{"id":119095,"date":"2021-10-11T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=119095"},"modified":"2021-10-11T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T23:39:00","slug":"put-an-end-to-this-political-nude-show-by-some-teachers-medicals-and-monks-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/10\/11\/put-an-end-to-this-political-nude-show-by-some-teachers-medicals-and-monks-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Put an end to this political nude show by some teachers, medicals, and monks , too!"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Rohana R. Wasala<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

This\nis without prejudice to the honour and dignity of the thousands of our\ndedicated teachers and doctors, nurses, and other members of the professions\nmentioned here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching\nis arguably the noblest of all professions. Religions were founded by ancient\nsages who claimed to have discovered the ultimate truth about existence and\ntaught it to those who listened to them. Founders of religions and their\ndisciples who were also teachers are eternally remembered and revered by every\ncivilized human society (including the most primitive jungle-dwelling tribal\ncommunities). I chose this example for teaching because religious teachers are\ntreated as the noblest of teachers, irrespective of whether or not their\nteachings have a relevance to the ever growing modern scientific knowledge in\nspite of secular science being the only mode of acquiring knowledge about\neverything in the universe based on verifiable evidence. A teacher\u2019s most basic\njob is guiding their pupils in channeling their intellectual and physical energies\nfor the good of the society as well as themselves in a moral way (i.e., in a\nsocially, rather than individually, acceptable manner). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nsecond most exalted profession is the medical profession. In our traditional\nculture, there  used to be, or maybe there still is, a saying which goes:\n\u2018rajakama naettham vedakama\u2019; this means that a physician\u2019s work, as an ideally\ndesirable occupation, is only second to a king\u2019s or a ruler\u2019s. This is \nthe ruler was considered to be beyond comparison with others as the single\nabsolute power wielder. All politicians are either power seekers or power\nholders, so they may be thought of as potential or actual rulers. Since they\nare required to give general leadership to the whole community, the role of the\npolitician represents a unique task that involves intellectual and managerial\nactivity relating to the use of political power with the greatest\nresponsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professionals\nbelonging to all three categories (teachers, medical and paramedical personnel,\nand politicians of both the governing and opposition parties) are being\ncurrently tested by the most critical situation  that Sri Lanka has so far\nfaced after the conclusion of the fratricidal civil war in 2009. It is a\ncontest between valueless power politics and defenceless humanity. How few of\nour politicians understand that the Buddhist monks\u2019 daily invocation \u2018Raja\nbhavatu dhammiko\u2019 \u2018May the ruler be righteous\u2019 (the unanimous wish of the\ngeneral public) is about them? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will\nthose teachers and medical people who seem to be mindless enough to have\nallowed themselves to be their stooges ever realise that they are willingly or\nunwillingly holding to ransom the two most helpless and most vulnerable\nsections of the society (children and the sick) for the sake of promoting the\nant-inational and anti-government political agendas of a handful of former\nyahapalana politicians who were so overwhelmingly rejected by the masses a\nlittle over a year ago? Their cogently desired eviction from parliament was\ndelayed by the intervention of the Covid-19 pandemic, which enabled them to\ncommit the anti-social crime of staying on in parliament indefinitely after\nbeing found to be unacceptable to the people as shown by the local government\nelection result of February 1918 and the November 2019 election of a new\nexecutive president. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For\neight months after the inauguration of the new presidency and the formation of\na minority government pending the election of a new parliament, these rejected\npoliticoes did everything possible, amidst the Covid-19 created public health\nemergency, to frustrate the progressive return to normalcy from the previous\ndysfunctional yahapalana misadventure. They are now using the economic\nhardships attendant upon the Corona crisis, intensified foreign power\ninterference in the country\u2019s internal problems under the false pretext of\nreconciliation and protection of human rights, and attempted expropriation of\nits resources by the powers that be, to further blight the realization of the\n\u2018Saubhagyaye Daekma\u2019  or the ‘Vision of Prosperity’ of the Gotabaya\nadministration.  Some political monks are adding to the mayhem. They have\nrevealed who or what they are, without a shred of decency. They are standing in\nthe nude before a public seething with anger.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Rohana R. Wasala This is without prejudice to the honour and dignity of the thousands of our dedicated teachers and doctors, nurses, and other members of the professions mentioned here. Teaching is arguably the noblest of all professions. Religions were founded by ancient sages who claimed to have discovered the ultimate truth about existence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rohana-r-wasala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}