Re: How to fight Casteism?
chaturvarNayaM maya sRuShtaM guNakarmavibhAgaShaH |
tasya kartAramapi mAM viddhyakartAramavyayam ||
"According to the three modes of material nature and the work associated with them, the four divisions of human society are created by Me. And although I am the creator of this system, you should know that I am yet the nondoer, being unchangeable."
Namaste Friends,
"It is dangerous to discard traditional rules of conduct. Try to think and understand their significance."
Shri Ramana
The Gita verse and also the one from Purusha Suktam are amenable to two types of views:
View A. God has instituted the varna system and thus my Brahmana hood and the associated benefits are justified and the status quo should remain. OTOH, a Shudra rebels at the injustice. Or the vice versa (in modern Democracy).
View B. From God is the varna -- beginning with three basic varnas of White, Red, and Black. And these are contained in Him alone. So, where is varna? There is God alone.
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It is up to the individual ego to understand this way or that way and be responsible for the strifes or for the illumination.
Regards,
Om Namah Shivaya
That which is without letters (parts) is the Fourth, beyond apprehension through ordinary means, the cessation of the phenomenal world, the auspicious and the non-dual. Thus Om is certainly the Self. He who knows thus enters the Self by the Self.
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