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OUR
PHILOSOPHY
"HAPPINESS IS
WEALTHSUPREME"
Lord Gautama Buddha
[sixth century BC]
OUR
OBJECTIVE
To help you share
that supreme wealth
OUR
TECHNOLOGY
To provide you with
the attitudes,
knowledge and skills
necessary to share
that wealth
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SUPREME
"Santhusti Paramang
Dhanan"Lord Gautama Buddha
Harnessing Mind Power for
Happy Living
Mental and Physical
Happiness
HEALTH IS SUPREME BLESSING
"Arogya Parama Labha" Lord
Gautama Buddha
MIND'S CULTURE
Meditation for harnessing mind
power
Meditation
NOVELS ON HAPPINESS by
NIHAL S. DISSANAYAKE
THE HAPPY RAJ
THE HAPPY RAJ TWO
THE HAPPY RAJ THREE
I DON'T BELONG TO ME
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
NIHAL S. DISSANAYAKE
THE HAPPY RAJ
- A synopsis
- The Plot
- Honours and Reviews
- Excerpts
- First Chapter
THE HAPPY RAJ TWO
- A synopsis
- The Plot
- Honours and Reviews
- Excerpts
- First Chapter
THE HAPPY RAJ THREE
- A synopsis
- The Plot
- Honours and Reviews
- Excerpts
- First Chapter
I DON'T BELONG TO ME
- A synopsis
- ThePlot
- Honours and Reviews
- Excerpts
- The Plot
- First Chapter
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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THE PLOT: THE HAPPY RAJ TWO
Unaware of the coup by her adopted parents,
orphan Akki, accepts an invitation to spend ten
days in a meditation retreat. Working overtime, she
improves her knowledge of the techniques of
meditation very fast. When Akki returns home, she
meets with her adopted-brother working for The
Happy Raj, promoting the Sotapatti Meditation
Program in the island. He informs the family of his
decision to get ordained as a Buddhist monk to follow
the Sotapatti Meditation program. This news disturbs
the entire family and makes his mother sick.
Convinced with the family logic she agrees to
support him on religious grounds.
When the family visits The Happy Raj for the
inauguration of the Kingdom of Happiness, and the
ordination ceremonies, Nangi gives birth to a son in
the island which had hardly any facilities to handle
a child birth. . Akki plays the role of the midwife and
considers herself as co-owner of the child. The duo
joins together to promote a women’s section on
Sotapatti Meditation at island and work hard to
make it a success.
After studying the Corridors of Suffering, the multi-
media exhibition at The Happy Raj, Akki decides to
follow her brother and join the order in search of
eternal happiness. Nangi supports her, to get the
approval from the family, but regrets her inability to
join.
The main conflicts in the story are the clashes
between the heart and the head; inability of a mother’
s heart to give up the ownership of her children after
they have grown up. Buddhist philosophy helps them
to resolve all problems to enhance their levels of
happiness.
THE HAPPY RAJ TWO suits best for those who are
looking for life directions to guide their life boats for a
happy and a contented life.
SYNOPSIS: THE HAPPY RAJ TWO
The eternal love bond between the mother and her
child is sacred and sacrosanct. When
Nangi leaves behind her infant son to travel to
participate in the Happy Raj Seminar, she
could not understand the vacuum created by the
absence of her son from her lap, for ten
days. Unable to endure the demands made by her
body during the very first night, she loses
the control of her mind, and appeals to friendly
butterflies flying towards the Adam's Peak , to take a
message to her son.
Set in their family estate, the drama moves in to the
beautiful island of The Happy Raj where
her brother is meditating in search of Nirvana.
THE HAPPY RAJ TWO is the continuation of the
award-winning novel, THE HAPPY RAJ. It is
about happiness and suffering and highlights the
relationship between a mother and her siblings.
When her beauty queen daughter is abducted Ammi
loses her heart, and suffers silently confined to her
room for several days. But when pregnant Nangi
returns within two months, accompanied by her
Matron Akki, Ammi recovers with sweet dreams about
a grand child and decides to adopt 30-year old Akki
as a daughter. When her son and the adopted
daughter decide to don yellow robes, Ammi loses her
balance once again
The eternal love bond between the mother and her
child is sacred and sacrosanct. When
Nangi leaves behind her infant son to travel to
participate in the Happy Raj Seminar, she
could not understand the vacuum created by the
absence of her son from her lap, for ten
days. Unable to endure the demands made by her
body during the very first night, she loses
the control of her mind, and appeals to friendly
butterflies flying towards the Adam's Peak , to take a
message to her son.
Set in their family estate, the drama moves in to the
beautiful island of The Happy Raj where
her brother is meditating in search of Nirvana.
THE HAPPY RAJ TWO is the continuation of the
award-winning novel, THE HAPPY RAJ. It is
about happiness and suffering and highlights the
relationship between a mother and her siblings.
When her beauty queen daughter is abducted Ammi
loses her heart, and suffers silently confined to her
room for several days. But when pregnant Nangi
returns within two months, accompanied by her
Matron Akki, Ammi recovers with sweet dreams about
a grand child and decides to adopt 30-year old Akki
as a daughter. When her son and the adopted
daughter decide to don yellow robes, Ammi loses her
balance once again
CHAPTER ONE THE HAPPY RAJ TWO
“Amma, I am feeling jealous.” Said Akki when she
intruded into Ammi’s bed room while Ammi was planning
to retire for the day. She asked Akki to sit on the bed
and took her hand on to her lap. Still she could not
fathom the significance of that statement. To her
jealousy is the prerogative of all women and when a
woman says, that she is jealous, it could be interpreted
as a statement accepting the failure of an attempt to
maintain status quo. But Ammi who is a highly matured
lady with a deep understanding of her own religious
philosophy tried to attach more importance to her
statement than considering it as casual banter. She
inquired from Akki, ”Jealous of what?”
Instead of answering the question direct, she closed her
face with her palms and looked at the face of the
mother to study what type of response the she was
exhibiting. But the table lamp that was on the ebony
table of Ammi was not strong enough to shed sufficient
light to her reactions or emotions. How ever, Akki went
on the defensive.
“Amma, please don’t scald me or to tell this to Nangi.
She might misunderstand it. I thought about it for one
full day and when I found it difficult to sleep to day, I
decided to seek your help. And I have no other place to
go except to you This softened her heart. She got
closer to Akki and told her to continue,
“Now tell me dear what your problem is. If you tell me, I
will certainly help you. But please tell me what it is
about.” Amma got closer to Akki and started stroking
her hand and fingers.
Akki while working with Nangi in the ship, was highly
appreciative of the philosophy of Ammi. She could still
remember what Nangi said that day. Unable to
comprehend her philosophic approach to life, Akki
inquired, “How come that you have matured so much to
your age?”
Nangi explained how she started thinking about her
own life. It was the first day of her coming of age.
According to the customs the girl has to be confined to
a room without being shown the face of any man, not
even her own father. Nangi after being confined to the
room for the first day complained, “Amma I am bored.
What can I do for seven days like this?”
Ammi came with a positive response, “Work with your
school books.” The lady with a heart that was
overflowing with a loving heart, did not ignore her
question. She came to her room after dinner and
explained her philosophy. “The only thing that you can
do for these seven days is to think , if you are not
working with your books”
“What do I think about. I don’t know?”
“You got to think what is good for you and that should
be good for every person including your parents,
school, the village and every body. Think of what could
happen if you do something bad and how it could affect
you and the family.”
Nangi could remember what was happening to the
friends in her own school. She could remember how
one girl had disappeared and re-surfaced after one
month, when the boy with whom she disappeared could
not afford to give her the comforts that she was used to.
This experience Nangi had explained in details, and told
Akki what she did. “I could remember how we were
trying to catch a boyfriend. Every one, without
exception. We knew what had happen to our friends,
who had got into troubles as a result of love affairs. Yet
we wanted to do the same. But after my mother asked
me to think, I decided, before I could go to school next,
that I would have nothing to do with boys until I leave
school.”
“But Nangi, I was told that I should look beautiful, in
what I wear, what I do and what I talk . So far no person
had ever asked me to use my brain. To think. So far I
have not done any thinking. I like to come and meet
your mother to get some advice for me. She is highly
advanced.”
While focusing her eyes on that antique almirah that
would have stood there with a majestic look for more
than a century before it had become the property of
the present incumbent, she murmured, while Ammi was
focusing her eyes on the face of her adopted daughter.
“It is the buthmallas.”
Buthmalla is a package that contains a meal specially
prepared to be given to a pregnant woman to wish her
to have safe delivery. It is a cultural habit among
certain families and communities to give a Buthmalla to
friends and relatives when the visibility of the child
inside increases. They, in their own thinking aspire
secretly to receive something better when or if they
ever get pregnant.
Some think that what you save is all what you give. It is
always an act of merit on which you could expect to get
good food during next births. A bathmalla should always
contain a mixture of good and tasty dishes that
pregnant women desire to eat at that stage of their
pregnancies. Therefore a Buthmalla always contains
special dishes prepared with special care to get the
maximum out of the occasion.
The buthmallas mentioned by Akki were the buthmallas
that Nangi continued receives amost daily, mainly from
the ladies who came to get treatment from her father
who was an Ayurvedic physician and holding onto the
family practice that was about 200 years old. Nangi has
managed to make a good rapport with the patients that
come to get treatment from her father because she was
serving an apprenticeship period under him after
getting a registration to qualify as an Ayurvedic
practitioner. Therefore they always have been trying to
give her the best that they could prepare at their levels.
Amma was puzzled and confused, because she knew
that Nangi always shared her buthmallas with Akki at
one of their private dining rooms. On the date the first
Buthmalla appeared, they tried to share it. There was a
problem. Akki smelled the appetizing and mouth
watering smells that had come from the cooked tuna
fish which Nangi explained as cooked in ambulathiyal
style and it was with great difficulty that the duo agreed
to leave it to the dogs as everyone in the family was a
confirmed vegetarian. But Akki had a problem with that
decision.
Akki had agreed to be a vegetarian, when Nangi had
explained to her about the family value system, while
they were working in the ship as a nurses. To Nangi
the logic of being a vegetarian was a problem of health.
She explained to Akki,” In our class there was a girl who
lived next to a retail fish stall. Those days the flies and
smells were a problem even to us he said.. “But now
there are no flies there and the smells also have
disappeared”...
“Amma, I am feeling jealous.” Said Akki when she
intruded into Ammi’s bed room while Ammi was planning
to retire for the day. She asked Akki to sit on the bed
and took her hand on to her lap. Still she could not
fathom the significance of that statement. To her
jealousy is the prerogative of all women and when a
woman says, that she is jealous, it could be interpreted
as a statement accepting the failure of an attempt to
maintain status quo. But Ammi who is a highly matured
lady with a deep understanding of her own religious
philosophy tried to attach more importance to her
statement than considering it as casual banter. She
inquired from Akki, ”Jealous of what?”
Instead of answering the question direct, she closed her
face with her palms and looked at the face of the
mother to study what type of response the she was
exhibiting. But the table lamp that was on the ebony
table of Ammi was not strong enough to shed sufficient
light to her reactions or emotions. How ever, Akki went
on the defensive.
“Amma, please don’t scald me or to tell this to Nangi.
She might misunderstand it. I thought about it for one
full day and when I found it difficult to sleep to day, I
decided to seek your help. And I have no other place to
go except to you This softened her heart. She got
closer to Akki and told her to continue,
“Now tell me dear what your problem is. If you tell me, I
will certainly help you. But please tell me what it is
about.” Amma got closer to Akki and started stroking
her hand and fingers.
Akki while working with Nangi in the ship, was highly
appreciative of the philosophy of Ammi. She could still
remember what Nangi said that day. Unable to
comprehend her philosophic approach to life, Akki
inquired, “How come that you have matured so much to
your age?”
Nangi explained how she started thinking about her
own life. It was the first day of her coming of age.
According to the customs the girl has to be confined to
a room without being shown the face of any man, not
even her own father. Nangi after being confined to the
room for the first day complained, “Amma I am bored.
What can I do for seven days like this?”
Ammi came with a positive response, “Work with your
school books.” The lady with a heart that was
overflowing with a loving heart, did not ignore her
question. She came to her room after dinner and
explained her philosophy. “The only thing that you can
do for these seven days is to think , if you are not
working with your books”
“What do I think about. I don’t know?”
“You got to think what is good for you and that should
be good for every person including your parents,
school, the village and every body. Think of what could
happen if you do something bad and how it could affect
you and the family.”
Nangi could remember what was happening to the
friends in her own school. She could remember how
one girl had disappeared and re-surfaced after one
month, when the boy with whom she disappeared could
not afford to give her the comforts that she was used to.
This experience Nangi had explained in details, and told
Akki what she did. “I could remember how we were
trying to catch a boyfriend. Every one, without
exception. We knew what had happen to our friends,
who had got into troubles as a result of love affairs. Yet
we wanted to do the same. But after my mother asked
me to think, I decided, before I could go to school next,
that I would have nothing to do with boys until I leave
school.”
“But Nangi, I was told that I should look beautiful, in
what I wear, what I do and what I talk . So far no person
had ever asked me to use my brain. To think. So far I
have not done any thinking. I like to come and meet
your mother to get some advice for me. She is highly
advanced.”
While focusing her eyes on that antique almirah that
would have stood there with a majestic look for more
than a century before it had become the property of
the present incumbent, she murmured, while Ammi was
focusing her eyes on the face of her adopted daughter.
“It is the buthmallas.”
Buthmalla is a package that contains a meal specially
prepared to be given to a pregnant woman to wish her
to have safe delivery. It is a cultural habit among
certain families and communities to give a Buthmalla to
friends and relatives when the visibility of the child
inside increases. They, in their own thinking aspire
secretly to receive something better when or if they
ever get pregnant.
Some think that what you save is all what you give. It is
always an act of merit on which you could expect to get
good food during next births. A bathmalla should always
contain a mixture of good and tasty dishes that
pregnant women desire to eat at that stage of their
pregnancies. Therefore a Buthmalla always contains
special dishes prepared with special care to get the
maximum out of the occasion.
The buthmallas mentioned by Akki were the buthmallas
that Nangi continued receives amost daily, mainly from
the ladies who came to get treatment from her father
who was an Ayurvedic physician and holding onto the
family practice that was about 200 years old. Nangi has
managed to make a good rapport with the patients that
come to get treatment from her father because she was
serving an apprenticeship period under him after
getting a registration to qualify as an Ayurvedic
practitioner. Therefore they always have been trying to
give her the best that they could prepare at their levels.
Amma was puzzled and confused, because she knew
that Nangi always shared her buthmallas with Akki at
one of their private dining rooms. On the date the first
Buthmalla appeared, they tried to share it. There was a
problem. Akki smelled the appetizing and mouth
watering smells that had come from the cooked tuna
fish which Nangi explained as cooked in ambulathiyal
style and it was with great difficulty that the duo agreed
to leave it to the dogs as everyone in the family was a
confirmed vegetarian. But Akki had a problem with that
decision.
Akki had agreed to be a vegetarian, when Nangi had
explained to her about the family value system, while
they were working in the ship as a nurses. To Nangi
the logic of being a vegetarian was a problem of health.
She explained to Akki,” In our class there was a girl who
lived next to a retail fish stall. Those days the flies and
smells were a problem even to us he said.. “But now
there are no flies there and the smells also have
disappeared”...
EXCERPTS THE HAPPY RAJ TWO
.
- The development of a Sotapatti Meditation Program
was being pursued by several people at several
levels and from several angles. Professor
Happiraja, after his meeting with Silmaniyo fixed
another meeting with his architects and wanted the
building plans to be altered. He explained, “The
lady who runs that meditation centre for women
said, that it would be much safer for all activities to
be centered in one building, so that they would not
have to leave the main building for any purpose.
Her main concern was protection both from animals
and also from unfriendly spirits. "You know we had
that problem of a ghost there and that made Dada
to be taken to the hospital with a heart problem."
- Sotapatti is the lowest rung of the four levels which
is classified as “Arya”. Once you reach that level
there is no way of looking back. You will end your
life cycle within seven births and would never be
born into the womb of an animal or in the suffering
realms. Lord Buddha had once described it as
higher than being the World King [Chakrawarthi].
But reaching that kingdom, therefore, has to be
very difficult. However, one Sutta, the Maha
Satipattana Sutta mentions in no uncertain terms,
that any person who follows the techniques as
given in that Sutta can opt to enter the Arahant
level if not, any other lower levels within seven
years, the maximum.
- Encouraged by the text in the Sutta she inquired
from Nangi, the person who had introduced her to
the subject of meditation and had given her the
preliminary lessons about the concept. It was she
who encouraged Akki to pursue meditation. “Yes. It
contains the words of Lord Buddha in his own
language. During my life time I have not been able
to find something which he has said was untrue.
You have to trust his words. I would like to look at it
once again and tell you what I think about it."
- But my problem is the child. I have been trying to
argue that he is common property. But Akki, how
can you do such a thing when you have been
carrying him in your tummy for more than nine
months? Only you know the problems I have had
because of him. And no other person can
understand them. After all that suffering can I say
he is not mine? This is the main problem you have
to tackle before you get into that. I agree one
hundred percent with what is given there. It is true .
Now look at your own body. If you analyze the
things that you did during last twenty four hours,
you will find ninety nine percent of the time you
were attending to your body needs. From the time
you start brushing your teeth in the morning until
you brush your hair before you get into bed,
everything that you do is to promote your body. The
water you drink, the food that you eat, the clothes
that you wear, the hair that you comb, everything to
say my body is in a beautiful condition and is
acceptable. If you agree that it does not belong to
you, do you think that you will attend to half of the
things? What have you, or have I done anything
today to improve our minds?” This she has heard
many a time. When confronted with arguments like
that she did not listen to them. .Akki came out with
her favorite phrase. “Yes. I agree with your logic.
But it is difficult to put it into practice.”
- Akki has been thinking of the contents of the
Satipattana Sutta for some days, after she read it
first at the Retreat. “I don’t know. I am confused. If
what is given in the book is true and is not the same
as what the entire world does, there appears to be
a clash. It is a clash, a clash between societies or
civilizations. A clash between the intelligent people
and the morons. I don’t want to get into the latter
category.”
- “It needs a change in attitudes,” said Akki and took
the brochure that they have prepared in respect of
the ten day work shop. GETTING CLOSER TO
NIRWANA—EXCLUSIVELY FOR WOMEN. “Here it
says, to provide you with the attitudes, knowledge
and skills necessary to be a stream winner. Does
that mean that after I participate in the program I will
be able to say that my body does not belong to me.
This is what you have been arguing all the time. But
I cannot accept the fact that this body which I love
so much does not belong to me.”
- Former beauty queen Agrajini [Nangi] wearing a
beautiful and a flowing white sari got up and went
up to the podium adjusted the microphone to her
height and started delivering the address they had
practised several times and improved on it with the
comments made by her brother. She stood there
with confidence, like an experienced professor and
started talking slowly, articulating each word, and
supplementing her speech with lavish movements of
her beautiful hands and flashing beautiful smiles.
- She started delivering her well practised lecture, of
course with lots and lots of improvements here and
there, as regards content and delivery. After a few
preliminaries she started her session with a
question .
“Ladies .All of you, without any exception have been
practitioners of this noble technique of moving
towards nirvana. Let me ask you one simple
question. It is: How many of you were practicing
your meditation with the definite objective of
achieving at least the Sotapatti level during this life
time? Please raise your hands—only those who
have made an attempt and have fixed a time frame.
- While getting ready for the Women’s Meditation
Program at The Happy Raj, Akki was assigned the
responsibility of coordinating with those who made
inquiries. To help her answer the calls correctly,
she made a scientific study of the procedures and
decided to be a participant at the Program, as well
as a resource person as well. These activities had
contributed to convince her that the real happiness
is not in trying to gratify the sense organs but in
restrains. That was the purification of self. She
studied the process of meditation and within a short
time, and had improved her knowledge on
meditation to the extent that she had learned all the
principal concepts to a certain level to answer the
inquiries made by women who had been practicing
meditation.
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