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THE REVOLUTIONARY
BUDDHA

WRITER

DR. PRATAP K. CHATSE


M.B.B.S., D.C.H.

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THE REVOLUTIONARY BUDDHA

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DR. PRATAP K. CHATSE


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INDEX
1.

PREFACE

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3.
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5.

THE WRITERS WORDS


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THE REVOLUTION OF THE BUDDHA
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BRAHMINS DISTORTED THE BUDDHAS HISTORY
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CAUSES BEHIND THE DISTORTED HISTORY OF
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THE BUDDHA
INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION
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THE OBJECTS OF THE BRAHAMANISM: TO
ESTABLISH A BRAHMIN PRIEST STATE
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AN ATROCIOUS FEATURES OF THE BRAHAMANISM
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THE OUTBRUST AGAINST THE BRAHAMANISM
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THE CHIEF WEAPONS OF THE BUDDHAS
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REVOLUTION
THE EFFECTS OF THE BUDDHAS REVOLUTION
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WHY THE BUDDHA REJECTED THE BRAHMANISM?
68
AN EVERLASTING INFLUENCE OF THE BUDDHA
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THE BRAHMINS GAINED A FINAL VICTORY OVER THE
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BUDDHISM WITH THE HELP OF THE VIOLENCE
(i.e. HINSA) ONLY.
HOW HINDUISM GOT DEVELOPED?
87
AN ENLIGHTENMENT OF SIDDHARTHA
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WHAT IS MEAN BY THE DHAMMA-CHAKKU OR THE
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BUDDHAS VISION?
ATTA: DIPA: BHAVA: i. e. ENLIGHTENED YOURSELF!!!
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ACCORDING TO THE BUDDHA, WHAT IS THE RE-BIRTH? 112
THE BUDDHAS AHIMSA (i.e. THE NON-VIOLENCE)
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THE BUDDHAS INTELLECTUAL REVOLUTION
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WHY THE BUDDHA HAD ACCEPTED BRAHMINS IN HIS
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REVOLUTION?
THE BUDDHAS STRUGGLE FOR FOURTY - FIVE YEARS
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THE MAHA- PARI NIRVANA OF THE BUDDHA
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THE BUDDHAS LINEAGE WITH THE INDUS
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CIVILIZATION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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PREFACE

The book Revolutionary Buddha written by Pratap Chatse


is an appropriate study of Tathagat Buddhas movement. Pratap Chatse
has studied this topic very deeply. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
embraced Buddhism on 14th October, 1956 at Nagpur and revived it
in India. By embracing Buddhism his movement reached at
International level. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar presented Tathagat
Buddhas true biography and Buddhist Bible to his people in India.
He had also guided in the world Buddhist Fellowship to Buddhist
nations. He had guided particularly to those countries which had
inclination towards communism, and at the same time, were respecting
Tathagat Buddha. The prediction which Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
made, has come true. It was his vow to convert whole of India into
Buddhism. He had made an announcement at Kathmandu Nepal that
he will make India, a Buddhist nation. But Brahmins assassinated him
secretly with a careful conspiracy. Savitabai and Jawaharlal Nehru
had a hand in that conspiracy.
Brahmins away try to fill the minds of those people who wish
to study Buddhism and Buddhas social movement. Brahmins
interpolated the true teaching of Tathagat Buddha and even entered
the Bikkhu Sangh. They killed the monks and thus Sangh was
collapsed. Apart from this, Pushyamitra Shrung made a counterrevolution. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar brought the history of Revolution
and counter- revolution of India before the world. It is the truth.
Rahul Sanskrutyayan also propagated against Buddhism. He
took side of Pushyamitra Shrung. And thus proved his Brahinhood
Tathagat Buddhas movement was for change of system. It effect was
seen in ancient India, and its fruit were tasted by the people.

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Brahmins always accused that Buddhism is a religion of Shudra


people. It means that it was the religion of aboriginals of India. Its
necessary to tell the history of revolution and counter-revolution to
the Buddhist nations. We should be careful from Brahmins entry into
Buddhism.
Pratap Chatse has put the Information very carefully in this
book Revolutionary Buddha. Thoughts of Tathagat Buddha are the
heritage of world. Tathagat Buddhas proper study is made by Pratap
Chatse through the English language. Buddha also told that truth should
be discovered and at the same time, should be established. Pratap
Chatses book is going to be published by Mulnivasi Publication Trust.
It is very happy thing to us. In 2006, 50 years were completed to the
conversion of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar. BAMCEF has arranged a
nationwide programme at Nagpur under Social Networking. Honble
Waman Meshram had presented his thoughts in this programme. It is
unparallel in the world. The present book is coming forth by his
inspiration.
I wish him best compliment for future works.

PROF. VILAS KHARAT


Director, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
Research Centre,
New Delhi

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The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It


should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and
theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it
should be based on a religious sense arising from the
experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful
unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any
religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it
would be Buddhism. Though I am not a religious man, if I
had been one, I would have been the Buddhist.

Albert Einstein

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THE WRITERS WORDS


There is a good demand for a clear and consistent statement
of the life and the teachings of the Buddha. Any Buddhist or a nonBuddhist finds it extremely difficult to understand and present the life
and the teachings of the Buddha in a consistent manner.
The ruling Brahmin class in India has made so much
misreporting and misunderstandings about the life and teachings of
the Buddha that, it becomes quite puzzling and sometimes baffling
while understanding the real Buddha. The whole object of the Brahmins
behind this misreporting was to confuse the peoples, so as to eradicate
the revolutionary work of the Buddha and to present Him as like a
religious teacher preaching the teachings of silence and peace-loving.
The revolutionary Buddha was harmful for the Brahmins supremacy
over Mulnivasi Indians; so they tried to erase each and every memory
of Him. The silent Buddha was very beneficial for the Brahmins
supremacy and for the Brahmanism; so the Brahmins in India favored
it. They liked it so much that, they became the followers of this Buddha
and created their separate sect in Buddhism in the name of Mahayana
to glorify the Buddha in the form of the silent Buddha, preaching the
words of silence. During the reign of Emperor Kanishka, the Brahmins
even manufactured the statues of the Buddha and started prayers for
Him; which Buddha had completely denied in his whole life. The
Buddha had also completely denied the use of Sanskrit language for
His preaching and had favored the local languages such as Magadhi,
Pali, etc for His preaching and had strictly warned to His follower
monks to do so. But,the Brahmins Brocken His rule and favored
Sanskrit language instead of the Pali language in the Mahayana
Buddhism. Since, the language Sanskrit was out of reach of the general
population (Sanskrit was limited to the Brahmins only), nobody
understood what the Brahmins were writing in the Sanskrit about the
Buddha and His Dhamma. By observing the ignorance of Mulnivasi
Indians about the Sanskrit language, the Brahmins written everything
whatever they favored about the Buddha and His teachings. They
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had done thousands of misreporting about the life and the teachings of
the Buddha to confuse the peoples.
Due to these misreporting, the peoples accepted the Buddha
as a spiritual religious teacher and not as a revolutionary Buddha.
They dont notice the revolutionary work and the revolutionary
teachings of the Buddha. Due to the spiritual tinge, the peoples find
the Buddha and His Dhamma applicable to the spiritual World only;
they dont find it useful for the material World. Thats why, many
Buddhist countries in the World like China, Korea, Cambodia, Vietnam,
etc although being a Buddhist countries accepted Communist as a
model of revolution to bring a change in the system over there. They
are using Buddha and Buddhism only for the spiritual way of life. If
they would have known the revolutionary life and teachings of the
Buddha, they would have not needed Communism in place of the
Buddhism.
If we will see and compare the life and teachings of the Buddha
and Carl Marx, we see that, Marx only written his revolutionary
teachings in the form of Communism; but if we see the Buddha, we
find that, the Buddha not only presented His revolutionary teachings
but He himself lived a life of a revolutionary and done Himself a
revolution in ancient Indian before 2500 years of Carl Marx. Here, I
dont want to discuss about who is superior or inferior among the
Buddha and Carl Marx; both are the best at their own places. What I
want to say is that, the Buddhas revolutionary teachings in the form
of Buddhism were far ahead and superior in compare to that of the
Marxs Communism. In his later life, Carl Marx himself walked into
the footprints of the Buddha. These issues will be discussed in my
upcoming book named Carl Marxs Buddhism.
Due to hiding of the revolutionary aspect of the life and the
teachings of the Buddha, the Buddhism had attained a thorough
dullness as a whole. One cant understand the real objective of the
Buddhas dedication and devoted work. This has given a kind of
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dullness and inactivity to the Buddhist World. To remove this dullness


and inactivity from the Buddhist World, this book is a small kind of
effort. Many intellectuals should join hands together in this noble work
to bring the Buddha out of the darkness of the history.
With a view to raise a discussion on the revolutionary aspects
of the life and the teachings of the Buddha, I have proposed to set it
out here. I hope, after reading this book, the readers would find it
exciting and appealing to them to change the existing system of the
Brahmanism and the Capitalism, which are encroaching the World.
Specially thanks to Honble Waman Meshram. In writing this
book, I got a precious help and guidance from our mentor Prof. Vilas
Kharat sir; without the guidance of whom, it was impossible to
complete this noble task. I also got timely references from my colleague
Prof. Anil Mane sir, Shinde sir, Sandip Ingole sir, Sr. Pattekar sir my
brother Dr. B.K. Chatse and Bharat Chatse. I also got good support
and courage from my parents and my wife Ashwini. I am also grateful
to those known and unknown supporters in this genuine task.
Writer,
DR. PRATAP K. CHATSE
M.B.B.S., D.C.H.
Paediatritian and Medical officer,
Rural Hospital, Mantha. Dist. Jalna.
And the Secretary, District BAMCEF, Jalna.
Maharashtra.

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THE REVOLUTION OF THE BUDDHA

The Buddha was not a simple religious Guru as like present


day Maharajas, Fathers, Saints or Swamijis.
He did not simply sit under a tree with his eyes closed.
He did not do anything like Meditation, Yoga or some other
praying.
He was the Worlds first great Revolutionary. He led a
huge revolution, which suppressed the Brahmin rule in India.
He denied the God.
He denied the foolish concepts of the Soul, Heaven-Hell, etc.
He educated Mulnivasi Bahujan Indians who are present day
SC, ST and OBCs and Converted minorities (i. e. Muslims, Sikhs,
Buddhists, Jains, Christians, Lingayats, etc) in India.
The Brahmins distorted His real history and told a wrong story
about Him.
Briefly, it goes like this:
1. The Buddha saw a sick man. 2. The Buddha saw a suffering old
man. 3. The Buddha saw a dead man. 4. Later, He sat beneath a tree
and started Meditation.
Suddenly, He got enlightened and became the Ninth Avatar
of God Vishnu.
This is an absolutely stupid and baseless story composed by
the Brahmins to misguide the majority of Mulnivasi (i.e. native) Bahujan
Indians
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The actual history of the Buddha was like this:The Buddha was born in 563 B.C. in India. He belonged to
the SAKHYA Gana. (Ganas were the tribal Republics in an ancient
India).
The Brahmins had made majority of Mulnivasi (i.e. native)
Bahujan Indians their slaves and made their lives miserable. The
Peoples were suffering due to atrocities of an invader Brahmins on
them. Since, the Brahmins were robbing majority of Indians, they were
happy as like todays Capitalists; though the Brahmins were in minority.
The Buddha decided to free majority native (i.e. Mulnivasi)
Indians from the atrocities of these invader Brahmins. The Brahmins
had made native Indians their slaves with the help of their religious
ideology of Brahmanism. Native (i.e. Mulnivasi ) Indians had not their
own religion, thats why, they were suffering.
The Buddha decided to free native (i.e. Mulnivasi) Indians
from the Brahmins slavery by offering them a good humanistic religion.
To create a religion was a very difficult task at the time of the
Buddha. The Brahmins had kept all the religious knowledge to
themselves only. If any non-Brahmins Indian want to gain this
knowledge, then the condition of the Brahmins was that, he must leave
his home and he must become a hermit.
The Buddha had no other option but to leave His home, if He
wants to achieve His goal. So, under big tension, He left his home to
free His peoples from the slavery of the Brahmins and their Brahmanism.
Initially, the Buddhas parents couldnt understand Him and
His objective properly; otherwise, they would have helped Him. They
simply wanted that, their son should become a king greater than His
father. So, they adopted every possible means to keep Buddha
attached to His surroundings. They kept Him in very luxurious and
happy life. But, the Buddha was much worried about the miserable
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life of his peoples. He was sure that, the only way to get freedom to
His peoples was to do a social revolution in India to bring a change in
social system.
To engage further in His life, Gautamas parents done His
marriage with Yashodhara. This marriage further brought restrictions
on His expectations. But, the Buddha had decided firmly to achieve
His goal at any cost. He was finding a way to escape from family
bondage. Finally, He got a chance on the incidence of dispute of Shakya
and Koliyas on the river water. He decided to take advantage of this
dispute. So, He purposefully opposed to Shakyas option of war on
the Koliyas.
There was a fight between SAKHYAS and KOLEYAS on
sharing the water from the river ROHINI. ( Koleya was an another
Gana in an ancient India ).
The Sakhyas declared a war on the Koleyas.
The Sakhyan army chief ordered all young men to join in army
and fight with Koleyas.
The Buddha denied fighting. The Buddha was initially known
by the name of Siddhartha or Gautama before attaining His
Enlightenment.
The army chief wanted to punish Gautama, so, he gave choices
to Siddhartha like,
The death or exile i.e. the social boycott of the family, etc.
This caught the attention of king KOSALA who controlled
both the Ganas.
Siddhartha chose to die.
But the army chief was a bit afraid to kill Him, because of
possible consequences.
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So, the Shakyas gave Him an option to leave His home.


Gautama was waiting for this only! He wanted to leave His home for
the sufferings of the others, but if He would have left His home of his
own, then peoples might have talked a wrong about Him. He was
aware of this. So, to get a public support to His home leaving, He had
purposefully opposed Shakyas opinion of war and had pushed Himself
in the trouble. He was aware that, by taking opposite stand against
the Shakya Gana, the army chief will order Him to leave the Shakya
Kingdom. He wanted this order only. So, He happily left His home
and told His noble cause of His leaving to his parents and wife. By
listening to His noble and great purpose for the welfare of the society,
they also agreed to His leaving home and His great work.
By making all things favorable, Siddhartha left the Sakhya
Gana and became parivraajaka i.e. the wonderer.
Since, all the teaching schools and teachers were residing in
the jungles only; He went in jungle and started gaining different kinds
of knowledge from the different teachers. He learned from Udak
Ramputaa, Makkhali Goshal, etc; who were all mulnivasi (i.e. native)
Indian teachers. The most striking thing is that, the Buddha never made
any Brahmin teacher in His life. His first five disciples were also His
colleagues, who were mulnivasi (i.e. native) Indians.
He even tested this knowledge on Himself. At that time, the
well known thought was that, body striving can give liberation to the
body and the Soul. To evaluate this, He done experiment of self striving
on Himself for about 6 years, but He found that, the body striving is
harmful to the self and useless for the liberation from suffering and
slavery of the Brahmanism. So, He denied this thought.
To evaluate many such ideologies, He sat under a tree and
started thinking deeply about the Worldly sufferings. He started
assimilating all mulnivasi (i.e. native) philosophies like Charvaka,
Lokayata, Sankhya, etc to form a new philosophy.
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The Brahmins propagated wrong story about Him, saying that,


the Buddha sat under a tree for Meditation, but it is totally wrong.
There, He started thinking logically about the people and their
problems.
Gradually, He formulated the reasons for human sufferings
and peoples freedom from the Brahmanical slavery. To alleviate the
suffering of human beings, He proposed a new kind of Philosophy;
which is known as Buddhism.
He found that, the peoples are suffering; and the cause of
their sufferings is their cravings and desires for the Worldly things; the
sole cause for these desires and cravings being Brahmanism. He found
that, Brahmanism propagated selfish attitudes, hatred, inequality among
the peoples on the basis of the birth, female slavery on the basis of
gender, etc. Brahmanism propagates the system of racism in the form
of Varna system. It gives supreme power to the Brahmins and makes
Mulnivasi (i.e. native) Indians their slaves. So, Buddha concluded
that, the atrocious Brahmanism is the reason for peoples cravings
and desires for the Worldly things resulting in peoples sufferings. So,
He decided to alleviate the sufferings of the peoples by eradicating
Brahmanism. So, He waged a war against the Brahmanism by
propagating Buddhism. The slogan of his war was BAHUJAN
HITAY, BAHUJAN SUKHAY ( it means, Majority in progress,
majority in happiness ) ; which is similar to todays Communism. The
slogan of Brahmins supremacy over the slave Mulnivasi (i. e. native)
Indians was ALPAJAN HITAY, ALPAJAN SUKHAY ( it means,
Minority in happiness, minority in progress ); which is similar to
todays Capitalism.
The Buddha found that, the cause of peoples sufferings was
Brahmins and their Brahmanism. To get rid of this Brahmanism, Lord
Buddha offered His humanistic religion in the form of Buddhism. The
Buddhism was a direct answer of Lord Buddha to the Brahmins
atrocious Brahmanism.
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The Buddha was a prince and after becoming a king, it was


easy for Him to eradicate Brahmanism from the land of India. But,
even after becoming a World emperor, it was difficult for Him to kill
Brahmanism. Because, there was no other religious philosophy
available to counter the existing philosophy of the Brahmanism. The
Christianity or Islam was not developed yet. So, He decided to create
his own religion to counter atrocious Brahmanism. The Buddha was
also aware that, the Brahmanism was an ideology and an ideology
cant be killed by any weapon like sword, knife, etc. An ideology
must be killed by an ideology only! So, to kill an atrocious ideology of
the Brahmins (i.e. Brahmanism), He left His home against His will. He
and His family bearded huge sufferings for the well-being of their
peoples. This was a greatest devotion of Lord Buddha and his family
for the welfare of the society. So, His home leaving event is known as
MAHA-BHINISHKRAMAN!! This great even of MAHABHINISHKRAMAN is the golden event in the history of humanity,
which brought a turning point in the human life on the Earth.
It is depicted by the Brahmins in a picture that, while the
Buddha was in His Philosophical Meditation, a cobra snake named
Mulchind protects Him from behind. All Mulnivasi Indians belong
to the Naga race including Lord Buddha. Many times, the Brahmins
depicted these Naga peoples in the form of the serpent Naga (i.e.
cobra snake). So, in reality, this cobra serpent is nothing but a Naga
person belonging to India. The Buddha was wondering alone to get
different kind of knowledge from different hermits residing in the
jungles of the Northern India. That time, there was a dense jungle
with much terror of wild animals like Lion, Tiger, Wolves, etc. So, to
protect Him was of prime importance; since, the Buddha was a hope
for his peoples. So, some Mulnivasi Indian Naga peoples always
protected Him during His mission. These peoples were depicted by
Brahmins later on in the form of the picture of the Mulchind serpent
Naga protecting Him.

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After getting Enlightenment, He started visiting the villages one


by one on foot, to spread His humanistic ideology and educated the
people.
His ideology of Buddhism had opposed each and every aspect
of atrocious Brahmanism.
He denied the Vedas.
He denied the existence of the God.
He denied the existence of a Atma, Re-birth, Re-incarnation
(the concept of an Avatar) etc.
He denied the supremacy of the Brahmins.
Soon, the large section of peoples started following Him and
His teachings.
And majority of Mulnivsi Indians (present day SC, ST and
O. B. C.s) got converted to Buddhism.
Under the influence of the Buddha and his Buddhism, the
Mulnivasis revolted against the Brahmins and their Brahmanism, and
as a result of which, later on, Mouryan Empire got established in India.
Buddhas revolution enabled Shudras to become the kings.
Thus, Buddha became the first revolutionary in India. He
uprooted Brahmanism in India with the help of His revolutionary
movement.

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BRAHMINS DISTORTED THE


BUDDHAS HISTORY
The Brahmins have distorted Buddhas history in many ways.
To do this, Brahmin monk Ashvaghosha written Buddhacharitam
in the Sanskrit language. The Buddha had strictly ordered his followers
to preach his teachings in local language Pali, but the Brahmins
purposefully Brocken this rule to give set back to the Buddhas
revolution. Also, the purpose of the Brahmins was that, the Sanskrit
was only the language of the Brahmins, so general peoples would not
understand the Brahmins mischiefs about the distortion of the Buddhas
life and teachings and so wrong history will be propagated in future
generations to come. If you will see the history of India, you will see
many distortions including the life of the Buddha. This topic is very
vast and out of scope of this book, so some of these topics are explained
ahead.
The Buddha had left home to relieve the peoples from their
sufferings resulting from Brahmanical slavery via social revolution but
the Brahmins written that, the Buddha had left home His by looking at
the sorrowful sights which is totally wrong and this is explained earlier
in this book. Similarly, the Brahmins told that, the Buddha had done
only meditation under a tree which is false and explained earlier.
Similarly, the Brahmins written that, the Buddha had invented a new
teaching which is totally false. The truth is that, Buddhism is an ancient
religion of India evident in Indus civilization too. During the excavation
of an Indus civilization, the scientists found the statue of Pashupati in
the Meditating position as like Lord Buddha. Also, they found the
evidences of the Buddhist wheel (i.e. Dhamma Chakra) and Piple
tree in excavations; which is a holy tree for the Buddhists.
The Philosophers of the Indus civilization like Charvaka, Bali,
Prahlad, Kapila, Virochana, etc were the earliest Buddhist
philosophers; so, the Buddha had mentioned about the earlier 27
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Buddhas and He himself was the 28th Buddha. The Buddha also had
told Himself that, He is not going to invent a new kind of philosophy
but He is refreshing an old Buddhist philosophy in a new way. Thats
why; He developed His Buddhist philosophy based on the Kapilas
Sankhya philosophy. Indians were giving so much respect to Kapila
that, the Buddhas native birth place (i.e. Kapilavastu ) was named
after Him. This shows that, there was a direct link between Buddha
and the earlier mulnivasi Buddhist philosophers.
To defeat the Buddhists and to nullify the Buddhas revolution,
the Brahmins also told that, the Buddha was the 9th Avatar of Brahmin
God Vishnu. The Brahmins Avatars were devoted to the well-being
of Brahmins only; they had nothing to do with the sufferings of the
Mulnivasis (i.e. native) Indians. Whenever mulnivasis (i.e. native)
Indians done any kind of revolution against the Brahmins supremacy,
the Brahmins found themselves in danger and called for their Avatars
for their help. This is explained in the Brahmins text Bhagvad Geeta in
Sanskrit as, ( YADA YADA HI DHARMASYA . ). So, all the
Brahmins Avatars were against mulnivasis (i.e. native) Indians and
were helping Brahmins to crush the local peoples. The Buddha was
the Patha-Giver to the suffering Mulnivasis (i.e. native) Indians and so
was a great threat to the Eurasian Brahmins. So, how He can be the
Avatar of Brahminical Gods? So, this is a false propaganda of cunning
Brahmins to nullify his great work.
The Buddha was also strictly against the statue worship. By
taking an inspiration from the great Buddha, all Mulnivasis (i.e. native)
Bahujan Great Emancipators (i.e. Mahapurusha) like Mahatma Phule,
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, Varkari saints, etc and Prophet Mohammad,
Jesus Christ, etc religious leaders also opposed the statue worship.
The statue worship increases the status of Brahmins in the
form of the priests and converts open minded followers into blind
faithed devotees. The Brahmins always provoked priesthood to harass
and cheat the peoples in the name of religion and the God. Thats
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why, the Brahmins killed Lord Buddha, Lord Krishna, all Varkari
Saints, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar and after killing them bodily, the
Brahmins made the statues of these great persons and became the
priests to kill their teachings. The Buddha had expected that, the
peoples will follow his teachings; so, He didnt keep any successor.
He said that, His successor will be His teachings and advised peoples
to follow them to improve their lives. But the peoples engaged
themselves in Brahmin priests. Many Brahmins became Buddhist
monks and they converted the Buddha into the 9th avatar of the
Brahmin God Vishnu and converted Revolutionary Buddhism into a
priestly Mahayan Buddhism.
The Buddha was called as BHAGVAN in Pali language. The
Bhagvan doesnt mean God. The Brahmins purposefully misreported
this word to present the Buddha in the form of the Brahmanical Gods
like Vishnu, Brahma, etc.
The Bhagvan is a Pali word, which means the one who has
eradicated the Brahmanical defilements like anger, greed, hatred, etc.
Bhagga means to eradicate, to destroy and Van means the
Brahmanical defilements like anger, greed, hatred, etc. In Buddhism,
it is said that, Bhagga-rago, bhagga-daso, bhagga-mohiti bhaggava.
It means the one who has eradicated the Brahmanical defilements like
anger, greed, hatred, by his own wisdom.
The Buddha was a revolutionary and He had destroyed the
Brahmanism with His revolutionary mission; thats why, He is called
as a BHAGVAN. Thats why; the Brahmanical Gods like Brahma,
Vishnu, etc are never called as Bhagvan, because they are not the
revolutionary; so they are always called as God but not Bhagvan.
From the word Bhagvan, the name of the color Bhagva did
aroused. The Buddha and his monks were using maroon colored
Chivar. When the Buddha was giving a talk to his followers, the peoples
were listening to Him deeply. At that time, they were feeling Him as
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like a maroon colored figure only. Thats why, from His maroon colored
Chivar; the name of that color became BHAGVA.
The Buddha used this color for his Chivar because it is the
symbol of prosperity of Mulnivasi Indians. The Mulnivasi Indian culture
is the working culture (i.e. Shraman Sanskruti). The Brahmins culture
is a lofty culture. The Brahmins never do any physical work. They
strive on the production of the hard work of Mulnivasi Indians. They
are the parasites on the hard work of Mulnivasi Indians since the
ancient past. After the hard work of the farmers, the Buddha was
observing the crops in the fields as a maroon colored prosperity of
His peoples. The Buddha and His father themselves were the farmers.
So, naturally, the Buddha had a great pride for the farmers. To give a
long lasting memory to this symbol of prosperity, He used this maroon
color of the harvesting crops to His dress code. Also, after a hard
work, He had attained Enlightenment. So, the maroon color of His
dress was the symbol of His dedication, devotion and hard work and
His grand prosperity of the thoughts.

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CAUSES BEHIND THE DISTORTED HISTORY


OF THE BUDDHA
The Brahmins had a supreme power of reading and writing.
So, they wrote the history of India in their own way and done
Brahmanisation of the Indians history. The Brahmins written favorable
to them and deleted the harmful aspects while writing the history of
India. Other Mulnivasi Bahujans ( i.e. Native Indians ) were denied
from reading and writing; so they were unable to check the Brahmins
written history and so peoples accepted blindly whatever Brahmins
had told them.
That time, the art of writing had not yet developed. What the
Buddha preached was heard by his audiences, mostly by His Bhikkus
(i.e. the Monks). The Bhikkus had therefore to memorize what they
had heard. Thats why there were some peoples as their profession
was to memorize; they were called Bhanakas. The Brahmins had
specially entered into the order of the monks to bring misinterpretation
the Buddhas teachings. These Brahmin monks were fake monks i.e.
they had no interest in Buddhism but were entered to gain benefits
from Buddhist kings and to harm real Buddhist monks and Buddhism.
So, the real Buddhist monks were calling these fake Brahmin monks
as the Crypto-Buddhists. Emperor Ashoka had expelled such 60,000
crypto-Buddhists from the Buddhist Sangha (i.e. Buddhist order of
the monks).
The Brahmin Adi Shankaracharya was a well know CryptoBuddhist; who eradicated Buddhism en route from India. He adopted
each and every principle of Buddhism into Brahmanism and presented
it in the name of Hinduism. It was Shankaracharya who was
responsible to absorb Buddha into Hinduism and recognize Buddha
as the ninth avatar (incarnation) of God Vishnu! This, he had done
purposely to eradicate Buddhism from India.

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Thats why; he is called as a Crypto-Buddhist and his religion


Hinduism as a Crypto-Buddhism.
Shankara established Hinduism to reduce the appeal of
Buddhism and to re-establish the supremacy of the Brahmins. While
doing so, he copied Buddhism and presented it (as it is) in the name of
Hinduism in his own name. Observing the importance of the Buddhist
Sangha as a centre of learning, preaching and revolution, he, too, set
up monasteries and called them as Mathas .
Peoples found each and every aspect of Buddhism in
Shankaras newly found religion of Hinduism. In other words, we can
say that, they misunderstood Hinduism as Buddhism only; the name
only appearing to be changed!! So, they freely accepted Hinduism as
a modified version of the Buddhism. Due to this, the Buddhism lost its
appeal in India and the Brahmins gained an importance. Shankara
integrated the sound teachings of the Buddha into the Vedic religion,
and given birth to Hinduism; which is solely Buddhism.
The Buddha had given an importance to renunciation to gain
a Nibbana. Likewise, Shankara followed the Buddha path and given
importance to renunciation to get a Nirvana (Nibbana); he called this
renunciation as Moksha (i.e. the Salvation), instead of Nirvana (i.e.
the Liberation). Shankara adopted the Buddhas concept of an illusion
(Shunyata) and presented it as the Maya of Hinduism. Shankara taught
the theory of maya as a deception in order to bring the dualists of
India back into the Brahmin fold.
Gauda Pada, who was a Buddhist, was Adi Shankaras guru
i.e. teacher. From Buddhism, he had learned about the concept of an
Illusion (Maya). He was the first to use the word Maya while
commenting on the Vedanta or Brahmana Sutras of Badarayana.
As like the Buddha, Gauda Pada treats life like a waking dream
(Illusion) and contends that the world exists only in the mind of man in
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the form of the Buddha- mind. Shankara duly took over these Buddhist
concepts from him and presented them in his own name.
Shankara espoused the theory of Advaita, according to which
the individual Jivatman (or the Soul) of man and the universal
Paramatman (Brahma or God) are one and the same. According to
this, the visible World is only apparent reality and the Brahman as
the Absolute Reality. But when the only reality is Brahman, how
can there be another reality like the concept of Maya? Thus, it is said
that even Maya is unreality! But can Maya be untrue when it causes
the material world to be seen? The inference therefore made is that
Maya is NOT untrue. So, Maya is true and untrue and that is an
inference of the interpreters.
This concept of Illusion, Paradox of an apparent Reality
was actually presented by the Buddha centuries ago; which was
adopted by Shankara and then presented as the theory of Advaita .
In this way, Adi Shankaracharya and his followers like
Ramanujacharya and Madhavacharya presented the same Buddhist
concepts in different names like Maya for Buddhas illusion,
Advaita for the Buddhas Paradox of reality and Brahman for
Buddhas Shunyata. Hence, these are typically Crypto-Buddhists.
The Shankaras concept of Maya was actually derived from
Buddhist Illusion. The doctrine of Brahman is very much similar to the
Sunya philosophy of Nagarjuna. The author of Panchadashi also
says, What we call Brahman is the same truth as the Shunya of the
Buddhist.
In the Tantra, Acharya Shankara has been called a cryptoBuddhist; views expressed in Prajnparamit, the Buddhist
Mhyana book, perfectly tally with the Vedantic views propounded
by the Acharya. The author of Panchadashi also says, What we call
Brahman is the same truth as the Shunya of the Buddhist.
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Many cases of misreporting had been brought to the


knowledge of the Buddha while he was alive. Five such cases of
misreporting have been noted by the Buddha himself. One is mentioned
in the Alagaddupama Sutta and the other in the Maha-KammaVibhanga Sutta, a third in the Kannakatthala Sutta, [a] fourth in the
Maha-Tanha-Sankhya Sutta, and[a] fifth in the Jivaka Sutta.
There were perhaps many more such cases of misreporting.
This caused much many mis-understandings in case of the Buddhas
life and the teachings.
The cases of misreporting and misunderstanding are common
with regard to the teachings like Karma, Rebirth and Ahimsa, tec.
These all misreporting were done by the Brahmins purposefully to
bring distortion in the Buddhas teachings.
However, according to Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, there is
one test which is available to avoid misunderstandings about the life
and the teachings of the Buddha.
The Buddha was a realistic in his thinking and his teachings
are totally rational. So, anything which is rational and logical should
be considered as the words of the Buddha.
The second thing is that, the Buddha never shown any interest
in discussing the matter which is imaginary or illogical and which was
not profitable for mans welfare. So, any concepts like God, Soul,
Heaven-Hell, etc which are an imaginary and discussion of which is
not profitable to the human life; the Buddha directly rejected such
concepts.
Thus, the concepts which are logical, rational, and practically applicable
and can be scientifically tested, then, these concepts are surely the
Buddhas teachings.

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But anything which is imaginary, illogical, not practically applicable,


not scientific, which can create superstition and confusion and blind
faith among the masses, which appears to be the dogmatic to fool the
general peoples, then these things surely are not the Buddhas
teachings.
All the SC, ST and O. B. C.s (i.e. Mulnivasi Indians) peoples
should be aware of the cunning tactics of Brahmins and should learn
from these above tests.
Generally, the Brahmins say that, Indian history is SANATAN
(i.e. the beginning of it is out of reach to humans history). But that is
nonsense and totally false. Indian history begins with the Indus valley
civilization.

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1. INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION


It flourished between 8000BC to 2500BC. It was built by
the Mulnivasi peoples (i.e. SC, ST, and OBC and the Converted
Minorities) of this country. They were called as Nagas. They were
well developed peoples. They were more developed that African,
Americans or Europeans at that time.
They had a well developed urban civilization. Harappa,
Mohenjadaro, Lothal, etc. were the towns built by them.
These towns had Underground drainages, Swimming pools,
Market yards, Well-designed streets, Multi-storied houses, trade used
to be there in this civilization. These Mulnivasi (i. e. the native) Indian
peoples are comparatively dark in complexion. Indus valley people
are basically agriculturists and peace loving people. They lived in
permanent settlements and followed Maternal System (i.e. mother
based system).
They followed the Gana System, which had later developed
India into 16 Mahajanapadas. The Ganas were the tribal democratic
republics at that time.
The Bull was their chief animal.
These people were literates (the Language now decoded by
P.S. Sadar), and worshiped Mother Goddess.
During the Buddhas time (in 6th century B.C.), Pali and
Maghadi were the local languages and were called as Prakrit
languages. From these languages did develop all the world languages
like Sanskrit, English, French, Turkish, Sanskrit, Marathi, Tamil, etc.
The Sanskrit was the Brahmins language and it was developed
from Indian Prakrit languages. The Brahmins derived words from
these local Indian prakrit languages and modified it (i.e. sanskaran).
Later on, the Brahmins had written false history of India by restricting
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an education and this code language to themselves only; so that, no


one should understand what they are mugging and writing in Sanskrit.
2. THE ARYAN INVASION
The Aryans are the present day Brahmins, Kshtriyas, and
Vyaishyas of India.
The Aryan Invasions took place between 3100BC to 1500BC.
They came in batch after batch from Eurasia near the belt of the Black
Sea, via the regions of Central Asia (i.e. Present day Iran), through
the North-West corner of India (i.e. through Khaibar khind). The
Aryans were basically Pastoral Nomadic with Barbaric, Cunning and
Cruel Mind. They were an undeveloped peoples and living in groups.
These people were fair in complexion. They followed Paternal System
and worshipped Gods like Indra, Agni etc. The Zoroastrianism was
their national faith. Thats why; there are so many similarities between
the Brahmins Vedas and the Zoroastrians Avesta. Agni i.e. fire
was Zoroastrians (i.e. now they are called as Parsi) Chief God. The
Brahmins also worshipped this Agni i.e. fire God through the Yadgnyas.
The Brahmins brought Horse with them, which were not
known to the Indians (i.e. Mulnivasis) till then. The Aryans daily lives
include the Yagnas, the Sacrifices, Alcoholism, Sexual immorality,
deceit, etc.
3. WHAT IS MEAN BY THE WORD ARYA OR
ARYAN?
The Brahmins accepted each and every aspect of the Indus
civilization after conquering it. The Aryan Brahmins initially were the
worshipper of nature like Agni ( i.e. the fire ), Wayu ( i.e. the air ), etc.
The peoples of the Indus civilization were also the worshippers but
they had also developed the statue worship. Thats why; we see the
statue of Pashupati in the excavations of the Indus civilization. As like
the backward and dogmatic Aryans, they were not the blind devotees
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as like present God worshippers; but they were creating the statues
to remember their great ancestors. The Brahmins accepted this statue
worship from them and converted it into the statues of the Gods.
Likewise, the Brahmins accepted many words from the
language of the Indus peoples and created their Sanskrit language.
The Indus civilization researcher Mr. P.S. Sadar has proved that, the
primitive language of the World was that of the Indus civilization, which
was called as Marhati. From this primitive language of Marhati did
born the Worlds other languages like the French, Greek, English, Latin,
Arabic, Urdu, Marathi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi and so on.
The Brahmins accepted all the words from this primitive
Marhati language of the Indus civilization and given them the hard
pronunciations to convert them into the Sanskrit language. For example,
the Brahmins converted Marhati word Haat into hast (i.e. hand into
English language), daat into sanskrit dant (i.e. tooth in English). Here,
the Brahmins did some hard pronunciations in each and every word
of Marhati language to convert that word into the Sanskrit language.
It is called as Sanskaran (i.e. to reproduce a new word from the
existing words). The Brahmins created their language from the method
of the Sanskaran; so, it is called as the Sanskrit language. (Sanskarit
language means the Sanskrit language).
Similarly, the Brahmins accepted the Pali word ARIYA to
convert into the Sanskrit word ARYA. The Pali language is the
Prakrit language (i.e. the natural primitive language of the mulnivasi
Indus peoples). In Pali language, ARIYA means the great being.
Thats why; Lord Buddha accepted this word in His teachings. The
four Ariya Truths means the four Great Truths. The Brahmins accepted
this Buddhist Pali word ARIYA to present them as the great beings.
While accepting this Pali word into the Sanskrit language, the Brahmins
done sanskaran on it and converted it into the Sanskrit word ARYA
and given it the meaning of the Pali word as the great being. In this
way, by doing a robbery, the Brahmins became the false great being,that
is the Aryas or the Aryans!!
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The Brahmins invaded India in 3100 B.C. They came from


the region of the Eurasian belt near the Black sea and landed first in
the region of Iran before attacking on India. Some Brahmins settled in
Iran and some forwarded ahead to attack on India via Khaibar khind.
Since these invader Brahmins were came from Iran, they were calling
themselves as ARYAN means the one who came from the land of
Iran. So, the word ARYA is a altered from of the Pali word
ARIYA meaning the great and the word ARYAN means the
one who came from Iran.
4. ENSLAVEMENT OF THE MULNIVASI INDIANS (i.e.
ABORIGINAL INDUS PEOPLES) IN THE VARNA SYSTEM
OF THE BRAHMINS
The Battles between Mulnivasi Indians (i.e. Aboriginal Indus
peoples) and the Aryan invaders started in 3100 B.C., after the invasion
of the Aryans in India. Initially, the cunning Aryans started defeating
the Mulnivasi Indians. The Horse was a benefit to them. The Aryans
were barbaric, cruel and thriving on animals while wondering in jungle
life. So, they had developed iron weapons which helped them to win
the battles with Mulnivasi Indians. The instances of these battles are
given in the Rig-Veda of the Aryan Brahmins. After defeating the
Mulnivasi Indians, the Aryans had given them insulting names like Dasa,
Dasyu, Rakshasa, Asura, Pisacha, Chandala, etc. Later on, the Aryan
Brahmins started calling Mulnivasi Indians by the insulting name of the
Shudra.
The Aryans didnt win all the battles. Initially, the Aryan
Brahmins won few battles with the help of their weapons and animal
horse. But later on, the Mulnivasi Indians also joined together in huge
numbers with their developed weapons. The Brahmins couldnt sustain
such huge attacks and accepted their defeats many times. When the
Brahmins found that, they couldnt gain control over majority of
Mulnivasi Indians, they accepted the ways of cheating and forgery to
defeat the Mulnivasi Indians. The Brahmins defeated powerful
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Mulnivasi king Bali via this way of cheating only. When the Brahmins
attacked on his kingdom under the leadership of Waman, great
Mulnivasi king Bali defeated them very easily. So, after this defeat,
the Brahmins adjusted with him silently and then planned a way of
cheating to defeat him.
After the incidence of king Balis defeat, the Brahmins found
that, the direct battle is harmful to them; so, better is to use the way of
cheating and forgery. So, later on, the Brahmins never waged a direct
war against the Mulnivasi Indians. They choose the way of an indirect
war. Due to this indirect war, the Mulnivasi Indians forgot that, the
Brahmins being their enemies in the form of the foreign invaders. The
Mulnivasi Indians trusted on these cunning Brahmins. They trusted on
the Brahmins so much that, all the Mulnivasi Indians accepted the
Aryan Brahmins as their chief Priests and this is the chief reason for
their log lasted slavery. With the help of the power of Priesthood, the
Brahmins imposed an enslaving religion of Brahmanism and made all
native Indians as the slaves of Brahmins. Brahmins called these slaves
as the SHUDRA. In this way, a 4th Varna of the Shudra came into
existence.
The Brahmins always had done a silent war against the the
Mulnivasi Indians to defeat them till date. To control the the Mulnivasi
Indians (i.e. the Shudras), the Brahmins imposed the laws of Manu
via Manusmriti. To misguide the Mulnivasi Indians (i.e. the Shudras),
the Brahmins written 18 Puranas and 18 Sub-Puranas. Also, the
Brahmins written Ramayana, Mahabharata, Geeta, and various Smritis
to engage the Mulnivasi Indians into the slavery of the Brahmanism.
Thats why, to liberate the Mulnivasi Indians, the Buddha found the
importance of an another religion.
After the conquest, the Aryan Brahmins established themselves
as a dominant race. To maintain a position of supremacy on conquered
native Indians (i.e. the Mulnivasis), they created a theology, which
made Brahman the creator of the universe and the father of mankind,
and along with it, they evolved a class of the priests called as a Brahmins.
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The system of priesthood of the Brahmin caste is called as a


Brahmanism. It is an instituted intricate system of Priestly and sacerdotal
law and discipline. It was A NEW SOCIAL SYSTEM whereby the
PRIESTS RULED OVER INDIA. The Brahmins became a living
God, a supreme race ruling over the others.
The Mulnivasi Indians were belonged to the Naga race. The
Nagas were very powerful, who resisted invading Aryan Brahmins
successfully and established Maghadha Kingdom (Under Sisu Naga
in 642 B. C.). The real history of India begins from king Sisu Naga (
642 B.C. ) belonging to this Naga race of India.

5. INITIALLY THREE VARNAS AMOMG THE ARYANS


The Varna system was prevalent among the invading Aryans.
While invasion was in progress, the Aryans divided themselves into
three Varnas namely, Brahmins, Kshatriyas & Vyashyas, so as to
facilitate a better division of the work and power.
The Brahmins were doing the religious works, the Kshatriyas
were doing the fights in wars and the Vyashyas were doing business.
This Varna system was based on the worth and not on the birth. These
Varnas were flexible and in one family, there were peoples of all three
Varnas.
6. THE ORIGIN OF THE 4th i.e. THE SHUDRA VARNA
After making Mulnivasi Indians as the slaves of the Aryans,
there was a problem in adopting such a huge population of India into
the Varna system of the Aryans. So, the Aryans kept their three Varnas
intact to them only and created a 4th Varna for the defeated Mulnivasi
Indians. They named this Varna as a THE SHUDRA VARNA.
So, now, the number of Varnas became four, namely Brahmin,
Kshatriya, Vyashya and Shudra.
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The Shudra means the Slave. The Brahmins had made


Mulnivasi Indians their slaves by defeating them. So, the word Shudra
was an appropriate word given by the Aryan Brahmins to the defeated
Mulnivasi Indians.
It is general attitude of every winner to keep inferior status
and give derogatory names to the defeated clans. The Aryans had
defeated the Mulnivasi Indians; so, it was usual for the winner Aryans
to keep inferior status of the Mulnivasi Indians as compared to them
and to give a derogatory words to them in the form of the Shudra .
The Aryans gave insulting names like Dasa, Dasyu, Rakshasa,
Asura, Pisacha, chandala, etc. to the defeated Indus people (i. e.
Mulnivasi Indians). Later on, the Aryan Brahmins started calling
Mulnivasi Indians by the name of the Shudras.
The Brahmins own religion was the Vedic religion which was
also called as Brahmanism. The Mulnivasi Indians had their own religion
known as the Lokdharm. Its philosophy was known as the Lokayata
and its philosophers were known as the Charvaka. The Lokayata
was nothing but it was a primitive form of the Buddhism. The Brahmins
killed many Charvakas and boycotted the remaining ones. The
Brahmins also burnt all the books of Charvakas along with their
philosophers. Due to this, the Mulnivasi Indians got detached from
their own religion of the Lokayata. The Brahmins destroyed Mulnivasi
Indians religion of Lokayata; denied Upanayana to them and called
them by the name of the Shudra.
In this way, the Aryans pushed defeated Indus valley peoples
(i.e. the Mulnivasis) into the fourth Shudra Varna and made them as
their slaves.
So, now, the number of Varnas became four, namely
Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vyshya and Shudra.
This was called as CHATURVARNA system.
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To give a religious sanctity to Chaturvarna, the Aryan Brahmins


composed Rig-Veda. The Brahmins wrote Reg-Veda around 1500
BC. The Slokas of the R-Veda are nothing but the Prayers by the
Aryans to their God Indra (Aryan God) to help them to defeat the
native Indian peoples (Mulnivasis).
To give the religious sanctity to the 4th Shudra Varna, the Aryan
Brahmins later on composed Purusha Sukhta, and incorporated it in
the 10th chapter of the Rig-Veda describing the origin of Varna system.
(As a creation of Brahma)
In the Purusha Sukhta of Rig-Veda, they formulated a stupid
theory saying that the Brahmins came from the mouth of the Brahma,
The Kshatriyas came from the shoulders of the Brahma,
The Vyshyas came from the thighs of the Brahma.
And the Shudra came from the foot of the Brahma.
(Note: This is not accepted by science. Does anybody with a little bit
of common sense believe in this foolish theory? )
In this way, the Purusha-Sukta given a religious sanctity to the
Varna System.
The Brahmins declared Vedas as unquestionable, undeniable
and infallible. To make Mulnivasi Indians as slaves and to exploit them
brutally for the generations to come, the Brahmins declared Vedas as
unquestionable, undeniable and infallible.
By this theory, the Brahmins reserved all the basic and the
religious rights to themselves ( i.e. 100% reservation to the Brahmins
in each and every aspect of life ) ,
The Brahmins also developed the Concept of Dwijatva (i.e.
twice born - again a foolish theory) after Upanayana and reserved it
to themselves only.
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The Brahmins denied Upanayana to the Mulnivasi Indians to


declare them as a Shudra. This also denied each and every opportunity
to live a happy and prosperous life. (i.e. 0% reservation to the Shudras
i.e. to the mulnivasi Indians in each and every aspect of life.). This
made the life of Mulnivasi Indians as a hellish life. This is the real
reason for the sufferings of peoples.

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THE OBJECTS OF THE BRAHAMANISM: TO


ESTABLISH A BRAHMIN PRIEST STATE
After defeating Mulnivasi Bahujan Indians, the Brahmins
insisted on controlling each and every member of the society, so that,
no one could escape their rule; so, they made some kind of provisions
for everyone in the name of the Vedas. This, of course, is the
fundamental characteristic of the priest-state: a hierarchy may or may
not seek moral improvement, but it always insists on universal sway,
heavy tribute from all, and the extirpation of every ideology except its
own. It proclaims its prerogative to legislate for every phase of human
activity, social, political, moral, domestic, civil, and religious, all by
revealed and sacred authority of the Vedas. In such a society, no
human being is permitted to live his own life, to follow his own reason,
or to earn a living in his own way, or ask merely to live at peace with
his fellowmen. Anyone desiring such independence will be regarded
as a dangerous subversive. The Brahmins regarded such type of
persons as a heretic (i.e. Pakhandi).
The fearful the Brahmins used for such independent thinkers
(i.e. pakhandi peoples) was Excommunication. This was the
punishment by which the heretic, the unbeliever, the independent
individual, or anyone who did not adequately accept the slavery of
the Brahmins and the religious obligations of their Brahamanism, would
be deprived of his caste and would be degraded to the rank of Sudra
or Chandala. The Brahmanic law provided specifically that anyone
who does not worship standing in the morning, nor sitting in the
evening, shall be excluded, just like a Shudra, from all the duties and
rights of an Aryan (Manu, II, 103). And again: He who divulges the
Veda to persons not authorized to study it, he who sacrifices for Sudras,
and all those who have fallen from the highest caste shall be
excommunicated (Vasishtha, XXII, 12). We must never honor, even
by a greeting, heretics . . . or logicians, arguing against the Veda The
fearful thing about excommunication was not that it cut the victim off
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from all religious associations, but that it sealed him away from all
human contacts and made it impossible for him to earn a living. And
where the priesthood had sufficient power, excommunication included
also exile or death. And so, we find that, the principal thunderbolt of
the Catholic clergy was fully developed in the West, many centuries
later by taking inspiration from atrocious Brahmanism.
INSTRUMENTS USED TO ESTABLISH A BRAHMIN
PRIEST STATE
The Brahmins established a Priest state in India with the help
of the following instruments:
1. THE CONCEPT OF THE GOD
The Aryan Brahmins perpetuated their position, privileges,
and sovereignty over the native Mulnivasi Indians only by divine
sanctions. The Revelation was a major instrument used to achieve
and maintain the Priesthood. It was used by all the religious founders
of the World, to influence the peoples. E.g. Lord Krishna presented
himself as a God, the Prophet Mohammed presented himself as a
Prophet of the God, Jesus Christ as a Son of God, etc.
To maintain their priesthood across the country, the Brahmins
used the help of concept God. They presented themselves a God
on the Earth (i.e. Bhu-deva ), so that, nobody shall disobey or insult
them.
2. BY PROCLAIMIMG THE RELIGIOUS BOOKS AS AN
INFALLIABLE
To maintain society in control, the Aryan Brahmins established
various codes, such as The Laws of Manu; the Institutes of Vishnu,
etc. They said that, it was delivered personally by the God; and many
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others, of which the Apastamba, the Baudhayana, and the Vasishtha


Darmasastra are representative.
They proclaimed these books as sacred and infallible; so that,
none should question about their validity and truthfulness. The oldest
sacred book in the world is the Rig-Veda. Other canonical Vedas,
also very ancient, are the Yagur-Veda and the Sama-Veda. There is
also the later and uncanonical Atharva-Veda, consisting of magical
spells and incantations.
On similar ways, the Christians made Bible and the Muslims
made Quran as a sacred and infallible; to maintain supremacy and to
avoid unnecessary questioning.
In this way, a priesthood of Brahmanism was reinforced on
the Mulnivasi Indians, by various codes of civil and ecclesiastical law
devised by the hierarchy.
3. THE CASTE SYSTEM
The best instrument designed by the Brahmins to maintain
Brahmanism was a caste system.
The Brahmins established A NEW SOCIAL SYSTEM
whereby the PRIESTS RULED. The Brahmins became a living
God, a supreme race ruling over the others.
The Brahmins achieved this by creating a new social system
named as Brahmanism (i.e. Manuvaad ) based on the social system
of CASTEISM.
While invasion was in progress, the Aryan Brahmins divided
themselves into three Varnas namely Brahmins, Kshatriyas & Vyshyas,
so as to facilitate a better division of the power.
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They formulated a stupid theory. We are told that, the Brahmins created
the four castes for the eternal security and prosperity of the World but
instead they created Casteism for their own benefit- to keep their
upper hand over the others; so, the Brahmins put forth the false theory
of the origin of the four Varnas from different parts of the Brahma, the
Creator of the World:
*
That he produced the Brahmins from his head;
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The Kshatriyas from his arms;
*
The Vaisyas from his thighs;

The Sudras from his feet. (Manu, I, 31; Inst. of Vishnu, II, 114; Varishtha, II, 1-20)
(Note: This is not accepted by science. Does anybody with a little
bit of common sense believe this foolish theory?)
It is important to note that, the first three Varnas ( i.e. Brahmins,
Kshtriyas and the Vaisyas) were that of the Aryans. The Aryans created
a forth Varna named as the Shudra Varna for the all the Mulnivasi
Indians. To include these Mulnivasi Indians into the Varna system of
the Aryans, they postulated this foolish theory. They prohibited
Education and use of weapons for the Shudra Mulnivasi Indians, so
that, nobody among them should raise questions against this foolish
theory or nobody should do the revolt against the invader Aryans.
By this theory, Brahmins reserved all religious, social, political,
educational rights to themselves only. (i. e. 100% reservation to the
Brahmins only in all the aspects of life.) ,
The Kshatriyas reserved the rights to rule, and the Vaishyas
reserved the rights over economy.
The first three Varnas are for the invader Aryans. The fourth
Varna of Shudra was created by Aryan Brahmins for the Mulnivasi
(i.e. native) Indians.
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The duties of the Brahmins are to conduct religious rituals,


teach the Vedas, and accept gifts; of the Kshatriyas, to study the Vedas,
bestow gifts on the Brahmins, sacrifice to the Gods, defend the nation
in time of war, and administer the codes prepared by the Brahmins; of
the Vaisyas, to make gifts to Brahmins and work at agriculture, trade,
cattle-raising, etc.; of the Sudras, to serve the upper three other Varnas,
especially the Brahmins (Apastamba, II, i, 10:4-8). The Brahmins
and Kshatriyas, who are the Aryans, maintain the world (Inst. of
Gautama, VIII, 1-3); but of these, the former are superior (Manu,
IX, 320).
They developed the Concept of Dwijatva (i.e. twice born again a foolish theory ) after Upanayana, and Brahmins started
claiming more rights, by declaring themselves as next to Brahma, the
creator. Brahmins reserved all the religious rights to themselves.
The three upper castes are twice-born; that is, in addition
to their human origin, each experiences a second birth, after a
prescribed course of study under a Guru, who is called a the father,
because he gives instruction in the Veda (Vasishtha, II, 1-4). The
Sudras ( i.e. the Mulnivasi Indians) as well as all womens were of
course excluded from the sacraments; and from all Vedic knowledge.
(Manu, IV, 81).
The Brahmins pushed all womens into Shudra Varna, because
all the womens were native mulnivasi Indians; they were not the
Aryans. When the Aryans invaded in India, they came in groups on
the horses by making the fighter groups. So, they didnt bring their
Aryan womens with them. After conquering the Mulnivasi native
Indians, they married with the womens whose husbands died in fight
with the invading Aryans. To identify such widow Mulnivasi Indians
womens, the Brahmins applied a vermion on the head of these
womens and forced to use a black thread of hairs around their necks.
They also married with the native Indian womens whom they had
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made slaves after conquering. So, from the Aryan perspective, all the
womens were native Indians including the womens with whom they
had married. Thats why; the Aryan Brahmins included all the womens
(even the Brahmin womens) into the Shudra Varna.
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7. MANUMSRITI (i.e. MANUS CODE) AND CASTE


SYSTEM
Manus Code said Shudras dont have the right to Education,
Weapon and Wealth.
It also said all women are Shudras. (Note: when Aryans
invaded India, it is believed that only Aryan men came on horses, but
not the Aryan women. So the Aryan men took native women ( i.e.
mulnivasis) to keep their race flourished. Therefore, they said all
women are the Shudras. So, the Aryans believed that the child of an
Aryan man and native women is impure. So to purify them, they started
a ceremony called as UPANAYANA which is considered to be the
second birth of an Aryan).
The Buddhas revolution given a chance and a hope for all
the Mulnivasi Indians to get rid of an atrocious Brahmanism. So, they
rejected Brahmanism and adopted Buddhism.
To defeat the Buddhists, the Brahmins adopted various means.
They invaded into Buddhist Sangha as fake Buddhist monks (called
as Crypto-Buddhists) and distorted and destroyed the Budhist Sangha
and Buddhist philosophy. They also invaded in the Buddhist Mauryan
Empire in the form of the soldiers and killed the Mauryan king
Bridhratha and destroyed the Buddhist Empire.
The Buddhas revolution had given a biggest thrust to the
ruling the Brahmins. The Brahmins decided that, such a revolution
should not arise in the future. So, they devised various weapons to
imprison the Mulnivasi Indians. One of such efforts is creation of
MANUSMRITI.
The Manusmriti is full of Prohibitions and extreme Punishments
to the Shudras (i.e. Mulnivasi Indians). The Shudras lead a horrible
life under the influence of Manusmriti and the caste system.
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The Shudra Buddhists could not bear the torture, and out of
fear got scattered and became the broken men. This turned in three
main ways.
A Large section of these broken men, out of fear got
surrendered to Brahmins; the Brahmins called them Hindus; who
are present day OBCs.
These surrendered broken men (i.e. present day O.B.C.
Hindus) were assigned various professions in the form of the
punishments like barbers, weavers, washer men, cattle rearers, etc.
Later on, these Shudras were assigned their castes as per their punished
professions. These professional Shudras were also called as Dastakars.
These dastakars are now constitutionally called as Other Backward
Classes (O. B. Cs). These professions were allotted them as a form
of the punishment. Later on, these professions were given the name of
the castes. E.g. the gardener knew by caste Mali, washer men known
by the caste Dhobi and so on.
Some of the Brocken men had fled to the interior areas like
Hills and Forests so as to protect themselves and their Identity from
the Brahmins. Brahmins called them ADIVASIS; now constitution calls
them as the Scheduled Tribes (i.e. ST).
As like Adivasis, some broken men (i.e. defeated the Shudra
Buddhists) didnt accepted the Brahmins social system and kept
wandering in hilly areas. The Brahmins started calling them as BhatakeVimukta (i.e. wanderers). Now, constitution calls them as NT/DNT/
VJNT.
Some Shudra Buddhists didnt surrender to the Brahmins and
kept fighting till the end. But finally, the Aryan Brahmins defeated the
remaining Shudras. These defeated broken men were thrown away
to the outskirt of villages. Due to lack of food, they started eating
dead animal flesh. For eating such dead cattle, these were dubbed as
Untouchables and now constitutionally as Scheduled Castes (SCs)
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So, the present SC, ST & OBCs are the Mulnivasis of this nation and
belong to ONE BLOOD and ONE RACE and ONE RELIGION
i.e. BUDDHISM.
8. THE ARYANS CONVERTED THEIR THREE VARNAS
INTO THE BRAHMIN CASTE
After the successful revolution of the Lord Buddha and
Vardhaman Mahavira, the Aryans found that, the cause of these
revolutions being successful was the one status the Mulnivasi Indians
in the form of their one Shudra Varna. On the other hand, they found
that, the Aryans were devided into three different Varnas named
Brahmin, Kshtriya and the Vaishya Varna. To defeat the Mulnivasi
Indians, it was important for them to get united in one umbrella and to
divide Mulnivasi Indians into different groups. By keeping this in view,
after 185 B.C., the Aryans united their all three Varnas into one group
and named it as the BRAHMIN CASTE. To make this as the supreme
ruler of India, the Brahmins established the Code of Manu i.e.
Manusmriti.
To divide the Mulnivasi Indians, the Brahmins created different
castes among them in the name of their punished professions. The
farmers were called as Kunabhi, now, they are called as Maratha in
some regions of the Maharasthra, the gardeners were called as Mali,
the cloth washers were called as Dhobi, etc. In this way, among the
Shudra Varna of the Mulnivasi Indians, the Brahmins created 6000
different castes. Also, in each caste, the Brahmins created 12 and half
different castes. In this way, among the Shudra Mulnivasi Indians, the
Brahmins created about 75,000 different castes. To break the unity
among these peoples, the Brahmins given unequal grading to these
castes, so each caste were superior to some other castes and also
was inferior to some other castes. In this way, every caste was
considering superior to its inferior caste peoples and was trying to
gain the superior status of the Brahmins. Now a day also, this situation
can be seen. Eg. Kunbhi are calling themselves as Maratha, Bhangi
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are calling them as Valmiki. But their status is remained same as earlier;
though the name was changed.
9. THE CONCEPT OF THE LIVING GODS
The Brahmins presented themselves as a living Gods on the
Earth and asked Mulnivasi (i.e. native) Indians to worship them next
to the God. This was their tactic to enslave mulnivasi Indian peoples
in the name of God.
The Brahmins told the peoples that, the Brahma, as the creator
of mankind, was the Great Father; and the Brahmins, as his primary
creatures was his direct representatives and the microcosmic replicas
of the Brahma (God) on the Earth. Therefore, the Brahmins were
calling themselves as the living Gods or the lesser Brahmas on the
Earth. Thats why, the Brahmins call themselves as the Bhudeva (i. e.
the Living Gods on the Earth). It was this concept of the Brahmins,
which inspired the clergy of the Catholic Church to designate themselves
as the Holy Fathers.

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AN ATROCIOUS FEATURES OF THE


BRAHAMANISM
The main characteristic features of Brahmanic society are the
absolute authority of the Brahmin Priests on the whole society. The
Brahmins acquired all the powers and the prestige equivalent to the
God. Even though the Gods are invisible, but the Brahmins are the
visible Gods on the Earth, who sustain the world (Ibid. 20-21). All
the authority is sanctioned to the Brahmins in the Vedas and in the
Dharmashastras of the Brahmins. (Varishtha, I, 4). Thats why, the
Brahmins made Vedas as an Infallible and unquestionable.
A similar view was adopted by Catholic hierarchy getting
inspired from an Indian Brahmanism. The Brahmins declared themselves
as the Gods on the Earth, and so they can execute every curse or
benediction uttered by them on the Earth (Inst. of Vishnu, XIX, 2223). These very similar powers of the Brahmins were adopted by the
Roman Catholic clergy, who arrogated to himself as a God on the
Earth by telling the general peoples that, the Jesus gave the Peter the
power to loose and to bind.
The absolute authority of the Brahmin priests in India made
any direct revolt impossible. As the laws and traditions of the Brahmins
became divinically sanctified, it became an impossible to remove the
straightjacket of the caste system over the society. All questioning or
heresy was forbidden. If anybody will dare to do so, he would have
to face the most ferocious punishment in the form of Excommunication.
There was no learning or teaching except that of the Gurus i.e. the
teaching Brahmins and they would teach whatever they like. There
was no historical record or chronology in India and whatever they
would record as a history was in favor of them only. Thats why, the
peoples favorable to the Brahmanism were elevated up to the state of
the God, and e.g. Ram and Krishna and those who opposed it were
deprived to the lower state. E.g. Balaram, Ravan,etc.
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A. THE RIGID CASTE SYSTEM


The Brahmins had created the rigid caste system to freeze the
smooth social fabric into a rigid structure. The conquered Indian natives
(i. e. the Mulnivasis) and their descendants were thus divinely ordained
by the Brahmins into an everlasting slavery of inferiority, ignorance,
and servitude. The greatest possible sin was to cause confusion or
blending among the castes.
The castes were of graded inequality. The Brahmins as superior
most, the Kshatriya inferior than the Brahmins but superior than the
Vaishya, the Vaishya inferior than the Kshtriya but superior than the
Shudra and the Shudra being the inferior most. Even among the
Shudras, one caste was above another. So, each caste was insulting
inferior castes and saluting superior castes. This led to the struggle
among different castes. The Brahmins divided Indians among 6,000
different castes with 12 and half sub-castes among each caste; so, the
number of total castes in India being about 75,000; which were fighting
among themselves. This weakened Indian power and made it
vulnerable to the attacks of the foreign invaders.
A twice-born man became ceremonially unclean merely by
reciting a Vedic text in the hearing of a Sudra (Vasishtha, XVIII, 12);
the child of a Brahmin and a Shudra woman was a Parasava, as
impure as a corpse (Ibid., 10); and a twice-born man who has
eaten the food of a Sudra during impurity caused by death or a birth,
will suffer dreadful punishment in the Hell and will be born again as an
a animal (Ibid., IV, 30).
If any inferior caste person tries to behave like superior caste
person, then, he was given an inhuman punishment like pouring hot
boiling water or oil in his ears or pushing a red hot iron rod in his eyes.
Due to such type of inhumane punishments given by the Brahmins
according to the laws of Manusmriti, all mulnivasi Indians unwillingly
accepted Brahmanism but nobody tried to revolt against this ferocious
system.
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B.THE MARRIAGE LAWS WERE COMPLICATED


To maintain the caste system, it became necessary to classify
all marriages according to the caste rather than the quality. Inter-caste
marriages were strictly prohibited and a harsh punishment was there,
if anyone would break the rules. In Brahmanism, eight forms of
wedlock were declared legitimate (Inst. of Vishnu, XXIV, 10-27). Of
these, four were acceptable to the Brahmins: the quality of the
offspring depends on the quality of the marriage rite (Baudhayana, I,
xi, 21:1). A Brahmin could have four wives, a Kshatriya three, a Vaisya
two, a Sudra one only (Inst. of Vishnu, XXIV, 1-4). The law of the
Gods was that Men of the three first castes, who through folly marry
a woman of the lowest caste, quickly degrade their families and progeny
to the state of Sudras (Ibid., XXVI, 6).
Later on, the Brahmins adopted the inhumane systems of Sati
and Child marriages to maintain the caste system. The Brahmins always
had a fear of the Indian womens. They had a fear that, the Indian
womens would be a treat to their Brahmanism. If the husband dies,
there was a problem of the widow. If she remains alone in the society,
there was a big threat to the caste system of the Brahmins. She can
marry to a person of another system, so, can become a cause for the
breaking of the rigid caste system of the Brahmins. The Brahmins
whole power lies in their caste system. So as to maintain their caste
system to eradicate the threat on it, they imposed the rule of SatiPratha (to burn live widow on the funeral pyre of her husband) for the
widows.
Similarly, there was a threat of a young girl in her puberty. If
she remained unmarried, she can be a danger to the caste system; she
can marry to the person of another caste and this can lead to an
eradication of the caste system. So, before any girl becomes an
independent and understanding, she must get married according to
the Brahmins. Thats why; the Brahmins imposed the Law of early
marriages (i.e. before 9 years of age) for the girls.
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C. SOCIAL OUTCASTS i.e. UNTOUCHABLES


There was a class of an untouchables below the Shudras.
The Shudras were degraded; however, they had a caste, and with it
certain elementary rights. Below them were the unfortunate
Untouchables; who had lost their social status entirely, i. e. they had
become outcastes or untouchables. They were Mulnivasi Shudras (who
had adopted Buddhism along with the other Shudras and who had
never accepted Brahmins supremacy ); who had not surrendered to
the Brahmins rule and who had kept fighting with Brahmins till the
end. To insult them, the Brahmins written in Manusmriti that, they
were the offsprings of the Brahmin males or the Brahmin females with
the Shudras. Actually, this is not true i.e. they were not the offsprings
of the Brahmins with the Shudras. To insult them in and to blunt their
revolt against the Brahmins, Brahmin writers of Manusmriti (the Bhargav
Brahmins) written like this. Actually, they were the fighter group of
mulnivasi Indian Shudras, who never accepted Brahmins system. They
were excommunicated from the society and compelled irrevocably to
gain their livelihood through the most degrading servitude no matter
what their virtues or natural capacities might be. Their life was worse
than the slaves. They had to eat a dead animal, wear a pot around
their neck to spit, to avoid their spit coming on the soil. They had to
wear zadu behind their legs to clear up their footprints, they were not
allowed to wear sandals even in bright sunlight, they were not allowed
to wonder in village or city during morning or evening because their
shadow may fall on the pious Brahmins and he may get spoiled. So,
they were allowed to wonder during afternoon time with the bare
foots. Such was an atrocious Brahmanism.
D. WOMENS DEGRADED TO THE LEVEL OF SHUDRAS
The womens were especially oppressed: like the Shudras,
they were excluded from all sacred learning (Baudhayana, I, i, 11:7).
In childhood, a female must be subject to her father, in youth to her
husband; and when her lord is dead, to her sons; a woman must never
be independent (Manu, V, 148). No matter how destitute of virtue
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. . . a husband must be constantly worshiped as a God by the faithful


wife (Ibid. 156). So fearful was this crime of remarriage by a woman
that even her son became an Abhisasta outcast (Inst. of Gautama,
XIV, 18). When the husband died, the good wife ascended the funeral
pyre after him (Inst. of Vishnu, XXV, 14).
E. THE BRAHMINS ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY ON
EDUCATION
Only the Brahmins were allowed to take a higher education.
Only Brahmins could become a Guru ( i.e. Teacher) and no one else.
Since the guru being the Brahmins, he was allotted with the supreme
powers. Every student must take the vow of poverty, chastity, and
obedience. He must never touch a woman, nor, as Jesus was to
reiterate, Shall he desire her in his heart (Apastamba, I, i, 7:8-9).
He must dwell at the Gurus house; must be his diligent, humble, and
unpaid servant; must beg food and other necessities from virtuous
and twice-born persons; must bring everything so obtained to his
master; may eat a portion only of the food so collected after receiving
permission from the Guru; and must avoid all frivolity during his years
of studentship. If he is himself a Brahmin and continues as a student
until death, he passes at once into Nirvana (Inst. of Vishnu, XXVIII,
1-47).
In the Brahmanic system, there were four orders, any of which
a twice-born man might choose after his Vedic studies were completed.
He could continue as a student, or might become a householder, an
ascetic, or a hermit (Apastamba, I, ii, 21:1-3). But we are told that
the venerable teacher prescribes only . . . the order of householders
(Inst. of Gautama, III, 36), because these alone produce wealth or
children (Ibid., III, 3), and because all mendicants subsist through
the protection afforded by householders (Vasishtha, VIII, 16).
Except the Brahmins, no other Mulnivasi Indian could be a
teacher. So, Brahmins as a teacher were teaching whatever they feel
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favorable to them and avoided to teach the things against them. This
made them possible to Brahamanise the peoples.
THE OUTBRUST AGAINST THE BRAHAMANISM
The peoples were suffering under the atrocities of Brahmanism.
The peoples wanted freedom but the Brahmanism had kept no scope
for their freedom. The Brahmins had captured peoples in jailed religion
by introducing various imaginary concepts like Heaven, Hell, good
deeds, bad deeds, God and its wrath, Soul, Re-birth, etc.
If anyone will break religious rules of the Brahmanism, he will
be liable to the Gods punishment which is offering torturous Hell with
torturous after-life. These rules are not applicable to the bloody
Brahmins because they are the living Gods on the Earth! The Brahmins
are happy in this life on the Earth because they have done good deeds
in their past lives. They will not get Hell and Hellish after-life even
after their bad deeds in this life because they are the Brahmins by the
birth. No one can punish them; not even God because they are
themselves God!
If anyone is poor or suffering in this life; then, it is because of
his bad deeds in his past life. If you want to get rid of such life and if
you want a better future life; then do good deeds. It means what?
make Brahmins and their Gods happy. How do they become happy?
by offering them precious gifts, presents, donations, by presenting
them cows, crops, money, beautiful girls, wine or whatever the
Brahmins do demand.
What happened because of this? The Brahmins started
becoming more and richer. Whereas,the general peoples started
becoming more and more poor. The Brahmins became happier;
whereas, the poor Mulnivasi Indian peoples became unhappy. In this
way, the Brahmins were the real cause of general peoples sufferings
and miserable life; but the cunning Brahmins blamed its reason to the
poor peoples bad deeds in their past lives. This was a way to escaped
themselves from the blame of Mulnivasi Indians sufferings.
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This lead to an outburst against the Brahmanism in India.


Miserable Indians, priest-ridden and ignorant, full of sufferings and
frustration, countless numerous human hearts must have been bursting
with their pent-up despair. The joy of living had long since been
departed, there was no hope or solace for the fettered millions,
hemmed in on every side by rigid caste, denied all hope and pleasure
in this world of frustration and despair. This life was a morass of slavery
and starvation: and that beyond the grave was even more terrifying.
Even if one were fortunate enough to achieve a brief stay in heaven,
one would soon be born again into this vale of tears and suffering,
repeat the same useless struggle, perhaps be plunged into hell, and be
reborn as a louse or a worm in the next life.
AN AROUSAL OF THE BUDDHISM AND JAINISM
The peoples wanted FREEDOM!! Peoples wanted to get
some way to escape from the grip of an atrocious Brahmanism. This
way was provided by two great Mulnivasi Indians of that time: Gautam
Buddha and Vardhaman Mahavira. These two great persons offered
a better way to get rid of an atrocious Brahmanism in the form of
Buddhism and Jainism, respectively. The peoples found shelter and
solace in their teachings and taken refuge in Buddhism and Jainism.
But in case of Jainism, the peoples again lost interest very
soon. It was very much a self-torturing religion. It was a rigid and
strict religion with strict Ascetism, strict Neckadism, strict
vegetarianism and self torturing and so was difficult to follow. The
peoples wanted religious freedom but like Brahmanism it was unable
to provide freedom to its followers. Due to this, Jainism failed to fulfill
the needs of the masses and so lost its vigor very soon.
These masses tired from Jainism and Brahmanism then entered
into Buddhism. The peoples found an everlasting joy and happiness
under the shadow of the Buddhism. The Buddhism is a Golden religion
from an ancient past to an everlasting future. The peoples found it
appealing in an ancient past and still it is appearing more appealing in
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the modern future. The Buddhism Brocken down an atrocious


Brahmanism and self-torturing Jainism into pieces.
The Buddhism offered a Golden Middle way to get rid of
sufferings. Same Golden Mean was offered by Socrates and Aristotle
in Greece and Confucius in China. These three great thinkers of the
World brought a tremendous change in coming future. With their
philosophies, a primitive man became well trained Human being. Their
teachings evolved a man and his spirituality from a primitive state into
a modern Humanity.
THE REVOLUTION OF THE BUDDHA
The Buddha was a Sakyan Mulnivasi (i.e. native) Indian, who
are now recognized as OBCs Mandal Commission of India.
The Buddha was not a simple religious Guru as like present
day Maharaj, Fathers, Saints or Swamijis.
He did not simply sit under a tree with his eyes closed.
He did not do anything like Meditation, Yoga or some other
praying.
He was the Worlds first great Revolutionary. He led a
huge revolution, which suppressed the Brahmin rule in India.
He denied the God.
He denied the foolish concepts of Soul, Heaven-Hell, etc.
He questioned the Sanctity of Varna system, which is enslaving
to the Shudras.
He opposed Vedas for propounding and supporting the Varna
System.
He rejected the theories of God, Soul and Rebirth and Karma
etc., which were designed to make us (Mulnivasis) slaves.
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He opposed the Yagnasand the Sacrifices, which were a big


rave parties for the Aryans and a way of looting for Mulnivasi Indians;
which formed the daily life of the Aryans.
He educated Mulnivasis Bahujan Indians who are present day
SC, ST and OBCs and Converted minorities (i.e. Muslims, Jains,
Shikhs, Buddhists, Lingayats, Shivdharmi, etc) in India.
He established the Bikkhu Sanghas (i.e. the order of the
monks) to awaken the society. A Bhikkhu (i.e. the Monk) was a well
trained missionary, who was ready to fight against the Brahmins and
their Brahmanism for the welfare of the society and who had dedicated
his entire life for the well being of the society. A Bhikkhu was a good
example of dedication, morality and guide put forth by the Buddha in
front of the nave society. He was like a torch in the darkness of
sufferings for general peoples.
The Buddha was the first man to use the word Bahujan to
indicate Shudras (i.e. Mulnivasi Indians) who are the Majority peoples
in India.
By His famous Four great truths, He identified the
Brahmanical social order of Varna System as the root cause of all
evils and sufferings.
Three Saranas proclaimed by him were aimed at keeping
the knowledge as the foundation of the society and to keep away
peoples from the Brahmins misbehaviors like killing, stealing, wine
drinking, etc.
With the Buddhas revolution, the Shudras started getting
awakened and educated. They got united again, and started protesting
the Varna system of the Brahmins. Gradually with the help of the
Buddhas teachings, they became very powerful and as a result,
Chandra Gupta Maurya who belongs to the Naga clan ( the Nagas
are Mulnivasi Indians ) could use this opportunity and established
Mauryan Dynasty in the year 325 BC.
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Due to the influence of the Buddhism, under the Chandra Gupta


Maurya rule,
The Yagnas were banned;
The animal Sacrifices were banned;
The Varna System was banned;
The Brahmins lost all the relevance and were forced to join
Chandra Gupta Mouryas military for livelihood.
Asoka became king in 269 BC and declared Buddhism as
state religion.
He spread an education among the Shudras.
He propagated the Buddhism to the nook and corner of the
country and of the world.
He punished the Brahmins for following the Varna System.
He erected rock edicts all over the country and even outside
the country explaining the importance of moral values of the Buddhism.
The Brahmanism suffered a heavy loss under Asokas Buddhist
rule.
As a result of contributions of the Buddha, Chandra Gupta
Mourya, and Ashoka, Shudras were elevated, and they became well
educated.
In due course, Brihadrath (a great grandson of emperor
Ashoka) became a king in the year 185 BC. But by that time, Pushya
Mitra Shrunga, a Brahmin could become the army Chief of Mauryans.
He killed Brihadrath and given a big setback to the Mulnivasi Indians
revolution. After his counter-revolution, the Brahmins again became
successful in pushing all the Mulnivasi Indians in the slavery.
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THE CHIEF WEAPONS OF THE BUDDHAS REVOLUTION


The Buddha had done His revolution in India with the help of two
chief weapons: 1) A unique ideology of Bahujanvad and 2) the well
trained and dedicated cadre of the Monks.
1) A unique ideology of Bahujanvad:- A revolutionary ideology
is an important factor in doing any kind of revolution. To defeat
the Brahmins and their Brahmanism, the Buddha developed
his own ideology efficient to counter Brahmanism. With the
help of this ideology, the Buddha attacked on each and every
power point of Brahmanism and destroyed it.
2) His ideology of Buddhism had opposed each and every aspect
of atrocious Brahmanism.
3) He denied the Vedas.
4) He denied the existence of God.
5) He denied the existence of a Atma, Re-birth, Re-incarnation
(the concept of an Avatar ) etc.
6) He denied the supremacy of the Brahmins.
7) He denied the Brahmins INEQUALITY to establish an
EQUALITY ( SAMTA ); He denied the Brahmins SLAVERY
to establish the FREEDOM ( SVATANTRATA ); He denied
the Brahmins HATRED to establish an UNIVERSAL
BROTHERHOOD ( BANDHUTA ); He denied the Brahmins
INJUSTICE to establish the JUSTICE (NYAY).
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar incorporated these noble principles of Lord
Buddha (i.e. EQUALITY ( SAMTA ), FREEDOM (
SVATANTRATA ), UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD
(BANDHUTA ) and JUSTICE (NYAY) in the pre-emblem of the
Constitution of India.
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His ideology of BAHUJANVAD propagated a revolutionary theme


of BAHUJAN HITAY, BAHUJAN SUKHAY i. e. MEJORITY
IN PROGRESS, MEJORITY IN HAPPINESS. To distinguish
Alpajan i.e. minority the Brahmins from Bahujan i.e. mejority of
Mulnivasi Indians, He used the term Bahujan and the above theme.
Also, the Brahmins were barbaric and uncivilized peoples; so
they were always indulged in an Alcoholism, cheating, killing, etc
barbaric activities. At that time, the Mulnivasi Indians chief animal
was Cow. It was their main property. So, to harass them, the Brahmins
were forcefully looting cows from the Mulnivasi Indian farmers and
killing numerous animals (sometimes 1000 cows at one time) in the
name of the Yadnas. The peoples wanted freedom from these Brahmins
atrocities. So, to marginalize the Brahmins from the Mulnivasi Indians,
the Buddha advocated his Panchasheel and through it, he advised to
be devoid from Alcoholism, cheating, killing, etc barbaric activities.
The Buddhas Panchsheel brought a significant change in
Indians social life. The Mulnivasi Indians banned all the barbaric
activities of cunning Brahmins, so Brahmins became separated and
peoples started hating them. The peoples prohibited the Brahmins
Yadnas in their areas. This strengthened the Mulnivasi Indians and
weakened Eurasian Brahmins. The Brahmins felt themselves insulted
and uncivilized persons. This was a major victory of the Buddhas
Panchasheel.
Now a day, Buddhist peoples see Panchsheel through the
eyes of devotees and keep mugging. But if we will see to it through
the realistic view with reference to the Buddhas revolution, we will
be able to see its a revolutionary meaning.
2 THE WELL TRAINED AND THE DEDICATED CADRE
OF THE MONKS
A revolution needs dedicated team of the missionaries. An
ideology cant be propagated without the help of the missionaries
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even if that ideology is an ideal one. So, to bring a revolution in India


and to spread his noble ideology all over the World, the Buddha
established the ORDER OF THE MONKS.
The order of the Monks was the Buddhas missionaries in his
revolution. To teach them the way of dedication, the Buddha himself
was an example. Instead of being a prince, the Buddha had left home
and had become a wanderer; simply to bring a change in the peoples
lives by doing a revolution. The Buddhas dedication was so much
great that, it has no answer in the World!
The Buddha himself presented a life of celibacy, simplicity
and devotion through his own life and shown to the World that, his
order of monks can be established, its not that much a hard task.
To be a Buddhist means to follow and to establish the
Buddhas four principles of Equality, Freedom, Brotherhood and
Justice in social and personal life. Thats why; Dr. Ambedkar said
that, I want to spread Buddhism all over India. It means that, He
wanted to establish these four Buddhist principles in Indians social life
by eradicating Brahmanism en route from the Indian soil. But the blind
devotees of Lord Buddha and Dr. Ambedkar now a day are taking
the meaning of Dr. Ambedkars and Buddhas sayings as it is and so
the mission of these great philosophers is getting stopped.
To spread Buddhism means to destroy Brahmanism, because
wherever there is Brahmanism, there will be an INEQUALITY,
HATRED, SLAVERY and INJUSTICE. To spread Buddhism means
to eradicate these evil principles of the Brahmanism and spread the
noble principles of the Buddhism. In short, if anyone wants to spread
Buddhism, he must destroy Brahmanism; mare accepting of TRISHARAN and PANCHASHEEL is not sufficient!
The Buddhism and Brahmanism are complete contradictory
to each other; so they cant withstand together at one time. If one
stands; other falls. So, if anyone wants to spread Buddhism, he must
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be the real follower of the Buddha and his Dhamma. He must identify
Buddhist devotees first and should covert them into Buddhist followers.
How to identify a Buddhist devotee? A Buddhist devotee is
one who follows Buddhism blindly as a faith in the form of simply
mugging Buddhist Trisarana, Panchsheela and Ashta-gatha, who preys
in front of the Buddhas statue and worships the Buddha in the form
of the statue, who sits blindly by doing Vipassana, who follows Hindu
festivals and Gods, who follows Casteism, etc. These peoples call
themselves as a Buddhists but in reality, they are simply the Buddhist
devotees and not the Buddhist followers. The Buddhist devotees are
harmful to the Buddha and his Dhamma and they are the reason for
the fall of Buddhism. A devotee is a danger to Buddhism and helps
indirectly to the Brahmanism. A devotee indirectly kills the Buddha by
killing his revolutionary teachings and helps the Brahmins.
What we want is a follower and not a devotee. A Buddhist
follower walks on the path of the Buddha; he is a direct opposite to
the devotee. A follower never believes in the blind faith and mugging
Buddhas teachings or sitting blindly in the meditation. He goes in the
field and tries to eradicate Brahmanism to relieve peoples from their
sufferings as like Buddha had done in his life.
The Buddhas order of the monks was the followers of the
Buddha and not the devotees. So, they worked in the field and done
a direct war against the Brahmanism. The Buddha advised them,
Freed am I, O Monks, from all bonds, whether divine or human. You
too, O Monks, are freed from all bonds, whether divine or human.
Go forth, O Monks, for the good of the many, for the
happiness of the many, out of compassion for the World. For the
good, benefit, and the happiness of the men. O, let not two go by one
way. Preach, O Monks, the Dhamma, excellent in the beginning,
excellent in the middle, excellent in the end, both in spirit and in the
letter. Proclaim the Holy life altogether, perfect and the pure.
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There are the beings, with a little dust in their eyes, who, not
hearing the Dhamma, will fall away. There will be those who understand
the Dhamma.
In the above message, the Buddha advises his follower monks
to spread his ideology all over the World in all four directions. With
the help of his noble ideology and well trained and devoted monks
only, the Buddha, as a single person was able to spread his Dhamma
all over the World and was able to do revolution. The Buddhas
revolution was the Worlds first kind of revolution done by a single
person without any bloodshed.
At one incidence, the Buddha asked monks, Monk, if peoples
wont listen to you and abuse you, then what you will do? The Monk
answered, I will preach. Then Buddha asked, Monk, if peoples
will hurt you and wont listen to you, then what you will do? The
monk answered, still I will try to preach.. Buddha then asked, If
peoples still wont listen and will try to kill you, then what you will
do? Then monk answered, Still I will try to preach. Buddha said,
You are my real follower. Buddhism will boom with the help of such
followers only.
After Buddhas death, the Brahmins started inserting their
teachings in Buddhism and called it Mahayana under the patronage of
the Kushan Emperor Kanishka. In Mahayana, the Brahmins given
Buddha the status of the God and started his prayers and the cult of
devotees started thence in Buddhism. Also, thousands of Brahmins
became the Buddhist Monks and they kept misbehaving (like drinking
wine, cheating, abusing girls, etc ) in the name of the Buddhist monks
to defame the Buddhism and its monks. Due to such misbehavior of
the Monks, the peoples started hating Buddhism and lead to the fall
of Buddhism in India. Emperor Ashoka had expelled such 60,000
Brahmin monks from the order of the Buddhist monks.
The Brahmin Monks also started Meditation (i.e. Vipassana)
to kill the Buddhas revolutionary teachings. They also started
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manufacturing the statues of the Buddha in meditating position (to


promote meditation) with the eyes closed. The closed eyes Buddha in
meditating position (i.e. the silent Buddha) was beneficial to the
Brahmins to impose their slavery on the Munivasi Indians who were
are the Buddhists.
The revolutionary Buddha was a direct threat to the Brahmins
and their Brahmanism. So, the Brahmins hide revolutionary Buddha
(a preacher of the revolt) and propagated the silent Buddha as a
preacher of the peace and silence. So, the Buddhists became peace
lovers and adopted silence in front of the Brahamanical atrocities.
Before 185 B.C., the Buddhists were revolutionary and violent against
the Brahmins supremacy. Thats why, Buddhists could conquer the
World and they became the emperors of the World. The Buddhist
Mauryan Empire was extended up to Iran-Iraq from present day
Burma. Not a single foreign invader dared to attack on the Buddhist
India.
After 185 B.C., the Brahmins destroyed Buddhism and the
Buddhist Mauryan Empire by their cunning tactics. Thereafter, the
Brahmins entered in the Buddhism as the fake Buddhist monks (i.e.
the crypto- Buddhists) and started misreporting about the Buddha
and his teachings. They presented Buddha as a silent Buddha preaching
meditation, peace and silence. So, Mulnivasi Indian peoples became
peace lovers and lost their revolutionary tendency. Also, the Brahmins
didnt allowed Mulnivasi Indians to fight or to use weapons. The
Brahmins further weakened Mulnivasi Indians by forbidding them
education and divided them in 75,000 different castes. This weakened
India en total and became an easy prey to the foreign invasion.
THE BUDDHA EXPECTED HIS MONKS TO BE THE
WARRIORS
The Buddha was a revolutionary and his revolution was against
an atrocious Brahmanism. The revolution needs the army of
revolutionary worriers. Thats why, He advised his follower Monks in
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the order to be like the worriers. At one time, the Monks asked the
Buddha, Warriors, warriors, Lord, we call ourselves. In what way
then we are warriors? The Buddha said, We wage a war, O disciples,
therefore, we are called as warriors.
The Monks further asked to the Buddha, for what Lord, we
wage a war?. The Buddha replied, for the lofty virtues, for high
Endeavour, for the sublime wisdom- for these things we do wage a
war; therefore, we are called warriors. Where virtue is in danger, do
not avoid fighting, do not be meanly-mouthed; you must fight; you
must wage a war.
The Buddha had waged a war against the Brahmins and their
Brahmanism. The Brahmins had made Mulnivasi Indians their slaves
and had robed their virtues. The Buddha wanted to regain the virtue
of his peoples i.e. Mulnivasi Indians; thats why, he had waged a war.
It was a direct revolution to get freedom to the Mulnivasi Indians from
the slavery of Brahmanism. Thats why; the Buddha called himself
and his monks as warriors and advises to fight for the Truth.
After the counter-revolution in 185 B.C., Brahmins hide
warrior Buddha and presented the silent Buddha in meditating position
with the eyes closed. Due to this, the monks forgot their revolutionary
and fighter attitude and became the peace- lover and meanly-mouthed
monks. We see numerous such kinds of Monks at present also in
Buddhism. The Buddha didnt expect this. This non-fighter attitude of
the Monks also became one of the reasons for the decline and the fall
of the Buddhism from India. So, for the welfare and progress of
Buddhism, and for upholding the truth of the Dhamma, the Monks
must be fighters; they must be warriors.

THE EFFECTS OF THE BUDDHAS REVOLUTION


The Buddhas revolution had shown long lasting good effects
on the lives of the Indians as well as the peoples of the world around.
Though Buddha was gone but his teachings were doing revolution in
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India. As a result of such a revolutionary teachings, Mulnivasi Indians


defeated Brahmanism and the Mauryan Empire got established.
The Brahmins in India made a wrong propaganda of Chanakya
as a teacher of the Emperor Chandragupta Maurya. But it is totally
false story. It was the Brahmins politics to glorify themselves and to
eradicate the memories of the Buddha from the peoples minds. The
cunning Brahmins had done so many corruptions in the Indian historyhiding reality and glorifying stupid Brahmins as the heroes. In case of
great Shivaji maharaj also, the Brahmins say that, Brahmin Ramdas
was his teacher. The real history is that, Ramdas was an enemy of
Shivaji Maharaj; he was a spy of Shivaji Maharajas enemy named
Adilshaha.
Behind the Mauryan Empire were the Buddhas revolutionary
thoughts. Due to the Buddhas firm foundation revolutionary teachings
over two centuries, a great empire of Mauryans was established. It
was so vast that, it was spread from India up to Egypt and even up to
Greece. It was so strong that even Alexander the Great, couldnt
conquer it; he had to return back. Later on, Alexanders army chief
named Selucas Niketor, tried to conquer Mauryan Empire but again
he was defeated and he had to surrender to the Emperor of the
Mauryan Empire.
Emperor Ashoka was a great emperor in the human history.
He won the neighboring territories and expanded his empire. As like
the Buddha, this was his political conquest. Then, he accepted
Buddhism and made it as his state religion. In true sense, he had
established A Buddhist Kingdom a kingdom which Buddha had
dreamed of and for which he spread his doctrine rigorously, throughout
his life. During Ahokas time, India was at its height of glory and
everyone in the country was happy and satisfied. He spread the
Buddhhas thoughts and Buddhism all over the world. It was his second
conquest. If Ashoka was not there, then Buddhism would have been
limited as a small sect in India fighting against Brahmanism. But the
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great emperor Ashoka spread it beyond the boundaries; making


Buddhism as a universal religion. This makes him the real follower of
Lord Buddha. Along Buddhism, his glory did spread all over the world
and after the Buddha; he became a second Monarch (Chakravartin)
of the world!

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THE EFFECTS OF THE BUDDHAS


REVOLUTION
The Buddhas revolution brought 3 major changes in social,
political and religious life of India:
THE SHUDRA BECAME THE RULERS:
The Brahmins had denied Shudras (i.e. Native Mulnivasi
Indians) to become the rulers and to run an independent political system.
Even if, any Shudra becomes the king, according to the Brahmins
Vedas, he must be sub-ordinate to the Brahmins. The Buddhas
revolution denied the Vedas; so, it became an easy for the Shudras (i.
e. Native Mulnivasi Indians) to become and an independent rulers.
With the help of the Buddhas ideology, the Shudras became so
powerful that, even they conquered the land outside India. Ashoka
became the Emperor during his time.
1.

THE WOMENS GOT FREEDOM.

With the help of the Vedas, the Brahmins had enslaved the
womens in India. All the womens including the Brahmin womens
were also declared as the Shudra by the Brahmins. This is because,
when the Brahmins attacked India, they didnt bring their womens
with them. So, after defeating the native (i.e. Mulnivasi) Indians,
Brahmins married with the widows of the killed soldiers of the native
(i.e. Mulnivasi) Indians. Since, these womens were the native (i.e.
Mulnivasi) Indians, the Brahmins declared them as the Shudra. The
Brahmins used them only for the breeding purpose. So, the Brahmins
declared the daughters or the sons of these females as the Shudras.
At the age of 8 years, the Brahmins were doing the ceremony of
Upnayana to convert this boy of Shudra female into Aryan Brahmin
male. This conversion ceremony was like a new birth to the child, so,
a Brahmin boy was considered as a TWICE BORN (i.e. DWIJA).
Brahmins daughters were considered as the Shudra; owing to their
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gender. This shows that, the Brahmins had a deep hatred towards the
India womens. The cause behind this is that, when the Brahmins had
invaded in India in 3100 B.C., at that time, there was a Matriarchal
system in India. It means that, the womens were the rulers. So, during
the war, Indian womens defended vigorously with the invader
Brahmins. So, as hatred towards them, the Brahmins included them in
the Shudra Varna.
The Buddha revolution rejected the Brahmanism; so, womans
got a hope of freedom. The Buddha freed Indian womens from
Brahmins slavery by accepting them into his order of the monks. Since
being the Shudras, the Brahmins had denied womens education and
freedom. But due to Buddhas revolution, womens not only became
simple monks but many womens became the well known Arhats!
The Buddha was the first person in the World to given freedom
to the womens by accepting them in the religious activities freely. In
other countries, when the womens were suffering in deep darkness,
at that time, the Buddha had given womens a respectful life, glory
and Enlightenment!!
2.
AN ERA OF SCIENCE AND EDUCATION
STARTED.
The Brahmins had denied an education to the Shudras (i.e.
the Mulnivasi Indians). The Brahmins had held the Vedas as the prime
object of the knowledge. But, in the Vedas, we can see only the
superstitions, which crafts and animal killing in Yadgnyas and drinking
Soma. This led to an era of Darkness and sufferings. The Buddha had
denied the Vedas and approved education to all the peoples including
the womens. This given a new breakthrough and the peoples started
learning and thinking. This given birth to the scientific attitude and
emerged ancient great Indian scientists like Aryabhatta. Also, medical
field gained boom and Ayurveda was at its peak. The Great physician
like Jivaka was the Buddhas personal physician. He was even doing
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a brain surgery at that time! That time, education was so much


developed that, the literacy rate was more than 90%. So much literacy
rate was never been in Indian history; now it is about 67%. The GDP
of India was 31% which is now 8 to 9%.
The educational status was so good that, when the world
population was wondering in darkness of illiteracy in jungles, at that
time, India was at the peak level with 5 different Universities like
Nalanda, Takshasila, Vikramshila, etc. Students from all over the World
were coming to India to gain knowledge in different aspects of life.
Truly, the period of the Buddhism and the Mauryan empire
was the the Golden era in the history of India. This was resulted due
to the great revolution of the Lord Buddha.

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WHY THE BUDDHA REJECTED THE


BRAHMANISM?
The Buddha rejected the Brahmnic philosophy in total because
it was based on speculations, dogmas and could lead to the
superstitions and was for the benefit of the few Brahmins and for the
harassment of the majority of the peoples.
1. The Buddha repudiated their thesis that the Vedas are
infallible and unquestionable.
According to the Buddha, nothing was infallible and nothing
could be final. Everything must be open to re-examination and
reconsideration whenever needed. Infallibility of the Vedas meant
complete denial of the freedom of the thought. To the Buddha, the
freedom of the thought was the most essential thing. And He was sure
that, freedom of thought was the only way to discover the truth.
2. The Buddha rejected the concept of the soul and concept of
prayers or sacrifices done to please the God to get the salvation of
the Soul in return.
The Brahmanic sacrifices were mostly the sacrifices of the
animals to please their Gods. The Buddha condemned them as the
false sacrifices. The sacrifice in the sense of self-denial for the good
of others, He called them the true sacrifice. The sacrifice in the sense
of killing an animal as an offering to God, he regarded as a false
sacrifice.
The opponents of sacrifices used to ridicule the Brahmins by
saying, If one can go to heaven by sacrificing an animal, why should
not one sacrifice ones own father? That would be a quicker way of
going to heaven.
The Buddha agreed with this view.
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3. The Buddha rejected the Brahmnical theory of Karma.


The Buddha thought that, the law of Karma as formulated by
the Brahmins was to sap the spirit of revolt completely against the
Brahmanism. The Brahmins told peoples that, their suffering was due
to their past bad Karma ( i.e. deeds ) in their past lives, so the peoples
didnt made any revolt against the atrocities of Brahmnic foolish
Doctrine and accepted Brahmins slavery blindly. This, in turn lead to
the benefit for the Brahmins to maintain their supremacy.
Also, Education was denied to the other peoples except the
Brahmins. So they did not know the Truth. Plus, Khatriyas, Vaishyas
were getting benefit from the Brahmnic Doctrine. So they also didnt
thought of any revolt. In spite of this, they helped the Bramhins to
tighten the grip of the Brahmanism in India. The Shudras and women
the two classes whose humanity was most mutilated by the
Brahmanismhad no power to rebel against the system. They were
denied the right to knowledge, with the result that by reason of their
enforced ignorance they could not realize what had made their condition
so degraded. They could not know that Brahmanism had robbed them
completely of the significance of their life. Instead of rebelling against
the Brahmanism, they had become the devotees and upholders and
slaves of the Brahmins and their Brahmanism.
4. The theory of Chaturvarna was equally rejected by the
Buddha.
The Chaturvarna of the Brahmins was a fixed order never to
be changed. It was a fixed on the basis of the birth and it was
compulsory. It was based on the birth and not on the worth of the
person. It was for the benefit of the Brahmins only. Since, racism is
based on the birth only; the Brahmins Chaturvarna was a dreaded
kind of racism. In other words, we can say that, the Brahmins are the
origin of the racism in the World.

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The Buddha preferred an open and free society. The


Brahmanism was not content with equality and freedom. The soul of
Brahmanism lays in graded inequality and the slavery. The occupations
of the four classes were also fixed. There was no freedom of choice.
Besides, they were fixed not in accordance with skill, but in accordance
with birth.
The Buddha opposed the Brahmins racist Chaturvarna system
based on the birth. He preferred worth of the person that the birth
and supported an equality. In this sense, He seems to be the first
revolutionary against the racism in the World.

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AN EVERLASTING INFLUENCE OF THE


BUDDHA
1.

THE BRAHMINS TAKING REFUGEE INTO THE


BUDDHISM

Though the Brahmins were perpuating their Brahmanic theory,


native Mulnivasi Indians felt some impatience at this priestly pedantry.
The Brahmnic philosophy was capitalistic in nature; whereas, the
Mulnivasi Indians philosophy was liberal communist and democratic
in nature. Earnest Mulnivasis still confronting to the rites laid down by
the priests. This gave a fresh start to the healthier speculations and
inquired about the nature of the Soul and the Supreme Being. The
most influencing among these Mulnivasis were Kapila (Originator of
Sankhya philosophy), his brother Virochena and the well known
PhilosopherLord Buddha.
So bold, so vigorous and so healthy were these Mulnivasis
philosophies that, the priestly classes of the Brahmins, who were wise
in their own esteem; at last felt inferiority and came to these philosophers
to learn something of the wisdom of the new school. From this mature
thinking did give birth to the Vedanta-Sutra, the Bhagavad Gita, and
the Upanishads, etc. By learning the teachings of the Buddha, some
Brahmins denied the authority and an infallibility of the Vedas. To attract
the Mulnivasi Buddhist population towards the Brahmin trap, some
Brahmins temporarily became Liberal in nature and they started an
open rebellion against the Vedas. Another aspect of this Brahmins
rebellion against the Vedas was to engulf the Buddhist philosophy and
to present it in the name of Vedanta!
Over the time, the Buddhas influence was so widespread
that, even Brahmin Adi Shankaracharya, a founder of Hinduism had
to take refuge in Buddhas philosophy; he adopted each and every
word of the Buddha; hence, later on, he was being accused as a
Crypto-Buddhist by his followers.
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In this way, finally, the Brahmanism moved into a thoroughgoing pantheism, and prepared to take a refuge into Buddhism by
developing a philosophy which denied that the Vedas were in
themselves sufficient for the Salvation.
From above discussion, we can see that, though the Brahmins
initially presented themselves as a living Gods on the Earth but over
the time, due to Mulnivasi peoples public outburst, their condition
became so miserable that, later on, they had to abandon their own
philosophy of the Vedas and had to take a refuge in human friendly
Buddhism.
The most prominent Brahmin who had taken refuge into
Buddhism was Adi Shankaracharya. He adopted each and every
principle of the Buddhism into Brahmanism and presented it in the
name of Hinduism. Thats why, he becomes as a Crypto-Buddhist
and Hinduism as a Crypto-Buddhism. In this way, to misguide the
Mulnivasi Indian Buddhists, the Brahmins converted Buddhism into
Hinduism.
From the above discussion, we can see that, Hinduism is
nothing but an altered form of Buddhism and every Hindu is a defeated
Buddhist by the Brahmins. The Brahmins defeated Buddhists and
destroyed Buddhism in every possible way and mixed their
Brahmanism into the principles of Buddhism and given it the name as
Hinduism.
So, in the simple words, we can say that, Hinduism is nothing
but a defeated Buddhism with a dirty mask of Brahmanism. In
Hinduism, there is dirt of the Brahmanism in the form of Casteism, unequality, etc. If this dirt of Brahmanism is removed from Hinduism,
then it remains as a pure Buddhism!!

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HOW THE BRAHMINS DESTROYED THE BUDDHISM


FROM INDIA?
The Buddhism was a major threat to the Brahmins supremacy
in India. It had eradicated the Brahmins supremacy completely. The
Brahmins found themselves nowhere as compared to their glorious
past. The Brahmins found that, the Buddhism was a basic reason for
their downfall; so, they decided to eradicate it by every possible means
to regain their glorious supremacy.
The Brahmins eradicated Buddhism in following ways:
1. By entering into the Buddhist order of the monks (i.e. the Buddhist
Sangha).
2. By entering into the Buddhist Mauryan Empire in the form of the
soldiers.
3. By calling foreign invaders like Arab Muslims to kill Indian Buddhists.
4. By giving a status of Kshatriya to some Buddhist tribes and by
provoking them against the Buddhists.
5. by absorbing Buddhas teachings into Brahmanism.
6. The Brahmins gained the final victory over the Buddhism with the
help of the VIOLENCE. (i.e. Hinsa)
1. BY ENTERING INTO THE BUDDHIST ORDER OF
THE MONKS.
The order of the Buddhist monks (i.e. the Buddhist Sangha)
was the chief centre of learning, uniting, agitating and preaching. It
was the strength as well as the weakness of the Buddhism. The
Brahmins identified this weakness and so they attacked it by entering
into it. The Brahmins chief weapon is an INVASION.! The Brahmins
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invades into his enemy organizations and destroy it. Every time, the
Brahmins destroyed the Mulnivasi Indians revolts by this method only
since 5000 years.
The Buddhist Sangha was the chief missionary of the Buddhist
movement. So, the Brahmins entered into it to eradicate Buddhism.
Many Brahmins become the fake monks; they were called as the
Crypto-Buddhists. At the time of the Buddha alone, about 75% were
the Brahmin monks. Due to the influence of the Buddha they didnt
done any contradictory activities but once the Buddha was gone in
483 B.C., the Brahmin monks started showing their original picture.
Many Brahmin monks were using abusive words about the Buddha
to show their hatred towards the Buddha and his Dhamma. A Monk
Subhadra really enjoyed Buddhas death and said that, its good that,
we are freed from the Buddhas orders!
The Brahmin monks started misreporting about the teachings
about the Buddha; so that, there should be a confusion among the
Monks. This lead to the disintegration of the united Buddhist Sangha
and within 100 days only, the Brahmins succeeded in dividing Buddhism
into 18 different sects. This was the first success of the Brahmin monks
towards eradication of the Buddhism from India!
To defame the noble Buddhism and its noble Monks, the
Brahmin monks started doing anti-social activities like cheating,
abusing, drinking wine, harassing girls, etc. This lead to the destruction
of the nobility of Buddhism and its Monks and the general peoples
started hating them. The peoples started saying that, the Buddhism
and its Sangha was good at the time of the Buddha but now it is of no
use. The peoples stopped co-operating the original Monks and this
lead to the despair among the Monks and among the Buddhist society.
Up to the time of the Emperor Ashoka, the Brahmins had invaded the
Buddhist Sangha in so much huge number that, it was difficult to see a
single noble Monk! The noble Monks were so much tired to see
downfall of Monks that, they better decided to leave the Sangha and
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gone on the mountains. All good and noble Mulnivasi monks had left
Buddhism, so the Buddhist Sangha was full of fake Brahmin Monks
(i.e. the Crypto-Buddhists) only. Replacing the Buddhist Sangha with
the Brahmin monks by expelling the Mulnivasi Monks was the second
victory of the Brahmins over the Buddhism!
3. BY ENTERING INTO THE BUDDHIST MAURYAN
EMPIRE IN THE FORM OF THE SOLDIERS
The Brahmins found that, only gaining their control over the
Buddhist Sangha was not sufficient. Still there were some noble
Mulnivasi monks and the peoples were adherent to the original
teachings of the Buddha. The Brahmins started calling them with
derogatory term of Hinyana (i. e. a lesser way of the Buddhism).
To detach them from Hinyana, the Brahmins decided to enter
in the Mauryan Government in the form of the soldiers. After Ashoka,
the Brahmins entered in huge numbers in the Mauryan army. In 185
B.C., the Brahmin Pushya mitra Shunga became a chief army officer.
When Bridhratha (the grand-son of Ashoka) was watching the army
cadres, that time, a Brahmin named Pushyamitra Shunga attacked on
him and killed him. This conspiracy was managed by Brahmin Patanjali,
Walmiki, Manu with the help of Pushya mitra Shunga.
After the fall of the Mauryan Empire, the Brahmin king
Pushyamitra Shunga ordered direct killings of the original Mulnivasi
Buddhist Monks and the follower peoples. He had given orders that,
anyone who will bring a cut head of Buddhist Monk; he will be awarded
with 100 gold coins. In a hope, many Buddhist Mulnivasi peoples
killed their own Monks. Brahmin Monks also burnt the Buddhist books
and destroyed the Buddhist Viharas. The Brahmins converted these
Viharas into the Brahmins temples (now they are recognized as the
Hindu temples). The Brahmins also destroyed the Buddha statues
within these Viharas and converted them into either the statues of the
Shiva or the Vishnu. The Brahmins also blended the Buddhas teachings
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into Brahmanism and called it as Shaivism or Vaishnavism; now it is


called as Hinduism. So, Hinduism is nothing but an altered form of the
Buddhism.
4. BY CALLING FOREIGN INVADERS TO KILL THE
INDIAN BUDDHISTS.
The Brahmins also invited foreign invaders like Arab Muslims
to attack on the Indian Buddhists. The Brahmins had a fear that, if
possible, the Buddhists will again do a revolt against the Brahmins in
the future. To deter any such kind of possibility, the Brahmins invited
Arab Muslims like Bin Kasim to kill the Buddhists. On the invitation
of the Brahmins, Arabs invaded India and killed thousands of the
Buddhists in the area of present Afghanistan. In the 12th century, the
Brahmins also provoked the Muslim invader Khilji to destroy the
Buddhist educational centre of Nalanda. It took about 6 months to
burn totally the library of Nalanda; so huge was the library. When
Nalanda was incompletely burnt, the Brahmins done Yagdna there as
a victory of their over the Buddhism and again thrown burning fire on
the incompletely burnt areas of Nalanda and destroyed it completely.
5. BY GIVING A STATUS OF THE KSHATRIYA TO
SOME TRIBES AND BY PROVOKING THEM
AGAINST THE BUDDHISTS.
To kill the remaining Buddhists, the Brahmins allotted a status
of the Kshatriya to some tribes like Huns, Gurjars, etc and provoked
them against the Buddhists. These tribes were foreign settlers in the
North- West parts of India (now Rajasthan). These tribes were totally
Buddhists and were the true followers of the Buddhism. They had no
enmity towards the Buddhists or the Buddhism.
In the 8th century, a cunning Brahmin named Adi
Shankaracharya, misguided them and provoked them against the
Buddhism by allotting them a fake concept of the Kshatriya. He told
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them that, these tribes are the descendents of Kshatriya Ram and
Krishna but since now they had accepted the Buddhism; their status
of kshatriya was lost and due to Buddhism they have degraded
themselves to the status of the Shudra. Actually, the fact is that, the
Brahmins had allotted the status of Shudra to all Indians including
these tribes. The Buddha had freed the Shudras from this status and
made them able to be the rulers of the country. So, the real fact is that,
it is the Brahmins who had degraded the status of the total Indians to
the lower status of the Shudra and it is the Buddha who had elevated
them from this lower status of the Shudra to the higher status of rulers.
The cunning BrahminAdi Shankaracharya had given misleading
information to the tribal Buddhists like Huns, Gurjars, etc. Not all
tribal men fallen prey to the cunning tactics of Brahmin Adi
Shankaracharya but some greedy tribal Buddhists accepted his false
concept and started calling them as Rajputs. Rajput was also a
derogatory term given by Cunning Brahmin Adi Shankaracharya to
these tribal Buddhists to insult them. The real meaning of RAJPUT is
THE ILLEGAL OFFSPRING OF A KING! See the notorious
Brahmins!! Even they dont respect their helping peoples.
After accepting the fake concept of the Kshatriya, these
tribal Buddhists became Rjputs and started killing their own brothers
who were the remaining tribal Buddhists. In Rajasthan, there were so
much Buddhist Viharas and Chaityas that, one town was named as
Chaityagad. Later on, Rajputs started calling it as Chitod. So, the
name Chitod is misnomer of the word Chaityagad.
6. BY ABSORBING THE BUDDHAS TEACHINGS
INTO THE BRAHMANISM
This was the last effort by the Brahmins to eradicate Buddhism
en route from India. The Brahmins found that, in spite of the above
destructive activities, the Mulnivasi Indians were not ready to forget
the memories of the Buddha and his teachings. When the Brahmins
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found that, its not possible to eradicate the influence of Lord Buddha
from the peoples mind, they decided to accept the Buddha and his
teachings into the fold of Brahmanism and nullify Buddha and his
Buddhism.
The Brahmins were working on this issue since the fall of the
Mauryan Empire in 185 B.C. In view of this, the Brahmins had written
Ramayana, Mahabharata and Bhagavad-Gita. The Brahmins presented
Ram in Ramayana and Krishna in Mahabharata and Bhagavad-Gita
to replace Lord Buddha. Ram is an imaginary person; so Ramayana
is also an imaginary story. The real Ram is the Brahmin Pushyamitra
Shunga and his court poet, a Brahmin, named as Valmiki had written
Ramayana on him. The Buddha was known as a MARYADA
PURUSHOTTAM due to his nobility, kindness and humanity. The
Brahmins applied these noble characteristics to this imaginary character
of Ram and started calling him as a MARYADA PURUSHOTTAM!
Also, the Lord Krishna was a Mulnivasi king and he was an
enemy of the invader Aryan Brahmins. But to replace the Lord Buddha,
the Brahmins presented him in the place of the Buddha.
The Brahmins wrote the stories of Ramayana and Mahabharata in an
interesting way. Slowly over the generations, the peoples started getting
interest in these stories and accepted Ram and Krishna as equal to
the status of the Lord Buddha.
When the Brahmins found that, Ram and Krishna couldnt
replace the Lord Buddha completely, they decided to accept the
Buddha and his teachings in the fold of the Brahmanism. Thats why;
the Brahmins added all the teachings of the Buddha in BhagavadGita.
It is the Brahmin Adi Shankaracharya who adopted each and
every principle of the Buddhism into Brahmanism and presented it in
the name of Hinduism. Shankaracharya was responsible to absorb
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the Buddha into Hinduism and recognize the Buddha as the ninth avatar
(i.e. an incarnation) of the Brahmin God Vishnu! This, he had done
purposely to eradicate Buddhism from India. Thats why; he is called
as a Crypto-Buddhist and his religion Hinduism as a Crypto-Buddhism.
Shankara established Hinduism to reduce the appeal of
Buddhism and to re-establish supremacy of the Brahmins. While doing
so, he copied the Buddhism and presented it (as it is) as Hinduism in
his own name. Observing the importance of the Buddhist Sangha as a
centre of learning, preaching and revolution, he too set up monasteries
and called them as Mathas .
The peoples found each and every aspect of Buddhism in
Shankaras newly found religion of Hinduism. In other words, we can
say that, they found Hinduism as Buddhism only; the name only
appearing to be changed!! So, they freely accepted Hinduism as a
modified version of Buddhism. Due to this, Buddhism lost its appeal
in India and the Brahmins gained importance. Shankara integrated
the sound teachings of Buddha into the Vedic religion, and given birth
to Hinduism; which is solely Buddhism.

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6. THE BRAHMINS GAINED A FINAL


VICTORY OVER THE BUDDHISM WITH THE
HELP OF THE VIOLENCE (i.e. HINSA) ONLY.
In the history of India, we can say that, the Brahmins gained
control over Indian peoples since 5000 years with the help of the
violence only. The chief reason behind the victory of the Brahmins lies
in their violence. Thats why; the religious books of the Brahmanism
are full of violence. Even Hitler was inspired by this violence in
Brahmanism and he became the most violent person in the World
killing about 60 Lakh Jews.
The Brahmins violently killed all the Buddhists in Indian and
destroyed their Viharas, Chaityas to eradicate Buddhism from India.
Hiuen-Tsang, a Chinese intellectual, who visited India from 629 to
645 AD, describes the influence of a south Indian Brahmin queen on
her husband who ordered the execution of many thousand Buddhists
including 8,000 in Madurai alone. Kalhanas Rajatarangani (written
by a Shaivite scholar about 1149 A.D. ) relates that Mihirikula, the
Hun ruler was converted by the Brahmins (in 515 AD). Under the
influence of the Brahmins, he had unleashed a wave of violent
destruction on Buddhist monasteries in Punjab and Kashmir. He reports
(verse 290 in book 1) that crows and birds of prey would fly ahead
eager to feed on those within his armies reach. He proudly proclaimed
himself as the killer of three crore peoples.
The hired Brahmin killers later tried to assassinate the Buddhist
ruler Harshavardhana. As a Buddhist, he was unwilling to take life and
so banished 500 Brahmins involved in the conspiracy to a remote
area south of the Vindhyas. Kalhan also reports that several avaricious
Hindu rulers looted the treasuries and even burned Hindu temples of
the Shahi and Katoch rulers in neighboring areas long before the well
known looting by Mahmud Ghazni.
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According to Rajatarangani (IV/112), Chandradip, a Buddhist


ruler of Kashmir, was killed by Brahmins in 722 AD. His successor
Tarapida was killed two years later. The newly anointed BrahmaKshastra (i.e. Rajput) rulers usurped power in the kingdoms of Sind
and Kota. Graha Varman Maukhari, married to Harshas sister, was
treacherously killed by the Brahmin king Sasanka, king of Gauda
(Bengal). He proudly destroyed many Buddhist Stupas and cut down
the sacred Bodhi tree at Gaya.
According to Gopinath Rao, (East & West Vol 35) the old
tribal shrine at Jaganath Puri was usurped by Vaisnavas and the walls
of the temple even today displays gory murals recording the beheading
and massacre of the Buddhists.
Epigraphica India Vol XXIX P 141-144 records that Vira
Goggi Deva, a South Indian king, described himself as a fire to the
Jain scriptures, a hunter of wild beasts in the form of the followers of
Jina (Jains) and an adept at the demolition of Buddhist canon. It
also records the deliberate destruction of non Brahminical literature
like books of Lokayat/ Carvaca philosophy by Brihaspati mentioned
by Albaruni in the 11th century.? The huge Buddhist complex at
Nagarjunakonda was destroyed. According to Shankara Dig Vijaya,
the newly anointed Brahma-Kshastra kings ordered every Kshatriya
to kill every Buddhist young and old and to also kill those who did not
kill the Buddhists. A Jain temple at Huli in Karnataka had a statue of
five Jinas (Jain heroes) that was re carved into a Shaivite temple with
five lingas.
E.S Oakley (Holy Himalaya) Rhys Davids (Buddhist India)
and Daniel Wright (History of Nepal) quote several Nepalese and
Kumoani documents showing that Buddhism had been the prevailing
religion of the Himalayas with Badrinath and Kedarnath as Buddhist
temples until Shankaracharya (788 -820 AD) usurped them in the 8th
century and the shrines at Badri and Kedar were then converted into
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shrines of Shiv and Vishnu. Wright records that there had been a
curious intermixture of the two religions with Buddhist priests officiating
at the temples of Pashupati (Shiv) and all the four castes following the
religion of Buddha.? Shankaracharya had directed such persecutions.
Many local hill Buddhist kings now invited Brahmins to their domains
to get them elevated to the rank of Kshatriyas. And many were
encouraged to attack Buddhist monasteries.
Several Nepalese accounts state that the followers of Buddha
were ruthlessly persecuted, slain, exiled and forcibly converted. Though
many converted rather than face death, humiliation or exile. The
attackers tested their faith by making them perform Hinsa, or the
sacrifice of live animals, that was abhorrent to Buddhists and Jains.
Many Bhikshunis, or nuns, were forcibly married and the learned
Grihasthas were forced to cut off the distinguishing knot of hair on top
of their heads. 84,000 Buddhist works were searched for and
destroyed.
It is believed that, Shankara introduced pilgrimages to these
holy places in the Himalayas for the first time to prevent their relapse
into Buddhist or animist ways. As sufficient local Brahmins could not
be found who were willing to preach in such remote places he imported
Nambudri Brahmin priests from Kerala who, to this day, officiate at
Badrinath, and Kedarnath.
Later, as the mountain settlements grew other Brahmins like
the Joshis and Pants from Maharashtra, Gairolas from Bengal and
Negis from Gujarat were also invited to settle in the hills. Holy
pilgrimages then ensured a constant influx of Hindu pilgrims with the
presence of many traders, priests and rulers who had a vested interest
in sustaining pilgrimages to these sacred spots.
The Buddhism, that had been strong in India in the 7th Century
was completely obliterated a century later due to the Brahmins
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inhumane killings and violence. Some of the evidences of the killings


of the Mulnivasi Indian Buddhists by the Brahmins are as follows:
1) The Divyavadana (ed. Vaidya, 282). The most important of
the murderous Brahmin bigots who carried out their systematic
campaign of violence against the peaceful followers of the Lord
Buddha was a Brahmin named Pushyamitra Shunga (184-48
B.C.), the founder of the Shunga dynasty.
2) According to Goyal [430] The culprit in this case was
Toramana, a member of the same dynasty as the Shaivite
Mihirakula who did immense damage to the Buddhist shrines in
Gandhara, Punjab and Kashmir.
3) Mihirakula is said to have razed 1600 Viharas, Stupas and the
Buddhist monasteries, and put to death 900 crores, or lay
adherents of the Buddhism [Joshi, 404].
4) The Aryamanjushrimulakalpa tells us that Pushyamitra
destroyed monasteries with relics and killed monks of good
conduct. [Jayaswal, 18-19]
5) As Goyal [394] notes, According to many scholars hostility
of the Brahmins was one of the major causes of the decline of
Buddhism in India.
6) The celebrated Tibetan historian Lama Taranatha mentions
the march of Pushyamitra from Madhyadesha to Jalandhara. In
the course of his campaigns, the book states, Pushyamitra burned
down numerous Buddhist monasteries and killed a number of
learned monks. The archaeological evidence for the ravages
wrought by Pushyamitra and other Brahmin fanatic rulers on
famous Buddhist shrines is abundant.

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7) The Brhannaradiya-purana lays it down as a principal sin for


a Brahmin to enter the house of a Buddhist even in times of great
peril.
The drama Mrchchhakatika shows that in Ujjain the
Buddhist monks were despised and their sight was considered
inauspicious.
9) The Vishnupurana (XVIII 13-18) also regards the Buddha as
Mayamoha who appeared in the world to delude the demons.
The Brahmin Kumarila is said to have instigated King Sudhanvan
of Ujjain to exterminate the Buddhists.
10) The Kerala-utpatti describes how he exterminated the
Buddhists from Kerala.
11) The Chinese traveller Yuan Chwang (Huen Tsang), who visited
India in the seventh century, records the oppressions of the
Brahmin king Shashanka, the king of Gauda, who was a devotee
of Shiva.
12) Yuan Chwangs account reads, In recent times Shashanka,
the enemy and oppressor of Buddhism, cut down the Bodhi tree,
destroyed its roots down to the water and burned what remained.
[Watters II p.115] He also says that Shashanka tried to have
the image (of Lord Buddha at Bodhgaya) removed and replaced
by one of Shiva.
13) Another independent account of Shashankas oppressions is
found in the Aryamanjushrimulakalpa, which refers to Shashanka
destroying the beautiful image of Buddha [Jayaswal, 49-50].
14) Another prominent seventh century murderer of Buddhists
was Sudhanvan of Ujjain, already mentioned in the quotation
from Goyal above as having been supposedly instigated by
Kumarila Bhatt.
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15) Madhava Acharya, in his Sankara-digvijayam of the


fourteenth century A.D., records that Suddhanvan issued orders
to put to death all the Buddhists from Ramesvaram to the
Himalayas.
16) Even after the Islamic invasions of India, the Brahmin bigotry
and hatred for the Buddhists was not subdued. According to
Sharmasvamin, a Tibetan pilgrim who visited Bihar three decades
after the invasion of Bakhtiaruddin Khilji in the 12th century,
the biggest library at Nalanda was destroyed by the Brahmins
who took advantage of the chaos produced by the invasion.
He says that they (the Brahmins) performed a Yajna, a
fire sacrifice, and threw living embers and ashes from the sacrifice
into the Buddhist temples. This produced a great conflagration
which consumed Ratnabodhi, the
nine-storeyed library of the Nalanda University. [Prakash, 213].
Numerous destroyed Buddhist shrines were converted into Hindu
temples after their destruction.
17) Ahir notes that The Seat of the Buddhas Enlightenment
was in the possession of a Brahmin Mahant till 1952.
18) Similarly, at Kushinara, where the Buddha had entered into
Mahaparinirvana, the cremation stupa had been converted into
a Hindu temple, and on top of it stood the temple of Rambhar
Bhavani when Cunningham had discovered the site in 1860-61.
19) Among the shrines which still continue to be dedicated to
Hindu gods mention may be made of the Caityas of Chezrala
and Ter in Andhra Pradesh which are now Shiva and Vishnu
temples respectively.
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20) The temple of Madhava at Sal Kusa, opposite Gauhati in


Asam, was once a sacred shrine of the Buddhists.
21) The famous Jagannatha temple at Puri in Orissa and the
famous temple of Tirupati Balaji was also originally a Buddhist
shrine. The Buddha was called as THERO-PATI in the Pali
language; its misnomer became THERO-PATI and then TIRUPATI. So, TIRU-PATI means the Buddha.
22) Similarly, the Vishnupada temple at Gaya was also once a
Buddhist shrine. As Rajendralal Mitra notes in his famous work
of 1878 [quoted in Ahir, 59] the feet of Buddha at Gaya were
rechristened the feet of Vishnu and held as the most sacred object
of worship in the new Vishnupada temple.
23) According to the records of Hieun Tsang and Kalhanas
Rajaatarangini, Asoka the great was converted to Buddhism (273232 BC) and did a lot for Buddhism. Asoka had given Buddhism
the status of the state religion. Due this, the Brahmin didnt like
him, and this was the chief reason for the destruction of the
Muyarian dynasty and Buddhism from India.
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HOW HINDUISM GOT DEVELOPED?


Let us summarize the final development of the Hinduism in
short. The Vedas were the original scriptures of the Aryan Brahmin
conquerors of India to enslave Mulnivasi Indians by including them in
the Shudra Varna. A vast hierarchy proliferated, which clamped its
iron rule upon every human being and every phase of life. The despair
and frustration which resulted among the masses made it necessary
to devise the doctrine of renunciation and to provide for hermits and
ascetics within the framework of that society. So, revolutionary
philosophies like Buddhism and Jainism developed. The great
Mulnivasi thinkers of the 6th B.C. named Vardhaman Mahavir and
Lord Buddha started a revolt against the atrocities of the Brahmins
supremacy. This resulted in social revolution, which changed the
political, religious and cultural life of Indian society. The political
revolution given birth to the Mauryan Empire, the religious revolution
given birth to the spreading of Buddhism all over India and the Cultural
Revolution re-established the Mulnivasi Indians culture in place of the
Brahmins Vedic culture.
The Brahmins again done a counter-revolution against the
Buddhism and the Mauryan Empire and established their Brahamanism
and the Brahmin rule in India. The ruling Brahmins like Pushyamitra
Shunga, Patanjali, Walmiki, etc developed legal and ecclesiastical
codes like Manusmriti to do the political counter-revolution and to
established the authority of the Brahmins and give divine sanction to
the caste system and the doctrine of transmigration. To do a religious
counter-revolution, the Brahmins written Ramayana, Mahabharata,
Bhagavad-Gita, various Smritis and Puranas and established their
Brahmanism again in place of the Buddhism.
After the counter-revolution in 185 B.C., the Brahmins tried
to eradicate the Buddhism in every possible way. When they found
that, it is impossible for them to eradicate the influence of the Buddha
and his Buddhism, the Brahmins adopted many principles of Buddhism
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in Brahmanism. Under the influence of Buddhism, the Brahmins like


Adi Shankaracharya created the pantheistic doctrines like the
Upanishads, Bhagavad-Gita, Vedanta-Sutra (Katha-Upanishad, I, i,
2:23), which rejected the sufficiency of the Vedas, promulgated the
Buddhist concept of the Self and the Wheel of Life, and entered
indirectly into the way for Buddhism. The Brahmin Adi Shankaracharya
adopted each and every aspect of Buddhism into the fold of the
Brahmanism and given it the name as Hinduism. Lastly, the Brahmins
had to take a refuge into Buddhism unwillingly. The Brahmins started
calling defeated Indian Mulnivasi Buddhists by the name of Hindu,
which means a slave; and they started calling defeated Mulnivasi
Indians Buddhists religion of Buddhism by the insulting name of
Hinduism. So, a Hindu means the Buddhist Mulnivasi Indian who is
the slave of the Brahmins and Hinduism means the Buddhist religion
under the slavery of the Brahmins and their Brahmanism.

FINALLY THE BUDDHA WON!!!


We have noted why the Brahmins called themselves Fathers
(Vasishtha, II, 4). We know, furthermore, that the Buddhist heresy
repudiated the Vedas, the Brahmins, and their title of father-Gods. In
Matt. 23:9, Jesus says, And call no man your Father upon the earth:
for one is your Father, which is in heaven. We suggest that this text
can have only a single meaning: it reflected Buddhist influence and
was a repudiation of all such priestly authority as the Brahmins arrogated
to them.
The Catholic hierarchy, however, found Brahamanic ideology
far more to its liking than it did the teachings of Jesus; and therefore, it
patterned itself into the image of the former. The Catholic Church reestablished the very system which Buddhism and the Jesus had
repudiated. The Church became the counter-revolution against
Buddhism as like Brahmanism in India, which rejected the religion of
Jesus Christ.
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Thus, we can see that, what happened in India was repeated in the
West. In India, the Brahmins established a priest state under the
Brahmanism; similarly, in the West, the Church established a priest
state under the Christianity. Both lead India and the West into the long
Dark Age of the Priesthood, by rejecting Buddhism.
Initially, both the Brahmanism and the Church rejected
Buddhism for their selfish benefits but over the time, by seeing a public
outrage, they accepted Buddhism indirectly. The Brahmins accepted
it and given it the name as Hinduism; the Church accepted it and given
it a name as the Modern Christianity. Both are finally same: Both
Hinduism and Modern Christianity are altered forms of the Buddhism!
Finally, the Buddha won! Finally, the Buddhism won!! And it
will win an entire World as the peoples gradually will be educated!!!

THE REVOLUTIONARY LIFE OF THE BUDDHA


Siddharth Gauthama was born around 563 B.C., in the small
Sakyan kingdom of Kapilavastu, which was a part of India. Shakyan
peoples were Mulnivasi Indians of Mongoloid race scattered in the
north of India. They belonged to the Naga race. They were brownyellow skinned peoples according to the Lakkhana Sutta.
The Aryan Brahmins invaded India in about 3100 B.C. and
defeated native (i.e. Mulnivasi) Indians peoples and called as
Mlechcha or Shudra means the slaves of the Brahmins. All
Mulnivasi Indians including the Sakyans were the Shudras.
In those days, the Sakyans were the vassals of King Pasenadi
of the Kosala. They had to render to him homage and respectful
salutation. At the time of the Budhha, there were 16 big republics
throughout India. They were called as MAHA-JANAPADA in local
Pali language. Some of the Mongoloids could maintain their
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independence even in the time of the Buddha, such as the Vajjians,


the Mallas etc. Others became the vassals of the Aryan kingdoms like
Sakyans and Koliyas.
The Buddhas Sakya kingdom was the vessel of King Pasenadi
of Kosala kingdom.The Sakyans had freedom only in economics,
commerce and justice, but not in the military matters. Thus, the political
status of the Sakyans was not so high. Since being a small kingdom,
the Sakyans had no chance to fight for their independence at all. In
that time, Kosala was one of the most powerful kingdoms at that
time, second only to Magadha.
These Sakyan headmen called themselves Khattiya
(Kshatriya) or Warriors, or sometimes Raja, not King of the
western idea. These kshtriyas were not similar to brahmanical
kshatriyas. Mulnivasi kshatriyas were the worriers and the rulers of
their areas. ( Kshatriya means Kshtra-Pati. Kshtra means area and
Pati means ruler or the king. ) These Kshtriyas were not considered
by birth as like the Brahmins Kshatriyas. They usually had conferences.
In the conferences, they would elect one amongst themselves as their
i.e. Raja(i.e.President). During the Buddhas time, His father
Suddhodana was the king of the Sakyans.
The Brahmins Kshatriyas were a worrier group of the Aryans
to protect the other Aryans. Initially, they were also selected by worth
but later on, at the time of the Buddha, the Brahmanical Kshatriyas
were selected by the birth.
Siddhattha was the son of King Suddhodana. His mother was
Siri Maha Maya of Koliyas, the other group of the Mongoloid people.
Siddhattha was born in 563 B.C. in Lumbini Park, between
Kapilavatthu and Devadaha.
Siddharthas parents had lot of expectations from him. The
astrologists had foretold about him that, if he lived the life of the
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House, he would become the Supreme Monarch ( i.e. the Cakravartin


); but if he went forth from the life of the House into the Homeless
State, he would become an Arahant, A Buddha, a Supreme being,
rolling back the veil of ignorance from the world. His father and people
loved him and wanted him to be the Supreme Monarch. Shakyans
had expected that, he would give them the freedom from the atrocities
of Brahmanism and from the yoke of the Brahmanised Kosalans
power.
Siddhattha was grown in a luxurious environment as a prince.
At the age of sixteen, he got married to his very beautiful cousin named
Yasodhara. His parents cared him lot and taught him the art of
governing from many famous teachers. He was also trained in both
military and government matters.
During the Buddhas time, an atrocious Brahmanism was in
its full vigor and it had affected every Indian life completely. India had
become a priestly state and the Brahmins were ruling the country. The
Brahmins were harassing the majority of the Mulnivasi Indians. Under
the influence of the cruel Brahmanism, peoples were living in a miserable
life. Only Brahmins were happy and were enjoying a luxurious life.
They had property, power and prestige in society. Even the Brahmins
were considered more powerful that the king. Kosala Kingdom was
a Brahamanical kingdom and King Pasenadi was under the influence
of the Brahmins; though he was a Mulnivasi Indian (not the Aryan).
Siddhartha knew this fact very well and the status of his clan
well. As a prince, he was observing the atrocities of Brahmins on
Mulnivasi Indians. But due to their priestly status, he was unable to
fight with them. To relieve the sufferings of his Sakyan peoples, he
found it necessary to get their freedom from the Brahamanised kingdom
of the Kosalan. He also understood the fact that, it was not a king
Pasenadi who was harassing to the peoples, but those were the
Brahmins doing these atrocities on the peoples in the name of the
religion. So, he decided to free not only the Sakyan or Koliyas but
also Kosalan kingdomTHE
from
the Brahmins
supremacy.
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It was not easy to free the peoples from the Brahmins slavery;
though he was a king because the Brahmins were the priests and they
had a good prestige in the eyes of king as well as society. As a prince
and the future king, it was easy for him to throw off the yoke of the
Brahmanism by mere fighting. But on deep thinking, he found that, it
was not so easy to gain independence from Brahmanism in this way,
and it was not the clever way at all. So, it was necessary for him to
seek another way, the way of gaining independence without
bloodshed- the peaceful independence.
What is the other way? What should be done? He thought,
thought, and thought. How could he do it, without the Brahamanised
Kosalans thinking that they had lost their control?

SIDDHARTHAS PLAN OF RENOUNCING THE


WORLD
The Brahmins distorted his real history and told a wrong story
about Buddhas renouncing the World.
The Brahmins false story briefly goes like this.
1. The Buddha saw a sick man. 2. The Buddha saw a suffering old
man. 3. The Buddha saw a dead man. 4. Later, He sat beneath a tree
and started meditation.
Suddenly, He got enlightened and became the 9th Avatar of
the God.
This story is absolutely stupid and baseless.
The actual history of the Buddha was like this:The Buddha was born in 563 BC. He belongs to SAKHYA
Gana. (The Ganas were an ancient tribal republic in India).
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The Brahmins had made majority of native Indians their slaves


and made their lives miserable. Peoples were suffering due to atrocities
of the minority Brahmins on them. Since, the Brahmins were robbing
majority Indians, they were happy as like todays Capitalists; though
they were in minority.
The Buddha decided to free majority native Indians from the
atrocities of the invader Brahmins. The Brahmins had made native
Indians their slaves with the help of their religious ideology of
Brahmanism. Native Indians had not their own religion, thats why,
they were suffering.
The Buddha decided to free native Indians from the Brahmins
slavery by offering them a good humanistic religion.
To create a religion was a very difficult task at the time of the
Buddha. The Brahmins had kept all the religious knowledge to
themselves only. If any non-Brahmins Indian want to gain this
knowledge, then the condition of the Brahmins was that, he must leave
his home and he must become a hermit.
The Buddha had no other option but to leave his home, if he
wants to achieve his goal. So, under big tension, he left his home to
free him peoples from the slavery of the Brahmins and their Brahmanism.
Initially, Buddhas parents couldnt understand him and his
objective properly; otherwise, they would have helped him. They simply
wanted that, their son should become a king greater than his father.
So, they adopted every possible means to keep Buddha attached to
his surroundings. They kept him in very luxurious and happy life. But,
Buddha was much worried about the miserable life of his peoples. He
was sure that, the only way to get freedom to his peoples was to do a
social revolution in India to bring a change in social system.

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To engage further in his life, Siddharthas parents done his


marriage with Yashodhara. This marriage further brought restrictions
on his expectations. But, Buddha had decided firmly to achieve his
goal at any cost. He was finding a way to escape from family bondage.
Finally, he got a chance on the incidence of dispute of Shakya and
Koliyas on the river water. He decided to take advantage of this
dispute. So, he purposefully opposed to Shakyas option of war on
Koliyas.
There was a fight between SAKHYAS and KOLEYAS on
sharing the water from the river ROHINI. (Koleya is another Gana in
ancient India).
The Sakhyas declared a war on Koleyas.
The Sakhyan army chief ordered all young men to join in army
and fight with Koleyas.
Gautama denied fighting.
The army chief wanted to punish Gautama, and gave choices
like,
The death or exile i.e. the social boycott of family, etc.
This caught the attention of king KOSALA who controls both
the Ganas.
Gautama chose to die.
But the army chief was a bit afraid to kill him, because of
possible consequences.
So, the Shakyas had given Him an option to leave His home.
Siddharth Gautama was waiting for this only! He wanted to leave his
home for the sufferings of the others, but if he would have left his
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home of his own, then peoples might have talked a wrong about him.
He was aware of this. So, to get a public support to his home leaving,
he had purposefully opposed Shakyas opinion and pushed him in
trouble. He was aware that, by taking opposite stand against the
Shakya Gana, the army chief will order him to leave Shakya Gana.
He wanted this order only. So, he happily left his home and told his
noble cause of his leaving to his parents and wife. By listening to his
noble and great purpose for the welfare of the society, they also agreed
to his leaving home and his great work.
By making all things favorable, Gautama left the Sakya Gana
and became the parivraajaka i.e. the wanderer.
Any great work needs a great devotion. Without a full devotion,
nothing can be achieved. Buddha wanted to relieve the sufferings of
the peoples by relieving them from an atrocious Brahmanism, which
was a root cause of all sufferings.
It was not an easy task. The Brahmins were the ruling class at
that time. To protest against the Brahmins means to protest against
the King. It was a revolutionary work. Such a revolution would need
a great devotion.
So, He decided to renounce the world on the day his son,
Rahula, was born. To gain knowledge at that time, it was must to
renounce the World and to become a hermit. So, He renounced the
world by cutting off His hair, wearing the yellow robes and became a
Shramana.
If He had not taken that opportunity, it would have been
difficult for Him to renounce the world. It was the love of property;
wife and son were like the enemies which tied his neck, hands, and
feet. They would prevent Him from going anywhere. The love of wife
and son would destroy his plan for independence. If he could not
conquer the enemy inside His mind, how could He conquer the enemy
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outside? Though He loved his parents, wife, son, and property, but
He loved the independence of His kingdom and people more. When
He decided to renounce the world, the important problem was where
He should go to first.

SIDDARTHAS STUDY IN THE MAGADHA KINGDOM


From the Kapilavatthu, Siddhattha went straight to the
Magadha Kingdom. Why did not He go to the kingdom such as
Kosala, Kasi, etc.? In those days, there were only two most powerful
kingdoms, viz. Magadha and Kosala. Kasi was under the power of
Kosala, which was also the powerful centre of Brahmanism. If
Siddhattha went to Kasi or Kosala, it would not be safe for him, due
to the powerful influence of the Brahmins there. King Pasenadi of
Kosala might not trust him, and his plan for his peoples will be failed.
So he went straight to Magadha, the other Kingdom which was even
more powerful than that of Kosala. Also, Maghada was a non-Aryan
kingdom, so it was free from Brahmanism and was able to offer him a
Brahmin-free thoughts and the environment.
The King Bimbisara (the king of the Maghada ) had heard
about Him and since Siddhartha being a Shakyan prince; He wanted
to see Him. So, when Siddhartha was passing through the palace in
Rajagaha, the capital of Magadha, King Bimbisara saw Him, came to
see Him and invited Him to live with Him in Rajagaha. But Siddhattha
refused Bimbisaras invitation and told the king gently that He wanted
to renounce the World and did not want the throne, and then took a
leave of the King. The king Bimbisara requested Siddhattha to come
and preach Him if He were the Enlightened One. We do not know
whether the invitation of King Bimbisara came from the heart or not.
It might have been only a political test. If Siddhattha received the
invitation, it could mean that He had no true intention to renounce the
World as He had told the king. That might be the great danger for
Him. He would lose His life and His kingdom would have no chance
to gain independence any longer.
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Siddhatthas refusal had many effects. First of all, the King Bimbisara
now trusted Him and did not fear that He would usurp His throne. In
this way, Siddhartha could stay there happily and openly. Ties of amity
were thus established with Bimbisara. As a result, King Pasenadi of
Kosala would not dare to do anything dangerous to Him. Though
these two kingdoms had close relationships to each other, but in the
politics and the power, they were the competitors of each other secretly.
This, however, was only the beginning of Siddhatthas political
play. He did not want to fight with the Aryan military power only, but
also with the power of the Aryan faith (i.e. Brahmanism) too. He wanted
to destroy both the power of Aryan military and faith in His kingdom.
In order to upset the Brahmanism, the Aryans faith, it was necessary
for Him to study deeply and test the religion of the Brahmanism first.
If He himself did not study and test it, how could he say that it was not
a good one? So, He decided to study and evaluate the available
knowledge first.
AN ENLIGHTENMENT OF SIDDHARTHA
Since, all the teaching schools and teachers were residing in
the jungles only; Siddhartha went in jungle and started gaining different
kinds of knowledge from the different teachers. So He began to study
under Alara Kalama and Uddaka Ramaputta until He knew everything
that the Aryans knew. He assimilated and evaluated it thoroughly and
rapidly. He learned basic Mulnivasi philosophy from Alara Kalama,
Udak Ramputaa, etc; who were all Mulnivasi (i.e. native) Indian
teachers. The most striking thing is that, the Buddha never made any
Brahmin teacher in his life. His first five disciples were also his
colleagues, who were native Mulnivasi Indians.
He studied everything that the Aryans knew. He even evaluated
this knowledge on Himself. But He was not satisfied because He found
that it was not sufficient to relieve the peoples sufferings. He found
that, the Brahmins presented the Vedas as a home of the supreme
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knowledge; but after studying it, the Buddha found that, there is nothing
useful in the Vedas for the well-being of the society. He found the
Vedas nothing but an empty of knowledge like the deserts and so He
rejected the Vedas. Siddhartha tried to study and practice every kind
of knowledge (i.e. Vidya) and Yogas which were popular in those
days. He applied himself to Meditation, and various Yogas
accompanied by complete cessation of breathing, by reducing his food
to a grain of rice each day, and by living on seeds and grass etc.
Mahasihanada Sutta, He found that He had reached the limit of selfmortification, yet He had not attained Enlightenment. So, He denied
these thoughts.
To evaluate many such ideologies and philosophies available
at that time, He sat under a tree and started thinking deeply about the
Worldly sufferings. He started assimilating all Mulnivasi native
ideologies and philosophies like Charvaka, Sankhya, Lokayata, etc
to form a new philosophy.
The Brahmins propagated a wrong story about Him that, the
Buddha sat under a tree for the Meditation only, but its totally wrong.
There, He started thinking logically about the people and their
problems. He thought that, there must be another way to
Enlightenment. He thought of the way of Meditation which he had
once practiced when He was a child. In that a meditation He didnt
sat simply closing his eyes; He started thinking deeply about the nature
of the Worldly sufferings, the cause of these sufferings and the ways
to relieve these sufferings. Since this kind of Meditation was full of
thinking (i.e. Thoughtful meditation or the Philosophers Meditation), it
needed lot of energy and stomach full of food.
At that time, Siddhartha was on empty stomach. So, He
decided to take food first and then start the Thoughtful Meditation or
the Philosophers Meditation afterwards. Incidentally, Vishakha, a
natural worshipper, came to worship the Piple tree and was delighted
to see Siddhartha sitting there below the tree. She completed her
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prayers and offered a food of rice (i.e. kheer) to Siddhartha. He


enjoyed the food and delighted with the energy of the food. Since,
long months, he had not accepted such a heavy food, which had
weakened His strength and blunted thinking. But Vishakhas offered
food had given him a fresh energy to His body and mind. In a fresh
mood, He started his Thoughtful Meditation or the Philosophers
Meditation.
He kept thinking deeply about the nature of the sufferings, the
cause of these sufferings and the ways to relieve these sufferings. At
last, in the last watch of the full moon day of Visakha, in 528 B.C., He
attained the Enlightenment: that is, He understood the nature of
suffering, the cause of suffering, the cessation of suffering and the way
that leads to the cessation of suffering. He also understood the Golden
Middle way of life though his own experience- that, the self-mortification
is not good, equally not good is the self-enjoyment. This Golden way
of Life presented by the Buddha is called as a Golden Mean by the
Greek philosophers like Socrates, Aristotal, etc.
The Buddha is also called as TATHAGATA means the one
who has learned the Truth and got enlightened through his own efforts.
(Agat means to gain, to learn and Tatha means Tathya i.e. the Truth.)
These thoughts made Siddharthas knowledge perfect. He
became an enlightened one, the Buddha. Gradually He formulated
the reasons for human sufferings. He understood the perfect way of
life, which could eradicate the human sufferings. To alleviate the
suffering of human beings, He proposed a new kind of philosophy;
which is known as Buddhism.
This perfect state of knowledge made Him a Buddha i.e. an
Enlightened being and His new kind of philosophy is known as
the Dhamma i.e. Buddhism.
He found that, the peoples are suffering; and the cause of
their sufferings is their cravings and desires for the Worldly things. He
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found that, the Brahmanism is the reason for peoples cravings and
desires for the Worldly things. So, He decided to alleviate the sufferings
of the peoples by eradicating the Brahmanism. So, He waged a war
against the Brahmanism by propagating Buddhism. The slogan of His
war was BAHUJAN HITAY, BAHUJAN SUKHAY (it means,
majority in progress, majority in happiness), which is similar to todays
Communism. The slogan of the Brahmins supremacy over the slave
Indians was ALPAJAN HITAY, ALPAJAN SUKHAY (it means,
minority in happiness, minority in progress) which is similar to todays
Capitalism.
The Buddha found that, the cause of peoples sufferings was
the Brahmins and their Brahmanism. To get rid of this Brahmanism,
the Lord Buddha offered His humanistic religion of Buddhism. The
Buddhism was a direct answer of the Lord Buddha to the Brahmins
atrocious Brahmanism.
The Buddha was a prince and after becoming a king, it was
easy for Him to eradicate the Brahmanism from the land of India. But,
even after becoming a World emperor, it was difficult for Him to kill
the Brahmanism. Because,there was no other religious ideology to
counter the Brahmanism. The Christianity or the Islam was not
developed yet. So, He decided to create His own religion to counter
the atrocious Brahmanism. The Buddha was also aware that, the
Brahmanism was an ideology and an ideology cant be killed by any
weapon like sword, knife, etc. An ideology must be killed by an
ideology only! So, to kill an atrocious ideology of the Brahmins (i.e.
Brahmanism), He left His home against His will. He and His family
beared the huge sufferings for the wellbeing of their peoples. This was
a greatest devotion of Lord Buddha and His family for the welfare of
the society. So, His home leaving event of Siddhartha is known as
MAHA-BHINISHKRAMAN!! This great even of MAHABHINISHKRAMAN is the golden event in the history of humanity,
which brought a turning point in the human life on the Earth.
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The ignorance spread by the Brahmanism was destroyed and the


knowledge had arisen. He was now the Samma-Sam-Buddha,
i.e. the one who obtained His Enlightenment by His own efforts, not
by the assistance of the others. Now, He himself was independent of
defilements of the Brahmanism, means, He had obtained a victory
over the inside enemy in the form of the Brahamanical thoughts like
greed, hatred, anger, etc. The Brahmins and their Brahmanism believes
in these atrocious and the capitalistic selfish thoughts; thats why, the
peoples were suffering and still are suffering, whereas, the Brahmins
are happy. (These evil thoughts of the Brahmanism are called as Mara
in Buddhist canonicals like Tripitaka, Dhammapada. Siddhartha had
a vigorous struggle with these evil thoughts before becoming an
Enlightened Buddha. )
Siddhartha was thus freed of the Brahamanical defilements
and so, He was free of sufferings after becoming the Buddha. One of
His aims was successful, but the other, the aim of the freedom of His
people and His country from the grip of an atrocious Brahmanism
was waiting to Him. It was necessary that, He must struggle further
for them.

THE BUDDHAS FIRST SERMON AT SARNATH


On attaining Enlightenment, the Buddha was initially despaired
of preaching His teachings to the others. He knew that, His knowledge
was very much a new, deep, realistic, scientific in contrast to the
Brahamanical teachings which was too old, imaginary, superstitious,
atrocious and contrary to the science. He was aware that, the peoples
were adapted to and were favorable to the Brahmanism. He found
that His doctrine was abstruse; difficult to understand and that the
mankind was given over to their desires. Only intelligent and noble
ones could understand his knowledge i.e. the chain of cause and effect,
or teachings about Nirvana and the annihilation of desires. So, initially,
He determined to remain quiet and not to preach.
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However, later on, He realized that, if He did not preach His new
teachings (i.e. the Dhamma), how could His people, His relatives,
and His parents, His country gain the freedom from an atrocious
Brahmanism? His chief purpose of renouncing the world was to liberate
His kingdom and His peoples from the slavery the Brahmanism. By
attaining the status of the Buddha hood, He was near to that goal,
then why should He despair? Only He Himself could help His people,
His relatives, His parents, His wife, son, and His peoples. To explain
this situation, the Pitaka presented the story of the deity Brahma
Sahampati (means the Buddhas inner mind) appeared before Him
and requested Him to preach His teachings, pleading that some men
could understand it. So, He surveyed the world with His minds eye
and saw the different natures of mankind like the three kinds of lotuses:
some born in the water, grown up in the water, do not rise above the
water but thrive hidden under the water; some born in the water, grown
up in the water, reach to the surface while a third type grown up in the
water, stands up out of the water and the water does not touch it.
Likewise this, some peoples are intelligent and understanding able to
perceive the Buddhas teachings (i.e. the Dhamma); some can take
interest in it; whereas, some ignorant peoples (due to lack of proper
education and understanding), could be made understandable, with
the efforts of intelligent ones like the order of the monks i.e. Bhikkhus.
Thus, thinking this, He decided to preach His teachings to
such kind of peoples first. It is very important and meaningful to plan
first before doing anything. The teaching of the Buddha was the very
new kind of teaching in contrast to the prevalent Brahmanism at that
time. So, if He could not gain success at the first time, it would make
Him despair and His mission would be failed. So, it was very important
for Him to think, plan and work out according to such plan. His first
aim was to find intelligent and understanding persons. So, He first
thought of His two teachers, Alara Kalama and Uddaka Ramaputta;
who were curious, intelligent and understanding. But He knew that,
both of them had recently died. Then He thought further of the other
five Monks, or Pancavaggiyas, who had been with Him and left
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Him when He had begun to take food after giving up his severe selfmortification. They were now at Benares in the Deer Park, Isipatana.
So, the Buddha decided to go to Benares to teach these five monks.
The questions is, why didnt He teach the people in Rajgaha
first? or Was it necessary for Him to go to Benares which was more
than 150 miles from Rajgaha? He must have planned thoroughly.
The reason is as mentioned above. And the other reason is that Benares
was the center of the Brahmanism and Jainism, and was the vassal of
the Brahmanised king Pasenadi of Kosala. If He could convert the
five monks there, it would mean that his Enlightenment was not in vein
and his mission would be successful. And, if His purpose was successful
at the first time, it could increase His hope and the confidence. These
five intelligent, noble and dedicated persons could further help Him
spread His teachings and if conditions go favorable; they in together
could spread His teachings in an entire kingdom and even could the
king of that kingdom. The well known theme is that, well begun is
half done and a unity is more powerful than singularity. If works
accordingly, the goal of the freedom of His kingdom clearly achieved.
So, after remaining awhile at Uruvela, He started for Banaras. On the
way, He met a naked Jain ascetic, but He did not teach him. He had
to work according to His plan.
When He reached Isipatana, the Deer Park, the five monks,
Pancavaggiyas, showed an unsuitable attitude to Him. It was because
they believed that self-mortification was the only way to Enlightenment.
However, the Buddha tried to explain to them that He was now the
Enlightened One and had come to preach them the way to gain
Enlightenment. At last, they believed and began to listen to Him.
The first sermon which the Buddha preached to the five monks
was called as Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta. The gist of that sermon
is that one must avoid the extremes of either self-mortification or selfindulgence. Next, one must practice the Middle Way which consists
of the eightfold path. And then the Buddha taught them the Four Noble
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Truths like the nature of sufferings, the origin or the root cause of
sufferings, the cessation of sufferings and the method of bringing about
the cessation of the sufferings. At the end of the sermon, one of these
five Monks, named Kondanna, understood the sermon totally and
gained the pure or spotless Eye of Truth i.e. the Dhamma-Cakkhu
(i.e. the vision of the Buddha). This Monk was thus the first disciple
who gained the Dhamma-Cakkhu,of the Buddha or the pure Eye of
Truth.
The Buddha, then, formally admitted these five Monks as the
first members of the Sangha. Buddha established Sangha or the Order
of the Monks as a community of an intelligent and nobles ones who
are dedicated to the noble cause of preaching the Buddhas teachings.
The Sangha is a torch-bearer of the Buddhas teachings. It is an example
set by the Buddha with His own teachings of a noble, pure, trained
and educated, knowledgeable community in front of the society. The
Sangha shows the world that the Buddhas teachings are practicable,
perfect, and easily understandable and can give liberation (i.e. Nirvana)
to anyone in this life only; there is no need to wait until death, to get
liberation; as is told by the other religious teachers.

WHAT IS MEAN BY THE DHAMMA-CHAKKU OR


THE BUDDHAS VISION?
The Dhamma Chakku or the pure eye means a clear vision.
The clearing away of the defilements or confusion created by
Brahmanism and understanding the real truth means the Dhamma
Chakku or the Buddhas vision.
The powerful weapon of any superpower is to misguide the
general peoples in the name of the religion or the God or an
entertainment, etc. Thats why, in the ancient times, the oppressors
had used religion as well as a God as the weapons to rule over the
others. They used these weapons as fear factors to scare the others.
Due to the havoc of an unknown supernatural power of unseen Gods,
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peoples were getting scared and more they scared; more they were
harassed by the priests.
Due to the fear of the peoples revolt against an uncontrolled
power of the priests, the priests devised the theory of an infallibility of
the religious scriptures. If anyone will dare to examine these scriptures
validity, he was given dreadful punishments like painful killings or en
excommunication. These peoples were called as Pakhandi and were
considered a threat to the priest state of the Brahmins. Thats why, the
Brahmins declared Charvakas, Lokayata, Buddhists as the Pakhandi
and given them the painful punishments. To give the torturous
punishments to these peoples, the Brahmins had implemented the Laws
of Manusmriti in their priestly state of India. By taking the inspirations
from the Indian Brahmins, the Christian fathers and Islamic Maulanas
also prescribed the painful and the dreadful punishments to the
unbelievers and declared their religious gospels as an infallible and
unquestionable.
After getting enlightened, the Buddha found that, the peoples
suffering and the real cause to their sufferings is the priestly supremacy
of the Brahmins. The Brahmins were in minority (i. e. 3% in population),
so they were unable to rule the majority of Mulnivasi Indians directly.
So, they devised the indirect weapons like spreading misunderstandings
in the form Blind faith in the name of the Religion and God. The Buddha
called these misunderstandings and confusion created by the
Brahmanism as the Defilements.
At present also, the Brahmins are ruling over India with the
help of these misunderstandings. Their media is helping them a lot in
this case. The real enemies of all Indians are the Eurasian Brahmins.
But to divert attention away from them, the Brahmins display new
enemies every time in front of the Mulnivasi Indians. During the British
India, the Brahmins presented British as the enemies of all Indians. In
the Independent India, the Brahmins present Muslims as the enemies
of all Indians. Brahmins are doing terrorist activities all over Indian to
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defame Muslims as terrorists and to create a communal hatred among


Hindu and Muslims.
As like the Buddha, we must understandings to decline the
communal hatred in India. To be enlightened means to understand the
bitter reality (i. e. the Absolute Truth) in the light of knowledge.

THE BUDDHAS VIEWS ON THE HUMAN


SUFFERINGS
To relieve the peoples from their sufferings, the Buddha had
left His home and started thinking about the nature and the causes
behind the human sufferings. He found three different natures of human
sufferings viz. 1) the personal sufferings, 2) the social sufferings and 3)
the natural sufferings.
He found that, the personal and the social sufferings are due
to the Brahmanical slavery of the Mulnivasi Indians. He found that,
the Brahmins were doing various atrocities on Mulnivasi Indians in the
name of the Varna Shudra. So, to relieve the peoples from their
sufferings, He decided to free them from the slavery of the Brahmins
and their Brahmanism first.
To relieve the peoples from the personal sufferings, the
Buddha advised Panchasheel i.e. the fivefold path. The Brahmins were
tribal peoples before attacking on the Mulnivasi Indians Indus
civilization; so they had tribal tendencies like stealing, killing, cheating,
alcoholism, sexual immorality, etc. These evil practices were the chief
practices of the Brahmanism. By coming in their contact, the Mulnivasi
Indians also adopted these notorious qualities and worsened their lives.
These unsocial activities were the chief reason for the personal as well
as the social sufferings of the peoples. So, for the personal
improvement, the Buddha advised Panchasheel i.e. to avoid stealing,
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gatha are not just for mugging as like a devotee but they are for the
actual practical implementation as like the true follower of the Buddha
for the well-being of the society.
The Buddha found that, there are some natural calamities like
flood, famine, etc that gives sufferings to the humans; these are the
natural sufferings. This requires a broad and strong mind with the good
confidence to overcome the grief resulting from the natural sufferings.
For this, the Buddha advised the Tenfold path i.e. Dash-shila. It is
also called as the Ten Commandments of the Buddha. These ten
commandments of the Buddha were adopted in Judaism as the Ten
Commandments of the Moses and later on in Christianity as the Ten
Commandments of the Jesus.

ATTA: DIPA: BHAVA: i. e. ENLIGHTENED


YOURSELF!!!
The Brahmanism advises peoples to surrender to unknown; it
asks peoples to surrender to en external supernatural agency like the
God. It advises peoples to surrender to the infallible religious books
with the blind faith without analyzing. It is nothing but the submission
to the fear and punishment.
The Brahmins presented their Gods as the Givers of the
Salvation (i.e. Moksha-data). The Buddha rejected this unrealistic
claim and proclaimed that, nobody can give the Salvation to anybody.
There is nobody in this world, which could relieve your sufferings;
you must work yourself to liberate yourself from your sufferings and
the slavery. He told the peoples that, He himself is not a Giver of the
Salvation (i.e. Moksha-data) but he is Path-Giver to the Liberation
(i.e. Margadata).
The Buddhas philosophy is very much realistic and scientific
in nature. Like Brahmanism, there is no Dogmatism or an unnecessary
claiming to fool the general peoples. The Buddha was the first person
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in the World to give the highest importance to the human Intelligence.


He clearly said that, the humans are suffering due to ignorance and the
Blind Faith. So, until you dont overthrow your ignorance and the
blind faith, you cant get relieved of your sufferings. Thats why, He
advised peoples to get enlightened. He said, Enlighten yourself i.e.
Atta: Dipa: Bhava:
The ignorance and the blind faith confuse peoples and imprison
them in the religious slavery. Thats why, during the Middle Age, the
World was suffering in the Darkness of religious hierarchy. The
ignorance and the blind faith are the chief for the obliteration of the
human thinking and paralyzes the human development. It makes humans
depended on an external imaginary agencies like the Gods by declining
the peoples confidence in despair. So, to give the peoples their
freedom from the religious slavery of the Brahmanism, the Buddha
advised to be enlightened themselves.

THE BUDDHA REJECTED THE GOD; SOUL;


PARMATMA
The Buddha rejected the Brahmanical concepts like the Soul,
the God, Parmatma etc. Rejecting the God, the Soul and the Rebirth was a very bold statement at that time at the time of the glory
of the animistic Brahmanism. The Brahmins held a view that, the Soul
is an immortal, residing in each living being and it gets rebirth after
dying of the body. The Buddha rejected these imaginary concepts of
the Soul and its rebirth.
Similarly, He rejected the concept of the God. He explained
peoples that, the concept of the God is a fear factor used by some
cunning priests to fool the general peoples. There is no God or any
supreme being. Things happen by the law of the nature. There is only
action, but no agent or agency. Everything has a definite reason. This
law of the reason presented by the Buddha is called as the Law of
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the Dependent Origination. It is purely a scientific reasoning. It rejected


the concept of the God as the Supreme Being running the World.
In the Brahmanism, there is Paramatman i.e. the Supreme
Self, from which everything comes and there is Brahma, the Supreme
God who created the world and everything in the World. Everything
depends on Him. But the Buddha refused Self Atta or Atman. It
meant, that He refused Paramatman or God, the Creator too.
According to the Anatta-lakkhana Sutta, the Buddha explained
clearly about the Anatta or Non-self. He analyzed the self into five
elements: the body, sensation, perception, volition, and consciousness.
Each of these is liable to change and so cannot be called as the Soul.
The Brahmins say that, the soul is immortal; it cant be changed; so
the Brahmins call this unchangeable and immortal self as the Soul. But
in reality, we see that, the five components of the self do change and
so the self also do change. If the self gets changed, it cant be a
permanent and an immortal Soul. Thats why; the Buddha rejected
the Soul on the scientific and realistic basis.
There may be a question that if there is no Permanent Soul or
Self, who will receive the fruits of the action? In Buddhism, every
action has its reaction. One must reap the fruits of whatever he has
sown in this life only. When everything is Anatta, how will the result of
that action are gained after the death?
After the death, the body dies out and the five elements of it
disintegrate into the surrounding atmosphere. So, whatever person
does good or bad deeds, he gets its fruits in this life only. Sometimes,
his offspring bears the fruits of those deeds. But, there is nothing like
getting fruits of someones deeds from his past lives or in his future
lives. These are just the foolish concepts created by cunning Brahmins
to misguide and misuse the Mulnivasi Indians for their selfish benefits.

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THE BUDDHAS LAW OF KAMMA V/S THE


BRAHMINS LAW OF KARMA
There is lot of confusion regarding the Buddhist doctrine of
Kamma due to the similarity in terminology. The Brahmins purposefully
say that, the Buddhist doctrine of Kamma is similar to that of the
Brahmnical doctrine of Karma to mislead the ignorant masses.
The Buddhas Law of Karma is totally different from the
Brahminic Law of Karma.
The Brahmins Law of Karma is based on the Soul. The
Buddhist law is not based on the Soul.
The Brahminic Law of Karma is hereditary as like the Casteism
and Racism.
It goes on from one birth to the next birth. This is so because
of the transmigration of the Soul.
The Buddhism doesnt believe in the Soul, so, no transmigration
of the Soul and no birth related karmic effects.
According to the Brahmins Law of the Karma, any good or
bad deeds of a man produce an impression on his Soul. When he
dies, his Soul escapes but it is full of such impressions and these results
in his status of the future birth and his fortune. If impressions of good
deeds on the Soul are in majority, he will get a good fortune in his
future birth but if the Soul is full of impressions of the bad deeds, then
his future life will be full of misery.
Because of this doctrine, the peoples thought that their misery
is due to their misfortune and they didnt done any revolt against the
situation. So no revolt was there in an ancient India, in spite of
tremendous injustice.
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This kind of doctrine is made by the Brahmins to tell the peoples that,
their misery is due to their bad deeds in past life and to overcome this,
they should worship the Brahmin priests and their Gods. Indirectly,
this is nothing but a conspiracy against the peoples to make them fool
and to get benefit of their ignorance.
This Brahmnic theory of the Karma is totally rejected by the
Buddha. The Buddha attacked on the Soul which is the base of this
theory.
In the Buddhist theory of the Karma, there is no Soul, so, no
transmigration of the Soul and the future consequences of the
misfortune in the future birth due to good or bad deeds in the past life.
The Buddha said, Reap as you sow. It means the effects of the
good or bad deeds are seen in this life on the Earth only. There is no
need to wait for the future births to see the effects. Thus, the Buddhas
Law of Karma applied only to the Karma and its effect in the present
life. It has no concern about the past or the future births.
Thus, the Buddhist theory of Karma is totally scientific based.
It states that, the body as being the matter disintegrates but its
consciousness is an energy remains constant and gets changed into an
another energy and gets mixed with the Universal energy of the space.
In easy words, we can say that, according to the Buddha, the
Kamma is nothing but the energy. The Buddha said that, this Kamma
or the energy never dies. The Rebirth means rebirth of this energy in
another form. This theory of Kamma and Re-birth explained by the
Buddha was presented by the great scientist Einstein some 2500 years
later. The Einstein also proved that, the Energy never dies, it can neither
be converted nor destroyed; it only changes its form from one form to
another form. This is the Rebirth in the words of the Buddha.
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ACCORDING TO THE BUDDHA, WHAT IS


THE RE-BIRTH?
The Brahmanism also believed in the re-birth, but the re-birth
according to the Brahmanism is the re-birth of the individual as it is. In
other words, according to the Brahmins views, the rebirth means,
reappearing of the same person after his death. This is totally absurd
and illogical.
The Buddha also believed in the re-birth, but his philosophy
about it was totally different. According to the Buddhism, the human
beings are formed of five different components viz. air, water, energy,
etc. When a person died, there five components disintegrate into the
atmosphere. When new life gets formed, these components get united
along with environmental elements. This is the re-birth of these
components in an altered form with varying proportion of involvement.
This is indirectly a re-birth of a being in the form of re-birth of its
components. This is the scientific explanation of the Buddha about the
re-birth.
The contemporaries of the Buddha held two different views.
One set was called as Eternalist, and the other was called as
Annihilationist. The Eternalist said that the life is eternal. The Soul
doesnt die. It is renewed by rebirth. The Annihilationist, on the other
hand, believed that, the death is the end of everything. There is nothing
left after the death. This was also called as Ucchedvad.
The Buddha was neither an Eternalist nor an Annihilationist.
The Buddha didnt believe in the Soul and its rebirth. So, He is not an
Eternalist. Some peoples believe that, the Buddha was an
annihilationist, since, He believes in the non-existence of the soul. But
in the Alagaddupamma-Sutta the Buddha complains that He is called
an annihilationist, when as a matter of fact He is not. In this Sutta He
says: It is just what I am not, and what I do not affirm, that is wrongly,
erroneously, and falsely, charged against me by these good people
who would make me out to be an annihilationist.
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Others may ask question: How can the Buddha not believe in
the existence of the Soul, and yet say that He is not an annihilationist?
In other words: How the Buddha can believe in the Rebirth but not in
the existence of Soul? This is because, the Buddha believed in the
Rebirth of the Energy but not in the existence of the Soul. To answer
to this question, we will have to focus on following questions: 1.Rebirth
of what? And, the rebirth of the whom?
2. THE REBIRTH OF THE WHAT?
This question is almost always ignored. It is because of the
mixing of the two questions that so much confusion has arisen.
According to the Buddha, body is composed of four elements of
Existence. They are (1) Prithvi; (2) Apa; (3) Tej; and (4) Vayu.
What happens to these four elements when a body dies? Some
says that, these elements also die along with the body while others say
that, these elements do not die. The Buddha said: These elements
dont die, even though the body dies. These elements are everlasting
and join to the mass of similar elements floating in space.
When the four elements from this floating mass join together,
a new birth takes place. The elements need not be, and are not
necessarily, from the same body which is dead. They may be drawn
from different dead bodies.
This is what the Buddha meant by rebirth. This is the kind of
rebirth in which the Buddha believed. The Great light is thrown upon
the subject by Sariputta in his dialogue with Maha-Kotthita.
In Shravasti, a mendicant, Maha-Kotthita, rising from his
meditations, went to Sariputta and asked him some questions which
troubled him. Maha-Kotthita asked, How many things must quit the
body, when the body dies?
Sariputta answered, Vitality, heat, and consciousness.
Maha-Kotthita asked, What is the difference between a
lifeless corpse and an almsman in trance, in which perception and
feelings are stilled?
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Sariputta replied, In the corpse not only are the plastic forces
of the body and speech and mind stilled and quiescent, but also vitality
is exhausted, heat is quenched, and the faculties of sense broken up;
whereas in the almsman in trance vitality persists, heat abides, and the
faculties are clear, although respiration, observation, and perception
are stilled and quiescent.
This probably is the best and most complete exposition of
Death or Annihilation.
Next question is: What is heat?
In this dialogue, heat means the Energy.
Thus the final answer to the question: What happens when
the body dies? Is that, the body ceases to produce energy or body is
free of energy.
The Annihilation has therefore a two-fold aspect. In one of its
aspects it means cessation of production of energy. In another aspect
it means a new addition to the stock of general floating mass of energy.
Because of this two-fold aspect of the annihilation, the Buddha
said that he was not an absolute annihilationist. He was an annihilationist
so far as soul was concerned but He was not an annihilationist so far
as matter was concerned.
In other words, He believed in the regeneration or rebirth of
matter but not in the rebirth of the soul.
So interpreted, the Buddhas view is in consonance with the
modern science.
According to the science, Energy is never lost; it is always
constant. Likewise, the Buddha said that, even though, the body dies
away but the integral component of the body never dies. They get
integrated into the general floating energy of the space and are always
constant.

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In case of Rebirth, these different components of different


bodies do
unite together to form a new being. Thus, a new birth
i.e. rebirth takes place.
These are the views of the Buddha regarding rebirth.
3. THE REBIRTH OF THE WHOM?
The question is: does the same dead person take a new birth
or not? According to the Brahmins, the answer is yes.
According to the Buddha, the same person doesnt take a
new birth.
The answer depends upon the nature of mixing of the elements
of dead man meeting together and forming a new body.
If a new body is formed after a mixture of same elements of
the same body, then the possibility of the rebirth of the same sentient
being is possible.
But if a new body is formed after a mixture of the different
elements of the different men who are dead, then there is rebirth but
not the rebirth of the same sentient being.
This point has been well explained by sister Khema to King
Pasenadi.
The Rebirth means rebirth of this energy in another form. This
theory of Kamma and Re-birth explained by the Buddha was presented
by great scientist Einstein some 2500 years later. Einstein also proved
that, the Energy never died, it can neither be converted nor destroyed;
it only changes its form from one form to another form. This is the
Rebirth in the words of the Buddha.

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THE BUDDHAS AHIMSA (i.e. THE NONVIOLENCE)


The Brahmins again are spreading a wrong and totally false
propaganda about the Buddhas teaching of Ahimsa (i.e. non-violence).
The Brahmins accuse the Buddha for decrease in fighting attitude of
the Indians due to His teaching of Ahimsa (i.e. non-violence). The
Cunning Brahmin Savarkar was the most prominent in spreading this
wrong story.
The Buddhas ahimsa is totally different from that of the Jains.
The Jains believe in an absolute Ahimsa (i.e. an Absolute non-violence).
Even if, someone may hurt you, but you should not hurt him; this is the
absolute Ahimsa (i.e. non-violence) followed by the Jains. This is the
extreme form of an Ahimsa (i.e. non-violence). The Buddha was
against this kind of extremitism.
The Buddha made a clear distinction between the Principle
and the Rule. He did not make Ahimsa a matter of the Rule. He
enunciated it as a matter of the Principle or the way of life.
A principle leaves you freedom to act. A rule does not. Rule
either breaks you, or you break the rule.
The Buddhas doctrine of Ahimsa was only a principle to
follow; it wasnt a rule that is must to be obeyed. Its not an extreme
doctrine as like Jains.
In Jainism it was a rule and was must to follow. The Jains
Ahimsa Permo Dharma is an extreme Doctrine. It is a Jain Doctrine.
It is not a Buddhist Doctrine.
The Buddha followed a middle path in presenting His doctrine
of an Ahimsa. The Brahmanism has in it the will to kill.
The Jainism has in it the will never to kill. The Buddhas Ahimsa
is quite in keeping with his middle path.
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He has said: Love all, so that you may not wish to kill
any. This is a positive way of stating the principle of Ahimsa.
From this, it appears that the doctrine of Ahimsa does not say
Kill not. It says, Love all.
It is quite clear that, the Buddha meant to make a distinction
between will to kill and need to kill.
He did not ban killing where there was need to kill. What he
banned was killing where there was no need and no gain in killing but
only a will to kill.
The Lord Buddha was the follower of the Middle path. He
was against any kind of an extrimitism. This golden mean of Lord
Buddha was applicable to his teaching of the Ahimsa (i.e. non-violence)
also. The Buddhas advice about Ahimsa (i.e. non-violence) was that,
for the benefits of the others, dont do any kind of Himsa (i.e. the
Violence). Because,an unnecessary violence can cause misery and
sufferings to the other beings. So, for the well being of other beings, it
is unjustifiable. E.g. Hitler done unnecessary killings in 2nd World war;
this is unjustifiable violence or the himsa.
But, if someone unnecessary hurts you or hampers your
freedom and progress or if someone does injustice with you, then
simply to follow Ahimsa (i.e. non-violence) is useless. In such a case,
to give justice, you must do violence or himsa.
So, Buddhas Ahimsa (i.e. non-violence) is of realistic and
scientific in nature; which is of prime importance for better survival.
The Buddha was against the Violence but He was on the side of the
Justice. For Justice whenever Violence is essential, he had given
permission.
The conversation of the Buddha and Sinh Senapati (Vaishali
Commander) as given below, Sinha had heard that, the Buddha was
spreading the thoughts of non-violence. He asked the Buddha
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Tathagata was spreading thoughts of nonviolence; it means Tathagata


advises that not to punish the criminals?
Not to go on war for protection of our children, wife,
property?
On the name of nonviolence we suffer detriment from the
criminal?
The Buddha answered You have misinterpreted my advice;
the criminal must be punished but the innocents must be freed. If the
Judge punishes a criminal the Judge is not to be blamed for violence.
The reason for the punishment is the criminals crime. Judge only
implements the Law. A Man who fights for justice and security is not
blame for his Violence. When all the ways of the peace are failed,
then those who begin the war is responsible for the violence.
The Buddhas ahimsa advises us not to surrender before Evil
Minded People at any situation.
Thats why, the Emperor Ashoka was a Buddhist Emperor, but still he
had done big wars and violence when needed. Thats why, during the
reign of powerful Mauryan dynasty in India, no other foreign invader
dared to enter in India. Even Great Sickander was scared to attack
on the powerful Buddhist Magadha Empire. Such were powerful
Buddhist empires due to following of the Buddhas teachings.
After the fall of Buddhism, the Brahmins divided Mulnivasi
Indians into 75,000 different castes. They also divided Indians among
different regional languages and numerous small kingdoms. Some
kingdoms were less those present districts in India. Also, due to
Brahmins policy of divided and rule, these smaller kingdoms were
always busy in fighting among themselves. Also, the Brahmins had
made Mulnivasi Indians powerless by banning them from education
and by the use of weapons. All these things made India weak and an
easy prey to the foreign invaders like the Mughals, French, and British,
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who successively attacked India one by one without any resistance


from the Mulnivasi Indians.

THE BUDDHAS NIRVANA V/S THE BRAHMINS


MOKSHA
The Brahmins misreported many teachings of the Buddha
including Nirvana to eradicate Buddhism from India. The Brahmins
started harassing the Mulnivasi Indians in the name of the religion and
the God. The Brahmins had a fear that, the peoples might start a
revolt against them and overthrow their supremacy. So, to misguide
the peoples and to give a false relief to their sufferings from the
Brahmanical slavery, the Brahmins started telling them a wrong reason
behind their sufferings and a wrong hope to come out of their misery.
The real reason to the peoples sufferings was the slavery of
the Brahmanism, but to divert the peoples attention from this real
cause, the Brahmins started telling them the wrong reason of the past
bad deeds and the wrath of the Gods. The Brahmins told the peoples
that, they are suffering due to their bad deeds in their past lives. So,
the peoples kept blaming to their misfortune only and they never done
a revolt against the Brahmanical slavery. This helped the Brahmins to
get escaped from the anger of the society and due to hiding of the real
reason of their sufferings; the peoples couldnt come out of their misery
for thousands of years.
To keep satisfied in their miserable life, the Brahmins gave
them as false hope in the name of the Moksha(i.e. the Salvation) and
a false helper in the name of an imaginary Gods and the Brahmins in
the form of the agents of the God, the living Gods on the Earth. The
Brahmins told the peoples that, though you are suffering in your life
due to your past bad deeds but you can relieve yourself from this
misery, if you will do good deeds in this life like worshipping the
Brahmins and their false gods like Brahma, Shiva, Vishnu, etc. The
peoples started worshipping the Brahmins and their false Gods. The
Brahmins advised them costly methods of worship and to donate their
property to the Brahmins to gain the good deeds. This worsened the
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peoples economic condition; Mulnivasi Indians became more and


more poorer; whereas, the Brahmins became more and more richer.
The good deeds proved of no helped. So, the Brahmins later
on kept telling peoples about the Moksha i.e. the Salvation. The
Brahmins told peoples that, though you are not getting a happy life in
this life but you will get a happy life in the next life after death in the
form of the Moksha. For that, you must work for your Moksha by
worshipping the Brahmins and their false Gods. So, same vicious cycle
kept going on, but instead of getting the Heaven, the peoples made
their life as like the Hell!
The peoples lost their all hopes and they were in full despair.
In such a situation, Lord Buddha came forward to relieve the peoples
sufferings and despair by liberating them from the Brahmanical prison.
He awared the peoples about their real situation; that being their
imprisonment in the Brahmanical imaginary World and brought them
to the real World. He told them that, your ignorance and blind faith is
the reason for your sufferings. Until you dont come out of your
ignorance and blind faith, nobody can help you. He strictly told them
that, I will guide you, but you must work for your own salvation.
To reject the Brahmins concept of the Moksha, the Buddha
presented the concept of Nirvana. The Nirvana means Liberation.
The Nirvana means to be free from all the ill effects, myths and the
mis-concepts of the Brahmanism. The Nirvana means the real
Freedom. The Nirvana means a happiness and satisfaction in this life
only. It can be attained by overthrowing the slavery of the Brahmanism.
If one will be free from the heavy burden and the bondage of the
Brahamanical slavery, you will enjoy the real freedom in this life only
i.e. the Nirvana of the Buddha.
In Buddhism, one cant attain Nirvana, until he doesnt relieve
himself and his peoples from the bondage of the slavery. The Buddha
had attained His Nirvana by relieving Himself and His peoples from
the bondage of the Brahmanical slavery. For 45 years, He preached
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His teachings without getting tired. Like the Buddha also, as His
followers, we must free ourselves and our peoples from the bondage
of the Brahmanical slavery to attain our Nirvana.

THE BUDDHAS UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD i.e.


NO CATSE; RACE
The Brahmanism was based on an inequality of the caste
system which was decided by the birth of the person and not by his
worth. Once person born in a particular caste, it gets attached to him
till his death. Its like a prison. The Casteism is the worst form of
racism in the World devised by the Brahmins to harass the Mulnivasi
Indians.
The Buddha abolished this slavery of the Brahmanism and
firmly protested against the degrading caste-system of Brahmanism
which was firmly rooted in India. The Buddhism doesnt give
importance to any differences like caste, color, race or gender. All the
peoples are same in Buddhism. So, the portals of Buddhism were
open wide to all, irrespective of the race, caste, color, rank, or
nationality, etc. The Buddha said that, just like the rivers of different
kind and from different regions lose their identity earn gets mixed with
the ocean; similarly, person of different castes, colors, races; genders
lose their identity and become the one in Buddhism. As the great ocean
has only one taste, the taste of salt; similarly the Buddhism has only
one taste, the taste of the Liberation i.e. the Nirvana.
The Buddhist Metta or loving-kindness teaches us a Universal
brotherhood. More peoples will hate each others, more there will be
wars, famines and human sufferings. More peoples will love each other,
more there will be happiness, progress and success in the World. The
Buddhism teaches us to break all the barriers including nationality and
advises us to become the one! The blacks in Africa are suffering; their
childrens are dying for food only because of the racism; white peoples
think them inferior and so arrest their progress. If the entire World will
follow the Buddhas teachings, every person in the World will be full
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of Loving kindness. Everyone will come forward to help each other


even animals will also be taken care of! If such a wonderful universal
brotherhood will prevail in the World, then is it possible that peoples
will kill each others in the name of the war? There will be no war at all.

THE BUDDHA LIBERATED WOMENS FROM THE


BRAHMINS SLAVERY
The Brahmanism had degraded the status of womens in India.
In the Brahmanism, they were like slaves and were only the property
of the men. According to the Manu, the womens were declared to
have no property; the wealth which they earned was acquired for the
men to whom they belonged. They had no rights in the Indian society.
They had no chance to study, particularly in the Vedas.
The Buddha rejected these atrocities of the Brahmanism on
the women. By his revolutionary thoughts of equality, the womens
could elevate their status in the society. The most important point was
the admission of women to the Order of the monks.
Initially, the Buddha didnt admit them. It doesnt mean that,
He was against the womens equality as like the Brahmins. It was
because of the existence of powerful social system of the Brahmanism.
It would directly upset the social system of the Brahmanism. The
Buddha didnt want to attack on the Brahmins directly; He wanted to
upset Brahmanism indirectly. It would directly upset the social system
of Brahmanism.
So, it was a very difficult problem at that time for the Buddha.
It was a good idea to admit womens in the order of the monks but he
was worried about the consequences. He worried that; peoples might
think that the Buddha might not be an Arahant, for He felt an interest
in the women. The womens also could not protect themselves from
danger, particularly bad men. It would add further the burden on the
monks in this case, since the Bhikkhunis or nuns were not allowed to
live separately from the monks temple. So, to protect the female
monks from bad consequences, it was necessary to keep them in the
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same compound with the male monks, but it could afford opportunity
for other religions which were opposing Buddhism, particularly
Brahmanism, to take an attack on Buddhism regarding the morality of
the Bhikkhus.
At last, due to the profound efforts of the Mahaprajapati
Gautami and on advice of Ananda, the Buddha decided to admit the
womens in the order of the Monks.
The Buddha was aware that, the Brahmins were most powerful
caste at that time; so, they might thwart him by all possible means and
it would have made his future plans unsuccessful. He thus had to
proceed carefully. He wanted to eradicate the Brahmanism, but slowly
and steadily. So, initially, He opposed the womens entry into His
order. He wanted to test the reaction of the Brahmans first. The news
of Pajapatis request for ordination spread everywhere. He rejected
her request thrice. During this time He had seen the Brahmins reaction.
What was the Brahmins reaction? -Nothing happened. So, the Buddha
decided to admit her and her accompanying Sakyan women to the
Order. He Himself had accepted her and the other accompanying
womens with her and not by the request from Ananda. He had that
much wisdom.
To get their freedom, the womens in the Brahmanic societies
started to enter more and more in the Buddhist order. The womens
are the most important part in the family; if a lady in one family gets
converted; then the whole family gets converted. The womens also
started to take part in the Buddhas revolution against the Brahmins
openly. It helped to weaken the Brahmanic system very fast. The
Buddhas timing took effect beyond His expectation. This well planned
programme made the Buddha as a most respected person at His time.
He had no direct enemy. Even Brahmins, against whom He had opened
up is revolutions were respecting Him greatly.
The Brahmins again propagated a wrong story about the
Buddhas giving permission to the womens in His order. The Brahmins
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had falsely told about the Buddhas claiming that, the womens entry
into the Buddhist order of monks will ruin the Buddhism within 500
years. This is a cheap mischief done by the cunning Brahmins after the
fall of the Buddhism. The Brahmins themselves had destroyed
Buddhism from India; they are the real reasons for the fall of the across
the India. But to escape themselves from this accusation and to accuse
the Indian womens for the fall of Buddhism; the Brahmins composed
this wrong story about Lord Buddha and introduced it in His life.
The Brahmins hated Indian womens because, with the help
of them only, the Buddha was successful in doing a complete revolution
against the Brahmanism. Also, in the eyes of the Eurasian Brahmins,
the Indian womens were the Shudras. So, as to express their burning
hatred towards the Indian womens; the Brahmins accused them for
the fall of the Buddhism and put these words in the mouth of the
Buddha. This also helped the Brahmins in other way. The Brahmins,
who were the real reasons for the destruction and fall of the Buddhism
from India, got escaped easily by putting the Indian womens as
causative agents for this event.

THE BUDDHAS INTELLECTUAL REVOLUTION


To defeat the Brahmins and their Brahmanism, the Buddha
planned first and worked according to His plans. His revolution was a
well planned mission. Though the Buddha was not a politician but His
activities were more than the great politicians. Though He was not a
warrior but His deeds looked like more than those of the warriors.
His chief object was to liberate His kingdom and His peoples from
the slavery of the Brahmnical faith. Thats why; He had done his
revolution against the Brahmanism in a much planned way.
To do a revolution, there were two ways in front of him viz.
the intellectual way and the military way. The military way was not a
safe way and it was full of violence; also, it was impossible for him to
liberate His peoples from the mental slavery of Brahmanism by this
way. The better way was the intellectual way. By this way, He could
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liberate His peoples mentally as well as physically from the slavery of


the Brahmanism. The Mulnivasi Indians chief problem was their mental
slavery. The Brahmins were in minority (only 3% in population). So,
to defeat them by the military was very easy. So, the problem was not
regarding the issue of the Brahmins; the problem was regarding the
ignorance and the mental slavery of the Mulnivasi Indians. Even though,
the Buddha might have started a military rebellion against the Brahmins,
but many Mulnivasi Indians might not have supported Him, because
they were not aware that, their sufferings were due to the Brahmins
and their Brahmanism. Many Mulnivasi Indians were regarding
Brahmins are the living Gods on the Earth; they were worshipping
Brahmins as like the Gods. This was nothing but the mental slavery of
our peoples. This was the real problem in front of the Buddha. If the
Buddha would have started the military rebellion against the Brahmins,
He would have to fight for the freedom of His peoples. In this case,
most of his own peoples would have opposed Him and would have
joined the side of the Brahmins.
So, instead of fighting Himself for the liberation of His peoples, the
Buddha wanted that, His peoples must come forward themselves to
fight against the Brahmins and their Brahmanism and they should
liberate themselves from the Brahmanical slavery. Thats why, he said,
Enlighten yourself.
The Buddha wanted to make awareness among the peoples
about their nature of the sufferings and the cause of these sufferings
being the Brahmanical slavery of the Mulnivasi Indians. The rule is
that, aware the slaves about their slavery, then they themselves will do
a revolution to get their liberation. The Buddha wanted to arouse such
kind of attitude among His peoples; thats why, He chose the
intellectual way of revolution. The present day terrorists and Naxalites
should learn this from the Buddha. An only killing person doesnt give
a way to achieve ones goals. One can do a revolution without losing a
single drop of blood, as like the Buddha had done!

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So after his Enlightenment, the Buddha went to Benares for


his first sermon. The Benares was the capital of Kasi which was the
part of Kosala at that time. Besides, the five monks at Isipatana were
his colligues and they well quite intellectuals to understand His
teachings. So, He reached there and converted them. With the help of
them, He was able to convert many prominent young men such as
Yasa and his friends. On the way, He returned to Rajagaha, He
converted there thirty young princes who were the half brothers of the
King Pasenadi. This was a victory of the great importance. It was the
first step for Him to enter the Kosala the Kingdom of the Conqueror
of this native kingdom.
On the other hand, the Buddha wanted to fight against the
Brahmanism which had been rooted deeply in the soil of India for a
long time. The King Pasenadi was deeply under the influence of the
Brahmins and their Brahmanism so, the Buddha wanted to liberate
him first. It was His genuine intellectual war. He tried to upset the
Brahmanism by all the means at all the time. He was able to convert
many Brahmins male and females. Many of them had entered into the
Order of the Monks, and were His important helpers in propagating
His teachings. The most important thing is that, He didnt killed or
hurt the Brahmins, as like Hitler had done to the Jews; rather He used
the Brahmins to fight against the Brahmanism. In this way, He established
the Buddhism in the soil of India within a very short time.

THE BUDDHISM AGAINST THE BRAHAMANISM


The Buddha had developed His Buddhism to eradicate the
Brahmanism. So, these two ideologies are totally different and opposite
to each other. The Brahmins believed in the Soul i.e. Atma and
Parmatha i.e. the universal Soul. The Buddha rejected it. The Brahmins
say that, the Soul is permanent and an immortal entity. The Buddha
said that, nothing is permanent; everything changes. The Brahmins
believed that, the person gets reborn again as it is due to the rebirth of
his Soul. The Buddha rejected this theory saying that, there is no soul;
so, no chance to the rebirth. But, there is the rebirth of the things in the
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therein never dies out; the energy changes its form from one type of
energy to another type of energy. E.g. A light energy can be converted
into an electric energy and an electric energy can be converted into
heat energy with the help of the heater. Here energy is the same; it
never dies out but it gets reborn in the different forms. This is what the
Buddha had explained about the rebirth; which is totally a scientific
explanation.
To make the peoples depended on the priests; the Brahmins
had put forth the theory of the Brahma, the Supreme God or the
Creator of everything and to pray to Him. So, to relieve peoples from
the Brahmins clutches, the Buddha said that, there is no supreme being
like the God or creator or the Brahma. The Universe is run by the
Law of the Nature; so there is only the flux of the events in the Universe
and every event has a definite cause. So, everyone must believe in his
own action (Kamma): we ourselves are responsible for our own action;
if we will do good deeds, the result will be good and if we do the bad
deeds, then result will be bad. Thats why, the Buddha said, You
reap, what you sow
Thats why, to relieve peoples from their sufferings, the Buddha had
advised them the fivefold path (i.e. Panchasheel) and the eight fold
path (i.e. Asthang Marg) to get relieve them from the Brahmanism
and the Brahmins unsocial behaviors first like stealing, killing,
alcoholism, sexual immorality, etc
The Brahmins were the creators of an inequality in the form of
the Varna and the caste system and the inferior status of the women in
the society. So, to relieve the peoples from this disintegration, the
Buddha rejected any type of an inequality. Thats why, in Buddhism
there is no caste at all. Everyone has equality. They are only different
by Kamma. Anyone has a chance to elevate himself in accordance
with his action and wishes. Also, in Buddhism, the womens are equal
to the men.

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The Brahmanism was meant for the benefit of the priestly caste
(of the Brahmins among the Aryans) and the supporters of it (i.e. the
Kshatriyas and the Vaishyas of the Aryans). However, due to an
unequal grading, each caste was claiming superior than the other. This
led to dividing among the Indians. The Brahmins being addicted to the
superior most state, they done all the measures to curb all the
revolutionary thoughts and movements (thoughts of equality) among
the other three Varnas by dividing them into 6000 different castes.
From these points of view, we can see the fighting between
Buddhism and Brahmanism, strictly speaking between the religions of
the Mongoloids and the Aryans, in the fields of the morality and social
welfare. They fought each other all the time, both secretly and openly.
The Buddhism fighting for the noble cause, for the welfare of the all;
whereas, the Brahmanism fighting for the cheap cause, for the benefit
of their Brahmin caste only. They fought each other all the times, both
secretly and openly; this fight is still going on and it will be continued
until the Brahmanism is eradicated totally from the World!

AN OPEN WAR BETWEEN THE BUDDHA AND THE


BRAHMINS
The Buddha was a revolutionary and He wanted to eradicate
the Brahmanism from India. So, it was inevitable to start an open war
between the Buddha and the Brahmins. Many evidences of such war
are seen in the life of the Buddha. The Brahmins were fighting with the
Buddha to maintain their supremacy in the society and so, every time
their attempt was to show the Buddha as how superior the Brahmin
clan is than the other Mulnivasi Indian but each and every time the
Buddha firmly rejected their claims and defeated them in the debate.
After getting defeated, the Brahmins were accepting the Buddhas
Dhamma to become His disciples.
Due to an anti-Brahmin work, the Brahmins always hated the
Lord Buddha. In hatred, they were calling Him as Bho Gotama it
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means, Oh Gotama. The Brahmins wanted to explain the Buddha


about the supremacy of the Brahmin clan. They wanted to limit the
knowledge to themselves only by prohibiting Mulnivasi Indians and
all womens (i.e. all the Shudras) from acquiring the knowledge. To
explain this Brahamanical thought, a Brahmin Lohikka came to discuss
this issue with the Buddha, but the Buddha defeated him in this debate.
The Brahmins were the supporter of social inequality in the
form of the caste and the Varna system. In the Assalayana Sutta, it is
told that, a Brahmin named Assayalana came to discuss with the
Buddha about the supremacy of the Brahmins. He said, Lord, only
the Brahmins maintain the superior class, all other non-Brahmin classes
being an inferior one, only the Brahmins form the white class, all other
classes being black fellows, the purity resides in Brahmins alone and
not in non-Brahmins, that only the Brahmins are the Brahmas legitimate
sons, born from his mouth, so being his true heirs. What is the Buddhas
opinion on this issue? The Buddha said, Assayalana, the Brahmin
women have periods as like non- Brahmin women. They do conceive,
lie and give birth to the child as like non-Brahmin womens. If the
Brahmin womens deliver, they do give birth to a child as like nonBrahmin womens only. Then, Assayalana, why you think the Brahmins
being superior than the non-Brahmins? Assayalana understood his
mistake and he became the disciple of the Buddha.
The Brahmins as an upholder of the Chaturvarna system were
even abusing the Buddha too. Once, when the Buddha was going in
Shravasthi for the alms from house to house, the Brahmin Aggika
seen the Buddha approaching him, so he became angry and said,
stay there, o shaveling! Stay there, ye wretched monk! Stay there,
ye miserable outcast!
The Buddha explained the caste ridden Brahmin Aggika the
meaning of an outcast. He said, The man who is irritable, rancorous,
vicious, deliberate, perverted views and deceitful, is anoutcast. The
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the followers of an atrocious Brahmanism are truly the outcasts. The


Buddha said,
Birth makes not a man an outcast,
Birth makes not a man a Brahmin;
Action makes a man an outcast,
Action makes a man a Brahmin.
On listening this, the Brahmin Aggika felt ashamed and he
pleaded the Buddha to forgive him.
To arrest the spreading of the Dhamma, the Brahmins started
defaming the Buddha and his teachings. They started claiming that,
the Buddha spreading his Dhamma by Glamour and his teachings are
Pessimistic and he himself is an Annihilationlist., etc. The Buddha
stopped this Brahmins murmuring by giving right answers them every
time.
The Brahmins started claiming that, the Buddha is breaking
the happy households and he is a parasite on the society. Once in the
Magadha kingdom, the Buddha gone to the Brahmin village named as
Ekanala. There a Brahmin named Kasi-Bharadvaja insulted the Buddha
by blaming him as a parasite. The Buddha said, Before I eat, I plough
and sow, anchorite; and you too should plough and sow before you
ear. The Buddha said, I too Brahmin, do plough and do sow before
I eat. The Buddha explained him about his an intellectual work for
the social development and for eradication of the mental slavery. The
Brahmin understood the greatness of His work. The Brahmin felt
ashamed and he asked to the Buddha for his forgiveness.
As the influence of the Buddha spread widespread, the
Brahmins tried to defame Him by claiming the false charge of murder
and immorality. They used beautiful womens like Sundari for claiming
murder Chincha for the false charge of immorality.

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At some times, the Brahmins even prohibited the Buddha to


enter into their villages. Once while preaching in the kingdom of Kosala,
the Buddha went to the Brahmin village named Thuna. The Brahmins
there were followers of Brahmanism having wrong views and avaricious
in nature. They feared that, if Gautama enters in their village, He would
convert all the peoples therein. Then Brahmins would have no support,
so, better is to prevent the Buddha from entering into the village.
To reach the village, a river has to be crossed. So, in order to
prevent the Buddhas entry, the Brahmins removed the boats away
from the landing place and destroyed the bridges.
The Buddha and his colleague monks should not get a single
drop of water, so the Brahmins filled all the wells and the nearby
water sources with the weeds and cow-dung.
The Buddha had firmly decided to reach the village by any
means. So, He and His colleagues crossed the river by swimming and
in due course of the time they reached the village.
The Brahmins had strictly warned all the villagers not give the
Buddha and His follower monks a single drop of water. Due to the
long and the labored journey, the Buddha and His colleague monks
were very thirsty. So, they sat under the shadow of the tree near to
the village. The Buddha asked for water, but due to the Brahmins
strict orders, peoples scared to give them a drinking water. One
woman felt a pity on them and she decided to give them water. He
colleague womens prevented her from doing so owing to the strict
warning of the Brahmin leader. But she didnt listen to them and offered
a cool drinking water to the Buddha and His fellow monks. The Buddha
washed his hands and feet and drank the water.
The Brahmin leader heard of this news of offering a drinking
water to the Buddha by one lady. He became very angry due to
breaking of his warning by a lady. In the burning anger and grinding
his teeth, he hurled her to the ground and assaulted her cruelly with his
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hands and feet. Due to the heavy assault, she died on the spot in front
of the Buddha.
From this situation, we can understand how much the Brahmins
hated the Buddha. In this hatred only the Brahmins decided to kill the
Buddha to arrest his revolution against the Brahmins and their
Brahmanism. The Brahmins mixed a poisonous plant named Sukar in
the food offered by Chunda, the Goldsmith. Due to this poisoning, the
Buddha suffered with heavy dysentery with profuse loss of blood.
The Buddha felt that, His weakness was beyond his strength; it was
unable for Him to survive further. So, He told Ananda that, He wont
be able to survive further and His death is imminent. On the day of
Vishakha, He concealed Ananada and given His last teaching and
attained Mahaparinirvana.
The Buddha was aware that, the real reason for His death
were the Brahmins but innocent Chunda, who was a Goldsmith, who
was a Mulnivasi Indian will be suffered and the peoples of his caste
would be suffered for years to come, if peoples will know the reason
to the Buddhas Nirvana being the poisonous food offered by him to
the Buddha. To clear this issue, the Buddha advised Ananda not to
blame Chunda for His Death.
To give a set back to the Buddhas revolutionary mission, the Brahmins
also killed Sariputra and Mogallana after few months of the Death of
the Buddha.

WHY THE BUDDHA HAD ACCEPTED


BRAHMINS IN HIS REVOLUTION?
The Buddha had started His revolution against the Brahmins
and their Brahmanism, but still He had admitted Brahmins in His mission.
At the time of the Buddha Himself, there were about 75% Brahmin
Monks in the order of the Buddhist Monks (i.e. the Sangha). Also,
well known Sariputta and Mogallana were the Brahmins. The question
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is: if Buddhas mission was against the Brahmins, then why He admitted
them in His mission?
We must understand the situation at that time to answer this
question. Every revolution has a meaning in reference to the prevalent
situation at the time of the revolution. The Buddha was the first
revolutionary in India, who had done a massive revolt against the ruling
Brahmins. While studying the society, He found that, though Brahmins
were the rulers, but He had found innocence in their general behavior.
He also observed that, there was not a much hatred and enmity
between the Brahmins and Mulnivasi Indians. This was the first reason.
Also, the Buddha wanted to give Brahmins a chance to prove
their innocence. He was aware that, the Brahmins were the foreign
invaders in India; but He wanted to give them a chance for the better
development of the Brahmins as well as Mulnivasi Indians. This was
the second reason.
The Buddha was not much aware of the cunningness and
cruelty of the Brahmins. Initially, the Brahmins were cruel at the time
of their invasion in India. They had killed numerous Mulnivasi Indians;
the evidences of these killings were given in Rig-Veda. Later on, the
Brahmins also had killed Mulnivasi Indians philosophers named
Charvakas brutally. This was after few centuries of the invasion and
the Brahmins were not properly settled in India. So, the Buddha thought
that, this may be due to their despair while getting settled in India.
Till the time of the Buddha in the 6th B.C., the Brahmins were
well settled and they had adopted some kind of innocence from the
Mulnivasi Indians. The Buddha thought that, they will further improve
in their behavior by understanding His humanistic teachings and their
cruelty and hatred will be declined. So, to give Brahmins a humanistic
lesson, the Buddha admitted them in His order. This was the third
reason.
The gentle attitude of the Buddha towards the Brahmins was
the chief reason for the decline and fall of the Buddhism from India.
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The Buddha was somewhat aware of the cunning, cruel and criminal
attitude of the Brahmins, but He overlooked these misbehaviors of
the Brahmins to give them a chance to improve under the influence of
His noble and humanistic teachings. The Buddha had many expectations
from the Brahmins but the Brahmins never fulfilled any of His
expectations. They did everything against His wishes. The Brahmin
monks were the first to break the rules of the Buddha. The Brahmins
never adopted the Buddhas Loving kindness. They preserved their
cunningness, hatred and cruelty even under the strong attack of the
Buddhas forgiveness and the Loving kindness.
Over the period of time, the Brahmins cruel intentions became
worse. The Brahmins were addicted to supremacy and their oligarchy
in India. Due to the Buddhas strong revolution, they had lost their
power and they were forced to live a general life in an Indian society.
This again insulted them and they became more cruel, cunning and
criminal in nature. With these intentions, they opened a direct war
against the Buddhism- the Brahmins burnt thousands of the Buddhist
books, killed crores of the Buddhist peoples and the monks, and
destroyed numerous Buddhist Viharas and Chaityas.
Due to the Brahmins strong addiction to their supremacy and
due to their cruel, cunning and criminal attitude, this same cycle
repeated every time. Each time, the Mulnivasi Indians had forgiven
the Brahmins but the Brahmins never forgiven Mulnivasi Indians. Thats
why, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, a well known philosopher and Indians
most Intellectual once had said that, the Indian history is the history
of revolution and cross revolution; the Mulnivasi Indians done
revolution every time and the Brahmins done counter-revolution each
time. Each time, the Mulnivasi Indians tried to adjust with the
Brahmins, but at the same time, the Brahmins attacked severely on
the Mulnivasi Indians.
Over the period of time, the Brahmins became more and more
cruel, cunning and criminal in nature. During the Buddhas time, they
were less cruel; so the Buddha had admitted them in the Buddhism.
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After declining their status due to Buddhism, they became crueler,


cunning and criminal minded. Later on, in 12th A.D., Mahatma
Basavanna done a revolution against the Brahmins and their
Brahmanism; the Brahmins became more cruel, cunning and criminal
and curbed the Lingayat revolution in India very brutally. Later on, in
the 13th to 17th A.D., the Varkari movement became more powerful
and widespread against the Brahmins and their Brahmanism.
The Brahmins became still crueler, cunning and criminal minded
and brutally killed all the Varkari saints and eradicated the Varkari
movement very harshly. By getting inspired from revolutionary Varkari
movement, Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and Sambhaji Maharaj started
an open revolution against the Brahmins and their Brahmanism. The
Brahmins poisoned Shivaji Maharaj and killed Sambhaji maharaj very
brutally. The Brahmins became very cruel, cunning and evil minded
due to this open revolution; so, they destroyed the Shiv-shahi (i.e. the
kingdom of Shivaji Maharaj) and installed the Peshavai (i.e. the
Kingdom of the Peshva Brahmins) in place of the Shiv-Shahi. The
Peshavai was the highest form of the Brahmins cruelty, cunningness
and criminality in the history of India.
Later on, a Brahmin named B.G. Tilak had once said that, our
ancestors should have exterminated the Mulnivasi Indians totally. In
the 20th Century, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar had burnt Brahmins
constitution named Manusmriti and established Indians Constitution,
as a power giver to all the Mulnivasi Indians. The Brahmins are still
feeling very uneasy under this new constitution; so, they are dreaming
of Ram-rajya i.e. the rule of Manusmriti again and so are calling India
as Hindustan means the country of the Brahmins only!
Now, the Brahmins are remembering the words of late Brahmin
B.G. Tilak and thinking and planning to exterminate all the Mulnivasi
Indians. The Mulnivasi Indians also started their revolution by getting
inspiration from Mahatma Phule. He had advised them to expel the
Brahmins out of India. The next front of Brahmins is RSS and its allied
groups; whereas, the next front of the Mulnivasi Indians is BAMCEF
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and its allied BHARAT MUKTI MORCHA, SAMBHAJI BRIGED,


MARATHA SEVA SANGH and the other groups. So, the struggle
between the Brahmins and the Mulnivasi Indians is at the peak and
continued.

THE BUDDHA: THE CONQUEROR OF THE


CONQUERORS
The Buddha was aware that, only ideology can defeat the
Brahmins and their Brahmanism. So, He started an intellectual war
against them. He told his sixty followers to go and preach for the
welfare of the people; and let not two of them go by one way. If the
two will go together, the both will be dependent on each other and
both will be lazy; so important work of preaching will be failed. He
himself went back to Uruvela near Rajagaha. This was His important
plan to conquer the kings. This was the best type of an intellectual war
seen in the history of the World.
To defeat the Brahmins and their Brahmanism, He went
directly to Banaras; which was the centre of the Brahmanism at that
time. He first converted the five intellectual hermits there; who were
his colleagues. He himself then returned to Uruvela which was the
center of one sect of Brahmanism. It was situated by the bank of the
Uruvela River. There were one thousand and three hermits there. The
three Kassapa brothers were the chiefs of these hermits. The eldest
one was named Uruvela Kassapa.
The Buddha spent a long time there to convert these hermits.
At last, He converted all of them. This was the first step for Him to
convert the king and the people in the Magadha kingdom because the
King Bimbisara of Magadha Kindsom and some influential persons
there were directly under the influence of these hermits. They were
respecting these hermits as an Arahants. So, the Buddha decided to
convert these hermits first to convert the king and the kingdom of
Magadha. So, after having converted all the hermits, He went directly
to Rajagaha (the capital of the Maghada Kingdom), to convert the
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king. But He did not enter the city directly; He only stayed at a palm
grove about six miles away from the capital to testify the attitude of
the king and his kingdom towards Him.
The King Bimbisara had once told the Buddha to come to
teach him, whenever He would become get his enlightenment. Now,
He was an enlightened one, so what would be the king Bimbisaras
reaction? If Bimbisara had invited Him truly from the bottom of his
heart, he would have undoubtedly come to see the Buddha. But initially,
he didnt take much interest in the Buddhas stay. Later on, when he
knew that the Buddha is accompanied by a lot of Monks from Benares
along with the three Kassapa brothers, he immediately came out to
see Him, accompanied by his officials and a lot of people. The peoples
got confused to see the Buddha and Kassapa together; they did not
know who was the greater among them. But when Kassapa told that
he was the disciple of the Buddha, the peoples concentrated their
interest on the Buddha. Due to Kassapas respect, it was very easy
for the Buddha to convert the King and his peoples.
After converting the King Bimbisara and the peoples of
Magadha, the Buddha went directly to the Kosala Kingdom. This
was his chief goal to liberate his kingdom and the peoples there. The
King of Kosala was a relative of the King of Magadha by marriage.
So, it was not so difficult for the Buddha to convert King Pasenadi of
Kosala and the peoples there. And then Savatthi, the capital of Kosala,
became the center of the Buddhist movement in those days.
Anathapindika the millionaire and Visakha were the most prominent
attendants of the Buddha.
The Lord Buddha was highly venerated by all the kings and
their peoples. Though King Pasenadi was respected by his Kosalan
peoples but the Buddha was respected by all the kings and the peoples
in India and in the World. The King Pasenadi might be thinking, Now,
just as the Sakyans treat Tathagata (Buddha). Is not the Samana
Gotama well born? Then I am not well born. The Samana Gotama is
strong, I am weak. He is attractive, I am not comely, the Samana
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Gotama has great influence, and I have but little influence. Though
King Pasenadi was the conqueror of Sakyans kingdom, nevertheless
the Buddha, the son of Sakyans, now could conquer him, and so
many people of many kingdoms of India. The King Pasenadi and
King Bimbisara were the Conquerors only inside their kingdom, but
the Buddha was the Conqueror of the conquerors entirely. After
defeating the Kings, the Buddha defeated the Brahmins and by
eradicating the influence of the Brahmanism from the minds of kings
and their peoples, He defeated the Brahmins and their Brahmanism.
It was the absolute conquest of the Buddha. He made a conquest
over not merely the Indian people, but his influence has been prevailing
all over the whole World.

THE BUDDHAS STRUGGLE FOR FOURTY FIVE YEARS


The Buddha got Enlightened at the age of 35 years. After
Enlightenment, He started His mission of revolution via preaching his
Dhamma or new doctrine of the Truth. He continued His struggle till
His last breath. For about 45 years of His life (i.e. from the age of 35
to 80), the Buddha fought against the Brahmins and their Brahmanism
by preaching His teachings.
To counter and destroy Brahmanism, He rejected each and
every aspect of it. He taught the principles of an equality, freedom,
brotherhood and justice. He taught whatever He knew and practiced.
He never claimed Himself as a God or Prophet of the God or Son of
the God to impress the peoples and to make them His followers. He
never promoted blind faith or blackmailed the peoples emotionally in
the name of the faith in the God. He never applied any terms or
conditions to His teachings. He never kept His teachings as a secret in
the name of infallibility and never given any rewards or punishments in
return. He never had given any place to imagination or superstitions in
His teachings. He stands for some definite principles in society. He
stands for self-sacrifice for the upliftment of the downtrodden. He
stands for eradication of the Brahmanism, which had created such
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havoc in the ancient India. He stands for the necessity of speaking to


the peoples in their own language, rather than in the language of the
learned. He stands for the abolition of the caste system and of slavery;
and above all, He stands for the reason.
His teachings are absolutely realistic, scientific, revolutionary
and appealing to the human intelligence. His teachings were simple,
easy to understand and to follow. He kept His teachings wide open to
re-examination. The Buddhas teachings will never change because
His teachings are an Absolute Truth. He taught everyone to think first
and then to believe and practice. He advised peoples to be enlightened
themselves, to get a right path in life. If you are right, everything is
right; if you are wrong, everything is wrong. To testify right or wrong,
one must be morally perfect and pure, and then only He could do a
noble work for the human development. E.g. Hitler had acquired a
power but he was morally imperfect, so he done a lot of harm to
humanity. Carl Marxs communist principle is good but it is lacking
the morality, so it harmed more than benefiting the peoples; so it is
being failed all over the World. Similarly, if anyone is scientist or thinker
or an intelligent one, but if he is not morally pure, then, he cant be a
noble one. He can be more dangerous than any benefit to the mankind.
So, the Buddha stressed on morality as a basic foundation of the
religion. Such a noble one could only relieve humans from sufferings
and can spread happiness all over the world. In the Mhayana
Buddhism, such a noble person is called as Bodhisattvas.
For about forth-five years in His life, the Buddha wandered
to nearly every village and every city in Northern India or
Majjhimapadesa to preach His Dhamma and to defeat the Aryan
Brahmins faith of the Brahmanism. He was able to convert many people
from every caste and class, from kings and philosophers of different
faiths to folk-people. He had a very good plan of preaching. At first,
He usually converted the chiefs of different philosophical communities,
and the kings or headmen.

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In an ancient India, the Warriors and the Brahmins were the


competitors to each other all of the time. The kings usually were the
chief leaders of the people in governing and fighting. But the Brahmins
were the leaders of peoples in performing ceremonies and were the
teachers of the kings too. The Brahmins were arrogant in their atrocious
Brahmanical philosophy and of Brahmins supremacy. The Buddhas
chief aim was to defeat them completely.
At the time of the Buddha, the Warriors caste of Kshatriyas
(who were Mulnivasi Indians) was the highest and most powerful than
the Brahmins. The plan of the Buddha was to use this warrior group
against the cunning and arrogant Brahmins to defeat them. So, He
decided to woo the warrior caste first. As the Buddha said to Vasettha
and Bharadvaja in Agganna Sutta.
The Khattiya is the best among this folk
who put their trust in lineage.
To defeat the Brahmanism, He usually approached the great
warriors such as King Pasenadi and King Bimbisara, etc. He was
very clever in the art of conquering the hearts of every class and caste
of the people. He usually won the hearts of the people only by the
way of Dhamma or the loving-kindness. His teaching was like present
day cadre camp training of BAMCEF. Once anyone would listen to
his cadre training, then He was becoming the dedicated worker and
follower of His mission. He was praised not only by His disciples but
the members of the other religions also praised Him. According to the
Culasaccaka Sutta of Majjhima Nikaya, Saccaka, the son of Jains,
confessed to the Buddha as:
Good Gotama, I was arrogant; I was presumptuous, in that
I deemed I could assail the revered Gotama, speech by speech. Good
Gotama, there might be safety a man assailing a rutting elephant, but
there could be no safety for a man assailing the revered Gotama.
Good Gotama, there might be safety for a man assailing a blazing
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mass of fire or a deadly poisonous snake, but there could be no safety


for a man assailing the revered Gotama.
Due to His well planned mission of spreading the Dhamma, in
only forty-five years of His preaching, the Buddha unexpectedly
established the greatest and most steadfast community of Buddhist
Kingdom among the Brahmanic soil of India and it was the greatest
revolution done by a single man in the human history.

THE MAHA- PARI NIRVANA OF THE


BUDDHA
When the Buddha was seventy-nine years old, He was in
Savatthi, the capital of Kosala. He was become very weak and He
was aware that He will die soon. He decided to go to enter into Nirvana
in the independent kingdom of the Mallas of Kusinara. One might ask
why did He not go to His native kingdom of the Sakkyas or why He
didnt go to Magadha? It was because the Mallas kingdom was also
one of the sixteen republic kingdoms in those days. It was an
independent kingdom and it was totally free from Brahmanism. Also,
Kusinara, the capital of Malla, had been the capital of the seven
Universal Monarchs, the Cakravartins, of the ancient time, and it was
called Kusavati in the time of Sudassana, the last Universal Monarch,
the Cakravartin. According to the Mahasudassana Sutta, the Buddha
was that Cakravartin named Sudassana of Kusavati. Thats why, to
enter into Nirvana in His kingdom of the ancient time, He had chosen
the palce of Kushinara for His nirvana.
Along with venerable Ananda and a great company of
Bhikkhus, the Buddha went from Savatthi to Rajagaha to Vesali to
Kusinara. It was a very long journey, so it took about one year and it
made Him very tired. Due to the old age, it was very difficult for Him
to walk but His plan very fixed. He done His revolution successful
only because of His well planned mission only and so His plan was
never changeable.
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Wherever He was gone, he preached His Dhamma. While


being in Rajagaha, on the hill called Gijjhakuta, He told the Monks
the seven conditions of welfare of a community, such as meeting
together in concord, rising in concord and doing work together in
concord, etc. If the Monks continue to fulfill, follow and work
according to these seven conditions, the order of the Monks and
Buddhism was never to be declined but to be prosperous. It was a
very useful principle for the welfare and survival of the Buddhist Sangha
and the Buddhist community as a whole. This is the chief principle of
any democracy to thrive well. This shows that, the Buddha was a true
Democratic and was teaching the real principles of Democracy at that
time, when the other World was in darkness.
While residing at the Capala Cetiya, the Buddha announced
to Venerable Ananda that He would pass away in three months time.
To relieve His grief, the Buddha consoled Him by telling Him the fleeting
nature of life because of the impermanence of everything.
After getting a meal from the house of a goldsmith named
Chunda, the Buddha became very ill. He suffered from heavy dysentery
with profuse loss of the blood. This further weakened the Buddha
and He felt that, His death is imminent. So, He gave his final exhortation
and publicly announced the time of His death to the Sangha.

At last, in the full moon day of Visakha in 483 B.C., the Buddha
reached the Sala Grove of the Mallas, on the side of the river
Hiranyavati to get a nirvana. He told Ananda to spread out for him a
couch with its head to the north, between the twin Sala trees and then
laid down on His right side, with one leg resting on the other. It was
called Sinhaseyya, or the lying of the lion.
He had told Ananda in detail what should be done to his body
after his entering into Nirvana. He gave opportunity to the Monks to
ask Him whatever they were doubtful about. Even during the last
moments, He preached to Subbadda, the wonderer, who became the
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last disciple converted by Him. He gave a chance to the Mallas to


come to see Him. Finally, the Buddha addressing the Venerable
nanda, said:
I have taught the Dhamma, nanda, without making any
distinction between exoteric and esoteric doctrine, in respect of the
truth, nanda, the Tathgata has no such thing as the closed fist of
a teacher who hides some essential knowledge from the pupil.
It may be, nanda, that in some of you the thought may
arise, The word of the Master is ended. We have no teacher anymore.
But it is not thus, nanda that you should think.
The Doctrine and the Discipline which I have set forth and
laid down for you, let them, after I am gone, be your teacher. Buddha
asked the assembled Monks to ask their any doubts to him regarding
to the Buddha or the Dhamma or to the Sangha or the path or the
method..But all the Monks were silent.
A second and a third time the Blessed One repeated these
words to the Monks, and yet the Monks were silent. Thus, in the
whole assembly even the most backward one was assured of final
deliverance. And after a short while the Master made His final
exhortation:
Behold now, O monks, I exhort you: impermanent are all
compounded things. Work out your deliverance with mindfulness
(vayadhamm samkhr, appamdena sampdetha)
These were the last words of the Buddha. The Great
Reformer of the word, the Great Revolutionary by peaceful methods,
the greater politician of his time, the great master and great teacher of
the mankind. He worked like a lion among the deers, and when He
died, He died like a lion too. His life was full of deeds. He worked
and worked until He entered into Nirvana. He lived as like a Conqueror
and He died as the Conqueror too, being the Universal Monarch or
Cakravartin.
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THE BUDDHAS LAST VICTORY OEVER THE


MANKIND
At the time of entry into Nirvana, the Buddha had told Ananda
about what to do with the remains of the Buddha. Ananada advised
the Mallas regarding this. So, the Mallas of Kusinara treated the remains
of the Buddha as like that of a Cakravartin (i.e.an Universal Monarch)
by wrapping it in a new cloth and then wrapping it in carded cotton
wool. They wrapped the body of the Buddha in five hundred
successive layers of each respective kind. Then, they placed the body
in an iron vessel of oil, and covered that close up with another iron
vessel of oil. They then built a funeral pyre of all kinds of perfumes,
and upon it they placed the body of the Exalted One.
On the eighth day after the full moon day of Visakha, the
body of the Exalted One was burnt at the Makutababdhana. After
cremation, the Mallas surrounded the relics of the Buddha in their
council hall, and there they paid their honor, reverence and respect to
them by all means for seven days.
When the news of Buddha entering into Nirvana had spread
in all the directions, the kings and headmen of many kingdom, who,
after having heard this news, sent messengers to the Mallas to receive
portions of the relics of the Buddha. At first, the Mallas denied to give
away any part of the relics to anyone. Then, the kings and headmen
began to fight for the relics. At last, Drona, a Brahmin, mediated and
conciliated those assembled crowds, and then divided the relics equally
into eight parts with fair division. And he, himself asked for the vessel
which he used to measure the relics. Soon after the Moriyas of
Pipphalivana heard the news of the Buddhas entering into Nirvana,
they sent a messenger to Mallas. They could take away only the
embers.
All of them put up the sacred cairns of Stupas over the relics
of the Buddha and celebrated. There were eight cairns of Stupas for
the relics, and one for the vessel and one for the embers. So, there
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were Stupas of the Buddhas relics in many places and in many


kingdoms in India. Not only He Himself, but even His relics and embers
were meaningful to the Buddhists, the people of all castes of India in
those days. The great kings and many chief leaders worshipped His
relics. Later on, the famous Buddhist emperor Ashoka build about
84,000 Stupas on the relics of the Buddha. This was Lord Buddhas
last victory, the victory after death. Now, He was the Cakravartin, the
Supreme Monarch of the World. No one like Him Became in the
history of the World till now. He was recognized by all people including
His enemy Brahmins as the Cakravartin.
If the Buddha had entered into Nirvana in a great city such as
Rajagaha or Savatthi as Ananda had suggested, His body might not
be done like that of the Cakravartin, and His relics would not spread
to the other kingdoms. The great kings like Ajatasattu and the King of
Kosala would certainly not have consented to divide the relics with
anyone. Also, no one would have dared to fight with them. In this
way, the Buddhas relics would have remained only in a great city like
Rajagaha. The Buddha didnt want to remain restricted to any one
city or one kingdom. So, He decided to take Nirvana at a small place
like Kushinara, so that all kings could receive His relics to respect
Him at the different places all over the world.
It was one of His last but not the least of His plans. Everyone
worshipped His relics as they were the most valuable property of the
whole Buddhist world. In this way, Lord Buddha became Cakravartin,
the Universal Monarch, although He was once just an ordinary prince.

THE BUDDHAS LINEAGE WITH THE INDUS


CIVILIZATION
The Buddha presented himself as the fore-runner of the
philosophy of the Indus civilization. He never claimed Himself as the
God or the Son of the God or the Prophet of the God as like the other
religious teachers to impress the lay peoples. He presented Himself
as the successor of the previous 27 Buddhas. He claimed Himself as
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the 28th Buddha. It means that, the Buddhist philosophy was the basic
philosophy of the Indus civilization. On excavation of the Indus valley
in the Sindha region of India, they have found the peoples worshipping
the Piple tree. Under this tree only, the Buddha had gained his final
knowledge; so, for the Buddhist peoples all over the World, the Piple
tree is the sacred tree. This tree was also sacred during the times of
the Indus civilization. On excavation of it, they have also found a dome
like Stupa; which is similar like the Buddhist Stupa. Also, a statue of
the meditating yogi called as Pashupati is also found. The Buddha is
also shown in the meditating position. The excavations of the Indus
civilization are found all over India. The basic tenets of the Buddhas
philosophy are similar to the philosophy of the Indus peoples. The
Buddha developed his philosophy from the Kapilas Sankhya
philosophy. The Kapila was a well known philosopher of the Indus
civilization. Also, the Buddhas native place was Kapilavastu; its name
was derived from Kapila.
The Buddhism is the philosophy of an Equality, Fraternity and
Brotherhood. Thats why, during the time of an Indus civilization and
the Buddhist Mauryan Empire, India was the Worlds highly developed
country. India was known as the Golden Country (SONE KI
CHIDIYA) during that time. When peoples of Europe, Arab and
America were wondering in jungles as like animals; at that time, India
was the centre of the knowledge and development. Indian Mulnivasi
Naga peoples given the knowledge to the Arabs and the Western
peoples. This incidence is notified in the Quran and the Bible as the
Naga delivering the knowledge to the Adam and the Eve. Due to this
knowledge only, this animal like wondering couple starts behaving
like a well developed and knowledgeable human and gets changed
into Human form from its pre-historic form. Since then, the peoples in
the Arab and the Western World were behaving like the humans. So,
the couple of Adam and Eve are considered as the 1st couple of the
human race in that area. It doesnt mean that, the peoples were not
living before Adam and Eve; the peoples were living there, but like
animals, they were living in the jungles due to lack of the knowledge!
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The Buddha had advised His Monks to spread his knowledge all
over the World to convert peoples from animal like attitudes to the
humans to bring happiness in their life. The Indian Monks were known
as the Naga peoples by the Arab and the Western peoples, because
the tribe of Mulnivasi Indians was called as the Naga tribe and the
Indians were known as the Naga peoples. So, after gaining the
knowledge from these Naga Monks, succeeding generations of the
peoples there started worshipping these knowledgeable Naga Monks
in the form of the snake Naga (i.e. cobra). The Indian Mulnivasi Nagas
were themselves using the stick with an emblem of Naga snake on the
top of this stick; also, they were using flags and caps with emblem of
Naga snake. They were using this emblem to present themselves as
belonging to the Naga tribe of India. Shiva, the 1st philosopher king of
Mulnivasis Indus civilization was also shown in the pictures having a
Naga snake around his naked; since, he belongs to the Naga tribe.
Also, the Buddha is shown sitting on a Naga snake; to show that, he
belongs to the Naga tribe of India.

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