The Importance Of Buddhism In India

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I as Sri Aurobindo Ghose was very honoured to have sat in the Honourable Assembly with great figures and political figures. However, there was a lot that we as members of the Honourable Assembly disagreed on and personally I found that it had a lot to do with the cast issue and its superiority, religious oppressions and traditional and cultural beliefs.
With this being mentioned I believe that the partition was caused by lack of the appreciation of our culture and tradition followed by religious beliefs. In my view India should have never separated if we as Indians came together and tackled the small issues we were dealing with before they got out of hand like they did. Most of us at the Honourable Assembly we fortunate enough to get educated in England but what we lacked was the ability to appreciate the beauty of our mother India and its beauty and richness. As for me I am grateful for being able to write and express myself when things get tough, and also broaden my ways of thinking which I noticed many of the other leaders lacked due to the strong urges and demands of them getting things done the way they wanted to do them without thinking through the pros and cons of such decisions. We had very intense personal issues when it came to ending caste positions in the Brahman and other communities within the country. Respect was what was needed throughout the process of partition because ending the caste system would be a lie, reason being that in the human nature we aspire for a position at one point in our lifetime. If we never had it we shall strive to have it and we shall oppress the oppressors and so on, therefore really not doing away with the caste system but rather encouraging others to feel what their colleagues went through. As for religious believes for those who believed in a divine being then I would suggest that they should strive to know, understand and better themselves with their God, for this shall help them prosper, appreciate and articulate how to treat their brothers and sisters in terms of religion. I say this because religion is one at the end of the day and it is what you do that makes you a true believer of the word of God. As for Gandhi Jii we all looked up to him and respected his decisions because he was fighting for what was best for our India. For Gandhi Jii strived to bring about equality within India by going to extremes of even starving himself through fasting to restore peace in India, living in the rural areas to be at per with the low castes, to weaving his own garments, and believing in all religions because there is only one God and he asks his children to love one another rather than hate one another. This took a tall on Gandhi Jii as he had invested his whole life in making a better united India under its own
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Customarily, when individuals needed to get away from the standing framework, they would move to the significant populace focuses and change over to Buddhism. At the point when Islam turned into an alternative, be that as it may, individuals changed over to Islam rather than Buddhism, while as yet leaving the rank framework. The myths of Islam savagely crushing Buddhism in India are just false. Buddhists were endured under Muslim tenet and no confirmation exists that shows constrained changes or savagery against them. educators additionally had a noteworthy part in conveying Islam to the masses. Muslim researchers went all through India, making it their objective to teach individuals about Islam. A large number of them lectured Sufi thoughts, a more magical way to deal with Islam that spoke to the general population. These educators had a noteworthy part in conveying Islam to the masses in the wide open, not only the high societies around the Muslim rulers.
All this could not have been accomplished without Akbar the Great whom had been a part of spreading Islam through his leadership of the Moghul Empire. He was a Liberal Muslim and brought about the Sufi Islam due to his admiration for art and ability to bring creativeness to the

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