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Can someone explain the secret of these two events in Sri Lankan history?

This is a big question I would like to pose specially to those who are at times cynical about some widely accepted socio-cultural and religious values of this Island nation even though they accept the common axiom that history repeats itself. This question is associated with an extraordinary experience I noticed in a recent visit (26.6.2011) to the Seruwila sacred area. We all have heard the often quoted axiom ‘history repeats itself’. But isn’t it strange that the same incident Sri Lanka had occurred on the same soil twice in history. The incidents I am referring to here are the Dutugemunu-Elara and the Mahinda-Pabhakaran wars against the enemy. Surprisingly they were fought by two sons of mother Lanka on behalf of Sri Lanka, born in the same region called Magama in down south at two different epochs of history of this Island nation. Isn’t this curious for any country in the world? What is even more surprising to me is that the place mentioned in this article had been the ‘epicenter’ of both these two historic wars, one in the 2 century BC was fought against a South Indian invader where as the one in 2006 was fought against a Sri Lankan terrorist outfit. The only common factor is that both occasions the enemy had been Tamils of South Indian origin. The general pattern of both these high dramas is very much similar and the beginning of the final assault had taken place in this same sacred region. To begin with the more recent event, the beginning of the final assault on the LTTE terrorists was started with the Marvil Aru battle of 2006. (Mavil Aru is only 6 km south east of Seruvila). Thereafter the forces having crossed the main Mahaweli began the three pronged attack on the terrorists from Mannar in the west, Jaffna peninsula in the north and the land stretch north of Trincommallee in the south and continued until the enemy was completely vanquished in May 2009 and thereby bringing the whole country under one parasol by liberating the country from 30 years of terrifying terrorist rule. This mission was spearheaded by President Mahinda Rajapaksa a son of Magama in the Ruhunu Rata. The forces under his command first cleared the whole of the Eastern Province starting with Toppigala and moved northwards tactfully and set the rhythm of the final onslaught on the enemy at Mavil aru. (Frontal bone) of Gautama the Buddha. This was the northernmost part of the Ruhunu Rata to the east of Mahweli.

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I began my spiritual training with the Emissaries of Divine Light. My family belonged to a self-sustainable community, the Sunrise Ranch, in the foothills near Loveland, Colorado. It is here I had my first visions of Utopia, my first taste of community bliss, my first sense of experiential education with the outdoor Educo Adventure School, and however still controversial, as with every great institution of the Time, my first sex scandel. Above all, regardless of the trials and tribulations, I experienced with this community such tremendous Love, Truth, and most of all--Light. To get the fugly part over with, to mark perhaps the transition of the third EDL sacred school to the fourth, and interestingly to regognize the Time as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the so-called fall of communism. Let’s also recognize how in the West the US President, the Military, and the Catholic Church were in trouble for sexual harrassment. It is no wonder my family was involved in such a case. My family was also part of prosecuting a member of this (what Austrian gov’t papers classify as a cult) spiritual group for molesting a certain number of boys. I was one of those boys. It is also no wonder how my family seemingly split apart from this spiritual organization at the time and I am only now beginning to reconcile and make sense of my roots. Probably the hoards of Americans and Catholics who felt betrayed by their according institutions have gone through a similar process in recognizing how even the most brilliant of concepts can have a dark underbelly. So maybe the lesson here is not only to recognize the Light but also understand the Dark. The more I study Yoga, the Humanities, Religion, and Spirituality, the more I am learning the concept of Light is not just some weird, hippy, communist concept. “This Little Light of Mine” is actually a common song sung across cultures around the world. The Light is a perfectly viable, multicultural word to reference Truth, Love, and Beauty. Here are a few translations: Inner Light (Christian and Quaker), An Noor (Islamic), Ein Sof (Jewish), Tabor Light (Eastern Orthodox), Theoria (Christian theology, illumination on the path of theosis), Ayat an-Nur (Arabic, Sign of Light). (wikipedia) As a form of Sunday school my Mom and friends would help teach us certain Abrahamic concepts. I remember studying the Bible as a sacred Text, but mostly remembering stories of the Torah (the old testament).

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