2125 Wed 1 Feb 2017 LESSONS Wishing May all be Happy, Well and Secure!! May all live long!!! May all have calm, quiet, alert, attentive and an Equanimity Mind with a Clear Understanding that everything is Changing!!!!
a very Happy Birthday to Navaneetham Chandrasekharan and all born on
1st February an auspicious month for the success of Techno, Politico,
Socio Transformation and Economic Emancipation Movement of DR BR
Ambedkar, Manyawar Kanshiram and Ms Mayawati of BSP!
Awakened One with Awareness came from a warrior caste and was naturally
brought into association with kings, princes and ministers. Despite His
origin and association, He never resorted to the influence of political
power to introduce His teaching, nor allowed His Teaching to be misused
for gaining political power. But today, many politicians try to drag
the Awakened One with Awareness’s name into politics by introducing Him
as a communist, capitalist, or even an imperialist. They have forgotten
that the new political philosophy as we know it really developed in the
West long after the Buddha’s time. Those who try to make use of the good
name of the Buddha for their own personal advantage must remember that
the Buddha was the Supremely Awakened One who had gone beyond all
worldly concerns.
is an inherent problem of trying to intermingle religion with politics.
The basis of religion is morality, purity and faith, while that for
politics is power. In the course of history, religion has often been
used to give legitimacy to those in power and their exercise of that
power. Religion was used to justify wars and conquests, persecutions,
atrocities, rebellions, destruction of works of art and culture.
religion is used to pander to political whims, it has to forego its
high moral ideals and become debased by worldly political demands.
thrust of the Awakened One with Awareness Dhamma is not directed to the
creation of new political institutions and establishing political
arrangements. Basically, it seeks to approach the problems of society by
reforming the individuals constituting that society and by suggesting
some general principles through which the society can be guided towards
greater humanism, improved welfare of its members, and more equitable
sharing of resources.
is a limit to the extent to which a political system can safeguard the
happiness and prosperity of its people. No political system, no matter
how ideal it may appear to be, can bring about peace and happiness as
long as the people in the system are dominated by greed, hatred and
delusion. In addition, no matter what political system is adopted, there
are certain universal factors which the members of that society will
have to experience: the effects of good and bad Cause and Effect , the
lack of real satisfaction or everlasting happiness in the world
characterized by dukkha (unsatisfactoriness), anicca (impermanence), and
anatta (egolessness). To the Awakened One with Awareness, nowhere in
Samsara is there real freedom, not even in the heavens or the world of
Brahama.
a good and just political system which guarantees basic human rights
and contains checks and balances to the use of power is an important
condition for a happy in society, people should not fritter away their
time by endlessly searching for the ultimate political system where men
can be completely free, because complete freedom cannot be found in any
system but only in minds which are free. To be free, people will have to
look within their own minds and work towards freeing themselves from
the chains of ignorance and craving. Freedom in the truest sense is only
possible when a person uses Dhamma to develop his character through
good speech and action and to train his mind so as to expand his mental
potential and achieve his ultimate aim of awakenment.
recognizing the usefulness of separating religion from politics and the
limitations of political systems in bringing about peace and happiness,
there are several aspects of the Awakened One with Awareness’s teaching
which have close correspondence to the political arrangements of the
present day. Firstly, the Awakened One with Awareness spoke about the
equality of all human beings long before Abraham Lincoln, and that
classes and castes are artificial barriers erected by society. The only
classification of human beings, according to the Buddha, is based on the
quality of their moral conduct. Secondly, the Awakened One with
Awareness encouraged the spirit of social -co-operation and active
participation in society. This spirit is actively promoted in the
political process of modern societies. Thirdly, since no one was
appointed as the Buddha’s successor, the members of the Order were to be
guided by the Dhamma and Vinaya, or in short, the Rule of Law. Until
today very member of the Sangha is to abide by the Rule of Law which
governs and guides their conduct.
the Awakened One with Awareness encouraged the spirit of consultation
and the democratic process. This is shown within the community of the
Order in which all members have the right to decide on matters of
general concern. When a serious question arose demanding attention, the
issues were put before the monks and discussed in a manner similar to
the democratic parliamentary system used today. This self-governing
procedure may come as a surprise to many to learn that in the assemblies
of Awakened One with Awareness 2,500 years and more ago are to be found
the rudiments of the parliamentary practice of the present day. A
special officer similar to ‘Mr. Speaker’ was appointed to preserve the
dignity of the Parliamentary Chief Whip, was also appointed to see if
the quorum was secured. Matters were put forward in the form of a motion
which was open to discussion. In some cases it was done once, in others
three times, thus anticipating the practice of Parliament in requiring
that a bill be read a third time before it becomes law. If the
discussion showed a difference of opinion, it was to be settled by the
vote of the majority through balloting.
Awakened One with Awareness approach to political power is the
moralization and the responsible use of public power. The Awakened One
with Awareness preached non-violence and peace as a universal message.
He did not approve of violence or the destruction of life, and declared
that there is no such thing as a ‘just’ war. He taught: ‘The victor
breeds hatred, the defeated lives in misery. He who renounces both
victory and defeat is happy and peaceful.’ Not only did the Awakened One
with Awareness teach non-violence and peace, He was perhaps the first
and only religious teacher who went to the battlefield personally to
prevent the outbreak of a war. He diffused tension between the Sakyas
and the Koliyas who were about to wage war over the waters of Rohini. He
also dissuaded King Ajatasattu from attacking the Kingdom of the
Vajjis.
Awakened One with Awareness discussed the importance and the
prerequisites of a good government. He showed how the country could
become corrupt, degenerate and unhappy when the head of the government
becomes corrupt and unjust. He spoke against corruption and how a
government should act based on humanitarian principles.
Awakened One with Awareness once said, ‘When the ruler of a country is
just and good, the ministers become just and good; when the ministers
are just and good, the higher officials become just and good; when the
higher officials are just and good, the rank and file become just and
good; when the rank and file become just and good, the people become
just and good.’(Anguttara Nikaya)
the Cakkavatti Sihananda Sutta, the Awakened One with Awareness said
that immorality and crime, such as theft, falsehood, violence, hatred,
cruelty, could arise from poverty. Kings and governments may try to
suppress crime through punishment, but it is futile to eradicate crimes
through force.
the Kutadanta Sutta, the Awakened One with Awareness suggested economic
development instead of force to reduce crime. The government should use
the country’s resources to improve the economic conditions of the
country. It could embark on agricultural and rural development, provide
financial support to entrepreneurs and business, provide adequate wages
for workers to maintain a decent life with human dignity.
the Jataka, the Awakened One with Awareness had given to rules for Good
Government, known as ‘Dasa Raja Dharma’. These ten rules can be applied
even today by any government which wishes to rule the country
peacefully. The rules are as follows:
A good ruler should act impartially and should not be biased and
discriminate between one particular group of subjects against another.
A good ruler must possess a clear understanding of the law to be
enforced. It should not be enforced just because the ruler has the
authority to enforce the law. It must be done in a reasonable manner and
with common sense. — (Cakkavatti Sihananda Sutta)
the Milinda Panha,it is stated: ‘If a man, who is unfit, incompetent,
immoral, improper, unable and unworthy of kingship, has enthroned
himself a king or a ruler with great authority, he is subject to be
tortured‚ to be subject to a variety of punishment by the people,
because, being unfit and unworthy, he has placed himself unrighteously
in the seat of sovereignty. The ruler, like others who violate and
transgress moral codes and basic rules of all social laws of mankind, is
equally subject to punishment; and moreover, to be censured is the
ruler who conducts himself as a robber of the public.’ In a Jataka
story, it is mentioned that a ruler who punishes innocent people and
does not punish the culprit is not suitable to rule a country.
king always improves himself and carefully examines his own conduct in
deeds, words and thoughts, trying to discover and listen to public
opinion as to whether or not he had been guilty of any faults and
mistakes in ruling the kingdom. If it is found that he rules
unrighteously, the public will complain that they are ruined by the
wicked ruler with unjust treatment, punishment, taxation, or other
oppressions including corruption of any kind, and they will react
against him in one way or another. On the contrary, if he rules
righteously they will bless him: ‘Long live His Majesty.’ (Majjhima
Nikaya)
Awakened One with Awareness’s emphasis on the moral duty of a ruler to
use public power to improve the welfare of the people had inspired
Emperor Asoka in the Third Century B.C. to do likewise. Emperor Asoka, a
sparkling example of this principle, resolved to live according to and
preach the Dhamma and to serve his subjects and all humanity. He
declared his non-aggressive intentions to his neighbors, assuring them
of his goodwill and sending envoys to distant kings bearing his message
of peace and non-aggression. He promoted the energetic practice of the
socio-moral virtues of honesty, truthfulness, compassion, benevolence,
non-violence, considerate behavior towards all, non-extravagance,
non-acquisitiveness, and non-injury to animals. He encouraged religious
freedom and mutual respect for each other’s creed. He went on periodic
tours preaching the Dhamma to the rural people. He undertook works of
public utility, such as founding of hospitals for men and animals,
supplying of medicine, planting of roadside trees and groves, digging of
wells, and construction of watering sheds and rest houses. He expressly
forbade cruelty to animals.
the Awakened One with Awareness is said to be a social reformer. Among
other things, He condemned the caste system, recognized the equality of
people, spoke on the need to improve socio-economic conditions,
recognized the importance of a more equitable distribution of wealth
among the rich and the poor, raised the status of women, recommended the
incorporation of humanism in government and administration, and taught
that a society should not be run by greed but with consideration and
compassion for the people. Despite all these, His contribution to
mankind is much greater because He took off at a point which no other
social reformer before or ever since had done, that is, by going to the
deepest roots of human ill which are found in the human mind. It is only
in the human mind that true reform can be effected. Reforms imposed by
force upon the external world have a very short life because they have
no roots. But those reforms which spring as a result of the
transformation of man’s inner consciousness remain rooted. While their
branches spread outwards, they draw their nourishment from an unfailing
source — the subconscious imperatives of the life-stream itself. So
reforms come about when men’s minds have prepared the way for them, and
they live as long as men revitalize them out of their own love of truth,
justice and their fellow men.
doctrine preached by the Awakened One with Awareness is not one based
on ‘Political Philosophy’. Nor is it a doctrine that encourages men to
worldly pleasures. It sets out a way to attain Eternal Bliss as Final
Goal. In other words, its ultimate aim is to put an end to craving
(Tanha) that keeps them in bondage to this world. A stanza from the
Dhammapada best summarizes this statement: ‘The path that leads to
worldly gain is one, and the path that leads to Eternal Bliss as Final
Goal(by leading a religious life)is another.’
this does not mean that Awakened One with Awareness cannot or should
not get involved in the political process, which is a social reality.
The lives of the members of a society are shaped by laws and
regulations, economic arrangements allowed within a country,
institutional arrangements, which are influenced by the political
arrangements of that society. Nevertheless, if a Buddhist wishes to be
involved in politics, he should not misuse religion to gain political
powers, nor is it advisable for those who have renounced the worldly
life to lead a pure, religious life to be actively involved in politics.
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BSP MISSION 2017 - Behenji Mayawati Song
2124 Tue 31 Jan 2017 LESSONS
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…/articlesh…/56871903.cms
Kumari Mayawati School-teacher-turned politician, Mayawati has many
‘firsts’ under her name. She was the first chief minister of Uttar
Pradesh to complete a full term of five years in office.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…/articlesh…/55844050.cms?
DEMONetisation won’t hit BSP campaign, says Mayawati
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…/articlesh…/56202024.cms
BJP targeting me because I am a SC and opposed DEMONetisation: Mayawati.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…/articlesh…/56563462.cms
Only BSP can stop BJP from coming to power: Mayawati
As the EVMs were tampered gobble the Master Key by Congress, BJP, SP
and all their allies which are vultures of a father flock together to
feed on the bodies of Sarvajan Samaj i.e., all societies except Ms
Mayawati’s BSP Real-Time IoT Poll Tracking Display will never be
introduced.
RSSised Modi is Trumpised and Trump is RSSised.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…/articlesh…/56871903.cms
Kumari Mayawati School-teacher-turned politician, Mayawati has many
‘firsts’ under her name. She was the first chief minister of Uttar
Pradesh to complete a full term of five years in office.
She was also the youngest woman chief minister of a state, when she first took the office on 3 June, 1995.
She is also among the three chief ministers of the state to have
assumed office for four times and the only woman chief minister to do so
in Uttar Pradesh.
She stormed back to power in 2007 assembly
elections winning absolute majority with the support of Brahmins,
Thakurs, Muslims and members of other backward classes, the first by any
party since 1991 in Uttar Pradesh.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…/articlesh…/55844050.cms?
DEMONetisation won’t hit BSP campaign, says Mayawati
LUCKNOW: Urging voters of Uttar Pradesh to teach a lesson to the
Bharatiya Janata Party in the UP assembly polls, Bahujan Samaj party
chief Mayawati said, “Bring BJP down to fourth position in UP polls and
teach them a lesson.” Referring to Modi’s post-DEMONetisation speeches
in Ghazipur and Agra, Mayawati said, “After Modi decided to go ahead
with DEMONetisation, he ridiculed his opponents over how they would hold
public rallies and fight elections. I want to tell the Modi that there
would be no adverse impact of DEMONetisation on BSP as we consider
ourselves as a movement first and political party later.
She
accused the BJP and Modi of deceiving the poor of the country. “You have
compelled everyone to become a fakir and ‘kangaal’ (penniless) by not
fulfilling poll promises you made during 2014 Lok Sabha elections,”
Mayawati said, addressing a crowd that was large given the inclement
weather.
“Modi is feeling threatened and apprehends wipe-out in
the Hindi heartland and to divert public attention he has resorted to
DEMONtisation without any preparation,” said Mayawati and alleged even
25% of the poll promises made by the BJP in 2014 Lok Sabha polls were
not fulfilled.
“BJP leaders are sourcing crowds from other states
for their parivartan yatra and have a crowd of ticket seekers but this
tactic will not work in polls,” she said. She further told the party
workers that the BJP after Ayodhya, is focusing on Varanasi and Mathura.
“In UP, there is jungle raaj and is no rule of law. Mafia and corrupt
are calling the shots. Most of the development work shown today was
started by BSP whether it is Lucknow Metro or Lucknow-Agra Expressway.
If voted to power, we will lodge FIRs which were not lodged,” Mayawati
said, adding cases of illegal possession of land owned by or given to
SC/STs will be dealt with strongly. “Appointments made by this
government would also come under scanner as also media expenses incurred
by this government, and strict action will be taken,” she said.
Mayawati said Congress was in power for a long time but did nothing for
benefit of SC/STs. “Congress, BJP, RSS and SP will use all the possible
resources and tactics to divide your society,” she said and added that
Congress did not implement recommendations of Mandal Commission or give
Bharat Ratna to Babasaheb while BJP had started an agitation against the
commission report.
“In 1989, when BSP had 3 MPs in Lok Sabha,
the then PM VP Singh sought our support. We decided to support on three
conditions—Bharat Ratna for Babasaheb, implementation of Mandal
Commission report and not allowing BJP to implement its Ayodhya agenda.
BJP withdrew support from VP Singh government, which proves they are
against Ambedkar,” said Mayawati, accusing Modi of getting his caste
included in the list of OBCs in 1994 following implementation of
recommendations of Mandal Commission.
“You must learn to gauge
the chaal (move), charitra (character), chehra (face), neeti (policy)
and niyat (intention) of political parties like the BJP and company,”
said Mayawati.
“Political parties like BJP, Congress and similar
parties may give the SC/ST/OBC and people from religious minorities
senior post in the organization. They may make you CM face or PM face.
But, even then the CMs and PMs of these parties would ultimately work as
bonded labourers for their party bosses,” said the BSP chief.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…/articlesh…/56202024.cms
BJP targeting me because I am a SC and opposed DEMONetisation: Mayawati.
BSP chief Mayawati on Tuesday said that Modi was deliberately
targeting her since she was a SC and opposed the DEMONetisation scheme.
Mayawati said the BJP can’t see a SC having the master key to power,
especially in UP where assembly elections are due. Maintaining that all
the money was deposited in party’s and Anand’s bank account within
rules, Mayawati said that the money which is being talked about was
collected at her Delhi’s party’s office in August itself.
“This
was well before demonetisation scheme came into play,'’ she said.
Mayawati said that the money had to be evaluated before depositing in
the bank account. “We got late in depositing the money. It could be
deposited in the bank only in November,'’ she clarified. “My brother
Anand Kumar has been doing business for the many years. He also
deposited money as per rules,'’ she added.
Mayawati said that a
similar exercise was carried out by other parties, which, however, are
not being targeted. “If Modi is so honest, why isn’t he disclosing the
bank transactions made by BJP 10 months before the note ban came into
effect,'’ she asked.
The BSP chief accused the BJP of resorting
to arm-twisting and trying to bargain with her. “I am always been
targeted whenever elections are round the corner,'’ the Mayawati said.
She said that even the Taj Heritage Corridor and disproportionate asset
case against her was framed by the BJP just before the 2004 Lok Sabha
elections.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…/articlesh…/56563462.cms
Only BSP can stop BJP from coming to power: Mayawati
LUCKNOW: BSP chief Mayawati on Sunday accused the opposition parties
including BJP, SP and Congress of being in collusion to transfer votes
to each other and stop her party from coming to power in UP.
“Only BSP, not a SP-Congress combine, which was capable of stopping the
saffron party from coming to power in UP in 2017 and them dampening
BJP’s prospects in 2019 Lok Sabha elections,” Mayawati said.
Mayawati said that the opposition was making efforts to ensure that BSP
gets restricted to her core SC/ST vote base and no other community gets
associated with her party. She particularly slammed the BJP of
deliberately targetting her and her family members over money deposited
in bank accounts. Mayawati said that all this showed the deperation of
BJP to malign her with a political agenda. But such allegations, she
claimed, would only help her party to grow stronger and emerge
victorious in the forth coming assembly election.
The BSP boss said that while she was being targetted, many other big politicians were spared by the Modi.
She also attacked the BJP dispensation of running schemes on the agenda
of RSS and then linking them with nationalism to prevent it from facing
criticism. “In fact, the schemes like DEMONetisation was brought in to
facilitate those close to BJP,” Mayawati charged.
She also
accused the BJP of using the money power to manage opinion polls and
divert people’s attentions from its failure. “BJP and Modi should
understand that they can only manage opinion polls but not the actual
result in poll bound states,” she said, adding that Janta will usher in
`Burey Din’ for BJP just like in Bihar. “People will also not fall in
the trap of the BJP through its forthcoming union budget,” she said.
distract ourselves from the anxiety of this interminable election
season we have to decide to channel our angst into a project that
displays the results from an aggregated election polling site in
real-time. This IoT connected project retrieves the latest polling data
from the polling aggegator site FiveThirtyEight.com (which will
correctly predict the election outcome of 5 states in 2017 and 543 Lok
Sabha seats in 2019), and displays the current net liklihood of winning
for the major political parties on a 4-digit 7-segment numerical
display.
Step 1: Hardware
The hardware components for this project are:
- Adafruit Huzzah ESP8266 Breakout Board
- Logic Level Converter
- Sparkfun 20 mm 4-digit 7-segment Display
- (4) 5mm LEDs
- (4) 5mm LED mounting holders
- (4) 220 Ω resistors
- Slide switch
- (1) 10 K Ω resistorBreadboard and wires
- 6V 1A Wall Adapter (5V would probably work fine as well)
- USB to TTL Serial Cable (for programming the Huzzah)
We have to chose the Adafruit Huzzah board to control this project because it
combines simple WiFi access using the ESP8266 with Arduino IDE
compatibility and enough I/O pins to run the LEDs, switch and 7-segment
display. Additionally, it’s inexpensive and Adafruit provides some nice
libraries and code examples to show how to use various protocols to access data over the Internet.
The
logic level converter was necessary because the Huzzah operates at 3.3V
and the 7-Segment display operates at 5V. Sometimes, you can trigger
5V logic with a lower voltage input, but we can find the display wouldn’t
work without the converter.
The slide switch allows the user to toggle the view between tall parties, as desired.
As
the EVMs were tampered gobble the Master Key by Congress, BJP, SP and
all their allies which are vultures of a father flock together to feed
on the bodies of Sarvajan Samaj i.e., all societies except Ms Mayawati’s
BSP Real-Time IoT Poll Tracking Display will never be introduced.
The CEC said that entire EVMs will be replaced only in 2019.
The
ex CJI had committed a grave error of judgemnet by ordering that the
EVMs to be replaced in a phased manner as suggested by the Ex CEC
Sampath because of the cost of Rs 1600 crores which is nothing when
compared to Rs 3000 crores of a statue of an anti reservation leader by
Murderer of democratic institutions (Modi) and a same amount for
Shivaji.
It is the duty of the CEC and CJI to see that Ballot Papers are used till the entire EVMs were totally replaced.
Central
and State governments selected by these EVMs must be dissolved and go
for fresh polls with Ballot Papers ans CEC must take initiative to
introduce Real-Time IoT Poll Tracking Display for transparency in elections.
As the EVMs were tampered gobble the Master Key by Congress, BJP, SP
and all their allies which are vultures of a father flock together to
feed on the bodies of Sarvajan Samaj i.e., all societies except Ms
Mayawati’s BSP Real-Time IoT Poll Tracking Display will never be
introduced.
RSSised Modi is Trumpised and Trump is RSSised.
