Continuing with its focus on Dalit icon Dr B R Ambedkar, the RSS once again invoked his teachings for the “resolution of several problems the world is facing”. Addressing a gathering at Vishwa Sangha Shibir in Indore Saturday, RSS Sarsanghachalak Mohan Bhagwat underlined Ambedkar’s ideas to resolve the conflict between equality and liberty, environment and development. “Dr Ambedkar said, ‘I did not learn equality, liberty and fraternity from the French revolution. I have adopted these from the ideas of Tathagat Buddha who was born here’,” Bhagwat said. Noting that the world has experienced that coexistence of equality and liberty is difficult, he said, “The only way to bring these two together is bandhubhaav (fraternity) and bandhubhaav is called as dharma,” he said. Bhagwat and former ISRO chief G Madhavan Nair stressed on the ancient Indian way of learning. Bhagwat said British “destroyed our education system”. “Bodhayan Shilpsutra had enunciated what came to be known as the Pythagoras’ theorem nine centuries later,” he said. Underlining the knowledge during the Vedic period, Nair said, “When others were living in caves, we had nice town planning, dwelling system, well organised townships.scientific computation behind astrology was very unique,” he said, adding that the movements of stars, planets, celestial objects and their trajectories had been very precisely tabulated in ancient India.
