Gajalakshmi Paramasivam

24 January 2019

Sri Lanka’s Nine Nations

My University of  NSW friend Gwen rang me and shared with me her appreciation of Professor Hugh Mackay’s Gandhi Oration, delivered at the University of New South Wales. Professor Mackay shares as follows:

[One of Gandhi’s wisest contributions to this way of thinking was to urge us to acknowledge that when we find ourselves in conflict with someone’s ideas, it is the conflict itself that is our opponent – not each other. Gandhi’s so-called “passive resistance” – a term he himself rejected – was really about replacing the force of violence with the combined force of truth and compassion – what he called “soul force”. ]

In 2004 October I wrote the response to the published speech ‘The relevance of Ahimsa’  by Justice C. G. Weeramantry, former Vice President of the International Court of Justice. My response was published on 01 November 2004 – about which I came to know months later. On that day – Dr. Peter Vaux stated that I was like Gandhi: 

 [Dr. Peter Vaux – who was the senior Registrar of the psychiatric unit of Prince of Wales Hospital to which Magistrate Gilmour sent me  on 01 November 2004, wrote to the Courts – that the matter needed to be resolved legally and that I was mentally stable. Dr. Vaux said to Jodi who was interviewed as a family member – that I was like Gandhi.  During the interview I shared with Dr. Vaux my experience with Sathya Sai Baba and how the holy powder had materialized on my picture of  Him.  Dr. Vaux smiled and said he had knowledge of such materializations.  Dr. Vaux asked me also ‘So, what did you do when you went to see the Vice Chancellor? Just sat there and waited?’  I smiled and said I sat there and read the books I had taken with me.  To me at that time – this was the value of my work for the Hospital system when I was Revenue Manager of South Eastern Sydney Area Health Service.  It was because I had invested in that system by doing more than what I was getting paid for – that I was able to share as a common owner with Dr. Vaux who to me was also an owner and not mere employee. An owner is higher than an employer who is higher than an employee. At the UNSW – the Chancellors were owners but the Vice Chancellors were mere employers. An employee contributing more than is required by her/his position is likely to become an owner more quickly than an employer who does less than her/his duties.  Hence they were the ones who required my approval to enter the area that I was occupying as an owner in that University. ] Naan Australian – Chapter 25

To my mind, it was no coincidence that my contribution on Ahimsa as practiced by Gandhi was published on the day that Dr Vaux recognized the Gandhi in me. Truth is universal and hence whoever contributes to Truth in a particular pathway is able to comfortably invoke that Truth. Truth when manifested could be positive or negative to the person and the environment. Professor Mackay asked the question ‘I wonder what Gandhi would have made of Australia in 2017 – a place that many people who live here regard as the best country in the world.’ I did not have to wonder in 2004. I identified with the need to eliminate unjust subjective discrimination when I could not find a fellow Australian confirming my relationship with common Australian through whom I invested in Australian workplaces.  At these workplaces, I invested in workplace commonness with social cultures that had very little in common with my social culture. Often I used my soul power and recognized the need of the other – especially those senior to me by position and made my work ‘common’ so they could draw the value needed from it.  That was fine. But often beyond a point they ‘took’ the outcomes as theirs (only) and often ignored my contribution. This happened at the University of NSW also. Such forgetfulness leads to disorder of the mind. Truth renders perfect order to the mind.

I believe that I felt the deepest pain when those who did recognize my contribution and sang my praises in private  failed to demonstrate  consciousness of my contribution when they had ‘possession’ of my work-outputs – especially in development of democratic systems. I shared that pain because I cared.  The sweetness in voluntary-service was lost when I was being ‘told’ by the very persons who were my juniors by substance, holding apparently senior positions above me. But that is what happens when invisible ownership by one is taken as visible benefits by another.

Gwen highlighted, the commonness of my experience with that of Gandhi’s – narrated by Professor Mackay:

[You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.]

When one believes and when one cares – one feels pushed to act. That has been my experience. Hence act, I did. The ultimate reward is identifying with the wonderful power of our truth – which repeatedly confirms -  that genuine work is Always rewarded. To me therefore Gandhi came to the University of NSW and Australia through his heirs in Independence. Gandhi does not need to think about UNSW because he is part of it.

As per my culture – when we confirm that we are heirs of someone – we naturally live with them and they through our bodies. That is the ‘soul force’.

As an Independent  Sri Lankan do I identify with Gandhi value in the following?

[Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa, in a statement on the constitutional reforms, said that the draft constitution seeks to weaken Parliament and immeasurably strengthen the provincial legislatures, and it will compromise the unitary character of the Constitution.] Daily Mirror article ‘Draft Constitution weakens Parliament and strengthens PCs: MR’

Sri Lankan Provincial legislatures happened due to the pain and suffering of Tamils who sought to confirm their right to self-governance. I believe that every person who governs her/himself as an individual and/or as a group such as family, work-institution  or community, naturally contributes to the nation that s/he considers to be home-nation. Self Governance confirms independence. 31 years have passed since  the 13^th Amendment to the Constitution,  which gave birth to Provincial Legislatures. But without administrative powers delegated by Central Government they become  Separate nations governed by their belief and administration based on such belief only. Their powers of self governance would not be shared with any other unit that does not believe in them as a sovereign group / province. Hence the refusal to devolve power to elected Provincial Councils effectively has created  9 nations within Sri Lanka. Had Tamil been recognized as Equal official  language  - we would have had one nation, with internal power sharing. But with Sinhalese, followed by Buddhism being granted foremost status – in the Constitution, there is no basis through which one could recognize Equal status of those who use their own belief based pathways to realizing self-governance. Belief needs to be deep-rooted to support tall and wide trees. External laws are needed when belief is lacking in depth.

Provinces without delegated powers of national government – are self-governing, autonomous nations. Is that what Mr Mahinda Rajapaksa wants – making one wonder whether  his belief is lacking in depth? To the extent these provinces are self-governing – they would invoke Gandhi power time and time again to protect our investment in self-governance. I believe, I am one such heir who naturally shares at grassroots level which then invokes exponentially – not only from India but from Australia also. Likewise all those who realize self-governance in their new nations but continue to care and include their loved ones in Sri Lanka.  If power is not devolved – they bypass national government to share through their own beliefs. This would make such provinces more strongly global than national government.

Gajalakshmi Paramasivam

23 January 2019

What is the Tamil Problem & therefore Opportunity?

I read at my uncle’s home in India that ‘Problems are Opportunities in work clothes’. Years later I learnt through Dr Laksiri Fernando that Lord Buddha said:

‘He who sees dukkha sees also the arising of dukkha, sees also the cessation of dukkha, and sees also the path leading to the cessation of dukkha.’ 

To me the saying ‘Problems are Opportunities in work clothes’ is the active version of Lord Buddha’s message. One who ‘sees’ dukka within would need to be in meditation mode. If ‘dukka’ / problem is true – then it comes with its equal and opposite reality. That is the way of Truth.

In his Ceylon Today article headed ‘TNA faced with a conundrum’ Mr N Sathiya Moorthy states as follows:

[Other reports have talked about Senathirajah and another TNA Parliamentarian, Dharmalingam Siddarthan, claiming that the TNA should have an “informal say” in matters pertaining to development in the Northern Province. Such claims have short, medium, and long-term consequences, going beyond PHU leader Gammanpila’s jest that the TNA’s R. Sampanthan, as the erstwhile Leader of the Opposition was one of the kind in the world to have voted in four budgets (of the incumbent Government in a row) without proposing any additions or deletions.

A better, honest, and honourable course would be for the TNA to join the Government, formally. They can then accept ministerial berths, maybe including ‘Northern Province Development’ and also Education, if they still considered Education as key to the Tamils’ socio-economic success in the era preceding the war, violence, and terrorism. ]

Tamils being the true opposition NEEDED by majority Sinhalese is confirmed by TNA being the leading opposition in National Parliament. Without that Opposition – Sinhalese who are driven by ‘benefits’ would become dependents of the government. Where leaders are known to be money greedy, they need a diverse culture to be the Opposition to limit such leaders – many of whom were exposed recently over the Prime Ministerial position.

TNA as Equal Opposition in National Parliament is confirmation that Tamils invested proportionately more in the intellectual pathway than Sinhalese. We Tamils thus confirm the saying ‘Necessity is the mother of inventions’. Sinhalese who were true to themselves would have naturally connected to those Tamils who found ways to preserve their independent identity. Within TNA – Mr Sampanthan best represents this democratic rights earned by Tamils.

It is irresponsible of  Mr N Sathiya Moorthy to highlight Gammanpila’s statement without attributing credit to Mr Sampanthan and TNA for representing the belief of Tamils in themselves. Merit that does not lead to belief is of negative value and often leads to dictatorship in the name of democracy. Those who did not feel the pain of Tamils as their own – our outsiders to the Sri Lankan problem. They have the duty to observe and not mark rights and wrongs.

As per Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO)’s latest report dated 20 January 2019,  they are rejecting the proposal to maintain Unitary State structure with Buddhism Foremost article in the Constitution. This confirms to me that TELO has participated in the pain of discrimination that continues to threaten Tamils under such structure.

During his recent Parliamentary speech about absence of war-crimes inquiry, TNA MP Mr Sumanthiran  referred to Jus cogens and Natural Justice – emphasizing the importance of not limiting ourselves to existing laws. Using the principles of Jus Cogens in terms of Democracy and Natural Justice in terms of Belief – let us examine the validity of accepting any proposal that has Buddhism foremost which is watered down version of Sinhala only legislation. Recently an NGO executive sought my interpretation of the principle that ‘Impartiality transcended the terms of agreements by contract’

To the extent the Constitution of Sri Lanka is partial to one religion and therefore one race, it is not belief based. Unless minorities who have successfully attained self-governance recognize this need that slows down majority in their pathway to self-governance – such partiality is becomes an opposing force – the brunt of which was borne by Tamils who dared to declare the right to self-governance. Armed militants whose only source of conscious of law was based on their experience when killed and punished by soldiers of majority race whose only source of conscious of law was their own experience, contributed strongly to this Equal status getting manifested in National Parliament in 2015. Stronger is the contribution of civilians killed by soldiers. To the extent the soldiers did not know the law – and war crimes had been committed by both sides – they were natural and would have been settled through the Clearing House of Karma. But given that  victory was ‘taken’ by the then leader Mr Mahinda Rajapaksa and punishment continues to be meted out to the political prisoners by the current government also, it is an avenue through which injustice continues to happen.

Human Justice is relative to the law and / or manifested actions. It is a contract with the people. Belief transcends such contracts and hence the value of Jus cogens and Natural Justice to seekers of lasting peace / Nirvana.

Prescriptive Rights Ordinance is a clear example of the application of Natural Justice transcending ownership rights by purchase. I was exposed to this challenge in the case of our land in Narehenpita - Colombo 5. I pawned all the jewellery I had and borrowed at 36% interest and wanted to build a home. I believe that it was that belief that took me outside Sri Lanka to earn the money needed to buy a home. There are many manifestations that confirmed the commonness. I was working at Prima Ceylon Ltd when I bought that property and our current Australian home unit was developed by Prima. I learnt about it only at the time of purchase – at which time I paid my respects to the Chairman of Prima who was present at the auction. Had I been paid less than the Singapore-Sri Lankan  value of my work and I continued produce at the higher standards I would have accumulated ownership rights in Prima. By paying my respects to the Chairman who probably did not even recognize me but accepted my respects gracefully – I invoked that ownership as an heir and not as an outside purchaser.  That is how Belief works.

To the remote villager in North – say Thunaivi – Vaddukoddai – who has very little knowledge of laws other than Thesawalamai Customary Law – possession is ownership. Hence in my Colombo Land matter,  when a Sinhalese claimed prescriptive rights I had to pass my own ownership rights through the provisions of Prescriptive Ordinance. As an Administrator / Executive – the outcomes / evidence that was passed through the law  was one-sided – mine. I had to concede that likewise, Mr Piyadasa also may have marked himself right. At the primary level in Court – the decision was awarded in Mr Piyadasa’s favour. We appealed and when the appeal was being heard I had conflict with our barrister over another matter. Then I prepared and submitted the appeal papers. While preparing the arguments – here in Coogee – Australia – at a spot where I usually sit down and meditate – my eyes were drawn to an address claimed to have been that of Mr Piyadasa. It was in Sinhalese and I don’t know to read Sinhalese. But the numbers indicated something strongly within me. I asked my husband to read it for me and when he did I realised that that information  was the Objective evidence needed to confirm  that Mr Piyadasa did not live there at the time he filed that case – the outcome of which was used to claim prescriptive rights. I highlighted that evidence and yet the other side represented by Mr Faisz Musthapha did not offer an out of court settlement. After the matter was adjourned many times – I engaged Mr Harhsa Fernando through Mr Revan Weerasinghe whom I trusted. Both ‘listened’ to my side and included my work in their final submissions. Before the final hearing, Mr Faisz Musthapha’s team did offer to settle out of court – but I declined. The offer at that stage  meant that Mr Faisz Musthapha did not value the ‘fact’ that I had presented but valued Mr Harsha’s status and its influence. In a subjective system – who you are matters more than the quality of your work confirmed by the outcomes produced by you – a lay minority in court.

In December last year the following report was published in relation to Mr Faiz Mustapha’s son – former Sports Minister Mr Faizer Mustapha:

[It is reported that Faizer Mutapha is attempting to join the government through businessmen who are close to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and are currently aboard.

One of the businessmen, who is aware of the fact that Faizer Mustapha cannot achieve his target, had sent him a message.

According to internal sources, the aforementioned businessman had told Faizer Mustapha: “Your father was a famous lawyer. But you destroyed his name. I cannot talk with Ranil for you.”]

No, Mr Faiz Mustapha did not need Mr Faizer Mustapha to destroy his name in his own mind. As per my experience, Mr Faiz Mustapha did it all by himself to himself by unjust subjective discrimination to negate the genuine contribution I made to uphold justice. He performed poorly in court relative to Mr Harsha Fernando who made my need his need and included the ‘facts’ submitted by me on the platter of his status.  Had I not been able to pay the fee and hired a low status lawyer – Mr Mustapha is likely to have fooled the judges to fool themselves and the public.

Each time we feel the pain of subjective discrimination, we must know that we are hurting due to our sense of Independence being damaged. Each one would feel it in different ways at different levels. The foundation on which we ‘recognize’ that pain is our truth. Here in Australia, I was urged to take action through Industrial Relations secular laws. I declined. I now believe that I declined because I felt that the need of common Australian was for me to present my pain through Racial Discrimination Act 1975.  Like in the land case at primary level - I was dismissed by the Judiciary but after I raised the matters step by step to the highest level – the matter transcended to the Court of Natural Justice where I judge myself for myself on the basis of my interpretation of the evidence known to me and accepted by me.

This is my recommendation to Tamil Politicians – especially those like Mr Sumanthiran with high status. Our true status is relative to the depth of our belief. It is difficult for me to believe that any representative of Tamils who fought for independence would accept a constitution that carries Buddhism foremost article.. God helps those who help themselves. Tamils have to strongly reject any Constitution that carries such a partial provision to become entitled to the support of Natural Justice.

The proposed constitution is an Opportunity to Object and Reject – so we would be blessed by Independent Mother Lanka.  

Gajalakshmi Paramasivam

22 January 2019

Democracy a Foreigner in Sri Lanka

[These words, ‘where every prospect pleases and only man is vile’ written long ago about our country by Bishop Reginald Heber, were resented by me when I first read them, as a schoolgirl, as I felt they were unfair. But when one looks at happenings today, I feel he was a visionary far ahead of his time in his thinking and writing. Our country is among the most beautiful in the world, we have been called Emerald isle, Pearl of the Indian Ocean and other most descriptive adjectives. Our nation’s beauty is reflected in nature’s incomparable canvas created by God, our creator in the verdant varying shades of green of trees and foliage, sapphire blue into turquoise of the ocean, the glorious vibrant sunsets, the golden sands.] Ms Ilica Malkanthi Karunaratne in her Daily Mirror article ‘Ingratitude, hypocrisy brought the worst traits of our national character.

The statement ‘our country is among the most beautiful in the world’ is denial of Sove

reignty. The Sri Lankan National Anthem does not relate to other nations and rightly so. As a Sri Lankan, Ms Karunarantne ought to be offended by the above expression by Bishop Reginald Herber.  Gandhi was and responded as follows:

["My own experience in my travels throughout India has been to the contrary ... [Man] is not vile. He is as much a seeker after truth as you and I are, possibly more so"]

Gandhi is our Independence heritage. Gandhi renounced earned opportunities to live comfortably, to identify with majority Indians – who were poor in status and/or money. One who becomes an heir of Gandhi will produce more heirs of  Independence. An independent person would not relate to those outside her/his circle of belief. Those with dual citizenship are prevented by law from representing Sri Lankans in government due to the risk of indiscriminately relating one country to the other. Truth morally authorises us to be governors of both in common as well as individually within each country. In the Sri Lankan context in terms of communities governors are entitled to represent both individually and in common. But not executives.

The Provincial governors for example are actually appointed executives. The Chief Minister is both governor and executive. The higher the position, the greater the governing power needed to develop natural harmony. Governing power develops natural pathways to sharing strengths and weakness. The more a person in governor’s position seeks and/or uses administrative powers – the stronger the confirmation of weak governing power – as President  Maithripala Sirisena demonstrated recently.

If Mr Sirisena is elected President again, to my mind, that confirms that majority Sri Lankans are not self-governing. By 2015, we had not manifested the true characteristic of Mr Sirisena in that position. Had Mr Sirisena been self-governing prior to 2015, he would have been comfortable in the governing part of the position of President. But the manifestations since October have reliably confirmed that the person above him is the law  to Mr Sirisena. That comes from dependence of express votes to get to the high position. The greater the dependence on express votes – the greater the need for a senior intermediary between the law and the official. This was Mr Mahinda Rajapaksa for Mr Sirisena. The Truth  we need to face is that to majority Sri Lankans including Tamil politicians, Democracy is a foreign system.

Being Truthful does not mean that we are Democratic. Recognizing the other’s right to read us as per their Truth confirms Democracy. As a democratic person I assess Mr Sirisena as an undemocratic person. Mr Ranil Wickremesinghe and Mr Sampanthan are more democratic than Mr Sirisena because they did not use the law prematurely. They facilitated the truth  to manifest Itself by the directly affected persons and that is the value of democracy.

Ms Ilica Malkanthi Karunaratne using Bishop Reginald Heber’s conclusion, to my mind is in breach of the fundamentals of the Constitution that blocks Dual Citizenship holders from contesting elections. As per those fundamentals – we cannot inter relate but only intra-relate. Most Sri Lankan politicians with active knowledge of English law, but  promoting traditional pathways have dual citizenship mind-structure instead of common mind. Hence their policy contributions would lead to getting the user nowhere.

Recently, the Daily News presented as follows  through its report headed ‘No to Federalism, NE amalgamations’:

[Eventhough Tamil parties have not extended any support towards Sri Lanka’s constitutions, expressing their ideas regarding various proposals for the formulation of a new Constitution is a welcome democratic feature, State Enterprise, Kandyan Heritage and Kandyan Development Minister Lakshaman Kiriella said.]

Tamils did contribute actively to maintaining the Sovereignty of Sri Lanka – which is the core purpose of the Constitution. Prior to 1972, Tamils contributed as Equals to the British. After the British who also failed to appreciate the value of minority contributions – especially, the 50:50 claim by the Hon GG Ponnambalam  Tamils have contributed to the real constitution by confirming that they reject the Sinhala only law, followed by Buddhism foremost article - which structures denied the true self-governance path that many Tamil leaders had followed.

The presence of  two contradictory articles in the one constitution confirms the risks of dual-citizens making policies in one country or the other.

Daily News reports further as follows:

[For the first time in the country’s history, the TNA had accepted the unitary state concept and Article 9 of the Constitution which offered a pre-eminent place for Buddhism.

“What had been presented in Parliament was not a Constitution but constitutional proposals made by various parties and individuals and eminent persons for clause by clause discussion only.

“It was after then that a draft constitution would be formulated.

“Although some quarters alleged that there were attempts to divide the country, the UNP would never agree to any such underhand moves since they loved the country,” he said.

“Had we implemented power devolution immediately after independence, the country would have never experienced a cruel 30 yeas war. In the 1950s the Tamils demanded only language rights rather than separation.]

Those who accept Article 9 of the Constitution confirm that they are not democratic and that they are not self-governing. Whoever accepted that from within the TNA is a traitor – at community as well as national levels. TNA’s job is to Oppose through its own Truth experienced through a path independent to that of the Government. That is the power that  elevated Tamils to Equal Opposition in National Parliament –through also Sinhalese voters also, confirming the invisible powers of Truth that recognizes the common value of Tamils who endured hardship in that part of the Earth, called Sri Lanka. If TNA did accept Buddhism foremost article – then they invoke internal separation between Tamils as:

Those who are junior to Buddhists and those who are Equal to Buddhists. Mine is certainly with those who are Equal to Buddhists.

If the above presentation  by Mr Kiriella is false – then TNA’s first duty is to take action against Mr Kiriella for promoting separation.

Otherwise we would conclude that Democracy is foreign to Tamil National Alliance also. 

Gajalakshmi Paramasivam

21 January 2019

The small believer in Democracy

Today is Thai Poosam day on which Hindus celebrate of Mother’s/Shakthi’s heritage power is shared with  the Son Muruga.    Muruga is recognized as the Lord of Democracy. In Democracy, victory / success is measured through objectively measurable outcomes produced.

The message from Sri Venkateswara Temple, Sydney presents the significance of Thai Poosam as follows:

[The ‘Vel’ (lance) was given to Lord Murugan to eliminate the three demons,
Surapadman, Singamugan, and Tarakasura, who represent the forces of hatred, greed, and arrogance.
The mighty ‘Vel’ was invested with the ‘Shakti’ or power of Goddess Parvati and used by
Lord Murugan to kill the three asuras. Thus, it has come to be regarded as a symbol of purification.
The ‘Vel’ also serves as the protective and purifying force of Lord Murugan and
the occasion of Thaipusam is celebrated to glorify these benign forces.]

The form in which we remember the significance would change as per time and place. In democracy, the demons are separation extremism, possessiveness of common manifestation and  top-down telling to those of different culture to us.

Yesterday, Dr Alan Keenan of International Crisis Group wrote to me as follows – which I interpreted as ‘telling me’:

From: Alan Keenan
Sent: Sunday, 20 January 2019 11:47 AM
To: gaja param
Subject: Re: Constitutional Rights of Minorities

Dear Gaja Param

Once upon a time, many years ago, emails sent from one person to another were assumed to be private and were treated as such.

Alas, those days seem to have passed, at least among some people I deal with on Sri Lankan affairs.

I don't know you, I know nothing about you, I never gave you my email address and I never asked anyone else to send me your writings.

Please stop writing me.

Thank you very much,

Alan

Since Dr Keenan confesses to knowing nothing about me – I conclude that we are of different culture – meaning our beliefs are of different form. Dr Keenan did not think I was important enough to do a Google Search to know my contribution to Democracy in common and Sri Lankan Democracy in particular. I responded as follows:

Dear Dr Alan Keenan,

              Once upon a time, we were not as global as we are today; nor as democratic as some of us are today.

              Once upon a time, you and I would have been strangers; and you would not be expressing opinions as you do about Sri Lankan governance

If you know deep enough about Sri Lanka you know me as a caring Sri Lankan. The other side of your Sri Lankan work is your Sri Lankan Common Customer. If  you do not feel that way then you do not qualify to provide public opinions on Sri Lankan governance.  You did – during the October issue – and I was upset that you would expect Ranil to be magnanimous enough to facilitate MR to remain PM.  It did not happen that way and I believe I also contributed to preventing such. I believe that when one seeks genuinely – one finds the right pathway. Even though I had been responding to your articles from time to time – largely through Sri Lanka Guardian, I did not look for your email address in particular. But after you made the above suggestion, I got your email address from a member of the Tamil Diaspora. It was part of a group email. I don’t know any of them as individuals but I took it that the sender considered me to be a common member of that group also. The information came to me because the issue sought me to keep you informed of how the common Sri Lankan felt.

As you know,  we Hindus celebrate Thai Pongal in January. You were reported to have stated during your Thai Pongal dinner speech in 2013 , as follows:

[My central message tonight is that Sri Lanka’s two political crises – the crisis the long-standing denial of the rights of the Tamil people and the crisis of Sri Lanka’s liberal democracy – these need to be analysed and understood together and they need to be addressed together. There is no way to respond effectively to one crisis without responding effectively to the other. Sri Lanka as a whole, and that means the Sinhalese majority, can never have a meaningful and stable democracy so long as the Tamil people are abused and humiliated and denied their individual and collective rights.’]

I responded to that through my own article headed ‘Are you Trespassing Mr. West?’ published by Sri Lanka Guardian.

If you had practiced what you preached to Sinhalese – you would have recognized me as a very democratic person – more democratic than you. In democracy, we do the work ourselves. All you had to do was block me as a sender. By ‘choosing to tell me’ you have confirmed that you are autocratic.

I am in the middle of writing about how Truth has shown me Its manifestations before those with official power. The Hindu example we have is Saint Poosalar who built a temple for Lord Shiva in his heart. The Lord said to the king who was building the visible temple – that He had to first visit the one who was enshrining the Lord in his heart. That is how Dr Keenan, Truth comes to me before It manifests Itself through officials with external power. It happens all the time when I seek genuinely. If you truly care about the Common Sri Lankan, you would read and know how some of us influence outcomes through natural belief.

If you really want to get rid of me – you need to take legal action against me and that would be interesting. You may know of Professor Damien Kingbury of Deakin University. He actually threatened to take legal action against me and I asked him to go ahead. He did not. I contributed to email policy at the invitation of the Australian Government – Senator Richard Alston when he was minister for communications. I believe I was invited due to the role I played in challenging ABC MD Jonathan Shier.  My complaint was dismissed in court but I accumulated credit with the government on the basis of my genuine contribution.  Dr Keenan, I believe strongly in ‘knock and the door shall open’ philosophy.

Hence I urge you to please do the right thing and take legal action against me. If there is no such avenue – then learn from us – the doers.

Regards

Gaja]

As stated above, truth was known to me before ‘facts’ were manifested through officials. In terms of democracy, I identified with the disorder at the University of NSW and did what I could to bring back democratic order. One of the first major manifestations through which I identified with the parallel of  Saint Poosalar’s experience was my complaint to the authorities about Racial Discrimination happening at the UNSW – a couple of years before staff and students from Liverpool Clinical School went to ABC with their complaint – except that theirs was labelled Scientific Fraud by the ABC. I learnt about the problem at the funeral of Dr David Garlick when two academics were talking about it. I believe that David was common to me and the relevant academics and hence the place of communication.

Dr. Garlick  stated during the investigations into my complaints: ‘He considers her to be an extremely ethical and moral person . He said that she had almost a touch of genius and that this, together with her other characteristics made her so unusual that it could be possible to misinterpret her comments and suggestions.’

David would never have ‘told me’ as Dr Alan Keenan and Professor Damien Kingsbury did. David’s was belief based due to sharing in each other’s pain. To Dr Keenan I was merely of hearsay value – like most rural  voters are to Sri Lankan politicians, including Tamil politicians.

More recently in terms of Sri Lankan politics I shared my democratic wisdom in the matter of Dual Citizenship by Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa on 18 January 2019 in which I included the following:

[….But does it hold true when the citizen has been part of a group that is alleged to have committed  human rights violations in Sri Lanka, based on which the American Government sponsored UN Resolution to investigate into war-crimes allegations. The American Government is taken to have sponsored the resolution as per its belief. Until there is clearance of such allegations, it would be immoral of the American Government to treat the individuals concerned on ‘normal’ basis. The right thing would be for American Government to honour its own recommendation and not clear Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa as if he was free of possible wrongs when he was American citizen. American Government owes this to the global community and more importantly to Sri Lankans. Without such higher moral responsibility one would conclude that the American Government was using its power to show its strength to wider world for which Sri Lanka became the medium.]

Two days later Economy Next published the following:

[Gotabaya is still not qualified to become a candidate at Sri Lankan elections because he is yet to renounce his US citizenship. He has previously said it could be done within two months, but this week he told reporters that giving up the foreign nationality was a personal matter.

He argued that Washington could not block him giving up the US citizenship and referred to the United States as the “father of democracy.”  “A person cannot be tied to US citizenship,” he added.

However, diplomatic sources said there was a time consuming process to renounce US citizenship and that can be done only if there was no outstanding taxes and litigation against the person trying to renounce US nationality.]  - Gota’s entry splits Rajapaksa-led Sri Lanka opposition

Reading the above, I appreciated that the matter is being dealt with by the forces of Nature – even though there have been no moves to inquire into allegations of war-crimes. In natural justice, the punishment happens through  blocking of or identifying with  opportunities and/or further manifestations of the same wrong or right as the case may be.

Those who pray / work  for particular outcomes, without need, confirm lack of belief. Their contribution even if successful – would not spread itself through natural common belief.

Be it Tamils or Sinhalese – the quickest pathway to Democracy is through common belief. Given that majority Sri Lankans are driven by religious beliefs, that is the quickest pathway through which Democracy would be learnt by Sri Lankans. Buddhist leaders have created their own ‘block’ by rendering Buddhism political and administrative status. Hence the Buddhist citizen would need to do more work than say a Hindu, to take each other as equals until known otherwise.

The latest news report confirms this as follows:

[We hear a few members of the UNP defensively saying that the proposed new Constitution will accord to Buddhism the foremost place as at present and that the unitary status of the country will remain unimpaired.] Island article ‘Achieving Tamil aspirations through Sinhala leaders’

Buddhism foremost causes eustress in the person driven by emotions – which majority Sri Lankans are. If such is within the Buddhist community when the Politician close to Buddhist monks goes up with excitement the citizen who shows least status – would go down and experience depression. This maintains the balance of sovereignty where both are genuine at the same wavelength.

If there was no separation of powers between Buddhists and non-Buddhists – and the Buddhism foremost principle causes eustress, the first victims would be the one with zero investment in Buddhism. Hence TNA is being blamed for the Constitutional problem:

[Where the present constitution-making process went wrong is that it was not driven by any of the principal partners in the government but by the Tamil National Alliance.] Island article ‘Achieving Tamil aspirations through Sinhala leaders’

With equal status to diverse forms of belief, Democracy has room to grow and bloom. But with Buddhism foremost clause – the most backward group in terms of Democracy would be Buddhists who believe in the Buddhism foremost clause. Customary laws are developed bottom up and if that is confirmed by Article 9 – then the government is fooling the People about Democracy.

The author of the above article C. A. Chandraprema states:

[The merger of the north and east can never happen through democratic means. Then why include such a thing in the new draft Constitution? TNA MP M. A. Sumanthiran was shown speaking at a public rally stating that their stance was that the north and east should be merged and that there was a provision enabling this to take place in the Constitution. Given the chance that there is very little chance of this taking place in reality, why does the separatist/federalist lobby keep harping on this merger of the north and east? If the Tamil people of the East were told that Sri Lanka was to be turned into a federal state with nine semi-independent provincial units which was to have complete and unfettered control over everything that related to the day to day lives of the people, they would be among the front ranks of those demanding the retention of the unitary state because of their unwillingness to live under Muslim rule in the east.]

By belief – Northern Sri Lankans are already merged with others of similar forms of belief – especially through religions. They do not have the parallel of Article 9 disturbing this commonness. More importantly, majority Tamils being Hindus – the more we believe in Lord Murugan, the more democratic we become. Recently, my work in Vaddukoddai was appreciated in terms of  the departure from that area of a guy who was unprincipled in enjoyment of sexual pleasures. That is what family, community and nation are about. Common belief helps us to confidentially clear weaknesses through strengths of other members.

The October political revolution confirmed that Tamils are more democratic than Sinhalese in National level politics. Where my contribution is not received as intended, by those through whom Truth manifested – I am entitled to conclude that it was through belief and not intellectual merit. That is how as Sir Winston Churchill said - the little believer praying to the Lord of Democracy in her/his little  home saying a little prayer, empowers the politician who feels connected to her/him through the common electorate.

It is the duty of the Sri Lankan government to facilitate mergers of non-Buddhist cultures to balance Buddhism foremost article. If Muslims also develop such adjoining electorates where they are the majority they also are entitled to such privacy to develop Democracy as sovereign communities. The whole must be sovereign through measures of Democracy to qualify for such separations due to diversity in the form of belief. It’s not different to the separation between the Judiciary and the Executive using different pathways to practice the same law. Belief makes all the difference. Diversity in form of belief automatically entitles one to Equal status. That is the fundamental principle of democracy.

Gajalakshmi Paramasivam

20 January 2019

Beware of women scorned and minorities scorned

Every action of ours impacts our current environment. Be it positive or negative, it becomes our heritage that is shared with that environment. Experience is true. What happened becomes true only when we experience it. When we keep recognizing our own truth – we would enjoy good mind order and peace of mind. All those to whom our  environment is home – would also enjoy peace of mind.

The Sunday Observer, through its report headed ‘Lasantha’s daughter takes Gota head on’:

[“If Lasantha’s daughter wants to know who his murderers are,” Rajapaksa said, “ask her to come to Sri Lanka and meet me. I will tell her what happened.” The former defence secretary made these comments in an interview published in a Sinhalese weekly yesterday……………………

The former defence secretary quipped that Lasantha Wickrematunge’s “first wife, second wife, daughter, brother and successor as Editor of The Sunday Leader are all overseas. The journalists who wrote for him also live overseas. Only Lasantha’s corpse is here now.” He alleged that “all of them know the assassin” but that “no one wants these investigations done properly.”]

Journalists who share their truth through their work are global. Their ownership rights should not be limited to one particular area of the earth. In contrast those who ‘show’ outcomes of common work as if they alone produced those outcomes become stagnant.

The mind that is continuously purified by Truth – is steady and becomes the source of peace for the person and all those in that person’s network.

Both – Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa as well as Ms Ahimsa Wickrematunge may believe that they are right as per their own conscience. Mr Mahinda Rajapaksa and Mr Prabhakaran could have opposed each other only if they were on the same plane. As per the rules of Dharma – one cannot defeat one’s junior. One who claims victory therefore confirms having operated on Equal plane. This was possible only if they were foreigners. One who claimed victory confirms that her/his side was operating at the same level as the other side. This means also that the rules of war were abandoned. This was wrong because LTTE were Sri Lankans by law and the actions taken against them ought to have rendered the satisfaction that the ruler had done his duty. Instead, Victory was celebrated – confirming that the LTTE were external enemies taken to be of the same level of operation as the Government’s armed forces.

A government that disciplines, would bring the disorderly forces under common order of the government. One who celebrates victory, confirms equal level of disorderliness within its own group. One who so celebrates confirms inheritance of such disorder. Such a person cannot be an heir of Buddha – the Emperor accepted by majority Sinhalese.

Inheritance of Separatism was confirmed by Mr Mahinda Rajapaksa recently as follows:

[The Opposition Leader’s office was previously used to represent a particular group of people and a region, Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa said]

His brother who was Defence Secretary during the last phase of the war – also demonstrates such inheritance in the case of Lasantha Wickrematunge who is known to have opposed the Rajapaksa  clan. One who experienced the Truth – would not separate individuals who act as family nor separate their investment as being ‘foreign’ to Sri Lanka.

Completed experiences confirm truth and truth purifies the mind. What happened, happened due to many forces. The way we experience  them is as per our truth. One who experiences hardship to maintain that truth – becomes the law that regulates that environment.

They say ‘Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’.

The woman back then was considered a minority power in family. Hence as per the above  minority scorned would be furious and they have the power to burn down kingdoms.

The final stages of the 2009 war happened in the area of Vattapalai Kannagi Amman temple. Kannagi Amman burnt down Mathurai because the ruler falsely found her husband guilty of stealing a crown jewel. The power to burn down the kingdom  developed because  Kannagi was a true wife and endured much hardship to be a true wife. Every believer of Vattapalai Kannagi Amman is a natural owner of that land. Every ruler who falsely punishes such natural owners stands condemned by Natural powers. So long as we seek on the basis of our experienced truth we will identify with these manifestations of nature. We must seek and have the experience and not sell ‘what-happened’ for votes or popularity. When we do – the place that we call home becomes haunted.