Com­ment­ing
on the con­se­quen­ces of re­mov­ing Pali from the In­di­an civ­il
serv­ice ex­ami­na­tion Singh said the de-list­ing of Pali may pre­vent
can­di­dates con­ver­sant in Pali (who are Bud­dhists in In­dia) from
sit­ting for the ex­am and join­ing the In­di­an civ­il serv­ice. He
said this would al­so cause the In­di­an ad­min­is­tra­tion in­clud­ing
its for­eign serv­ice to be man­ned by of­fi­cers ig­no­rant of Pali,
while Bud­dhists liv­ing in In­dia would lose the state pa­tron­age they
have had and the pres­er­va­tion of its few shrines and monu­ments
would come to an end.
“By the re­mov­al of Pali from the list of
‘ap­proved sub­jects’, the UPSC has open­ly vio­la­ted the pro­vi­sions
of the Con­sti­tu­tion of In­dia (which they had sworn to up­hold);
re­mov­al of Pali con­sti­tutes vi­o­la­tion of fun­da­men­tal rights of
mi­nor­i­ties (Bud­dhists less than 0.79% in In­dia) and the less
priv­i­leged ‘sched­uled castes and sched­uled tribes’ pro­tec­ted by
the con­sti­tu­tion of In­dia. The UPSC has vio­la­ted In­di­an
citi­zens’ fun­da­men­tal rights on the ‘right to equal­i­ty’ that
con­sti­tute ‘dis­crim­i­na­tion on grounds of re­li­gion’ vi­o­lat­ing
Ar­ti­cle-16, ‘equal­i­ty of op­por­tu­ni­ty in mat­ters of pub­lic
em­ploy­ment’ un­der the In­di­an Con­sti­tu­tion. De-list­ing of Pali
has in­fringed the In­di­an Con­sti­tu­tion un­der ‘di­rec­tive
prin­ci­ples of state pol­i­cy (ar­ti­cle 46) which states that
‘pro­mo­tion of ed­u­ca­tion­al and eco­nom­ic in­ter­ests of sched­uled
castes, sched­uled tribes and oth­er weak­er sec­tions in the so­ci­ety
would be pro­tec­ted from so­cial in­jus­tice and all forms of
ex­ploi­ta­tion. Ar­ti­cle-335 claims of Sched­uled Castes and
Sched­uled Tribes to serv­ices posts. There is al­so pro­vi­sion for
mak­ing claims against the UPSC to the “Na­tion­al Com­mis­sion for the
Sched­uled Castes and Sched­uled Tribes” un­der the spe­cial
pro­vi­sions re­lat­ing to cer­tain classes,” Singh said.
Ja­thi­ka
He­la Ur­u­maya (JHU) Par­lia­men­tar­i­an Ven. Athur­a­liye Ra­tha­na
Thera who was al­so pres­ent at this press con­fer­ence said that this
move of the In­di­an gov­ern­ment was a vi­o­la­tion of hu­man rights
against the Sched­uled Caste peo­ple liv­ing in In­dia.
“I be­lieve
this act is an ef­fort to take venge­ance from the Sched­uled Caste
peo­ple and stop the spread­ing of Bud­dhism in In­dia. To­day In­dia is
talk­ing about the hu­man rights vi­o­la­tions of Sri Lan­ka. But how
can they criti­cise Sri Lan­ka, when they them­selves are vi­o­lat­ing
the hu­man rights of the Bud­dhist com­mun­i­ty liv­ing in In­dia? This
is a Brah­mic Caste act based on the re­gres­sive Brah­mic ideol­o­gy of
In­dia,” Ra­tha­na Thera said.
Mean­while when the Dai­ly Mir­ror
con­tac­ted the Sri Lan­kan For­eign Min­is­try about this is­sue,
sour­ces said they were yet to re­ceive com­pre­hen­sive in­for­ma­tion
on this mat­ter.   It is sad that many peo­ple to­day con­sid­er Pali a
‘dead lan­guage’ when the ear­li­est ex­tant Bud­dhist scrip­tures are
writ­ten in Pali. It was the lan­guage the Bud­dha used to
dis­sem­i­nate the Dham­ma on which the whole of the Bud­dhist
civ­i­li­za­tion is foun­ded. Our coun­try to­day re­mains a na­tion
where sev­er­al mil­lions of Bud­dhists re­side.
To­day Bud­dhism is
not on­ly a re­li­gion, but it has turned in­to a way of life. To­day
the Bud­dha’s Dham­ma (which is in Pali) is not on­ly chan­ted in a
rit­ual con­text by Bud­dhists all over the world, but it is al­so
prac­ticed and lived in their day-to-day lives. So if Pali is a ‘dead
lan­guage’ and ‘out­da­ted’ in to­day’s so­ci­ety as many con­sid­er it
to be, then how come so many peo­ple around the world to­day live by
this lan­guage?
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68 With aroused effort to attain the highest, with a mind not sticky and lazy,
Thoroughly given up and with firm endeavour, fare alone like the single horned rhinoceros.
CLASSICAL PALI
68. âraddhaviriyo paramatthapattiyà
Alãnacitto akusãtavutti,
Daëhanikkamo thàma khalåpapanno
Eko care khaggavisàõakappo.
Pali is a classical language now the TIPITAKA is being translated to 74 languages. And all these automatically become classical.
The
Brahmins right from time immemorial oppose anything they feel will
affect their interest. Now it is true that majority of the educated and
others started moving back to Buddhism the original religion of
Jambudvipa and one fine day again it will become a majority religion and
PRABUDDHA BHARATH will become reality because of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar,
Kanshi Ram and Ms Mayawati. This is not tolerated by the brahmins hence
the path followed by the Buddhist is correct.
Now is all that you have.
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