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I SHALL DEVOTE REST OF MY LIFE TO THE REVIVAL AND SPREAD OF BUDDHISM
“Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Law Minister, Government of India, has appealed to people to embrace Buddhism.
“The present Hinduism was the same about a thousand years ago”, he said and added : it was nothing but Buddhism, but after the Mahomedan invasion and other causes it lost its purity and was mixed up with dross.”
Dr. Ambedkar, who was speaking at Bombay’s Buddha Temple at Worli on Friday night the 29th September 1950 deprecated the idea that political indepedence would end all the ills of the country. He said, “as long as there is no purity of mind, wrong doing and utter disregard of morals would continue in every day life; and as long as man does not know how to behave with man and creates barriers between man and man, India can never be prosperous”.
“To end all these troubles, India must embrace Buddhism. Buddhism is the only religion based upon ethical principles and teaches how to work for the good and well-being of the common man.”
Dr. Ambedkar declared that he would devote the rest of his life to the revival and spread of Buddhism in India.” [1]
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- The Sunday News, dated 1st October 1950.