China as hope of Third World
V.T. RAJSHEKAR

[Speech delivered at the India-China Friendship Association (ICFA) seminar in Bangalore on April 2, 2005 on the occasion of the meeting of its national executive. Song Dehang, the Counsul-General of China at Bombay, was the chief guest. Kosala Ramdas, national president of the ICFA, presided.]

On the eve of the visit of the Chinese Prime Minister to India and Bangalore in particular, as the first president of the India-China Friendship Association, Karnataka, I want to place before His Excellency the Consul-General Song Dehang our views and we want him to convey these feelings to the visiting PM and the top Chinese leadership.

I led two delegations to China — first a delegation of the ICFA and later a delegation of India's Untouchables. Both the visits were made long back before my passport was impounded.

We toured the whole China and were mightily impressed by your country's progress.

Since the last 25 years China has made tremendous progress and as per World Bank estimates, China is expected to emerge as the No.1 country in the world.

RULING CLASS HEART IN AMERICA
We are happy about this development and as Editor of Dalit Voice, India's oldest and the largest circulated journal of Dalits—the country's poorest of the poor— we are proud to assure you that the Dalits of India will be the best and the surest friends of China and we have great hopes that your country's revolutionary leadership will not forget India's Dalits, Backward Castes, Tribals, Muslims, Christians and other oppressed people of India — comprising over 85% of its population.

We are of the firm opinion that China is the hope of the Third World. And we want China to live up to our expectations.

India's ruling class is not interested in China. Its heart is in America.

This ruling class comprising less than 15% of our population is not only not interested in China but it is also not interested in us.

Though India became "independent" in 1947 and China two years later, China has beaten India and today China is thousands of miles ahead of us.

AMERICA AFRAID OF CHINA
Why India can never, ever overtake China, I have analysed in detail in a signed article in Dalit Voice — a reprint of which is already distributed. (DV April 16, 2005 p.22: "India can never, ever overtake China because of caste system").

I don't want to go into this subject which is elaborately discussed in this article. India's upper caste leadership is not allowing our country's progress. Whatever may be India's ruling class attitude to China, I want to assure that the entire oppressed sections of India, over 85% of its 1,000 million population, are firmly with China.

Whatever the jaundiced minds may say, China's socialist experiments are a marvel of the world. We understand China has become a major world power. If there is one country which America, the sole super power, is afraid of in the world, it is China.

As a major world power, fast emerging as the world's no.1 power, China has to bear in mind the conflicting interests in different parts of the First World, Second World and the Third World.

HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA
But we in India are in the Third World but I am afraid if India's ruling class exploitation continues unchecked, India may descend from the Third World to the Fourth World. (cheers). This danger is there and we are experiencing it daily.

America often talks about human rights abuses in China but it hardly bothers about the daily human rights violations inside India. Brother Gunasheelan, a noted Dalit writer and a former general secretary of the ICFA, Karnataka, has been in Bangalore jail for several years.

He is rotting in the jail with hardly any charges against him. I have met the former Chief Minister and a former Home Minister of Karnataka but both pleaded helplessness as the case was hoisted by the Tamil Nadu Govt.

I read in the paper that last week Vaiko, a prominent political leader of TN, met the present CM in this connection and the CM has promised to look into Guna's case. Hundreds of thousands like Guna are rotting in different jails of India without any charges.

I request Minister M.P. Prakash and ex-minister Kagodu Thimmappa to take note of our feelings and see that Guna is released from the jail as all the charges against him are false. Coming back to the subject that "China as the hope of the Third World", I want to remind China about the role played by America in establishing itself as the new imperial power —out to establish its global hegemony.

The zionist-controlled Neo-Conservatives are managing the Bush Administration. Already they have accomplished their mission by virtually controlling the West Asian Muslim countries. Europe has been sidelined. And zionist Israel has virtually swallowed the whole of Palestine.

Our information is that it is the zionists who are behind the spread of AIDS disease to control the Blacks in Africa and the bird flue which recently rattled China. The only obstacle before this sole single super power for world domination is China.

To give all sorts of pinpricks to China, America is creating trouble in Taiwan, North Korea and encouraging the Dalai Lama. China is very wisely, tactfully and also diplomatically tackling all these problems. The Dalai Lama recently said that Tibet belonged to China and that he was looking forward to his visit to China.

DALAI LAMA IS U.S. AGENT
India committed a serious blunder in offering asylum to Dalai Lama. This fellow is an American agent and China must never trust him. America, having almost completed its mission of global domination, the only challenge before it is China. So, it is in this connection we want to remind China that it has the solid support from the entire Third World comprising India's Dalits and other oppressed. Africa, Latin America and the entire Muslim world.

Even the Europeans are getting closer to China. The coming days will see a furious flare-up in the zionist-led Neo-Con pressure against China. As a preparation to meet this challenge and see that peace and justice are established in the world, we want China not to disappoint the oppressed peoples of India and the Third World.

As a student of international affairs, I am deeply perturbed by the recent developments — particularly after George W. Bush took over as president. The United Nations has been weakened. Sovereignty of many countries is threatened.

Peoples belonging to the Third World are looking to China as the only hope. And we want you to convey this to your leadership. Long live India-China friendship.
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BOOK REVIEW : JHUTH NA BOL PANDEY
Dalit scholar saves Sikhism from jaws of Brahminism
DR. R.P. HARSH, HARSH CLINIC, BARNALA ROAD, SIRSA - 125 055

Prof. Gurnam Singh is a famous Punjabi writer. He is not only an honest Sikh but also an honest Ambedkarite. Jhuth Na Bol Pandey is his latest contribution to prove his honesty.

He does not hesitate to admit that he is not good in Hindi. But for us his Hindi is not important but the intentions and the spirit behind his writings are more significant. Over 90% Sikhs do not know even the meaning of the words Sikh and Sikhism. Brahminical forces are shrewd, cunning and hence take full advantage of the Sikh ignorance. They have planted the Dasam Granth (in the name of gurus) which is against the spirit of Sikhism to engineer clashes between Jats and Dalits.

The Jats are our brothers. The Sikhs are swallowing falsehood in the name of Sikhism and Sikh revolution. The intention of the author is to write on the true spirit of Sikhism.

NANAK NOT SIKH FOUNDER
He has given plenty of references from the Adi Granth, the sacred book of Sikhism, to expose the truth and destroy the falsehood.
Jhuth Na Bol Pande, therefore, proves:
1. Guru Nanak was not the founder of Sikh Lahar (revolution).
2. The Untouchable saints and Bhagats were the real founders of the Sikh revolution.
3. Nanak and all other gurus called them as: saints, Bhagat, Guru, satguru and Brahma Gyani.
4. The prominent satgurs were: Nam Dev (Chheepa), Kabir (Julaha), Ravi Dass (Chamar), Sain (Nai), Trilochan (Sudra).
5. The Sikh revolution was against Brahminism.
6. Nanak rejected every thing of Brahmin origin: sacred documents, customs, Devi-Devtas, language, "sacred thread". He did not get education from Brahmins.
7. Rama has nothing to do with Sikhism.
8. Akal Purukh of Sikhism has nothing to do with Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh.
9. Muslims are not the enemies of Sikhism.
10. Budhism is the "spirit" of Sikh revolution.

FAMOUS SLOGAN OF GURU NANAK
The book is so important that I want it to go into other Indian languages.

Jhuth Na Bol Pande is the famous slogan of Guru Nanak. It is recorded in the Adi Granth on page 904. It signifies that nobody should speak a lie. A lie cannot continue for long.

" Sikh" is a Pali word which is a Budhist language. The Vipra (Brahmin) adopted ritis (customs) hostile to Budhists to kill the Dhamma of Budha and Pali in the name of Dharma (religion) and Sanskriti. The Sikh means an educated person (full of wisdom). Wisdom is the foundation of "spirit of Budhism". So, Sikhism is the continuity of "Spirit of Budhism" and Budhist revolution.

Brahminism is the enemy of entire humanity. Guru Nanak coined the word Brahmanvad (p.136) by which he means a house of sorrow and karamkand while the sangat of the saint, Bhagat, Satguru is the organisation of liberators.

Guru Nanak did not preach Sikhism. He preached Gurumat (philosophy of gurus) while durmat is the philosophy of the vipras (Brahmins).

Durmat is the path of sin, while gurumat is the path of nirvan. The word nirvan is repeated by the Gurus. Nirvan is the state of mind in which there is an extinction of three fires — lust, hatred and ignorance.
Nirvan is the Budhist element. It is the ultimate goal of Budhism.

The Brahmins call the path of durmat (sin) as the path of vaikunth, Brahma Puri, Indrapuri, Shivpuri, Durga Puri.

The path of vaikunth lies in the hand of Brahmins. For them Banaras is Vaikunth Puri, while the places of Budhism is hell. Kabir Das said if Banaras is Vaikunth then:

I will not die in Benaras but I will die in Hadamba (Kushinagar) where there is a samadhi of the great humanist Budha who was the liberator of millions-millions of people and gave them happiness by giving them wisdom, the sangh and the way.

SIKH REVOLUTION ROOTS IN MAHARASHTRA
Kabir did not die in Benaras but died in Maghar (Hadamba) where Budha got Parinirvan. Since the Budhists denied the authority of the vaidik shastras and their "ism", therefore, the Brahmins called the Budhist places as the places of hell.

Guru Nam Dev was born in Maharashtra. He was born 200 years before Nanak. In the Adi Granth there are 245 sloks that belong to Nam Dev. Trilochan also belonged to Maharashtra, while Kabir, Ravi Dass belonged Benaras. Therefore Guru Nanak was not the founder of Sikhism.

An honest Sikh intellectual, Baldev Singh writes:
No idea or philosophy develops or grows in vacuum, they are built on existing ideas and philosophies (p.14).
Sodhi Meharban (1581-1620), a contemporary of Guru Arjun Dev and his family member, says:
Nanak used to sing vanis of Guru Nam Dev, Kabir, Ravidas.

When Guru Nanak was born, there already existed the ideas of Nam Dev, Kabir, Ravi Dass. These saints and Bhagats whom Nanak called as Sat Gurus were the preachers of the "Spirit of Budhism" which was already floating in the air.

BRAHMIN-BUDHIST CONFLICT
Maharashtra is the land of Nagas and Nagas were Budhists. Dr. Ambedkar on the eve of his conversion on Oct.14, 1956, Ashok Vijaya Dashmi, had clearly said that the Untouchables were the descendents of Nagas and Nagas were Budhists. There was a fierce enemity between the Aryans and the Nagas. The Aryans wanted to completely annihilate the Nagas. It was Budha who saved them from disintegration and extinction. Therefore Dr. Ambedkar says:
The Indian history is nothing but a history of mortal conflict between Budhism and Brahminism. It is a conflict of supremacy of Brahminism and Budhism.
As the Sikh gurus adopted the path of "Spirit of Budhism", they became the target of Brahminical forces in 1984 ("Blue Star Operation). A majority of the Sikhs killed were Dalit Sikhs.

NANAK ENLIGHTENED BY DALIT SAINTS
None of the Gurus right from Nanak to Guru Gobind Singh suppressed this fact but Brahminical forces in the guise of Sikhism are hiding this fact because of their racist mind. Nanak praised Untouchable saints mentioning their castes: Namdev (Chheepa), Kabir (Julaha), Ravidass (Chamar), Sain (Nai), Trilochan (Sudra) and said: "I have been enlightened by them". He called them Satgurus and called himself as Nanak Das, Nanak Neech, Nanak Garib.

Prof. Gurnam Singh has given plenty of references from the Adi Granth to expose the falsehood in his book, Juth Na bol Pande, in the name of Sikhism.
1. Nanak repeatedly salutes them and says there was darkness without them. (p. 89).
2. One who wants salvation (liberation) must salute the feet of Bhagats. (p.127).
3. In the Sangat of sadhus, and saints I have achieved happiness. (p.68).
4. You cannot get enlightenment without them. Bhagats are the purest people and real traders of truth. (p.90).
5. Nanak says: I have taken deeksha from them and surrendered my mind to them to get nirvan. (p.90).
6. I got the happiness and pleasure only when I placed the Sabad of Bhagats in my inner sense (p.66).
7. Light eats darkness. In the same way, recitation of Vedas eats the wisdom of a man.
8. Satguru is the ship which liberate from the fear of hell and salvation from Yamdut. (p.64).

These evidences are sufficient to prove that Nanak was not the founder of Sikhism or Sikh Lahar. The founders of Sikhism were Untouchable sants, Sadhu, Bhagat whom Nanak and other gurus called as sat guru, sat purukh.

RAMA PROTECTED BRAHMINS
Sikhism was a powerful revolution against Brahminism. Son of Dasharath, Rama, is the agent and protector of Brahminism, the philosophy of hate, inequality and violence. Sikhism is the philosophy of liberty, equality and fraternity. Rama has nothing to do with Sikhism.
Nam Dev says:
You will not get salvation by reciting Rama repeatedly. (p.98).
Rama, who could not protect his wife Sita, how he can protect you? (p. 53).
The last guru, Guru Gobind Singh, on the eve of foundation ofthe Khalsa gave his final verdict to Khalsa against Brahminism and Rama:
Do not worship Rama, Krishna, Brahma, Durga etc. (p.402).

MUSLIMS NOT ENEMIES OF SIKHS
Brahminical forces in the guise of Sikhism are propagating Brahminism in the name of Dasam Granth. They are converting Sikhs into anti-Muslim. Muslims were never the enemies of Sikhs. It was Birbal, the Brahmin, who conspired against Sikhism and instigated Mughal emperor Akbar against the Granth.
The land of Amritsar was given to Guru on lease by Akbar. The foundation of Darbara Sahib was laid by Mian Mir, a Muslim. Guru Arjun Dev equated Muslim saint Baba Farid in Adi Granth with other gurus. Muslims protected the family and children when Guru left Chamkaur Garhi to Machhibara forest. Not only this even a Muslim women gave her blue burka to protect Guru from the identification from enemies. (p.87).

Those who are misleading the Sikhs by injecting anti-Muslim hatred are doing great harm to Sikhism. It was the Brahmin Birbal, Sucha Singh and Gangoo Brahmins who conspired and sabotaged Sikh revolution.

AKAL PURUKH
Akal Purukh is the combination of two words Akal + Purukh. Akal means one who never dies. Purukh related with man. Akal Purukh, therefore, is natural and not supernatural. It has nothing to do with Brahma. Vishnu, Mahesh, whom Nanak called as illusion (p.132). It has also nothing to do with Rama and Krishna.

Akal Purukh is the another name of cause and effect. Akal Purukh never dies. It is related with creation and destruction character of man. According to it, a man dies but its elements water, air, fire, earth and consciousness, from which body of a man evolve, never die (Akal). These element create shape and destroy it, it has shape and also without shape (Nirankar).

" Creation and destruction" is the result of "cause and effect" of Budhist philosophy. These facts and evidences are sufficient to prove that the entire philosophy of guru is against Brahminism and continuation of the "Spirit of Budhism". Gurmat preached by the Untouchable Gurus continued till the last guru, Guru Gobind Singh.

Thus the Sikh Lahar was one, and there is a perfect continuity right from Nam Dev to Guru Gobind Singh. You can call this wave as wave of saints, sadhu, bhagat, gurus, satgurus or Sikh Lahar.