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| Tamil Tigers became active on the basis of ‘Separate State’. It is well and good for Intellectuals to talk about political solution, but the reality is that majority Sri Lankans on both sides, who gave shape to this war – are not driven by brain before brawn. Their likes and dislikes are often presented as ‘rights’ and ‘wrongs’. |
by Gaja Lakshmi Paramasivam
(August 08, Melbourne, Sri Lanka Guardian) As per today’s Bigpond news, the Malaysian Deal in relation to the Refugees is going to be tested in Australian Courts. Asylum seekers have become yo-yos.
As per this report ‘The asylum seekers were due to be flown to Malaysia at 11.30am (AEST) on Monday but in a special hearing in Melbourne, High Court judge Kenneth Hayne granted an interim injunction delaying the flight until 4.30pm.
That will give refugees advocate David Manne enough time to put his case again to the High Court at 2.15pm in Canberra.
Monday's scheduled expulsions to Malaysia are the first under the Gillard government's deal to send 800 asylum seekers in return for accepting 4000 processed refugees from Malaysia.
Mr Manne said the injunction dealt with 'life and death matters'.
Get-Up message to me this morning was ‘This week we will put full-page ads in newspapers across Australia, with the headline “Not In Our Name” – and the names of as many Australians as possible printed below. The more names we have to squeeze in -- the more powerful our message’
I already had my say through Sri Lanka Guardian article ‘One Malaysian = 1/5th Australian’ published on 27 July. Mr. Manne has not consulted with me and I take it that this is due to me not being seen by the Australian Legal system as a ‘high profile’ person in this regard. I therefore see no reason to hold my breath. In turn I conclude that they do not have enough ‘belief’ in the life of an Australian refugee.
To me the most valuable contribution to that issue was through my above article and now this one. It is because to a degree I am also a refugee – not legal refugee – but social refugee.
I wrote recently to someone I believed was in need of legal services ‘I used to go day after day to the criminal courts and I followed similar cases to mine and that helped me derive value from it. To me it is NOT about a judge (who is also an individual) telling me who I am or whether I am right or wrong. To me it is about recording the outcome that the 'system' thinks is correct - so I have a picture through which I can relate to myself and be careful not to hurt others who invest in that system.’
There is the Truth we believe in and that comes with 100% guarantee of success. Those who live more in lies and less in Truth – fear the ugly side of Truth when it is manifested. My life in Australia as a migrant is my Truth about refugees and it does seem ugly to many – including Tamils.
Towards identifying with a refugee driven by belief due to what happened physically over which s/he had no control – I need to be living as migrant / refugee and NOT as Australian by birth – which is a ‘Divine Right’. Refugees also have this ‘Divine Right’ in the land of their birth. It takes many times more commitment for a migrant to feel this Divine Right than it takes an Australian by birth. Likewise it takes many generations for refugees from Sri Lanka to feel Australia is their home – as much as Sri Lanka was before the war. It is like marriage v biological relationships.
As Community Leader Mr. Luther Uthayakumaran said in a recent discussion on ‘boat people’ – it is difficult to divide and separate the reason and say ‘it is economic’, ‘political’ or fear of losing the value of that ‘Divine Right’ – the same way it is difficult to know the reason why one marries – whether it is for a ‘living or for life?’ The educated have the responsibility to use common principles – as Mr. Luther Uthayakumaran did. But there were many others with ‘certificates of higher education’ who expressed ‘likes and dislikes’ – thus adding themselves to the ‘masses’.
As per my assessment, the Malaysian deal as well as today’s High Court hearing is largely for a ‘living’. To the extent we believe – the work we do is for ‘life’. To the extent it is NOT – we need our actions to be regulated by Common Processes that all of us could relate to and use. The decisions of the Executive Government on the one hand and the Judiciary Independent of the Executive Government on the other – must be Public for us to use them in everyday life. A few months back, when a close relative of my husband could not get her way in relation to estate of her relative – she said to my husband ‘you brought shame to our family’. The ‘shame’ she refers to is because my husband married me – a divorcee with three children from her first marriage. To me - that relative who is below the line of intellectual discrimination through common principles, driven by likes and dislikes, deluding herself that she was the head of the family. That is like a Policeman driven by his senses and gun-power, calling a professional who originally came by boat – an illegal immigrant/a Tiger Associate. It is like the Terrorist charge against the LTTE by the Sri Lankan Government and its allies – after claiming that they defeated them. They may have defeated the LTTE. But have they really defeated the Tamil Tigers? As per my belief – NO. Given that ‘Boat People’ are also part of the Tamil issue, I feel the need to identify with this.
Tamil Tigers became active on the basis of ‘Separate State’. It is well and good for Intellectuals to talk about political solution, but the reality is that majority Sri Lankans on both sides, who gave shape to this war – are not driven by brain before brawn. Their likes and dislikes are often presented as ‘rights’ and ‘wrongs’. So called intellectuals instead of developing belief by going to the roots through the intellectual path, get distracted on the way – and take more money and status out of their work on ‘rights and wrongs’ , – also go down to likes and dislikes level. Hence the move to Business Mode in Public Service. If we separate consciously it is easier to keep the two ‘even’. It is more difficult for the physically driven to know the unseen enemy.
To raise information to the brain we need to consolidate and give it one ‘form’ and hence Common Principles. Just yesterday, I heard criticism from my son that as he was growing up I did not let him talk but that I talked and talked. Then he told me now his daughter was talking back to him! and that he was victim from both sides! I burst out laughing – picturing my granddaughter giving it back to my son for not listening to his mother! I later asked him whether his value was up or down due to my ‘total’ upbringing. He promptly said ‘POSITIVE’. Later I wrote to him as follows:
‘They say that we can go by vehicle to the temple - but inside we have to do the walk using our own feet. I am your parent only upto a point. Then you have to parent yourself and discipline yourself to lay the foundation for the position of parent. When you do - the vehicle that took you to the position - that is your physical parent's form would give you protection until you grow into it. I gave you this protection (despite the unpopularity with you and your sisters) to have that heavy/secure and high/away from lower level eyes and attacks - vehicle. If you did not do the walk yourself as a child - you will continue to blame the vehicle each time you have parenting problem. Once you do the walk because YOU wanted to and/or had to - then you do not need to blame others because the answer is there within you and will rise up and show itself to you. That is called ownership/independence. To the extent you rejected my ways - even though you are satisfied with yourself as per the assessment of others and your own thinking / through the head - you rejected the solutions I used – for you to become who you are today. So, you have to work out from zero base - as they say in democracy.
I accepted my elders' discipline - not only because that was the system then - but also because I am a humble person. This helped me share in their goodness. When we accept bad, good comes with it to stay with the bad and protect us. That is the law of nature.’
Democracy has brought with it – its own distractions. The more affluent a country – the more temptations a new migrant ‘sees’ – and hence loses sight of the path of ‘belief’. It was this loss of ‘belief’ in our political elders that resulted in youth giving form to their work instead of adding the value of their work to the elders, through processes and attitudes. Where there is a structured system of democracy and investment in training young ones in the system of democracy – there is a regulatory path through which to channel this work and produce outcomes just for the consumption of our side. The other side (opposition) needs to match it by just enough production that looks ‘adverse’ to and ‘independent’ of our side’s outcome. The two make a complete picture of harmony at the physical level. On that basis – when the Sinhalese below this line of intellectual discrimination - attacked using weapons of destruction – if Tamils had produced just enough to match that – i.e. – in defence – and maintained our work to produce Just in Time Defence Outcomes - we would have continued to live in physical harmony. I believe that this option is still available to us Sri Lankans.
Production beyond the level of Defence by either side – negates the value of our investment in intellectual discrimination and hence the system of ‘rights and wrongs’.
Where we express on the basis of belief or hearsay (superstition) – we call them ‘likes and dislikes’. Information received through the senses when merged/consolidated and registered in the brain – is the substance which when passed through the limited path of Principle – divides into rights and wrongs. There are no rights and wrongs for hearsay/superstition. Where there is belief based outcome – like is right and dislike is wrong. Any law/principle that does not uphold this – is in the wrong environment. Australia’s Racial Discrimination Act 1975 is one such Legislation.
When that consolidated knowledge is practiced – it becomes belief. Without practice it tends to separate itself and becomes superstition due to obsolescence. Where those below that line of intellect get the power of positions that are seen to be above that line of intellect – usually in Administration – there is abuse and the lower the levels to which the outcomes of others’ work / life is disintegrated – the closer we are to animals and therefore likes and dislikes – as has been the case with Sri Lanka since the British left. Like the above relative who said my husband brought shame (and my husband told her to go back to Vattukkottai if she cannot respect Australian Culture and Laws) many Sinhalese keep blaming the British and their ‘Divide and Rule’ practices – including the claim of ‘Separate State’ by the Tigers. This is because they use the money and laws of Westerners without paying Royalty – Guru Submissions.
To my mind, this ‘Boat Issue’ is also about Racial likes and dislikes. Those who are driven by economic outcomes would ‘like’ Tamils who are usually hard working people. Those who are driven by intellectual status would mark the Tamil refugees as ‘rights’ – now that it is an international issue close to the UN.
To White Australians and their Associates (those who ignore boundaries of that Principle that help us relate to each other ) Tamil refugees carrying Tiger Memories which is also Sinhalese Memories (due to the Government of Sri Lanka and the Sinhalese armed forces overwhelming majority of whom are below that line of intellectual discrimination) - would ‘dislike’ the Tamil Asylum seekers. Hence a majority vote would be a ‘no’ vote which profited Mr. Howard at one time.
Beyond these Australians are a few of us who ‘believe’ and will continue to help the needy Asylum seekers beyond boundaries – through our invisible universal powers developed through life in our minds as per the status given by majority in our environment but working at the highest levels of our discriminative thinking – i.e. – living like a pauper / commoner and thinking like a Queen/King/Governor – we make good citizens all over the world.
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