DALIT

Lifting the veil on the Indian Caste System

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Dalit

'Broken', 'downtrodden' or 'oppressed' a term the untouchables use to describe themselves. This term has a more defiant and universal meaning. The term Harijan, coined by Gandhi is frowned upon as it was also used to describe the illegitimate offspring of Devadasis or temple prostitutes.
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            Guru Ravidas

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Utopia named Begumpura

Begumpura is the name of that place, without suffering or distress.

Without anxiety, taxes or property, without fear of failure or fear of loss.
(page 126)

On Pollution and Untouchability

Milk is defiled by the calf at the udder, flowers polluted by the bee, water by the fish.

(page 127)

On God not being the same as in Advaita

When I exist, You do not, Only You exist and I do not. A river flows into the waves of the ocean, Only water in water.

(page 89)

On the difference between Man and God

How can there be a difference between 'You' and 'I', 'I' and 'You', gold and bracelet, water and wave.

(page 125 from AG)

On Priesthood creating a separation between Man and God