xACKNOWLEDGEMENTI take this opportunity to express my sincere thanks
to Venerable Buddhangala Ananda Thero who made my
attempt accelerated by reminding me very often to
compile this issue too, immediately for the benefit of the
students who follow higher studies as well as for the general
public who are in thirst to acquire and improve their Dhamma
knowledge, through any possible language either by
Pali, Sinhala or English.
Without having He-thero’s encouragement it would
have been only a dream to publish this book such an early
date. Although I have started to write this book last year I
could not complete it in few months as usual, due to a certain
complication with the vision of my left eye. However when
I was urged from time to time, I determined to complete
this book somehow, and I was strengthened as this book
is based on “Girimananda Sutta” it self. Actually, at the
end I experienced myself that “Girimananda Sutta” has a
special power of cure. Thoroughly I believe that the Buddha
himself is like a physician in that. He is able to heal sickness
of defilement. The Dhamma is a rightly applied medicine
and the Sangha with the defilement cured, are like people
restored to health by the medicine.
My deepest gratitude and thanks go to Ven Dr Mirisse
Dhammika Thero who appointed me as the Sri Lanka Co-
odinating Secretary of “Sri Lanka Canada Scholarship
Foundation” in 1996 and guided me to continue it on
behalf of the economically disadvantaged but academically
qualified students who follow higher studies in schools.
Further up he helped me to start “Parents memorial
Scholarship Foundation” in 2006 for the benefit of under
graduates who follow their studies amidst number of financial
difficulties. Also he urged me to write books based on moral
virtuous and distribute among the scholarship recipients,