08 April 2023

Gajalakshmi Paramasivam

 

 

13A IS INDIAN LAW IN SRI LANKA

 

As per the Island, ‘Jaffna District MP M.A. Sumanthiran has proposed Dharmalingam Siddarthan, as the CC nominee, The TNA has pressed for the slot on the basis of none of the six out of seven CC members, so far appointed in ex officio capacity, or nominated, included a Tamil’

Yoga Yoheswaran asks through Twitter ‘What about Muslims?’

Muslims in Parliament will need to ask themselves whether they seek to be included or whether they are better off spending their Energies in following Allah in their hearts.

Believers in the Parliamentary system will benefit from such inclusion. Not all those who vote, do so because they believe in the Parliamentary system.  It is like formal education. What percentage of Sri Lankans who go through the University system actually apply their higher thinking power to develop their own constitutions in family and community life? Most use higher knowledge to earn a living.

Our belief is our Natural Constitution. As per my knowledge, no member of Parliament has so far challenged in Court, the validity of ‘Buddhism Foremost’ article or its Tamil parallel – the 13^th Amendment to the Constitution. Both are relative due to desire. Both lack belief. Desire – including for fame damages the brain and breeds ignorance.

I had the Opportunity to appreciate two Sri Lankan laws of heritage value:

1.   Thesawalamai law 18 of 1806 (applicable to Jaffna Tamils)

2.   Prescription Ordinance 22 of 1871

 

When applying these laws, I deeply appreciated the balance that they confirmed in their applications.

In terms of Thesawalamai law applicable to inheritance, the balance between genders was time and marriage based. In terms of Prescription Ordinance, Belief ranked higher than commerce/money based ownership.

 

Heritages by nature have their own minds and are beyond our control. If therefore Buddhism is a heritage, its status is dmoted as relative through Buddhism article in the Sri Lankan Constitution. The result is exponential ‘awakening of the sacrifices, as current costs, each time Buddhism is used for relativitively. When a non-Buddhist who believes s/he is Sri Lankan is hurt due to demotion by a Buddhist-Sri Lankan, the resulting damage is exponential.

In terms of the 13^th Amendment, it is relative at Sri Lankan level and is not belief based. At regional basis, India could resolve, as UN does at global level, but not ‘agree’ as if the constitution  were ‘commercial’.

Given that India played the leading role, it amounted to interferance in Sri Lankan issues relating to Sovereignty.

Being  relative, it did not have the power to work itself.

When we intoduce provitions in the Constituion, outside our belief, as in the case of Fundamental rights in the Sri Lankan Constitution, there has to be an intellectual balance of equality.

So far, in Sri Lanka, I have not been unjustly hurt by any Sri Lankan. We did not need constitutional rights to achieve this. All we needed was belief.

In Australia, my Sri Lankan education became a heritage. I did not use it actively. Hence, like an elder, my heritage, became my philosopher & Guide.

Likewise, my Indian origin in Sri Lanka.

Democracy works best through belief which is the primary tool of grassroots citizens. Each time relativity suppreses belief, the result is exponential damage like that influenced by the Corona virus. Hindus call it Soorasamharam/Divine annihiliation. In physics the closest description  known to me is as radiation.

A constitution that is belief based will cure the parliament of its political excesses.