— Professor Bijay Kumar Rauniyar
Once a monk yapped a guy who was having siesta under a banyan tree.
The snoring man was disturbed and yelled at weirdly robed beggar.
“What! Why did you awaken me? Go away and beg somewhere else.
” “Wake up,” the monk implored.
“Lord Buddha is preaching over there. Everybody is invited. Come along with me.”
“Who Buddha? Why should I listen to him? Ah, let me sleep.”
He was about to recline back. “Oh, dear! He is a great saint. A Mahatma! You will have peace after listening to him,” the bhikshu tried to convince him. “Ha, I’m already having peace here. Don’t disturb me!” He slept back and started snoring.
Lord Buddha and his monks kept lecturing and sermonizing on peace, and became not only the Light of Asia but also spread the message of peace all over the world.
Nepal, where he was born, is, however on the verge of being piecemeal.
A decade of armed conflict, about half a decade of wrangling over deciding the right course of coveted “peace process,” and yet another decade or so of restructuring Nepal and rehabilitating the combatants, and the repercussions of all these are sure to shatter the country into shards.
The Bard of Peace must have been crying to see the plight of His country which happened to be a heaven for peace-loving people. Today, it has turned into a haven for different armed groups, secessionists, segregationists, racists, power mongers, criminals, terrorists, and the like.
The Bird of Peace seems to have flown off forever to an unknown, far-off country. And we have been waiting for our Godot against all hopes.
Indeed, the parties to Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) and other mushrooming political parties are making a mockery of the entire peace process and related processes.
Each is moving in its own direction, and obviously, the cart of quietness is pulled apart spilling and splitting peace all over. UN special mission (UNMIN) which was charged with the management of arms and armies of both the nation and Maoists left recently without substantial success in this regard.
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is immediately handed over to the Government under the aegis of a Special Committee led by the present Prime Minister.
The Government and Prime Minister, nevertheless, have no power and plan to integrate the former warriors in a proper way. The mother party is rolling into tears over the ignominious departure of the conniving UN agency—UNMIN—and indefinite fate of its armed and ideologue children who have vowed to merge and serve for the nation.
Other parties are thumbing them down since they are still doubtful about Maoists’ intention and integrity.
They are further encouraged by the neighboring India who is promoting the most dissident of the trio—Babu Ram Bhattarai alias BRB—as the next successor to the Government.
The doctor sahib and his spouse have already recorded their note of dissent and have been reproached by the remaining two—Prachand and Baidya. The civil society and civilians who have witnessed many fractions in different major and minor parties till now are in dismay over the apparent “divide” in the strongest and biggest (if not the greatest) party.
Even the last wick of hope is flickering fast. Darkness is all they can see.
It is ready to engulf them and their nation in a flash.
No saint, no Mahatma, no God or Godot, no Savior is in sight to rid them of the critical juncture at which the nation is standing now.
What will be the use of people and “people’s” army who are now training themselves to greet with “Jay Nepal” if there is no Nepal, let alone New Nepal?
What will be the use of the states when there will be no State? What will be the use of republic or loktantra when there will be no sovereign public or freely participating lok?
What will be the meaning of martyrs’ shahadat when people live a hellish and cowardice life even after decades of their heroism and resistance?
Therefore, leaders, lawmakers, kings (chhote rajas) and kingmakers (nawabs), wake up, listen to the voice of people, hear the cry of mother nation, build it strongly, and preserve this warm nest of peace for the new nestlings!
Let peace stay here sustainably, and let people sleep in greater peace than before.
Let the light aflame again.
Let many Buddhas take birth on this land.
Otherwise, you will be doomed to perdition.
There will be no Second, Third or Next Coming in the millennia to come!
Finally,
Salute to mother Nepal who gave birth to many a brave!
Salute to martyrs who shed life and gave us freedom!
Shame on traitors who deprived us of this and many other things!
Don’t cry, mother; don’t cry, martyrs; your blood will keep flowing in our veins and keep the nation alive!
Contact address: bijayrauniyar1@gmail.com
# Reposted. This article first published on January 31, 2011 in telegraphnepal.com
Thanks the author: Editor.