Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Writings and Speeches Vol. 4

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Riddles in Hinduism –An Exposition to enlighten the masses. (All individual Essays compiled by the editorial team of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar source material publication committee.)

• The Difficulty of Knowing why one is a Hindu
• The Origin of the Vedas – The Brahminic Explanation or an exercise in the art of circumlocution
• The Testimony of other Shastras on the origin of the Vedas
• Why suddenly the Brahmins declare the Vedas to be infallible and not to be questioned?
• Why did the Brahmins go further and declare that the Vedas are neither made by man nor by God?
• The Contents of the Vedas: Have they any moral or spiritual value?
• The turn of the tide Or How did the Brahmins declare the Vedas to be lower than the lowest of their Shastras?
• How the Upanishads declared war on the Vedas?
• How the Upanishads came to be made subordinate to the Vedas?
• Why did the Brahmins make the Hindu Gods fight against one another?
• Why did the Brahmins make the Hindu Gods suffer to rise and fall?
• Why the Brahmins did dethrone the Gods and enthrones the Goddesses?
• The Riddle of the Ahimsa
• From Ahimsa to Himsa
• How did the Brahmins Wed an Ahimsak God to a Bloodthirsty Goddess?
• The Riddle of the Vedas
• The Riddle of the Vedanta
• The Riddle of the Triomurti
• Smarth Dharma and Tantrik Dharma
• The Infallibility of the Vedas
• The Four Varnas- Are the Brahmins sure of their origin?
• The Four Ashramas- the Why and How about them.
• Manu’s madness or the Brahmanic explanation of the origin of the mixed castes.
• The Change from Paternity to Maternity. What did the Brahmins wish to gain by it?
• Kali Varjya or the Brahminic art of suspending the operation of Sin without calling it Sin.
• The Riddle of the Varnashram Dharma.
• Compulsory Matrimony
• The Theory of Manvantra
• Brahma is not Dharma. What good is Brahma?
• Kali yuga- Why have the Brahmins made it unending?
• The Riddle of the Kali Yuga.
• The Riddle of Rama and Krishna.