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A Lenient Rant - 13/Jul/2018

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I have seen some worthless posts that often surfaces on WhatsApp. It's disappointing as well as frustrating to see those messages. Every time I look at them, I find them objectionable, they are regressive and never progressive.   These posts are crafted so well as to turn our mind against the Brahmins, but in fact, they affect our mindset and lead to brainwashing. As a consequence, we become more casteist. Our problem is not brahmins but the brahminical order or casteism that we all support. We now feel proud to be a Satnami, Satnami is a caste which serves nothing to us but to the brahmins. We are aiding Brahmanism to preserve casteism for posterity. We are in no way an Ambedkarite. Ambedkar never advocated caste; he was a nastik, he never accepted the divinity of Vedas. But today we have gone against his will; we revere him not less than any deity. Same goes with Guru Ghasidas; we exalt him to be the satpurush himself. And why satpurush? What's the existence of satpurush, hav...
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Religion of Buddha Vs Buddhism

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Overview: The Religion of Buddha is a religion of principles. A religion based on doctrines, not institutions. However, Buddhism is a sort of organised religion.  Buddhism believes in organising a religion, whereas the Religion of Buddha organises people. It's a religion of liberty, equality, and fraternity and rationale. Introduction: Political thought cannot be implanted in people by making them aware of various political theories. Neither can they be taught political science. To organize people, social and political thought should come from their religion. That's why Ambedkar insists why there a need for religion. And by religion, he means religion of principles that will also prove to be the basis of political thoughts of the masses. For this purpose, he converted to Buddhism. However, nowhere in his work, Ambedkar means Buddhism by traditional Buddhism. His meaning of Buddhism lies in the religion of Buddha, which is in stark contrast with conventional Bud...
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Bhimayāna - An Introduction

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Bhimayāna is Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's version of Buddhism.  Ambedkar since his childhood was the victim of caste system. He had seen how tyrannical, inhuman and barbaric caste system was. He initially thought of reforming hindu society by getting rid of caste system, which was completely devoid of his ideals of Freedom, Equality and Fraternity. But soon he realised that it was almost impossible to reform the hindu society(which according to him never existed in the first place).  He kept warning about the dangers of caste system and insisted the only solution lies in annihilation of caste.  Meanwhile he was also determined that Hinduism can never be the right religion for the oppressed masses.  Ambedkar never believed in the religion of orders, rules, decree etc. But he imagined of a religion of principles: liberty, equality and fraternity.  He was in the search of a religion which has his ideals subsumed in it. Finally, he came across Reli...
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