After
allowing India to build a Hanuman Bridge
connecting Tamil Nadu to Sri Lanka ,
and promising to sign the ETCA with India
to open the Sri Lanka ’s
employment opportunities to Indians, Maithripala Sirisena visiting India to meet Indian Prime Minister Modi has
promised to give India land
in Divurumpola , Nuwara Eliya to construct a Temple to Seetha of Hindu Mythology.
Every Sri
Lankan worthy of being a Sri Lankan
should oppose with every force within oneself this abuse of power of a man who was appointed President of Sri
Lanka thanks to a largely Tamil and a Muslim vote, taking upon himself
the right of ownership of Sri Lanka and promise to give its prime land to India
to build a Hindu Temple to commemorate Seetha of Hindu Mythology.
Maithripala
Sirisena has taken it on himself to please the Tamils and Muslims who voted for
him while disregarding the Sinhala Buddhists. In opposing Mahinda Rajapakse and the Joint
Opposition Maithripal Sirisena shows his hostility towards the Sinhala Budhists
who he knows had voted for Mahinda Rajapakse.
Buddhism
disappeared in India around
the 13th Century, not because Hinduism was a better alternative or
the people wanted it, but there were other reasons in a caste infested India ,
conquered by the Muslims during the 12 to
16th centuries. Breaking up of India was also due to the Muslim conquests. Muslims
did not encourage caste system either and that attracted the conquered Indians,
who were by then under pressure of the high caste Hindu priests to accept
Hinduism and reject Buddhism.
The strong
Hindu priests who survived the Asokan assault of the Hindu religion, were able after
the death of King Asoka to gradually harness the poor Indians back to its fold evoking
frightful Hindu demons and fearful gods and goddesses like Kali Amman. This was a reason that helped re establishment of Hinduism in Buddhist India.
The Hindu mythology
with elephant headed Ganeshan, romantic Krishna ,
and powerful Vishnus brought the Indians
back to its cradle of myth, passion and fear..
The Hindu
priests had accepted Buddha as an avatar
of Vishnu. They had adopted certain philosophical thoughts from Buddhism. The
open debates by Hindu Sankhrachariyarya, also contributed to the acceptance of
Hinduism by the Indian people, and the disappearance of Buddhism by the 13th
Century. The philosophy of Bhagawath
Geetha or Upanishads had no impact on Buddhism the objective of which is
completely different from Buddhism. India had 65 different philosophies
when Prince Siddhartha the Buddha to be was born. India was not short of
philosophies.
But it was
under Buddhist King Asoka that India
flourished . India
was then compassionate, peaceful and
generous.
Hinduism
was not accepted by the Indian people because it was a better alternative to Buddhism.
In Sri Lanka we
have far too many Hindu Temples. Some of them practice animal sacrifice which should not happen in a Buddhist
country. It is time that the Buddhist
Clergy of the tri Nikayas establish a code of worship banishing ritual for
Hindu or any god or deities in Buddhists
temples.
The Hindu
pantheon consists of gods of mythology,
imagined worshipped through fear or for
hopes of success in life , or as a
safeguard against omens , ill health and protection from enemies.
In
allowing a large decorated Hindu Temples built by India will damage the Buddhist Sri
Lanka with the establishment of a Hindu
religious cult, against the practices of which Buddha made his sermons.
Theravada
Buddhism is very much alive in Sri Lanka
and Sri Lanka
was first Buddhist, Hinduism came after through invaders and plunderers. The
Buddhist India of King Asoka was made ugly , cruel and a cradle of violence
against the low cast and under privileged.
We do not want that to happen to Sri Lanka
nor should we encourage it, by allowing India to build
a temple to Seetha of Hindu Mythology.
This is
what our ignorant President Maithripala
Sirisena who readily bends back words to please the “high and mighty’ India and the
West is doing.
During the
recent visit to see Modi in India ,
the President Sirisena had promised to give the necessary land in Divurumpola to India
to allow Chief Minister Ram Madhav to
build a Hindu Temple for Seetha. It has also apparently been decided to hand
over its maintenance after its construction to India Foundation of Ram Madhav.
All
Buddhists and the Buddhist monks of the four Nikayas should get together to protest against this high handed action of
Maithripala Sirisena-the President, who seems to think he can do any thing with
Sri Lanka
without consulting the people.
The
Buddhist Monks and the people should
take seriously into consideration the anti-Sri Lanka activities that is
being practiced by the Yahapalanaya
Government, and vehemently protest
against the President, Prime Minister and the Yahapalanaya Government who carrying on their planned activities to sell
Sri Lanka to India and the West.
With the construction of the overland Hanuman Bridge,
an under sea tunnel to join Sri Lanka to India, the ETCA agreement to be signed
in June,2016 despite continued protests against the signing of the agreement,
setting up a hybrid court to prosecute our own Armed Forces to please the Tamil
Diaspora, USA and the West, and now with the agreement to give land to construct the Hindu Temple to Seetha
of Indian Mythology, the Yahapalanaya government has sold our country without
even the people knowing it.
It is
time our people get together en mass to say no to Yahapalanaya Government and
demand the President Maithripala Sirisena and his Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe to resign
in the larger interest of Sri Lanka, its
culture, its religion and its people.
The worst
in the Mythology of Rama and Seetha is that it Praises Rama a Prince of India,
and condemns Ravana a King of Sri Lanka. It praises the war, against Ravana the King of Sri Lanka, by the
Indian prince Rama, with the king of Monkeys-Hanuman, the rarely waking Kumbakarna and an Indian army.
Do we want this comedy in Sri
Lanka
in this Century ?
Rama comes with his Chief worrier the King of monkeys Hanuman to Sri Lanka to wage a war against Ravana to take back Seetha |
What
makes it further unacceptable is that there is already a Hindu Temple
where Seetha was said to have been kept hidden.
Why then another temple ? Why could not our dumb President Maithripala
Sirisena have said so ?