---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote :
Well we certainly wouldn't want those untouchables and other lower castes running off and joining another religion. Who would we look down our noses at? Right.I think Ravi is just being opportunistic here, being one of the televangelistic gurus in India, he simply appeals to the main stream Hindu oppinion. Interestingly enough, the father of the Indian constitution Dr. Ambedkar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._R._Ambedkar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._R._Ambedkar who was a dalit himself converted to Buddhism, and actually founded the modern Buddhist movement in India Dalit Buddhist movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit_Buddhist_movement You will see his statue in almost every Indian village. Unfortunately his plan, to make Buddhism again a leading religion in India, and basically make all dalits convert to it, never took off, soon after his conversion he died. On SSRS part, this whole thing is pure hypocrisy. Ambedkar invented a system of quotas, to allow low caste Indians to study, I know high caste Indians who converted to Christianity just to be able to study medicine. They never become Christians really, and everybody knows by their name, which caste they belong to. If SSRS really wanted to reduce conversions, he should propose something more effective to abolish the caste system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit_Buddhist_movement Dalit Buddhist movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclo... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit_Buddhist_movement The Dalit Buddhist movement (dubbed as Navayana by certain Ambedkerites)[1] is a 19th and 20th-century Buddhist revival movement in India. It received its most... View on en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit_Buddhist_movement Preview by Yahoo From: aryavazhi <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 9:15 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] AOL wants to make changing your religion illegal in India. "Conversions should not happen in any religion. There are many instances of conversion through allurements. That should also stop and a law should be enacted for this purpose." ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar as reported by Press Trust of India http://www.ptinews.com/news/5561199_Sri-Sri-Ravi-Shankar-for-law-banning-conversion.html http://www.ptinews.com/news/5561199_Sri-Sri-Ravi-Shankar-for-law-banning-conversion.html
