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226 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
“Did the Buddha teach liberty?”
“Did the Buddha teach equality?”
“Did the Buddha teach fraternity ?”
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“Could the Buddha answer Karl Marx ?”
These questions are hardly ever raised in discussing the Buddha’s Dhamma.
My answer is that the Buddha has a Social Message. He answers all these questions. But they have been buried by modern authors.
§ 2. The Buddha’s Own Classification
The Buddha adopted a different classification of Dhamma.
The first category he called Dhamma.
He created a new category called Not-Dhamma (Adhamma) though it went by the name of Dhamma.
He created a third category which he called Saddhamma.
The third category was another name for Philosophy of Dhamma.
To understand His Dhamma one must understand all the three—Dhamma, Adhamma and Saddhamma.