Hindu council UK, has carried out this report on Varna:
http://www.hinducounciluk.org/report...e-caste-system
In a nutshell:
In an office we have top managers, middle mangers, secretaries and cleaners, for office to work, all individual jobs/functions are required to work together, there is no higher or lower jobs as they are all necessary.
No one part of the human body
(society) is inferior or superior to
any other part of the body; each
is dependent on the other,
complementary to the other,
there to support the other.Purusha Suktacommands
Hindus to understand that none
of the four classes is inferior or
superior to the other but that
each is dependent on the other
for its surviva
There will be higher wages, but that is different to spiritual equality of people who carry out whatever function.
Dignity of labour to all functions.
http://www.paklinks.com/gs/religion-...-casteism.htmlRigveda 1.117.21
The King and minister should sow seeds and do farming from time to time to set right examples for Arya. This makes them deserving of praise.
To underscore the contention that the varna classes were not intended to be fixed and exclusionary, a scriptural reference and an anecdote are instructive. In the early Vedic times, the Varna system meant classes had free mobility of jobs and intermarriage. To substantiate this, the Rig Veda IX. 112.3 hymn contains: "I am a bard, my father is a physician, my mother's job is to grind the corn....”
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