Jai Bhim Network

The credo of Jai Bhim Network is the „Dauazasj si doj da zminc”, the 22 vows based on Dr. Babasaheb Bhim Rao Ramji Ambedkar’s text written in October 1956. Half of the vows is unchangedly adopted to our need, but the other half is adjusted according today’s local context. The first two paragraphs we use, are much older then the rest of the text, for those originate in the two-thousand-year old Pali Canon. We chose the translation made by Lajos Erőss in 1906. There are eleven vows (no 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 17, 18, 19) the meaning of which only make sense in the social context of India, so we used sentences to suit our life in today’s Hungary instead.

22 Vows

1. I do not believe something just because it has been passed along and retold for many generations.
I do not believe something merely because it has become a traditional practice.
I do not believe something simply because it is well-known everywhere.
I do not believe something solely on the grounds of logical reasoning.
I do not believe something merely because it accords with my philosophy.
I do not believe something because it appeals to „common sense”.
I do not believe something just because I like the idea.
I do not believe something because the speaker seems trustworthy.
I do not believe something thinking, „This is what our teacher says”.
2. Kesamuttisuttam.
3. I will take responsibility for my own life.
4. I will not allow to anyone to dominate or control me.
5. I do not believe that the Buddha was the incarnation of God. I believe this to be sheer madness and false propaganda.

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Máj multyé krisjunurj sză vă gye drágu-l Domn, pátyé sî ku szănă tátyé fugă rou ká părou, vijé binyilye ká nălbinyije kit frunză-j pă szok átit kupij sză vă gye drágu-l Domn pă lá fok!

Zhutisardas o Del te resas o kerechuno, te resas les ande inke bute bershende baxtyasa, zorasa, pachasa, vojasa, sastyimasa, tumare familijanca kethane. Po rup po somnakaj te phiren. T’aven saste thaj baxtale!

शुभ नाताळ नवीन वर्षच्या हार्दिक शुभेच्छा
Śubh Nātāḷ Navīn Varṣacyā Hārdik Śubhecchā

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Note sur l’origine de l’expression «Tiers Monde» par Alfred Sauvy:

En 1951, j’ai, dans une revue brésilienne, parlé de trois mondes, sans employer toutefois l’expression «Tiers Monde». Cette expression, je l’ai créée et employée pour la première fois par écrit dans l’hebdomadaire français «l’Observateur» du 14 août 1952. L’article se terminait ainsi : «car enfin, ce Tiers Monde ignoré, exploité, méprisé comme le Tiers Etat, veut lui aussi, être quelque chose». Je transposais ainsi la fameuse phrase de Sieyes sur le Tiers Etat pendant la Révolution française. Je n’ai pas ajouté (mais j’ai parfois dit, en boutade) que l’on pourrait assimiler le monde capitaliste à la noblesse et le monde communiste au clergé.

Alfred Sauvy L’Observateur, 14 août 1952, n°118, page 14.

Nous parlons volontiers des deux mondes en présence, de leur guerre possible, de leur coexistence, etc., oubliant trop souvent qu’il en existe un troisième, le plus important, et en somme, le premier dans la chronologie. C’est l’ensemble de ceux que l’on appelle, en style Nations Unies, les pays sous-développés.

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Sub kooch ho sak-ee dey

Sing everyone who has been cast down

Sub kooch ho sak-ee dey

Emancipate, emancipate, Prime Minister, emancipate

Emancipate, emancipate, Prime Minister, emancipate

Sweeping, weaving, tilling the Earth
Sub kooch ho sak-ee dey
Show me the man to deny our worth
Sub kooch ho sak-ee dey
Free the Dalit, free the Dalit, Prime Minister, free the Dalit
Free the Dalit, free the Dalit, Prime Minister, free the Dalit

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