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Speech by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

In 1935 at Nasik district, Maharashtra, Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar had declared his firm resolve to change his religion. He had declared that he was born as a Hindu but will not die as Hindu. About a year later, a massive Mahar conference was held on May 30 and 31, 1936, in Mumbai, to access the impact of that declaration on Mahar masses. In his address to the conference, Dr.Ambedkar expressed his views on conversion in an elaborate, well- prepared and written speech in Marathi. Here is an English translation of that speech by Mr. Vasant Moon, OSD to the committee of Govt. of Maharashtra for publication of Writings & speeches of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.

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Subhuti taught us at his visit to Sajókaza on Diwali time the cycle of samsara and the spiral of emancipation as it is written in the Pali Canon: Samyutta Nikaya XII. 23. Upanisa sutta last three paragraphes:

Just as when, brethren, on some hilltop when rain is falling in thick drops, that water, coursing according to the slope, fills the hillside clefts and chasms and gullies, these being filled up fill the tarns, these being filled up fill the lakes, these being filled up fill the little rivers, these being filled up fill the great rivers, and the great rivers being filled up fill the sea, the ocean.

Even so, brethren, there is causal association of activities with ignorance, of consciousness with activities, of name-and-shape with consciousness, of the sixfold sense-sphere with name-and-shape, of contact with the sixfold sense-sphere, of feeling with contact, of craving with feeling, of grasping with craving, of becoming with grasping, of birth with becoming.

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Get the Flash Player to see this player. Subhuti, having finished his program in Sajókaza, has flown to India. He will participate at a meditation till morning on the night of Full Moon the 13th December with 500 young activists of National Network of Buddhist Youth in Nagpur. The youngsters want to call the meditators to Diksha Bhumi as the venue of their program.

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Today is the celebration of Dr. Ambedkar’s conversion to Buddhism. There are huge celebrations in Nagpur, the place (Bhumi) where the conversion (Diksha) took place.

Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar came from a community then-labelled “Untouchable”. He converted to Buddhism to free himself of caste prejudice and to create social change within the new Indian democracy.

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