Therigatha1.12

Therigatha1.12

Adapted from Archaic Translation By Mrs. Rhys Davids 1909

Compared with the Pali Tipitaka at www.tipitaka.org

1.12
Dhammadinna, Daughter of a clansman (kulagehe), wife of a
Millionare(Setthi) (Visakha), both of Rajagaha, foremost of the Elder
Nuns who were preachers

Now,
she, in the time when Padumuttara was Buddha, lived at Hansavati in a
state of servitude; and because she worshipped, served and did honour to
one of the chief disciples when he rose from his meditative trance
state, she was reborn in heaven and so on, among gods(angels) and men,
till Phussa was Buddha. Then she worked merit by doubling the gift
prescribed by her husband to the Master’s half-brothers while they were
staying in a servant’s house. And when Kassapa was Buddha, she came to
birth in the house of Kiki, King of Kasi, as one of the Seven Sisters,
his daughters, and for 20,000 years lived a holy life of
sexual-abstinence(celibacy). . . . Finally, in this Buddha-Era, she was
reborn of a clansman’s family at Rajagaha, and became the wife of
Visakha, a leading citizen. Now one day her husband went to hear the
Master(Buddha) teaching, and became Anagami(non-returner , destined to
arch-angel world[1]). When he came home, Dhammadinna met him as he went
up the stairs; but he leant not on her outstretched hand, nor spoke to
her at supper. And she asked: ‘Dear sir, why did you not take my hand?
Why do you not talk to me? Have I done anything improper?’ ‘It is for no
fault in you, Dhammadinna; but from from now on I am not fit to touch a
woman or take pleasure in food, for of such is the doctrine now borne
in upon me. Do you according as you wish, either continuing to dwell
here, or taking as much wealth as you need and going back to your
family.’ ‘No, dear sir, I will make no such goings back. Allow me to
leave the world(renounce & become nun).’ ‘It is well, Dhammadinna,’
replied Visakha, and sent her to the Bhikkhunis in a golden palanquin.
Admitted to the Order, she shortly after asked permission of her
teachers to go into retreat, saying: ‘Mothers, my heart has no delight
in a place of crowds; I would go into a village abode.’ The Bhikkhunis
brought her there, and while there, because in her past lives she had
subjugated the complexities of thought, word, and deed, she soon
attained Arahantship(enlightenment equal to Buddha), together with
thorough mastery of the form and meaning of the Dhamma(eternal truth).
Upon that she thought: ‘Now have I reached the summit. What shall I do
here any longer? I will even go to Rajagaha and worship the
Master(Buddha), and many of my relatives will, through me, acquire
merit.’ So she returned with her Bhikkhunis. Then Visakha(husband),
hearing of her return, curious to know why she came, interviewed her
with questions on the Khandhas and the like. And Dhammadinna answered
every question as one might cut a lotus-stalk with a knife, and finally
referred him to the Master. The Master(Buddha) praised her great wisdom,
as it is told in the Lesser Vedalla (Miscellany) Sutta, and ranked her
foremost among the Theris who could preach.

But
it was while she was dwelling in the country, and, while yet in the
lowest path, practiced insight meditation (Vipassana[2]) to reach the
highest, that she uttered her verse:

In whom desire to reach the final rest

Is born suffusing all the mind of her,

Whose mind is no more held by lure of sense-desire

Bound Upstream, so shall she be called. (12)

[1]
Anagami - lit. non-returner , The state prior to nirvana , one who will
be reborn in Brahmaloka (arch-angel world) and then from there one will
achieve Nirvana.

[2]
Vipassana : This refers to the foremost insight meditation called
‘Vipassana’ taught by Buddha in which attention is focussed on inner
phenomenon (breath,body,emotions , sensations & mind) with
detachment (samata/equanimity) leading to self-awakening &
enlightenment.

Amazing skills this is needed for

all beings to be happy well and secure!

May all live long!

May all have calm, quiet, alert , attentive and equanimity mind with a clear understanding that everything is changing!

Awakened with Awareness Youniverse is already there

Mayawati’s Monumental Pride

Aboriginal

Awakened Scheduled Castes have crafted unique visual metaphors to

assert their identity and mark their place in politics and BSP played a

big role in the process.

There

is a common grouse among Aboriginal Awakened Scheduled Castes/Tribes

supporters of the Bahujan Samaj Party—that BSP lost the last two UP

assembly polls due to “Manuvadi media’s neg­­a­­tive propaganda” over

the crea­tion of ‘Aboriginal Awakened Scheduled Castes heritage’ in

Mayawati’s last term as chief minister. The truth is all non-BSP parties

remotely controlled by foreigners kicked out from Bene Israel, Tibet,

Africa, Eastern Europe, Western Germany, South Russia, Eastern Europe,

Hungary chitpavan brahmins of Rowdy Swyam Sevaks (RSS who are violent,

militant, number one terrorists of the World, ever shooting,mob lynching

lunatic, mentally retarded requiring mental treatment at Mental Asylums

for practising hater, anger, jealousy, delusion, stupidity to wards

99.9% Aboriginals whose DNA does not match with the Aboriginals of

Prabuddha Bharat keep tampering the fraud EVMs to deny the Master Key to

SC/STs as desired by the Father of our Marvelous, Modern Constitution

through their slaves, stooges, chamchas, chelas, boot lickers who are

own mother’s flesh eaters.

Babasaheb Dr BR Ambedkar thundered that he will make this country PRABUDDHA BHARAT.

The

manusmriti PRESSTITUTE media is bashing obscured all the good work done

by Mayawati — India’s first woman chief minister from a Aboriginal

Scheduled Caste community. This is how it articulates the sentiment:

“When Behen Mayawatiji set up some statues and memorials, the media

lampooned her. But the same media lauds other political parties when

thousands of crores are spent on statues of their respective icons”

refer to the statue of Sardar Patel in Gujarat, which is touted as the

world’s tallest statue; or the proposed statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji

Maharaj in the Arabian Sea; or the proposed 251 m tall statue of Lord

Rama on the banks of Saryu River in Ayodhya, tallest EVM on top of EC

office, godse a chitpavan brahmin like vinay dhaomhar savarkar and all

the chitpavan brahmin leaders statues.

Mayawati

told the Supreme Court on March 9, 2019, that the memorials in Lucknow

and Noida have a cast of characters including Tathagath Gau­tam Buddha,

Sant Kabir Das, Sant Ravidas, Mahatama Jyotiba Phule, Guru Gha­sidas,

Rajarshi Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj, Shri Birsa Munda, Shri Narayana

Guru, Bhimrao Ambedkar and Kanshi Ram.

Apart

from memorials, several stupas, meditation centres and exhibition

galleries were also added to the existing public parks during

Maya­wati’s four terms as UP’s chief minister, between 1995 and 2012.

This

commemorative architecture is viewed by many as lighthouses on

Prabuddha Bharat’s political landscape that show the march of the

socio-political movement launched by B.R. Ambedkar, the Father of

Prabuddha Bharat’s Marvelous Modern Constitution.

Referring

to the statues of Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai

Patel, Shivaji, N.T. Rama Rao and Jayalalithaa in her affidavit filed in

court, Mayawati had asked, “Are only statues of Aboriginal Awakened

leaders erected using public money, and not the ones built by chitpavan

brahmin controlled Congress or BJP?”

According

to Ronki Ram, professor of Political Science at Panjab Univer­sity,

when BSP made inroads in UP, public heritage bel­onged only to those

communities that enjoyed a share in political power. “BSP organised All

Awakened Aboriginal Societies in a political class. Kanshi Ram and

Mayawati sta­r­ted projecting Sant Ravidas, Guru Valmik and Dr Ambedkar,

among others, as All Awakened Aboriginal Societies icons,” he says.

“This

is how BSP started to reclaim “This is how BSP started to reclaim All

Aboriginal Awakened Societies heritage that was lost to the politics of

domination,” he adds, describing the policy of building statues and

memorials, and naming public places after All Aboriginal Awakened

Societies icons, as the cultural capital of a community—a way of

political assertion.

Those

who have historically been controlling social and political structures

can’t accept All Aboriginal Awakened Societies identity, he says. “In

many places, All Aboriginal Awakened Societies grooms get attacked for

riding a horse in their wedding processions.” heritage that was lost to

the politics of domination,” he adds, describing the policy of building

statues and memorials, and naming public places after All Aboriginal

Awakened Societies icons, as the cultural capital of a community—a way

of political assertion.

S.R.

Darapuri, a retired IPS officer and president of All India People’s

Front, says the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence and the 2017 Saha­ranpur

clashes were attempts at suppressing All Aboriginal Awakened Societies

assertion.

Anchor

Shabbirpur village in western UP, 25 km away from Saharanpur city,

witnessed violence betw­een Thakurs and All Aborigina Awakened Socities,

starting from April 14, 2017. “The first clash happened over the

propo­sed installation of an Ambedkar statue,” Darapuri says,

enumerating how statues of Ambedkar are regularly vandalised by

right-wing forces.

Asserting

that the annual Bhima Koregaon ceremony symbolises the political

aspirations of All Aborigina Awakened Socities, Darapuri adds, “The

attack on Elgar Parishad was in fact an attack on All Aboriginal

Awakened Societies pride. The police action was taken against the

victims and not the perpetrators.”

In

Monumental Pride: Mayawati’s Memorials in Lucknow, an essay published

in 2014 by Freer Gallery of Art, The Smithsonian Institution and

Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan, author Melia

Belli provides interesting insights into Lucknow’s Ambedkar Memorial and

Prerna Kendra. Belli writes, “The sheer number of memorials, coupled

with their monumental scale, arguably make Mayawati the single most

prolific architectural patron in India since the British Raj

commissioned New Delhi in 1911.”

Defending

their installation, Mayawati told the top court that statues of

elephants have extensi­v­ely been used in ancient monuments and temples,

besides in pillars of the North and South blocks of Rashtrapati Bhawan.

She stated the statues have also been installed in newly constructed

public places across Delhi, like the Indira Gandhi Int­ernational

Airport.

While

she linked elephants with Hinduism, Bud­dhism and Jainism, she said,

“Buddhism was adopted by All Aboriginal Awakened Societies leaders due

to the inability of Hinduism to abolish the caste system.”

She

was referring to Ambedkar’s returning back to own home Buddhism along

with 3,65,000 of his All Aboriginal Awakened Societies followers in the

belief that Buddhism was the only way for “All Aboriginal Awakened

Societies’ untouchables” to gain equality, a trend that continues to

date.

WE WERE BUDDHISTS,

ARE BUDDHISTS

AND CONTINUE TO BE BUDDHISTS.

The

sculptures of elephants commemorate the ideals and values of Sants,

Gurus and leaders who have devoted their lives for humanity, equality

and social justice, Mayawati had stated. “These memorials reflect

aspirations of the oppressed and downtrodden sections of society, who

have been marginalised by the caste system” IN MANUSMRITI that believes

in chitpavan brahmin as 1st rate athma/soul, kshatria, vysia, shudra as

2nd, 3rd, 4th rate souls and the Aboriginal SC/STs having no soul at

all, Buddha never believed in any soul. He said all are equal. That is

why we are all Buddhists.

Mayawati

was also targeted for commissioning life-sized statues of herself and

of her mentor and BSP founder Kanshi Ram, who had sworn to fulfill

Ambedkar’s incomplete mission.

In

her essay, which analyses intersections of politics, caste, gender and

visibility at the two mem­orials, Melia Belli writes, “The forms and

decoration of the memorials highlight the abs­ence of earlier All

Aboriginal Awakened Societies leaders and present Mayawati as their

legitimate political heir.

Belli

talks about the aesthetics of Mayawati’s statues: “She has cropped

hair; a plain, loose-fitting salwar-kameez; chunky sandals; a prominent

wristwatch; and a handbag at her side.” Descri­b­i­ng her appearance as

“androgynous”, she goes on to add, “The message conveyed is that she is

fully capable of negotiating the male-dominated political arena. Her

distinctly unfeminine appearance also highlights her unmarried status,

and by exte­nsion, her complete dedication to the betterment of her

community, which she confirms when questioned about her marital status.”

“Statues

and memorials do act as a limited source of inspiration and

ins­truments of assertion in social and political life, from which All

Aboriginal Awakened Societies identity had been obliterated.”

“Ambedkar had said: ‘If we want to claim our real status in Prabuddha

Bharatian society, we have to seek our own identity—which will come only

if we totally disassociate ourselves from Hinduism’.”besides having an

equal share in executive, legislature and judiciary, All Aboriginal

Awakened Societies assertion means that “we get our own temples, Deras

and things other communities own, and doe with these what others have

been doing.”

Endorsing

the viewpoint that All Aboriginal Awakened Societies memorials and

statues are milestones of the Amb­edkarite movement, “They symbolise

the victory of All Aboriginal Awakened Societies politics.”

CJI

must first order to replace all the fraud EVMs with Ballot Papers

followed by all other democratic countries to save democracy, liberty,

equality and fraternity. The Free For All Mad

murderer of democratic institutions (Modi) of Bevakoof Jhoothe

Psychopaths (BJP) remotely controlled by foreigners kicked out from Bene

Israel, Tibet, Africa,Eastern Europe, western Germany , South Russia ,

Western Europe, Hungary chitpavan brahmins of (RSS) are anti

Constitution & trying to implement manusmrti. CJI must also order

growing fruit bearing trees along the road sides of the country and highways like Ashoka did. To overcome hunger the worst illness as Buddha said grow vegetables & fruit plants in pots like free birds .

To stop this chitpavan brahmin Rowdy Swayam Sevaks are getting exposed: https://theprint.in/…/adivasis-are-not…/618051/….

There
is a reason Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren’s statement at Harvard’s India
Conference that Adivasis were never Hindus rattled the BJP and RSS.

Recently,
the chief minister of Jharkhand and leader of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha,
Hemant Soren admitted that Adivasis were never Hindus and neither are
they now. This was in response to his attempt to get Sarna Code approved
by the Narendra Modi government at the Centre. The Sarna Code
establishes a distinct, honourable identity for the Adivasis away from
the Hindu identity — which is usually assumed as such for the Tribals.
The dominant caste savarna Hindus have taken for granted the status of
Adivasi and Dalits as being Hindu. It is used to construct a false
notion of Hindu majority and thereby establish Bharat nation as Hindus’
land – Hindustan.

After
Soren’s statement, the entire Hindu consensus, and especially the
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), got rattled. They were shaken to the
core. The mouthpiece of the RSS, Organiser, immediately released a
statement accusing Soren of “parroting evangelical propaganda”. The RSS’
political offshoot, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), followed with
accusations at Soren that he was benefiting from Christian missionaries.

A
sitting, democratically elected chief minister and arguably the tallest
leader of Adivasis in the country was put to test by caste denialists.
The Constitution of India gives the responsibility to the State and
society to protect and preserve Adivasi tradition as unique to India’s
history. But the savarna advocates of the Hindu mission insist on
Hinduising the Adivasis.

The
idea of Hindustan is enveloped as majoritarian nationalism. It is used
by liberals, radicals, nationalists alike. When one declares the
national Indian identity as one tied to the Hindu past, it brushes aside
the glorious histories of independent, autonomous, anti-Brahminical
legacy of the native people. The natives of India can be broadly
classified into Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), and Other
Backward Class (OBC) in constitutional terms. These natives were
relegated to the lower status by the advent of Brahminism. Pushyamitra
Shunga was one of the important Brahmin actors to have ironed the
definition of political varna, which gave rise to the clean distinction
of varna-based political economy. This meant extermination of Sramana
traditions — those that gave rise to Jainism and Buddhism.

Almost
everyone in the country falsely promotes the idea of Hindu
majoritarianism. The defender and opponents alike use this historically
incorrect and sociologically impossible definition of Hindu
majoritarianism. The liberals get a piece of cake for framing the recent
identity of Hindu-Muslim binarism. I have repeatedly opposed such
limiting binaries. These binaries obviate Adivasis and Dalits as
non-existing, useless, and irrelevant categories of people without any
history of their own. Turns out, these binaries are the relic of the
census data that have classified majority (Hindu) and minority (Muslim).
Thus, the majoritarian consensus doesn’t need rationalisation. It can
be qualified based on assumptions and beliefs — it becomes a matter of
faith.

Fraudulent Census of India

Hindu
majority is a faulty idea on many counts. It is a fraud committed by
census takers from the time of British colonialism. The construction of
Hindu is ahistorical. There is no prevalence of Hindu or Hinduism before
the British census started putting Hindu as an identity in its census
in 1881. Although the census was to take off in 1861 but the 1857
rebellion quashed those efforts. In 1872, it finally started to take
shape but did not cover all of India.

Though
British census was faulty, it gave the administration enough to
regulate laws and decide for the ruled mass. Better governance was the
primary objective of the State and knowing more about this extremely
diverse nation was pursued by curious anthropologists. As census started
to formalise over the years, Hindu began to become a more known
identity. The Brahmins, as usual, jumped on this proposition to claim
ownership over recently manufactured pan-India Hindu identity.
Initially, the census covered disparate provinces.

The
census chart of religion later classified into groups such as Hindu,
Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Jain, Sikh, Parsi, Jewish, and Animist.
Animist meant the aboriginal tribes who had not yet come under the
influence of Hinduism, argues census scholar Bhagat. When Hindu was
introduced in the census, there arose enormous problems. How to define a
Hindu? There were two broad classifications of Shaivites and
Vaishanvities, who were bitterly divided over the common belief. Then
there are those who classify as Brahmo Samaj and Arya Samaj. Add to it
the enormous divisions of caste and independent religious practices.
Nevertheless, it had to be defined.

Hindu
is anyone who is not “European, Armenian, Moghul, Persian or other
foreign descent, who is a member of a recognised caste, who acknowledges
the spiritual authority of Brahmans (priestly caste), who venerates or
at least refuses to kill or harm kine, and does not profess any creed or
religion which the Brahman forbids him to profess” [sic].

This
gave a push for Brahmin interpreters like Arya Samaj, who merrily
accepted this adjustment and promoted a common Indian identity as being
Hindu. Social reformers at the time and the Congress party embraced this
fallacious identity by setting a political agenda of mythical Hindu
supremacist past. This worked in two ways. The first was to establish a
historical sense of sovereignty in the past, and the second was to
counter the European colonisers as ahistorical barbarous.

In
1911 census, Hindus were separated as genuine and non-genuine. The
latter were those who denied Vedas, authority of Brahmins, did not have
Brahmins into the fold, ate beef and did not revere cows.

This
intervention by the British officials led many in the postcolonial
scholarship to believe that caste was highlighted and incoherently
promoted by the British. Thus, the controversial argument of caste
becoming sharper during British period prevailed in the thesis of
Bernard Cohn and Nicholas Dirks. Many in the Right-wing interpreted this
to say that the British imported caste from Europe by giving it an
anglicised taste.

Census of 21st Century

The
2001 census found 1,700 religious categories apart from the dominant
ones. They were clubbed into the ‘Other’ column. Adivasis are also
clubbed into this. However, it is now being taken out in 2021 census,
which indirectly puts them in the column of Hindu or other religious
groups, Hemant Soren gestured.

The
Indian State has issued the Socio-Economic Caste Census separate from
the rest of the nation. The report is disturbing because it shows the
marginalisation of Dalits and Adivasis on each level. The purpose of
post-independence Indian census was to record the lives and stories of
those on the margins in order to protect them.

Thus,
the celebration of postcolonial nationalism does not only mean changing
of colonial-era names and laws but getting rid of colonial-era laws and
ignorant identities. India is an extremely complicated country. Each
region, caste, sect, religion has its own history, and they are a nation
in themselves. We cannot afford to combine them under a pretence of
British-given identity. To rescue Adivasis from the stranglehold of
Hindu is the real work of Birsa Munda, Sidhu, Kanhu Murmu, and Narayan
Singh among scores of heroes and heroines.

The
Brahmin and other Savarna castes only seem to care about Adivasis when
the Christian missionaries are taking the word of equality propounded in
their religion. Tribals like Dalits on the coastal regions and in
Southern India immediately converted to Christianity in the colonial era
as they did during the colonial Mughals to Islam. Brahmins, through
organisations like the RSS, have started to convert Tribals to the Hindu
fold. This is not very different from what Christian missions do.

Everyone
who is indigenous to the land and worship their ancestral gods should
be allowed to register as a non-Hindu with separate identity. As the
Census of India 2001 report on religion stated, India is host to
“indigenous faiths tribal religions which have survived the influence of
major religions for centuries and are holding the ground firmly”. The
Census of India is an ideal way to establish yourself without relying on
the patronage of the oppressive majority. By forcing Dalits, Adivasis
and many backward classes into the Hindu fold, the savarnas assume an
undemocratic, unelected majority. The Adivasis and Dalits should be
allowed to have a separate column in the religious census. This will be a
tribute to their contribution to India’s freedom struggle and the
nation as a whole.

Dr
Suraj Yengde is Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School. He is the author
of Caste Matters. He hosted Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren at the 18th
edition of India Conference at Harvard. Views are personal.