Re: How to fight Casteism?
Originally Posted by
devotee
Namaste Saideo, Atanu, TatTvamAsi & all,
I think my views are completely different from all of you.
I will like to say a few things :
) Should we accept everything whatever is written in our scriptures without examining whether it is really relevant today or not ?
-OM
Namaste Devotee,
I think that we are saying almost the same thing.
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. 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
The point is that one cannot wish away the Varna differences that are inherent in the Universe owing to their origin from the Lord Himself. It is up to us, whether we concentrate on the differences and forget the ONE. Or whether we see ONE sutra.
Om
Last edited by atanu; 01 October 2008 at 04:34 AM.
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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