Man Is A Social Animal.

Man Is A Social Animal.

Human being is a social animal. Well. Animals have only five wisdom but humans have descretion. Animals can't think on their own but humans can. Well. Animals think as well. But animals can't differentiate between what is right and what is wrong and what is good and what is bad. Leading an animal like life is not often admired. A humanly life is different; human brain is capable of determining between good and bad and right and wrong. Further an act can be lucrative but it may not considered right or noble and an act can be very difficult to practice but in the end it can be meritful. Living a animal like life is not much admired. Rather living a humanly life further living a divine life cannot be performed by all. We all educate ourselves. Most students study well and perform their utmost  in the exams. Some obtain the tertiary education. All these show that humans have some discretion. Few people like Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam are able to use their analytical skills and do researches and also guide and lend their hands to thousands of others. He got an opportunity to meet swami. ( Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba) Not everyone can meet swami. If only Baba wishes someone should enter "The Abode Of Peace"( Prashanthi Nilayam- Bhagawan Baba's living place which is situated in Puttaparthi) only he or she can step their feet in Puttaparthi. Dr. A.P.J. Abdul kalam handed over his two months' salary to Baba and said "Baba, my mother is dead, so here my two months' salary. How admiring to lead a life like Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam; commuting in the right path and also bringing others to the right path. Baba as well tells living an animal like life is simple but leading  a noble life is admiring. He further says "My life is my message" and sometimes your life is my message. If one soul engages in self realization it's visible through his or her actions; the people around them, the country and the world will be beneffited by them. I'll get back to my point which is human being is a social animal. Human being is capable of moving with a fellow member and establish relationships and also helping others mutually is a very noble thing. So we can ascend as simple life, exemplary life, admirable life, meritful life and divine life. ( Vivekananda says when one is able to serve the society and human kind without considering the sorrows comes in his directions he becomes a Buddha)

(I'm not satisfied of this article 'cause this is only my practice)

Federalism

Federalism.

In defining it we say fulfilling the rights of people and making arrangements to federalism and fulfilling federalism to geo graphically non-linked areas is called geo graphically non- linked federalism. Many countries have succeeded in attaining this, for instance countries like Canada, Belgium, and Switzerland. Even in Pondichcheri there’s a non geo graphical federalism linking three territories. In federalism compromization should be made regarding borders, cultural inter changings, and regarding distributing economical resources. If there are more than one territory one state shouldn’t begin to have influence over the other territories just ‘cause its geo graphical area is vast and the population of that territory is vast. The states should work unitedly for the pur[pose of financial assistance, border limits, cultural integrity and economical strength. States can’t separate itself from the central government nor it’s allowed either. If the states go against the central government it has a threat of being afraid of the states. Then it becomes difficult to the central government to control the entities or in other words the central government loses its influence over the states. Further it’s a mandatory fact that in federalism the states can’t separate themselves from the central government. In working as states and central government the two parties should have a mutual independence and mutual link should be considered in financial and administrational affairs. In countries like Switzerland, America, and Australia the power is given to the states than the central government. There are many advantages and disadvantages in federalism. The central government can assist the states regarding education, affairs of defence and further the relationship between the two parties should be preserved well. When the entities does not have financial power to fulfill its necessities it has to rely on the central government. Even in countries like Canada, America where its mentioned federalism is maintained well there are defects regarding mutual independence, and mutual compromization. So for a successful federalism these conditions should be fulfilled or at least to a certain extent. Further in federalism the uniqueness and independence of the states should be preserved and strong and deft operation of the central government is needed simultaneously.

In federalism the states can’t separate itself voluntarily is a positive phase. If the states decides to separate itself it should be based on its strength ‘cause obviously if the states are less less powerful or has lack of financial facility naturally it can’t operate pon its own. It can’t be considered legal that the central government refuses to give the rights of separating ‘cause even if the states separate itself from the central governmentit does not lose its sovereignity altogether. When various faith, ethnicities and cultures are joined in federalism they should be respected mutually. The necessities of each state should be considered and an acceptable and reasonable stewardship should be there. Counties where federalism worked out very well are Malasia, Nigeria, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada and America. The advantage in federalism is when the states can’t operate itself on its own it can get the assistance of central government. So federalism is a nice concept not only to Sri Lanka but also to countries where multi ethnic and multi religious groups live.

NATIONALISM

Nationalism is a concept which emphasizes a group of people who consider themselves as connected together by archaic history, culture, and common tradition. This is a concept which originated in early 19^th centuries.  Always Nationalism aims at preserving the good will of the nation. In other words Nationalism is a concept which includes external factors like a language, a religion, common generation, and internal factors like awareness of the people towards the nation and love for the nation. All in all it emphasizes the loyalty where people are ready to sacrifice their lives for the country.  

Factors like religion,culture, Hinduistic, social and economic influenced the origination of Tamil Nationalism. Sir Pon. Arunachalam cmade together Sinhalese and Tamil Nationalism , jointly Sri Lankan nationalism , not Sinhalese or Tamil Natiolism alone.

He was a mediator to gain common purposes. Sinhalese leaders were giving promises like we shall preserve the racial representation in the parliament. But in reality these were rejected by Sinhalese. So Sri Lankan Nationalism did not come into reality.Sri Lankan Tamil League was originated in 1923 by Sir Pon. Arunachalam.

The Arrival Of British.

On the arrival of British our country was under three kingdoms, kotte kingdom, Jaffna kingdom and Kandian kingdom. The British in order for their easiness to reign they united all three kingdoms under one kingdom. When giving independence to India they considered its neibour country as well and gave freedom to our country as well. But during their reign Tamils were more proficient in English than Sinhalese. So they recruited more Tamils to government service than Sinhalese. This aroused a fear in Sinhalese’ mind. When the British went away they never separated the single kingdom as earlier into three kingdoms. The problem began at this stage. Sinhalese didn’t like that more than half the population of offices were Tamils and there began the problem. Then there were introduction of ‘Quota’ system to encourage the enrolment of rural students to who got medium results into universities. And the urban students had to score high Z-Scores in order for entering the university. This discouraged Northern and Eastern students that they couldn’t enter universities though with high results. Thus gradually the Sinhalese population, their contribution in educational activities and their job opportunities were gradually raised up.( I don’t mean Sinhalese should stay backwards in education. Most of my teachers are Sinhalese and they were my examples. But when it’s planned and done it’s not a good phase.) This aroused a fear in Tamils’ minds. Both the ethnicities taking the role of getting fear over the other ethnicity there’s not a bit of advantage. We achieved nothing but sheer destruction.

Which caused the pathetic destruction in this beautiful island? Beginning thus in job opportunities and educational activities and fear of being neglected , in 1956 July 7^th an agreement was signed between Sir Bandaranayake and father Selvanayaham. (Banda- Selva agreement- 1956 July 7^th) and it was said that activities regarding agriculture, education, and emigration will remain in govenments’ hands.(It’s notable that he made a reasonable effort in solving Tamils’ problems). In 1958 there was an ethnic tension. Tamils were killed in multitudes and properties of Tamils were destroyed.(my intention is not spreading racism but sharing some historical facts will do). Following this in1977, and1983 there were riots against Tamils and further 5500 shops in Colombo,1150 houses, 153 factories, 63 garments, 18 temples were burned by Sinhalese thugs. Tamils’ economy was destroyed completely. 150,000 employees lost their jobs and Tamils tended to emigrate to Western countries like British, Norway, German, and Switzerland. In 1987 an agreement was signed between Mr. Rajiv Gandhi and J.R Jayawardane and the arrival of Indian Army( Indian Peace Keeping Force) took place. They arrived in the purposes of providing protection, creating administration and protecting natural life of civilians of North and East. In 1987 a war was waged between Indian Army and LTTE. Then J.R. Jayawardane government insisted that Indian Army should leave and we shall achieve the solution ourselves. And peace talks were held in Hilton Hotel for 14 months. Tin 1994, Mrs. Chandrika Bandaranayake Kumarathunge became the president ans she promised Tamils’ problem will be solved. She insisted saying the criminals of 1981 and 84 riots will be identified and punished and compromization will be given to those affected . In 2002, while Mr. Ranil Wickramasinghe was the prime minister and Mrs. Chanrika Bandaranayake was still the president  peace talks and cease fires were carried out by the government with LTTE to get a reasonable solution. But LTTE leaders were persistent in getting Thamizh Ezham only and they refused any other solutions. So ultimately they were uprooted altogether.

How so ever the golden moment has arrived to reap a harvest to the long drawn issue of ethnic trouble. Really saying Tamils and Sinhalese(ordinary people) do not have any problem. They’re already concordant and harmonious towards each other. So as Sri Lankans let’s begin the journey and make a new, harmonious and problem free Sri Lanka.

Viva Sri Lanka!!!

Om Sri Sai Ram!!! 

7Am Arivu.

7Am Arivu.

7Am Arivu is A film comparatively with a different theme. Bodhisathvar goes to China and lives there very peacefully. One day some thugs come and attacks the local people. Bodhisathvar by just his glances controls them and makes them to fight among themselves. This is possible in spirituality cause saint Koushik once looked at a crane and it got burnet. Saints can control people but they should use it only if an urge necessity arises. One day the Chinese people mixes poison in Bodhisathvar’s food and give it to him to eat. He by his powers realizes it’s poisoned and asks why they gave it to him. They apologize and say if Bodhisathvar’s corpse is buried in China China won’t be overthrown by anyone. He accepts, eats it and dies. The again great saints does not fulfill requests like this but rather they consider peoples’ well being. If he’s alive and and help other struggling souls they’d prefer it rather than dying for selfish purpose of some people. Aravind is a man who works in a circus centre and it’s mentioned in the film that Aravind is a rebirth of Bodhisathvar. Great people do not born again and again especially until the end to the Kali Yuga. In the beginning of the film it’s shown that bodhisathvar cures a certain kind of disease. In the end of a film a Chinese man comes and spreads the same disease to people by injecting the germ through a dog. When that disease is spread to everyone India has to surrender itself to China so that China can overthrow India. That Chinese man knows the art of controlling people using the glance which Bodhisathvar knew. Bad souls can’t adopt these kind of arts. First their hearts have to be pure to adopt these spiritual arts. Secondly as I told these arts are possible only after passing many stages of Sadhana. Just an ordinary man can’t become clever at it. That kind of disease spreads to every one and Sruthi, the heroine makes to re appear those qualities in Arvind by some scientific method. At last Arvind cures that disease and the film ends.

Anyhow a film with a a comparatively different theme but lacks precision.

Black July

Black July.

The month of July of 1983 was labeled as ‘Black’ July when many and many Tamils were burned alive and further Business enterprises of Tamils, factories of Tamils and properties of Tamils were destroyed in multitudes. One strong reason why we reaped the harvest in Mullivaaikkaal is when other people fought non violently for their rights it was understood and the problem was solved by the particular entities. But in our country when our people fought non violently for our rights it was suppressed with terrible, horrible violence. Well. What is genocide. ‘Gene’ in Greek means an ethnic group and ‘cede’ in Latin means ‘to kill’. So two words were combined the word genocide was created . So genocide simply means “ one ethnic group intentionally doing activities to eradicate another ethnic group (by killing), torturing a person of another ethnic group physically and mentally, curbing the birth of a new baby intentionally, uniting people with other ethnicities intentionally and forcefully( often by marriages), annihilating a national group intentionally, annihilating the people who belongs to a particular religion, and annihilating the people who speak a particular language is known as genocide. Then the notion of Mr. Reginold Kure, inter marriages as a solution to ethnic conflicts bluntly, evidently a genocide but greased with honeyed words ‘cause uniting a particular ethnic group with another ethnic group is obviously a genocide. How deftly genocide is carried out without considering the international rules.

I’m particularly impressed by a poem which is written by a poet of majority group published in a Christian periodical, “The Messenger”, entitled “Burning Humanity”.

Burning Humanity.

One more incident in July.

I swear,

While it was an art of burning death bodies

I find no reason to save this incident in my memory.

I’m not an emotional fool nor mentally disordered.

Just like you me as well

Hesitate to express my feelings.

Me as well a practicalist,

In my day to day lives.

Also I have a feeling of precaution always.

If the government proclaims ‘forget’

I forget instantaneously.

No one has a doubt

In my cleverness of forgetting.

No one blamed me.

Still, yet I can’t erase the scenery of

How that thugs stopped that car.

Four individuals, parents and two kids, one boy and one girl.

They stopped that car just like they stopped all the other cars.

There’s no difference at all.

Some numerical questions

In a chauvinistic mood.

It could be a care in performing the right thing very right indeed.

Immediately after they performed it as usual.

You know oozing petrol, and burning alive and activities of the like.

But all in a sudden someone opened the door of the car

He pulled his two kids, crying not willing to separate from their parents.

He embraced them and brought to the car along with him.

The rest of the poem is missing. But it’s like all the family dies together. The father brought his two kids to the car ‘cause he doesn’t like to leave them as orphans. So everyone together dies in the car.

My Heart Is Moving.

My Heart Is Moving.

First and foremost our heartfelt thanks for the sisters and brothers of the South for voluntarily cooperating with the “harththaal” a protest against the assail of university students. Just think how many sorrows, how many wailings which are invisible to the rulers who just tore off the signed agreements fearing the negative forces. Often our youth tended to migrate to other countries even illegally spending so much money and at last still blurting out alone in prisons of different governments. This kind of illegal journey to Western countries are often perilous and also so pathetic; people traveled in freezers, the back part of vehicles, and sometimes died out of extreme cold and extreme hotness. Pack of people will be put in a vehicle, some people have to stay in dickies of the vehicle, people will be seated in seats and on them some other people who should conceal the ones who are in the seat. If they come across with check points they were carried in some other routes which took hours and hours to come to the main road. If they’re caught definitely sent to prison. This is only a sketch. There are millions and millions of hardships in this journey. Just think sisters and brothers how many sorrows and how many sad stories. I am sure our sisters and brothers of Sinhala will try to understand and follow me. Sisters and brothers, federalism is not separating SriLanka into two. Instead it’s a kind of ruling the major stewardship is in the hands of Central government and the sub authorities are in the hands of the state.Just consider there was a family which lived in multitudes. Soon there was fight among them. (among many families) So they now live in separate houses(each family lives in separate houses) but they are happy and not unsatisfied towards each other. Federalism is just like this. Really federalism won’t bring any harm to the harmony of the country. Definitely it’s not separating the country. Just think how it melts us to hear this news that sisters and brothers of Sinhalese began to understand us. Really a very big thanks from the bottom of my heart on behalf of Tamils. Sisterhood and brotherhood always wins. I believe and I know so!!!

Viva SriLanka!!!

Om Sri Sai Ram!!!

What Happened In Sri Lanka.

What Happened In Sri Lanka.

The father of Sinhalese, Vijaya was chased away by his father from his kingdom, Kaling, presently known as Andra Pradesh in order for lack of discipline. He roamed here and there and finally arrived in Sri Lanka in A.D. 543. He saw Kuweni, a Yakka woman and enticed by her and married her but after a short while he chased away her and married a Pandiya princess, and his 700 followers as well. When he arrived in Sri Lanka the indigenous people were Yakkas and Nagas, high in civilization who’re called as Dravidians. At that time Buddhism wasn’t here in Sri Lanka. Buddhism was spread later by the monk reverent lady Sangamiththa. How Sri Lanka got its name is an interesting story. In Sanskrit cinnamon was called Sinhale and the people of this country were called Sinhalese. In Tamil it’s called Lavangam so the country got its name Lanka.

In Dravidian history there were four kingdoms or territories, viz, Kurinji, Mullai, Marutham and Neithal. They had flags of fish, tiger and the like. Dravidians history is rather interesting. Ponniah, Selliah, Vadivelu of Thanjai poet laureate introduced Bharatham reforming the former form Sathir. But the indigenous people were interested in Yaksha gaanam rather than sathir or Bharatha Natyam. It’s considered as people hunted in Kurinji, graced cattle in Mullai, made agriculture in Marutham and dealt in trade in Neithal. Thus it’s considered as an evolution.

Federalism is highly suitable for countries where more than one race lives. Already federalism is highly successful in countries like U.S.A, Australia, Switzerland, South  Africa. Sinhalese themselves requested for a federalism when the British made the country under single reign.(in 1920 when the British tried to unite all other territories with Kandiyan kingdom they feared the uniqueness of Kandiyan kingdom will be  lost). Now when the Tamils seek for a solution like federalism if it’s wrong means it’s a pointless and meaningless argument. Tamils never sought for violence all at once. First they fought non violently. The hunger strikes which were totally non violent  led by Amirthalingam and father Selva was carried out very successfully with a vast support of general public. But unfortunately this was suppressed by terrible, horrible violence. Poojya Sri Sri Ravishankar once visiting Sri Lanka emotionally told it’s not clear what these rulers have in their brain.(I'm not a follower of him.) If such a religious person is losing his temper means it’s thought provoking.

Howsoever Sri Lanka should bloom as  a country where there are zero conflicts.

Om Sri Sai Ram!!! 

The Habit Of Reading

The Habit Of Reading.

The habit of reading has so many innumerable, virtuous advantages. Firstly considering, you improve your concentration skills. An effective reader can read highly effective without missing smaller, micro information like year and initials of names. When you concentrate your mind becomes refreshing and extremely serene. Secondly, you improve your vocabulary power, you learn sentence structure and you learn grammar , in a nut shell you improve your language skills. You develop all the language skills just like reading and speaking which are receptive skills and writing and listening which are productive skills. Reading improves our level of knowledge, often you get a brimming level of knowledge of the content you read. If your knowledge improves you can deal and handle the cognitive things very deftly. Often if the students read a lot they can score high marks in their exams and also they can share their knowledge with their peers which results in a good rapport in peers which ends up in good friendship. You can improve your writing skills by reading a lot. Often now a days’ deft writers were good readers one day and they practiced a certain level of writing everyday. So if you’re an effective reader you can end up as an effective writer.

If we consider what the negative perspectives of watching TV are, you stick yourself to one place when you watch TV. So your calories do not get burned and ultimately your cholesterol get increased. Often, if you’re watching a film when you view the climax and if you don’t like it the whole watching is a sheer waste of time. Recent researches say that kids who watch TV more than 8 hours a day develop ill habits like quarreling with their peers, lack of concentration in studies, and lack of physical activities so on and so forth.

Also you can spend your spare time doing creative handiwork which reduces the wastes of polythene, plastic and the like. You can do gardening, a soothing pastime. You can choose a small place and you can plant so many trees there. When each shoot is appearing you feel like your own kid is growing.

So there are so many hobbies which are highly useful and soothing to our mind. So let’s stop killing our time in unwanted activities and let’s spend our spare time highly useful and let’s be useful to ourselves, the ones who’re around us, to our city, to our country, and to our world.