Swamiji on the Buddha | EP-4 | U.N.Biswas

Описание: 4. Defiance against Tyrannical Brahiminism
Prof. Mitra in his Preface to ‘The Tribes Castes of Bengal’, 1951, precisely chronicles the rise and fall of excellence in Indian society. He correlates the rise with the ascendancy of Buddhism and the fall with the dominance of Brahminism. He maintained the same stand when he spoke on the occasion of Babashaeb centenary celebration organized by the Government of West Bengal and Dr. Bhupendranath Dutta Memorial Lecture delivered by him in 1994, at The Asiatic Society.
“Few people must have known better than Nehru how Varnashram and Brahmanical dominance slowly crippled India down the ages. After all this is what is implicit in a letter 1 have just referred to. He knew how India's vitality was at a high level, precisely for this reason, when Buddhism made its tremendous sweep by doing away social and caste barriers, restoring confidence and dignity among the lowest of the low ushering in social equity and equality of opportunity. Nowhere was this equality of opportunity and redemption of the lowest of the low better demonstrated than in the canonization of the eighty four Siddhas in Buddhist literature.”
“Nehru knew how Brahminical resurgence after Buddhism restored social inequality and Varnashram plunged India in to social and political fragmentation.”
The Buddha defied the irrational dictates of the Brahmins.“And never that man bent before even the power of the tyrannical Brahmins. Never that man bent.” ( ibid, p.529.)