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Mr. Vice-President : Dr. Ambedkar, do you accept that amendment ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Yes, I do.
*Mr. Vice-President : Dr. Ambedkar.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: Mr. Vice-President, Sir, I am prepared to accept the amendment moved by Mr. T. T. Krishnamachari, that is No. 1144, and also amendment No.
1146 by Mr. Kaniath, as amended by Mr. Tyagi’s amendment.
With regard to the first amendment, that moved by Mr. T. T. Krishnamachari, not much argument is necessary. His amendments is certainly better than the amendment that stood in my name.
With regard to the second amendment, No. 1146, in view of the fact that 1 am prepared to accept it in the form amended by Mr. Tyagi, I do not think I am called upon to enter into the merits of the question. But perhaps, it might be as well that I should say a few words as to why the Drafting Committee itself did not introduce in its original draft, the words “in the name of God.” Sir, I do not think that this matter was considered fully by the Drafting Committee and therefore I cannot advance any adequate reason why they did not originally put in those words.
So far as I am concerned, I feel that this was a matter which required some consideration. If the House will permit me, I would express my own views on the matter. The way I felt about it is this. The word “God” so far as my reading goes, has a different significance in different religious. Christians and Muslims believe in God not merely as a concept, but as a force which governs the world and which governs, therefore, the moral and spiritual actions of those who believe in God. So far as Hindu theology was concerned, according to my reading—and I may be wholly wrong, I do not pretend to be a student of the subject—I felt that the word “Eswara” or to use a bigger word, “Parameswara” is merely a summation of an idea, of a concept. As I said, to use the language of integral calculus, you put sums together and find out something which is common, and you call that “S” which is merely a summation. There is nothing concrete behind it. If in Hindu
*CAD, Vol. VII, 27th December 1948, pp. 1060-62.