DR. AMBEDKAR AND THE HINDU CODE BILL 1121
after due publication and circulation, it has been considered in the Legislatures of those parts and the Legislatures have decided that it should apply to them. That will at least remove this glaring fault, the glaring omission which stares us in the face today.
Shrimati Renuka Ray : And let us have the tyranny of the Brahamanical society for the next thousand years !
Pandit Malaviya : My esteemed sister says “Let us have the tyranny of the Brahmanical society for the next thousand years”. I can only wish and pray that not for a thousand years but for eternity, not only my good sister but the whole world might rise to the level and concept of the Brahmanic ideal—the ideal which has always stood for fairness and justice to all, which has stood for the performance of duties and actions due to others rather than insistence upon the rights and privileges of its own, which has enjoined not a life of aggrandizement, not a life of self-interest, not a life of low thinking and low living, but a life of noble and lofty idealism and practical selflessness where the Brahman more than anyone else in society but indeed not only the Brahman but every member of society abnegates himself, ignores himself, allows himself to suffer that others may grow, may prosper and may live. I know that the beauty and the sublimity of that concept is lost upon some of my hon. friends. ( Hear, hear ). I hope and pray that society and mankind will yet be able to rise morally, socially, ethically, spiritually and ideologically where the Brahmana will be the true Brahmana and all members of society will rise to the level of that age ! I am not ignoring the fact that the Brahmana has deteriorated as all others have......
Shrimati Durgabai: In preaching and practice, both.
Shri R. K. Chaudhari : Why should the lady Member interrupt ?
Pandit Malaviya : My sister there, except that we are born of different parents is like a real sister to me because we have both been born of the same institution. That sister of mine tells me that the Brahmana should rise high and lofty both in precept and practice. I wholeheartedly and with every fibre in me pray with her that it may be so, and indeed that it may be so with all others as well.
Dr. Ambedkar: In the meantime, let us have the Hindu Code.
Pandit Malaviya : If we can rise again to that pure and noble Brahmanic ideal, then the Hindu society will have no more of all its troubles and ills but will once again become the leader of mankind