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Malaka in another night club brawl
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 9 Sep 2007 01:06:27 GMT Report for Abuse
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Bola Ellan,
If we allow Tigers to govern
No more Singhala country.
Better to have
No more Tigers.
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JR Jayawardena
It is a long story .. have to shorten it to essentials ..
Angulimala was not the name given by his parents .. he was born as son of the Chief Minister (of King Kosala). His true name was 'Ahinsaka' .. he had been a brilliant student, and was set to follow in his father's foot-steps .. as an important personage at the King's Court. However, due to jealousy (from fellow students), and intrigue .. this promising young man was 'turned' into a vicious criminal (because of a promise of 'great power' to be bestowed on him .. if he could fulfil a vow to 'offer' a necklace of a 'thousand fingers' to a certain God .. fingers, one each to be obtained from a thousand people, who had to be killed for this purpose). This suggestion had been put into the young man's head by his teacher .. who had become suspicious (and jealous) of possible mis-conduct between his wife, and 'Ahinsaka'.
The Budha saw a possible confrontation between the young man (who by this time had become a vicious criminal), and his mother .. who would go up to him to plead with him to give up his evil ways .. and of the mother being killed .. which would be an ir-recoverable sin (papa-karmaya), fore-closing any possibility of redemption (and of becoming an 'arahat', in that very life).
Angulimala, the fear-some armed-bandit was 'dis-armed' by the fear-less, and pleasant demeanour of the Budha .. who appeared before him just a little while before the mother (Mathanga) was due to arrive .. to meet her son and plead with him.
Angulimala fell before the Budha's feet and asked of him to be accepted into the priest-hood .. the Budha agreed to do so, making an exception to the general rule of giving ordination to a person with such a record. In fact the people blamed the Budha for offering 'refuge' (as they saw it) to a 'scoundrel' .. a vicious criminal & murderer. Angulimala who was anxious to focus his mind on the 'path to deliverance' was finding it difficult to concentrate .. images of his earlier ill-deeds would 'intrude' and disturb his efforts at 'concentration'. It so happened, while on his way on his daily 'alms-round' he passed a house, where he heard a 'young woman' (as he thought), crying as if in great pain. He heard her pain-ful cries again and again, as he went past on his alms-round .. and out of compassion, asked from one of the neighbouring house-holders, why she was crying .. what was her affliction ? And he was told, that she was sufferng and in great pain .. from a difficult 'birth', and that she may die .. The priest Angulimala .. now a very different person from his former self .. on meeting the Budha that same day, spoke to him .. and said that he was 'disturbed' by the cries of a young woman suffering 'labour pains' .. and that she may die .. whether anything could be done about her condition. The Budha suggested that he should do 'sathya-kriya' at the house where the pain-afflicted woman was living .. he should bring up to his mind, and hold-fast .. the great determination he would apply to sanctify his life (clear his thought-processes) .. may that merit help her also to deliver her un-born son, without further pain. His first response was that he was an un-worthy person, who had committed terrible crimes .. and he could not possibly help her. However, when the Budha said it a second time .. he made his resolve to do as the Budha suggested. Next day, as he went past that house .. he called on the chief house-holder, to say that he would chant 'pirith' .. and hopefully it would make for an an easier delivery for the afflicted woman. She was placed behind a screen .. and with a pirith noola carried across to her .. the priest Angulimala seated in an adjoing room, chanted the 'pirith-set' .. which had been given to him by the Budha. It is said, the chanting was highly efficacious .. her pains were eased, and she went on to give birth to a healthy infant. (The same Angulimala piritha is chanted even today .. in diverse budhist countries such as Thailand, Burma, Sri Lanka, to women who may expect to have difficulty as with say their first born).
The priest Angulimala who was earlier treated with some dis-respect by people .. as probably having got 'refuge' from the Budha, to escape a vicious past .. now recieved their approbation. He found his alms-round much easier .. he was able to concentrate on 'clearing his mind', much easier. He too soon found it possible to achieve 'deliverance' .. and became an 'arahat'.
Edited By - SenaM - 9 Sep 2007 01:45:52 GMT |
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Is Iqbal Athas a CIA Spy funded through NORway ?
The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has urged President Mahinda Rajapaksa to ?fully and immediately? restore the security detail and police guard provided for The Sunday Times Defence Correspondent and Consultant Editor Iqbal Athas and to ?fully and credibly investigate? the threats and intimidation against Mr. Athas and his newspaper. |
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US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has urged President Mahinda Rajapaksa to fully and immediately restore the security detail and police guard provided for The Sunday Times Defence Correspondent and Consultant Editor Iqbal Athas
US Senate Foreign Relatiions Committee knows little or nothing of Athas .. but they can be 'pulled' to say 'some-thing' as ridiculous as that, if the 'request' comes from some-one like RW .. who is still the 'cats-whisker' .. for a good many 'senior hands' in the US, and in many European countries.
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9 Sep 2007 02:20:36 GMT Report for Abuse
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FRom Sunday Observer
LTTE in utter disarray in Wanni
LTTE got very high Fever. |
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SenaM
Thanks for the 'Pirith' explaination.
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9 Sep 2007 04:16:42 GMT Report for Abuse
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RajivGandhi, they have a LEADER called Pakaran alias Rip Van Winkle and followers are rats.
Also they go in the direction of grave.
And their credibility is country less refugees.
Any more to clarify?
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Malaka is like his father.
Malaka and his 10 accomplices is like Mahinda and his 106 ministers.
They rearmed EPDP and other paramilitaries to get rid of youths and businessmen of Muslims and Tamils.
Sareth Fonseka established the discredited DPU to set claymore mines to the civilian targets in order to blame LTTE.
UN reviewing outstanding cases of enforced disappearance
Wednesday, 8 August 2007 - 4:57 AM SL Time
5,749 people Disappeared in 20 months.
The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances is currently reviewing 5,749 outstanding cases of enforced disappearance in Sri Lanka, the Amnesty International secretariat said |
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Http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20070908_04
For the leader of opposition Thoppigala is a baron's land...But for the SLA, it is the bounty they waited for 13 long years...
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 9 Sep 2007 07:50:21 GMT Report for Abuse
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A member of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) intelligence wing was shot dead by armed men believed to be from the Liberation Tigers pistol group in Thaddaatheru area in Point Pedro at 4:45 p.m. Saturday, sources from Point Pedro said.
Few tamil civilians life in Jaffna have been saved with the death of this state terrorist. |
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