දුව්රුම් බෝධිය සහ දුස්සීල පුජකයන්

සමහරුන්ට හාමුදුරුවන් කියන එක සුදුසු නැත. කතෝලිකයන්ට කියන පුජක නාමය වඩා සුදුසුය. මිනිසුන් ලවා වන්දවා ගැනීම හෝ ගැති භාවය ඇති කිරීම මම පොඩි කාලයේ සිට ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කෙලෙමි.

මේ සංසිදියන් ටික ලියා තැබිය යුතුය.

මගෙ, මවගේ පාර්ශවයේ ඥති සහෝදරයෙක් මේ පන්සලේ ලොකු හාමුදුරුවන් බවට පත් විය.

ඒ නිසාම මට දවල් ධානය ඇතුළු පන්සලට අවශ්‍ය දේ ගෙනයමට සිදු විය.

භාජන ආපසු ලැබෙනතෙක් මට ටික වෙලාවක් නතර වෙන්න සිදු වෙනවා.

විද්‍යාවට බර මනසක් තිබු මම සතර දිබ්බාගයම පරික්ෂා කෙලෙමි. මා දුටු දේ සියල්ල මෙහි සටහන් කල යුතු නැත. ඒ දේවල් මම මගේ මවට නොකියෙමි. 

මේ උර චක්කරේන් ගැලවීම මගෙ උපාය විය. මාමා නිසා මට ඇතුළු වීමට තහනම් ප්‍රදේශ අඩු විය. සොයා ගැනිම් ද වැඩිවිය.

මේ ඥනය ජයරත්න පතිරආරච්චිට ලැබේවා යන්න මගෙ ප්‍රර්ථනාවය.

මාව මහන කර ගැනීම මාමගේ උපාය විය.

මම එයට තරයේ විරුද්ද විමි. පන්සලේ ඇතුලේ සිද්දීන් කිහිපයක් ඔහුට කියා, මේ වගේ තැනක මහන වීම මගෙ ජිවිතය විනාශ කර ගැනීමකි.

ඔහු දුර්වල නායකයෙකි යයි නොකියා, මෙතනින් ඉවත්ව යන එක ඔබගේ කිර්ති නාමය පවත්වා ගැනීමට සුදුසු බව පැවැසිමි. ඉංගිරිසි දැනීම වැඩි දියුණු කර ගන්න යයි මට අවවාද කලා. ඒ අවවාදය ඔබටත් අදාළය නමුත් මට කාලය තිබෙනවා. මම විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයට ඇතුල් වෙන්න උත්සාහ කරනවා. 

I would switch to Emglish now.

I used to land a thundering knock on the skulls of monks who escort young boys after school. This treatment Christian monks received at Ampitiya College. Before, I was thrown out I quitted. I had a Reason. Mixing the school with Ampitiya Convent was a big issue for me. Incident there I have mentioned elsewhere. I was a violent guy from childhood. Ampitiya was known for violence, mainly political and caste system. However, I had a good ally who was a National Boxer. Give him 2rupees for a beer, he settles the issue with a single jab. Sanath Gunathika was knocked out in the campus by him. He was from Matale Science College but entered from Dharmaraja college to Engineering guy. He was 5 years older and was a bit of a drunkard but never allowed more than one beer. He requests me to leave the table after one big glass. I took his gesture seriously all my life. I could not meet him. He left Australia long before I was to come to Australia. I did not do my Ampitiya village trip as usual. 

Two reasons.

No time.

My friend and my relative was in Troncomalee.

Physics was my interest and I was good at it but I choose the easy option Medicine. Eventually, he left the "Dirum Bodiya Temple". 

Little intermission here. 

Anura guy did not take an oath before a monk before inauguration. He would be treated worse than a British administrator of yore.

My monk relative after many sojourns ended up in Colombo, just at the right time when I reached Colombo General Hospital, in preoaration to migrate to UK.

I used to visit him almost weekly due to his age and medical conditions. 

Mr. Gamage, the Chief Ckerk of Colombo General Hospital was an energetic man. 

In addition, he was the Private Secretary to Senior Premadasa. I had a working relationship with him including getting the release letter to go abroad within 24 hours.

But my additional work was to help my uncle build his own Temple in Muttakkuliya where Muslims dominated.

His historical point was the last Tamil King of Kandy was taken through this Mattakkuliya and Muslims helped the British. 

Muslims are historically double dealers.

I cordinated the work at the Temple and the Senior Premadsa was of immense help. My uncle monk fall from from Divrum Bodhiya to Mattakkuliya is relevant here. I would have ended up there had I joined the Sanga which I did not have the slightest idea as a young kid. My refusal to join Sanga was prudent. 

I am totally against minors becoming apprentice monks and I campaigned against it all my life. This Young monk trying to become like Jayaratne Pathiraarchchi is a case in point.

I would wind up with the last piece.

When we built a house on an Ant Hill in Panideniya with a large cobra visiting.

I am deadly scarred of Cobras. I am not like Anslem De Silva (Please do not mix up with Kandy Mesna Tea man whom I respect very much), vwho was in parasitolgy department technician and was not a graduate and he was summarily dismissed on proper charges when I was a Seconded Officer in the University. When ever he sees me in Kandy he runs away in a moment. 

His image build up is similar to Sepala Amarasinghe but more technical. Sepala is a rank political crook.

We took the challenge and build our house there without interrupting the cobra who visits to drink water during dry season. I have crossed this cobra several time but was never aggressive to me. He comes from the Temple further away for water. Not to lay eggs. Would have been before we builr our house. 

Moment we finished the house and I got a raketty second hand Peugeot Car with a rusty bottom, the monk in the Temple send me a messenger asking for Rs. 250/= and a car ride. I gave him the money and told him never come to me lest he gets a thundering slap. I did not tell anybody if this incident. When our gradma died my father in law send a Message to the temple for "Mataka Wastu". 

The chief monk refused saying that our area did not cover his Temple jurisdiction.

Indirect way of saying NO.

We of course had given her a religious ceremony when she was alive. 

My conviction was that it should be given when one is alive and not dead. 

A dead body cannot acquire merit is my conviction. By this time, by doing simple things I gained acceptability in the region and we gained access to a nearby Pirivena with a very Young monk through our domestic aid. She is no more was the victim of DRUG Shortage. 

If I remained in Ceylon she would have lived to face the Anura CURSE of the recent catastrophe. She was lucky in a simple way.

Exit when the time is Right.

This apllies to Anura, too.

I was the first ro raise the alarm long before Kalum Jayasumana.

Continuing on Sangha, my uncle passed away when I was in UK. 

I did not know.

My general advice is  call when one is alive. When dead one belongs to the funeral director.

Just before, I left with a stroke of luck I met most Reverend  Narada Thera whom I learned the basics of Dhamma. I did not meet the other monk Piyadhassi Thera who had lot of lraflets in English on Dhamma.

Anada Maithriya thera was an erudite but I never met him but user to communicate with him through 3rd parties for information and advice.

I ended up with Bhikku Bodhi but he went to America having written a little note "Buddhism at Crossroads" when Hela Urumaya guys and Champika Ranawaka guys started political overture.

We are at this point but my current interest is correcting our history with the help of Jayarathna Pathiraarchchi.