Why do we ask the caste of people?
- Pratik Bachani
- Feb 28, 2021
- 1 min read
I and Natasha were working in a restaurant. Natasha - very calm and wise girl and I was elvish. Still we both were very good friends. One evening, during our meaningless conversation, I asked her caste and race. She was quiet. I mocked her and asked the same question. She got irritated and angrily asked me, “what do you want to do knowing my caste?” I replied, “Nothing. I ask this to everyone.” She questioned, “But why do you ask this?”. This time I was quiet. Over time I realized that this habit had inadvertently taken root in me as well, because of the conservative society and racism in the social environment where I was raised. In fact, there are only three human beings on earth, female, male and the third gender. We bring many things with us in India, which is not globally acceptable. Moving on the spiritual life, we need to become conscious of ourselves and get to know this kind of nature and habits as well as destroy them from the roots to bring social change in our life.
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Bharat had Varna System not Caste system & both have a huge difference in concept. The caste term is an origination of Portuguese word "casta", the shastras always prescribe the concept of varna system. During the course of colonisation the varna system was dismantled to weaken the Indic community. However one even can't deny the degeneracy effects of caste system in the present, many parts of Bharat are still engrained in caste based politics & in social behavioral aspect. Caste system should be razed down systematically through administration & at societal level. We should approach & take the society to the Vedic Varna System.
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