මුහුදු මහා විහාරය හා පට්ටම පට්ටපල් බොරු

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මුහුදු මහා විහාරය හා පට්ටම පට්ටපල් බොරු

මුහුදු මහා විහාරයේ ආරක්‍ෂාව සඳහා හමුදා අනූඛණ්ඩයක් පිහිටුවීමට තීරණය කරලා. ඒ මුහුදු මහා විහාරයට අක්කර තිහක් වෙන් කිරීමෙන් පසුව. ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්‍ෂ හා රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ හෝ ජේ ආර් ජයවර්ධන හෝ අතර වෙනසක් නොදකින පඬියන්ට වම්මුන්ට එය එතරම් ප්‍රශ්නයක් නොවනවා වෙන්න පුළුවන්. පිලිප් ගුණවර්ධන බොහෝ කලකට පෙර පුස් කෑ මාක්ස්වාදී පොත් ගැන කිව්වා. මාක්ස්වාදය ඉපදුණේ ම මැරිලා. එය මළ දරු උපතක්. පඬියන්ට වම්මුන්ට ඇත්තේ මාක්ස්වාදය පශ්චාත් මාක්ස්වාදය වැනි පට්ටම පට්ටපල් බොරු ටිකක් පමණයි. 

මුස්ලිම් අන්තවාදය, දහනවය, ජයම්පති හා මහින්ද

මුස්ලිම් අන්තවාදය, දහනවය, ජයම්පති හා මහින්ද 

ලෝක මුස්ලිම් සම්මේලනයේ නායකයා මල්වතු මහානාහිමියන්ට අතට අත දෙන්න ගිහින් ඊට පස්සේ නාහිමියන්ගේ අසුනෙහි ම වාඩිවෙන්න හදලා. ඒක මෙරටට එන බටහිර ක්‍රිස්තියානි ආධිපත්‍යයෙ නායකයන් නොකරන වැඩක්. මෙරට මුස්ලිම් නායකයන් ලෝක නායකයාට මෙරට සිරිත් විරිත් කියා දුන්නෙ නැද්ද? එහෙමත් නැත්නම් ඔවුන්ගෙ සිංහල බෞද්ධ සංස්කෘතියට සතපහක ගෞරවයක් නැද්ද? මල්වතු මහානාහිමියන්ට අපේ ප්‍රණාමය පිරිනමන්න ඕන මුස්ලිම් ලෝක නායකයා නියමිත තැන තිබීම ගැන.

මැතිවරණ අනාවැකි ජ්‍යොතිෂය හා සංඛ්‍යානය

මැතිවරණ අනාවැකි ජ්‍යොතිෂය හා සංඛ්‍යානය

අද මැතිවරණය සම්බන්ධයෙන් යමක් කිව හැකි අන්තිම දිනය. එය වෙබ් අඩවිවලටත් බලපානවා ද යන්න පැහැදිලි නැහැ. ඒ කුමක් වුවත් විද්‍යුත් තැපෑලෙන් නම් අදහස් ප්‍රකාශ කිරීමට බාධාවක් නැති වෙන්න පුළුවන්. ප්‍රශ්නය වන්නේ විද්‍යුත් තැපෑලෙන් යවන ලිපියක් ඒ ලබන තැනැත්තකුට තමන් කැමති ආකාරයකින් පිටපත් කිරීමට, වෙනත් අයට ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට හැකි වීම. නීතිය තාක්‍ෂණයට වඩා පසුපසින් ඉන්නෙ.

On the land issue

We move from the topic Western science, Astrology and Arsenic temporarily in order to discuss one of the important topics in current  politics. It is concerned with the power to distribute land as stated in the thirteenth amendment. The thirteenth amendment is not a solution to a problem in Sri Lanka but an act imposed on us by the Indians modeled on their state administration to solve a problem peculiar to India. India did not consider the history, the eksesath rajya we had before the Portuguese came to Sri Lanka, the culture or more importantly the demographic patterns and the powers that changed those patterns after 1506. In this article I will consider only the problem of land distribution though from 1987 through the APRC I have opposed the 13^th amendment in general and land and police powers in particular. At the APRC when Dr. Tissa Witharana and many others wanted to submit an interim report to satisfy India stating that we agree to implement the 13^th amendment in full, it was my objection that prevented them wording the report the way India wanted. I must place on record the dedication of Mr. Udaya Gammanpila of the JHU in opposing the Tissa Witharana move. 

It is a well known fact obtained from the Portuguese historians that when the Portuguese conquerors came to the island we had an eksesath rajya though they do not refer to such rajya. There was no way that the Portuguese could have understood the system we had, and the reference to kings and an emperor in Kotte demonstrates that the Portuguese historians looked at the eksesath rajya using the concepts they were used to. We never had emperors in this country and the Portuguese who did not know anything of the eksesath rajya referred to the king of Sri Lanka Eksesath Rajya as the emperor. Those who insist on looking at history from the Portuguese point of view will continue with an emperor and so called independent kingdoms in the island.

The first state intervention in changing the demographic pattern of the country took place during the period of King Senerath who settled the Muslims who were harassed by the Portuguese  in the present eastern province. It is regrettable that some Muslims have forgotten this and are now attempting to convert Kaththankudy into a Little Arab with date trees etc., as I witnessed during a recent tour in the eastern province. It should be emphasized that the Sinhala Buddhists have never had had any Little Kalingas or Bengals or Maharashtras or even Buddhagayas even if we believe in the Vijaya story. Let us all live in Sri Lanka without little this or that from foreign countries. When King Senerath settled the Muslims in the present eastern province it was populated with the Sinhalas and it was the rice bowl at least from the time of Prince Saddhatissa who cultivated Digamadulla. In any event the present eastern province was part of the Ruhunu Rata. It has to be mentioned that rata has been used by the Sinhala people not only to refer to the country but to parts of the country as well as exemplified by atadahas rata, dolosdahas rata etc. The present usage of uda rata and pahatha rata is following this tradition.              

The most crucial settlement was by the Dutch who brought Tamil Vellalas from present South India for their tobacco cultivation and settled them in the Jaffna peninsula. It is on record by Portuguese that the Sinhala people were the majority in Jaffna when they arrived. These Sinhala people have been Tamilized  in the process and have been made members of the so called low casts of the Jaffna Hindu society. It was after about 1750 that saw the beginning of the Dutch rule in Sri Lanka that changed critically the demographic patterns in Sri Lanka and needless to say that it happened with the auspices of the Dutch governor. It was state colonization and nothing else though there was no Dutch state as such in Sri Lanka. The maps that have been prepared by the Dutch after 1750 ( I can give the reference if anybody is prepared to help me to translate the records to Sinhala or English) give the Sinhala names of the villages and these would go a long way in establishing that it was after 1750 that the demographic patterns at least in the Jaffna peninsula have been changed drastically by the Dutch.

The present Tamil population in Jaffna consists of the descendants of the Tamil vellalas brought by the Dutch and those of Tamilized Sinhala people living in Jaffna before 1750 and also some Velakkaras who spoke Malayalam. This corroborates with the linguistic opinion that the  difference between Tamil spoken in Jaffna and that spoken in Tamil Nadu in general is not more than two hundred and fifty years, and that Jaffna Tamil has been influenced by Malayalam. With the occupation of the country by the English, by breaching the Sinhala English accord or what is known as the Kandyan convention by the gentlemanly English, instead of ruling the country according to the Sinhala tradition the rulers appointed a Muslim as the tax collector in certain areas. The Sinhala leaders having realized that they had been cheated by the English King (his representative the governor) rose against the colonialists in 1817 – 18 which was our first independence struggle in English occupied Sinhale. The English “respecting” the human rights of the Sinhalas to be reborn massacred the Sinhala population killing not only males above 15 years but even killing the cattle of the Sinhala people. The record of the English with respect to our independence struggle is most cruel to say the least, and during this Veask week we can only engage in “Maithree Bhavana” towards the governors such as Brownrigg, Torrington and their mothers.  

After the massacre the remaining Sinhala people were forced to leave the rice bowl, Uva Vellassa (vel lakshaya - hundred thousand paddy fields) and the cultivation of the land was thereafter in the hands of the Muslims. The present eastern province was almost devoid of any Sinhala people and to make matters worse the English settled Tamil labourers brought from present Tamil Nadu in these areas. The final importation of the Tamil labourers by the English was for their coffee and tea plantations in the “up country”.

What I want to emphasize is that before the Portuguese came to Sri Lanka the vast majority of the population from Nagadeepa to Devundara was Sinhala with pockets of Tamil speaking Muslims, or so called Moors who had come from South India. They were Tamil speaking Muslims whatever their ethnicity was. Any changes in the demographic patterns since 1506 have been due to state intervention. Except in the case of King Senerath all the other changes have been effected by colonial rulers. Even in the case of settlings of Muslims by the Sinhala king it was carried out as a result of Portuguese harassing the Muslims.

In all these instances it was the Sinhala people who have lost “their” land especially at the hands of the Dutch and the English. If there has been a historical injustice it is to the Sinhalas as a result of land “distribution”. The colonial discrimination has to be rectified and naturally it has to be done by the government. The so called historical habitats of the Tamils had been historical habitats of the Sinhala for more than two thousand years until colonial intervention. Those who oppose any land distribution by the government want to maintain the status quo due to colonial rulers and it is a case of maintaining the colonial injustices to the Sinhala people. Also  maintaining army camps as far as the security of the country is concerned is the prerogative of the government. Taking all these things into consideration distribution of land in the entire country should be in the hands of the government and legislation should be enacted not to leave these powers ( and police powers etc.)  with the Provincial Councils the baby of India, if the thirteenth amendment cannot be repealed just now due to some reason or other.

22-05-2013

Nalin De Silva

Western Science, Astrology and Arsenic – II

It is a necessary condition that one should study something or believes somebody who has studied the subject and declared that the subject matter is humbug before one goes public to the effect that the subject matter is humbug. However, it is not sufficient and one should be able to demonstrate that the subject is humbug. Mere pronouncement that something is humbug without studying the subject under consideration by himself or depending on an “authority” who has studied and demonstrated that it is humbug is mere pontification and we should not be awed by these decrees.

In the first installment of the present series I mentioned that there was no “explanation” given by Newton for the so called gravitational force exerted by any one particle on any other particle in the universe whatever the distance between the two particles may be. Newton only said that it was action at a distance without ropes poles etc. However, many Physicists believed what Newton had to say though it cannot be said that Newton’s predictions based on his “theory of gravitation” agreed with observations. For example according to a deduction from Newton’s theory of gravitation the planets (not the grahayas in Astrology but the graha vasthus) should go round the sun, assumed to be still, or relative to the sun along fixed ellipses, if the masses of the planets are negligible compared to the mass of the sun. It has to be realized that the deduction predicts that the planets move in fixed ellipses, parabolae or hyperbolae relative to the sun, and theoretically alone there is no way to deduce that planets move in fixed ellipses relative to the sun. In that sense Newton’s theory of gravitation does not predict strictly that a planet moves in a fixed ellipse relative to the sun. However, a planet or any other object such as a comet cannot move in a fixed ellipse and a parabola or hyperbola at the same time relative to the sun and if an object moves in a fixed ellipse relative to the sun then it can be said that the object moves in a fixed ellipse! Some comets do not describe fixed ellipses relative to the sun though the same gravitational theory of Newton applies to these objects as well. They could be moving along parabolae or hyperbolae never to return to the vicinity of the earth or the sun.

However, the more important thing, I would not use the term fact that is theory laden anyway, is that none of the planets move in fixed ellipses relative to the sun. It was known even during the time of Newton that the planet Mercury did not describe a fixed ellipse relative to the sun! The closest point of the path of the planet to the sun, called the perihelion, did not remain the same and it advanced during the “tour” (courtesy Newton’s Travels and Tours), a phenomenon known as the advance of the perihelion. This did not prevent the vast majority of the physicists from accepting Newton’s Theory though Mercury and other planets would have laughed at the former. Of course about two hundred fifty years later Einstein came out with his own theory of “gravitation” without any gravitational force as such, and was able to “explain” the advance of the perihelion, though the theory is not without its weaknesses. It should be emphasized that Newtonian Theory and Einsteinian Theory are poles apart conceptually and the former cannot be considered as an approximation of the latter.

What I am trying to point out is that there is no unique explanation of a given phenomenon and that no “explanation” explains the phenomenon “accurately”. There are phenomena observed in the “universe” and people come out with stories to explain these phenomena. It is storytelling and nothing else and so called theories in western science, especially in physics, are abstract stories told by Newton, Einstein and others. These grandpas or “seeyas” of western science are not different from our own grandpas and grandmas (seeyas and achchees) who told us fairytales when we were small. We believe Newton and Einstein the same way we believed our seeyas except for that we attempt to justify our beliefs in the case of “science seeyas”. The so called grown up people remain not grown as they could be deceived by political seeyas, science seeyas and others though they grow physically over the years. It can even be said that men and women are born to be deceived! Considering it as a phenomenon could somebody come out with a nice little story or theory to explain it? In other words could somebody deceive us with a nice little story on deceiving?

Now before Maxwell, Newtonians had no explanation of the so called gravitational attraction, and they “understood” it as action at a distance. What Maxwell did was to introduce the concept of Field in order to explain certain phenomena connected with electromagnetism. For example it can be said that according to him an electron creates an electrostatic field around it and when another electrically charged particle “experiences” the field created by the electron it responds in a certain way depending on the charge distance between the particles etc. Now that is an explanation of say the electrostatic force between two charged particles in Classical Theory, though Quantum Physics would describe it differently. As said last time the gravitational physicists borrowed the concept of field to explain the “action at a distance” of Newton. Thus any particle creates or has its own gravitational field around it and the other particles respond to the field thus created. Thus the gravitational field takes some time to propagate, not instantaneous action at a distance, and there is no gravitational interaction between any two particles separated by a distance. The second particle only responds to the gravitational field created by the first particle and it may be called a particle field interaction.

Now with the concept of field do we understand “gravitational attraction”? Many so called educated people say they can understand the gravitational attraction but not how those grahayas affect the lives of the bipedal hominids in Moratuwa or wherever they may be. What I do not understand is how they understand that a particle can affect another particle with or without a field. Most of the people are not familiar with the concept of a field but they have no difficulty in understanding that one particle exerts a gravitational field without a rope or a pole so to say. Nobody has experienced the gravitational force though a senior lecturer at Kelaniya with a Ph. D. from Cambridge once told me that he could sense the gravitational force. When I wanted to look at this particular sense organ with which he sensed the gravitational force he could not show it to me. Perhaps he was little embarrassed.

Now has anybody sensed the field? The answer is no, I suppose in the case of vast majority of men and women unless like the lecturer mentioned above they have some peculiar sense organ that the others do not have. Understanding what is meant by understanding is a big problem and naturally it goes in cycles. A culture with linear thinking (what I call rekheeya chinthanaya as thinking is not adequate in this connection) cannot understand what is meant by understanding and it is clear that there cannot be a definition of understanding. The dominating western chinthanaya at present is Greek Judaic Christian Chinthanaya that replaced the Catholic Chinthanaya over a period of time beginning in the fifteenth century, both of which being linear. It has to be mentioned that in a cyclic chinthanaya there are no definitions as such and only in abstract systems of knowledge such as western mathematics one could begin with definitions. Nobody understands a definition and I really enjoyed teaching Mathematics without understanding it. (To be continued)

Nalin De Silva

Western Science, Astrology and Arsenic – III

What the gravitational physicists did after Maxwell was to introduce the concept of gravitational field in order to explain or understand how a particle exerts a gravitational force on any other particle wherever in the universe the two particles may be. However, it is a so called explanation as nobody understands what is meant by an explanation in this case. In this regard I would like to mention what I “learnt” from my Chemistry teacher in the fourth form (grade 10). He wanted the students to define an acid. When we could not define an acid to his satisfaction, he asked us to explain definition. Needless to say the fourteen year olds could not come up with an answer and then he in his inimitable style he said define explanation! With these questions he consciously or unconsciously exposed the inadequacy of linear thinking definitions etc., and introduced at least me to cyclic thinking (chakreeya chinthanaya) many years later.

Of course one could say that in the case of gravitational force it is a physical force but in the case of astrology it could be said that the grahayas influence even the mental state of bipedal hominids, and it is necessary to explain this phenomenon. As it is said at present there are physical, biological and mental states associated with the bipedal hominids, and some others would say these states are associated not only with bipedal hominids but with all animals whether with no feet two feet, four feet, or poly feet (apa, depa, sivupa or bahupa). When one could “demonstrate” that physical, biological and mental states are interconnected as in the case of say psycho somatic phenomena, one could come out with a “theory” or an “explanation” of how the grahayas influence the mental states of bipedal hominids. It could be through some ‘field”, say an astrological field exerted by the grahayas including Rahu and Kethu that are points of intersection of the paths of the sun and the moon relative to the earth. It could even be theorized that in general the points of intersection of the paths of sun and any planet or of the paths of any two planets or of the paths of the moon and any planet relative to the earth influence the bipedal hominids but they are negligible!

It is unfair if one wants to experience the astrological field in order to believe it or understand it or whatever, as to my knowledge nobody except that lecturer at the University of Kelaniya has experienced the gravitational field. Also it could be said a grahaya has many properties such as astrological, gravitational electromagnetic etc., and that some grahayas such as Rahu and Kethu exert only fields but not gravitational or electromagnetic fields. In the case of Sun it is believed in Newtonian Physics that it exerts gravitational as well as electromagnetic influences through relevant field and it may be that there are other fields such as astrological fields not recognized by the western scientists. The recognition by the western scientists need not be the sole criterion for us to accept, believe or whatever and we do not have to be guided by their dominant knowledge imposed on us. All theories western or otherwise are mere stories constructed in a certain chinthanaya relative to a culture. Merely because a theory is not accepted or believed in one culture it does not follow that the other cultures also should discard the theory.

There is a western scientific church or mafia and it is the high priests or the leaders of the mafia who decide which theory is to be accepted or rejected. As has been shown by Feyerabend this church is more dominant than the Catholic Church in medieval Europe, and they would not listen to alternative theories or explanations constructed even within the western culture. In the case of the Catholic Church the Pope was prepared to listen to Galileo and gave the latter a fair trial. The Pope did not object to Galileo believing that the earth went round the sun, but he wanted the latter to demonstrate it if he were to teach it to the general public. Galileo could not demonstrate that the earth went round the sun and the pope had no alternative but to imprison Galileo and keep him away from the public.

The present day high priests of the western scientific church do not have the power to imprison people but they debar theories and other knowledge not acceptable to them reaching the public through their so called learned societies and “internationally recognized” journals. Now if one were to ask who has the power to recognize these “internationally recognized journals” the answer is it is the internationally recognized people and societies. Thus it is a case of one recognizing oneself through societies and other instruments that have been empowered to do so by none other than the political powers of the particular culture. The Royal Society of London has been recognized by a Royal Charter and our own National Academy of Science has obtained its charter from the Parliament of Sri Lanka, though its Fellows have not produced anything original enough to be recognized by the “international community”. In this regard it has to be mentioned that when the University of Kelaniya group that studied the Chronic Kidney Disease unidentified etiology CKDu came out with Arsenic as the main cause of the disease, the National Academy of Science went so low as to reproduce cartoons that vilified me in their official website.

The irony is that the scientists in El Salvador have recognized that Arsenic is the cause of their Kidney Disease , and recently invited Drs. Channa Jayasumana and Kumudu Dahanayake to their country and thanked Sri Lanka for the information, knowledge or whatever on Arsenic that have been conveyed to them and other South American countries at a seminar held in another South American country by Dr. Jayasumana the most unwanted person the University of Kelaniya that attempts to deny him a postgraduate degree using so called University Autonomy throwing the work he has done during the last two and half years to the Kelani Ganga. In essence El Salvador has recognized Natha deviyan and Vipassaka deviyan when the imitators in Sri Lanka of high priests of the western scientific Church and its Cardinals and Pope refuse to do so. The Kelaniya Arsenic group holds a media conference today to inform the public more details of the El Salvador recognition.

The western scientific church did not recognize the work done by Rupert Sheldrake on what are known as Morphological fields. In essence what he says is that “past forms and behaviour of organisms influence present organisms through direct immaterial connections across time and space”. For example a crystal formed say for the first time at the University of Kelaniya with difficulties would influence the formation of a similar crystal in a University or research institute in El Salvador and it would be done much easily. This is what has happened in connection to Arsenic in Agro Chemicals with reference to the Kidney Disease. It could be said that the Arsenic experiments done at the University of Kelaniya for the first time have created a morphological field across space and time or space - time.In the South American countries cane farmers are affected by the Arsenic present in the Agro chemicals.

The high priests of the western scientific church object to research on Homeopathy. They do not recognize Homeopathy as a so called science or a technology and when some researchers in France about twenty five years ago were able to get a paper on Homeopathy principle based on dilution in the Nature the high priests of western science and medicine intervened and the editor of Nature had no alternative but to withdraw the published paper under pressure! That is the freedom of expression in the western scientific church and the high priests do not give even the freedom to believe that was not denied to Galileo by the Pope. (To be continued)

(13/05/15)

Nalin De Silva