Dwarfs in giant’s robes (Edited )

There was , I think  there is still, a debate  whether Sri Lanka is a Buddhist country. Constitutionally it is. May be many heads in this country are Buddhist by descend. Some people in the meantime argue the fact that ours is a Buddhist country should not be over sponsored and over emphasized. However, the number of people or the population in a country has been a   decisive factor in assigning the religious tags to the territory which I think is political.

To be compassionate to everyone in the world irrespective of all divisions made subsequently after the origin of species is fundamental in Buddhism. This, in other words, is love in Catholicism, Brotherhood in Islam and   Dharma in Hinduism. This is ideal and sublime as a concept.  In all communities, strong measures are taken to propagate, popularize and perpetuate their respective religion in each investing time and money. Robust rituals are practiced, perhaps, to transmit the tag to the progeny. Unfortunately there appears to be a negative correlation between the efforts taken to consolidate religions and the moral development of the followers. It is timely and good to investigate into the reasons for this negative correlation. People by nature are beastly driven by beastly instincts and resort to their inherent bestial instincts breaking the imposed barriers of moral education which is not in conformity with the norm of survival of the fittest.

Setting good examples by the leadership of any country by being honest, transparent   adhering to the code of ethics in each religion is the foundation for making a just society where people too would be corporate with the state.

Time to wait and review if our leaders had been and are truly religious in their conduct by incorporating values expounded in religions. Instances, however, are more to prove otherwise.

Political leaders ,with the exception of a few ,entertain and nurture thugs and hooligans to curb or to eliminate whoever smart, bold and daring enough to challenge their existence. Gunadasa Liyanage writing the biography of Professor Walpola Rahula thero writes an instance where JR had  employed thugs to assault the thero . Professor Srachchandra who had protested JR’s “Just Society” too was assaulted; it is said, by thugs.

Richard de Zoysa  writing a poem “ Gajagawannama” traces how the UNP regime unleashed violence against Tamils in 1983. “Birds,Beast and Relatives” by the same poet  traces state sponsored election violence . Eventually Richard was kidnapped and killed by an unidentified gunman .Keith Noir the journalist was abducted and tortured, Lasantha Wickramathunga was killed in the broad daylight    Thajudeen the sportsman was burned alive .Setting fire to the Jaffna University  library too is a heinous crime in the history of Sri Lanka. It was done. Who did was a mystery.

Wayamba provincial Council election in 1999 is recorded to be the most corrupted election in Sri Lanka.  It is obviously is a state sponsored crime committed under the leadership of the leadership of the country.

The bond scam in 2020 and the sugar fraud in 2021 are indications of the abuse of public money. These acts cannot be accidents or mistakes but are well-designed crimes with political motives.

Then comes the Covid related frauds and malpractices during the Covid Pandemic.  It is apparent  that  the leaders  have risked lives of innocent people  by being so irresponsible in managing the Covid issue during its 2^nd and 3^rd waves.Medical and administrative experts who had  assisted the administration in managing the first and the second Covid waves were either transferred from their service stations or assigned roles in fields that they are not competent.  The motive behind such practices, it is revealed, is political.

 The vaccination process too was not free from the family bandism, nepotism and favouritism found in all institutions.  Politicos, who thrive on the voters, it is said, got their longevity ensured by getting the vaccination first, sometimes, by foul means.

A lot of instances are recorded where politicians are involved in bribery and corruption. Cases are filed .Court proceedings proceed. Influential politicians, eventually, are acquitted and released. Power politics undermines judiciary. The clergy in all sectors appear to be sacrilegious. They seem to be doing everything other than what they are entrusted with.

Thus codes of ethic in all religions are violated collaboratively by the very people who are supposed to conform them.