Assumption:
• Gita is composed afterBuddha
• AIT is true
• Ramayana&Smriti texts are composed after to buddha
Ambedkar's ADAMBARVAAD-2
CLAIMS: Nirvana of BhagwatGeeta is stolen from BUDDHISM .
Today we will look into the depth of his claims and check if there is any truth in his allegations or the claims are hollow.
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Assumption:
• Gita is composed afterBuddha
• AIT is true
• Ramayana&Smriti texts are composed after to buddha
"Bhagvat Gita has borrowed the entire conception of Brmhma Nirvana from Buddhism "
~~DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES，Volume 3 pp369...........[1]
Buddhist Nirvana refers to final stage of non self.Its state of shoonya or emptiness.
While Upnishadic Nirvana /brahmanirvana is State of unification with brahman which is completely based on Vedas & Pre-buddhist Upnishads
Nirvana is end of all Material activities & worldly life. It's process of transformation from material plateform to state of emptiness (zero).while Vedanta goes one step further, as .
Only sanskrit terminology "Nirvana" is used(Which is attributed to buddhist)Further this concept of Nirvana is further used & modelled in post-buddhist Upnishads.
Claim of Ambedker is destroyed by his own argument ,where he claimed that buddha Rejected Upanisadic [Vedanta school] concept of Nirvana.
Let's see his statement from his writings &speeches volume 11
Let's look words of Ambedker
=> his above claim(..[1]) is FALSE.
It's not that Buddhist model of Nirvana of "shoonya" is very unique,Even before Buddha there are brahmin sages & ascetic who was practicing shoonya.This is confirmed by Buddhist text only. In Pārāyana Vagga of Sutta Nipata -
who had mastered mantras,
aspiring to nothingness[meditative state~]"
Exact word used here was आकिञ्चनम् which simply refers to state of "non-existence"
Then Buddha praises him as the one who reached perfection
•Firstly these terminology is not directly referred as way to Brahma-Nirvana.
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