: Mandates Stupidity’ states Prabath
Sahabandu who according to Sri Lanka Guardian is ‘the Chief Editor of The
Island, a Colombo based daily where this piece first appeared.’ The Island, as
per my knowledge never published my articles. But taken as a whole – Sri Lanka
Guardian leads in publishing my work over the years. Hence I accepted their
word as to who Prabath Sahabandu is. That is the way of Commonness.
So, do I
think that the government acted stupidly in appointing a Buddhist monk to head
the Presidential Taskforce ? No!
Let us see as to why not?
The
introduction to the subject matter begins as follows:
[It
has been reported that the Rajapaksa brothers saw red when one of the SLPP
coalition leaders, at a recent meeting, expressed his displeasure at the
appointment of Ven. Galagodaatte Gnanasara as the head of the so-called
one-country-one-law presidential task force. ]
The
Red Rag was actually ‘shown’ to minority bulls through the above mentioned
appointment. This would then tend towards perpetuating rebellions and therefore
the need to visibly maintain the armed forces at current or greater levels.
That is the way of Sakuni / Son of Saturn in the epic Mahabharatham. Sakuni’s
weapons were his gambling dice. The weapons of Sinhala Nationalists is
Buddhism. The weapons of Tamil Nationalists is Racism. The weapons of Junior Tamils
who desire Equality is Casteism.
The
Chief Editor goes on to state:
[They
reportedly demanded to know what right the dissenting leader had to question
the decision of a President who had received a mandate from 6.9 million people.
Their line of reasoning defies comprehension. Do they think the mandate they
are crowing about has made the President infallible?]
When
you logically comprehend, you are not in belief and v.v. One who believes is
infallible as per her/his conscience.
When
Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa was elected by the People – it was taken to be as per
their Belief. I concluded my article headed ‘ICAC ERODING OUR WELLBEING?’ – as follows:
[The ICAC
lacks jurisdiction to enter into this area of ‘belief’. Only we the People have
the authority to dismiss an elected person on the basis of ‘loss’ of trust. We
also have to wait for election time towards this. Let us not forget that
criminals who believe in their own sovereignty are also entitled to leader of
their belief. ]
That
is the power of democracy which is based on ‘soul power’. The soul is a spark
of Divinity in us and it is infallible. This power is known as Common power.
When
the President recently gave his speech at the UN – the English media in Sri
Lanka did not call it ‘stupid’. There Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa played the tune of
the English media. Knowledge without belief cannot be sustained to benefit our natural
environment.
The
Chief Editor states:
[A popular mandate is
not a licence for a leader to do as he or she pleases. Instead, it is the
authority the people confer on a political leader to act as their
representative and serve them.]
True. The Common
voter can be served only as per the common belief of that relationship. This is
confirmed by that part of the Sri Lankan Constitution that applies exclusively
to majority group. This is in Article 9 which states that Buddhism is foremost
and Buddha Sasana is the law:
[The
Republic of Sri Lanka shall give to Buddhism the foremost place and accordingly
it shall be the duty of the State to protect and foster the Buddha Sasana,
while assuring to all religions the rights granted by Articles 10 and 14(1)(e).. ]
The current President
has so far demonstrated that he gave Buddhism foremost place. Non Buddhists
therefore have the choice of accepting him as senior or separating themselves as
Equals and operate within their own laws such as Thesawalamai law and Muslim
law.
The hidden perpetual
value in this constitutional structure is separatism when we claim to be Equal
to a Buddhist – as in Common global law. Otherwise every non-Buddhist has the
limit to take Junior position to a Buddhist and it is the duty of every Buddhist
to take senior position and provide the facilities for the junior religions to
practice their faith. Thesawalamai law has the parallel on gender basis. The
division is work based. Those of us who practice Thesawalamai law would
appreciate the built in Separation of powers in article 9. Those who failed to
do so desired Equal Status and invoked juniors to declare separation. Thus ‘Sinhala
only’ policy of Mr SWRD Bandaranayake became
Buddhism foremost during the rule of Mrs Bandaranayake who was treated by her
husband as a junior who belonged in the kitchen. He was killed by Buddhist monk
and the lady who accepted Junior position elevated the Buddhist monk through
the above article which within political leadership would have offset the fear
of Buddhist leaders getting killed by Buddhist monks.
To my mind, Communism
/ Marxism was an avenue through which commonness was visibly promoted and hence
became a natural opposition of religion and belief based structures that are
based on invisible values of Tradition. Their heirs are the JVP in South and
LTTE in North. They are now separating from mainstream Traditional politicians
in North.
To argue as per the
Constitution which is the Bible of Sri Lanka, one has to be above Buddhism as
Common God or consciously remain within her/his side of the Constitution where
s/he has the opportunity to be god.
Let us therefore project
the statement above regarding service as a representative. As Equal - one Represents. But to serve one has to be
junior. As a senior you need the authority to structure and the structure
ensures protection of your earnings. A senior does not lead by direct work at equal
level as the person s/he represents. Hence majority vote beyond one vote is not
valuable. All one needs is one vote majority to represent. Such a person is a
first amongst equals and is NOT senior. The government gets to go first on the
basis of majority.
No law in democracy
would render powers / authority to take a position above the common person / group
that shares / delegates its powers. Hence we have the Judiciary whose power is
based to higher level through intellectual pursuit coupled with belief in those
who gave the world such laws. If the
Judiciary had frowned upon such opposition – one could conclude that that
member of the Judiciary was ignorant. But not so a politician who represents.
Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa
did not claim he was a clever leader to produce a policy that would satisfy the
educated. He listened to his brother who accepted Equal position of LTTE leader
– including by bribing LTTE’s eastern commander Karuna. The English media did
not call that ‘unjust’ or ‘stupid’. Tamils demoted the status of Eastern branch
but that was too little too late.
Article
9 has continued to be part of our constitution and has been accepted by all governments
since 1972. Unlike in the case of language issue – minorities also did not show
strong opposition to this. They thus confirmed the height of their intelligence
as well.
The
Chief Editor states:
[If the SLPP leaders believe
that the incumbent President’s decisions and actions cannot be questioned or
challenged simply because of his mandate, then they will have to explain why
they protested against what the late Presidents J. R. Jayewardene and R.
Premadasa did. They held street protests, filed court cases, and carried out
malicious propaganda onslaughts against those leaders. They even went to Geneva
against President Premadasa. They also campaigned against President Maithripala
Sirisena and tried to oust him in spite of his mandate, didn’t they?]
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