What is the only gift that all of us who are born into the world have received from birth? The power of thought to think carefully about good and evil and make decisions. But today, that power of thought has been distorted. Why? When the mental needs of the creature are not fulfilled by a group of desires, there is no action that they do not take to fulfill those desires. They do any work. But the result is very tragic.
We were all born into this universe to gain some understanding, live as good citizens through that understanding, and build a suitable mental environment for others to grow and develop through that exemplary life, but not to live our lives as if we were ourselves, fulfilling desires scattered beyond that, experiencing mental suffering. But isn't such a process happening in this socialized environment? We are not in a society that fulfills our physical needs today, but rather in a society that is dominated by mental needs. If our minds ask us for something that we can never fulfill, we try to run after it even though we know it. In the end, we live like a dog that has eaten meat and bones, remembering the consequences of the actions we have done at the moment of death.
If people who have lived and will live in the world today and in the past die, there is one person who is considered to have done the most important thing. That is, a minister named Basil Sahra. He was a very poor person by birth, but at the age of 27, he became very rich with the work he did. It was announced by the media in the countries where he is believed to have lived that he would give 20,000 pounds to every person he killed. However, this man did a very unusual thing in the entire social stratum to earn his wealth. At the age of 27, he worked as a gun dealer in Greece for a commission of 5 pounds a week. Then he thought that if I wanted to sell these weapons, I would first have to create a group of buyers. So what did he do? He first created a feeling in the hearts of the Greeks that the country should be protected from the Turks. The Greeks, who approved it without any question, bought guns and a submarine from Basil and Rogo. What did Zahoro, who increased his commission from them, impress upon the minds of the Turks? That the country should be protected from the Greeks. In this way, he created a great war between the two nations, and Basil Zahoro became a great rich man. Although we see that as a talent of his, he was not a person who lived a life of mental freedom at any time.
He met the woman he was going to marry one day while traveling on a train. But at that time, she was married to a crazy man who was about twice her age. Although she divorced him because of her religious beliefs and did not come with him, he remained married to him for 2 years after that man's death. That was when he was about 75 years old. She was 65 years old at that time. That is why it is said that his life was tragic, no matter how much wealth he earned. He had to overcome the fear in his heart to go to another country. That was because there were conflicts between many nations.
In the Spanish-American War, many lives were destroyed by providing a large amount of weapons to fight these great wars like the First World War, as a result of the sinful efforts of a person named Basil Zahra. No matter how many invitations he received through the media, he lived his life in silence without agreeing to any of them. However, he was poor by birth. But he became rich because of the cruel mental thinking he had in his mind. But a book written about his life is written with this name.
"The tombs built for the many human lives that died are the memorials built for him. The memorials written there are the death laths they climbed."
Why is this happening? One might say because of his poverty. But when you look at his life, you realize how much wealth is gained by destroying a person's life. You now know how he lived his life, no matter how rich he was. Similarly, in our country, a Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim, Christian religious conflict has arisen that did not exist before. What is the result of killing trees or criticizing each other's religions or blaming each other? There is no result. Everyone's life is only reduced.
How many days are we struggling to live? If you live for 80 years, won't you live for 29200 days? Then, is this amount of land that we have to live for that time not enough? No, enough. But due to a weakness in thinking, aren't we all struggling to die by creating conflicts? You think carefully, ask questions, and engage.
The person who wins is very happy. The person who is deprived of happiness suffers. The one who has recognized this well, the one who has become a calm and enlightened person, lives happily without causing any trouble to anyone. Even after knowing these facts, do not become a father to the world of destruction. But try to become one who abandons the desire for comfort and pursues comfort. It is not yet too late.
