CASTES In Indian Society Part- I

This Is Just The Start....

Just because of one statement in a “Smriti” people are taking an excuse to convert into other religions!

Yes, just one statement in Manu smriti has all the low class Hindus converting into other religions. What did he say … nothing he was just putting a classification of society during his period that’s all!!

One question, what is the importance of Manu Smriti in Indian Society at least at any given time? Did any King any Emperor ever mentions that he was ruling with those commandments! Nor there was any great attribute given to him even by normal people of our HUGE nation.

One great mistake in the WHOLE of VEDAS was that it said “The Brahmins formed the Mouth, Kshatriya’s the Arms, the Vyshya’s the things and Shudras’ from feet.”

What is the mistake, the mistake that it was mistranslated as “from” rather than “formed” which actually was the words in Sanskrit. What is the great offense if these two were written, are there any mention of ethnic cleansing or crusade’s against these people. It is even great to notice that any devotee would touch Lord's feet rather than his "Mouth" or "Arms".

Coming to today’s world don’t we have “caste’s”, do we really don’t have in modern societies. People are classified as Rich, Middle-Class and Lower-Class. No matter what the Hindu-caste one belongs all Rich Class is the same. They are capitalists who will take advantage of the middle class and working class. They manipulate try to get their relatives and acquaintances all the advantage of the society.

In Indian perspective a Politicians’ son becomes the next leader, a doctors’ son/daughter becomes a doctor, an industrialists’ son/daughter gets the next CEO post. In India it is common to accept this. Recently, Bhutto was assassinated and see who becomes next head of the party of course her son even if he doesn’t know even the ABCD of politics’ especially of Pakistan.

So, when education was of Veda’s and Upanishad’s a father would like his son to succeed him, is that so different than that is today.

In Indian cinema we find the same son’s, daughters are dominating today. Any one who is from outside find’s it really difficult to even have a good break into the industry. So do any new industrialist or any new political leader. And the main point to be seen here is that people will democratically choose these sons and daughters over any new entrant. This is all evident in today’s India. I think many would agree with me.

Let’s come down a little into the society how are we breaking it ourselves even without noticing that we are actually doing it.

I have found many youngster’s as well as old guy’s who would come down to fight when there are differences of opinion. If a group likes Lee would stand by it and argue with a Pepe jeans group. Nokia group would say it is the best when against Motorola or Sony Ericsson. And the main battle forms when it comes to whether it’s Sourav or Sachin and Amitabh or SRK.

It is just psychology of Humans to find equally thinking minds together and form a group. There are groups such as elite golf playing resorts. There are elite pub’s that allow only the most famous. There are elite planes for special who’s who of the society. For all these you need to be rich and famous. Do all the other 98% of the society as for reservation to enter these clubs????

These classifications are superficial and are not drawn in the constitution. Neither did in “any” period of Indian society. It was just classified as people of different professions that’s all.
Neither did these scriptures discriminate on “color” as the American’s do till today for Black’s.
Nor on “race” as Hitler did for Jews. Nor on “class” as Greek and Roman society were divided.

And there was no upward or downward moving of the people from one classification to another. A Black cannot become a White (one exception of Michael Jackson). A Jew cannot become any other unless converts to. A person needs to earn a lot of money in Greece or Roman but it was very tedious.

But the great flexibility that the Indian society had that a Brahmin born can become a Shudra just by taking up a job as carpenter or a cleaner. A Shudra can become a Kshatriya by acquiring a Kingdom. The best example is of Karna in Mahabharata.
A robber can become a Sage as Valmiki became by acquiring the Brahma Gyan. So there was never discrimination. Even Kings never showed this in their activities. Lord Ram ate fruits that were first tasted by Shabari who was a Shudra.

In Valmiki Ramayana it is written that “Rama ruled his country where every person was equal before him.”

Why don’t people read this one sentence and find that Lord Ram was more “Secular” than any of today’s pseudo secularists of this Nation.

There is a famous example for optimism. It goes like this…

When a glass is filled with half-water, an optimist sees “half filled” and a pessimist sees it “half empty.”

Today all these people who are against Hinduism have seen this half-empty. But, one more thing I want to bring into notice. Even this half-empty is not really empty. It is our ignorance of the great culture that is shown as empty. This ignorance is just created by Max Muller and his followers.

STOP LOOKING FROM A WESTERN EYES. SEE WITHIN AND YOU WILL FIND ANSWERS.