BHIMAYĀNA | भीमयान

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...

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...