Human kind can be divided in four general categories: There are those who can think and intellectualize; they are the Brahmins; these include people like Abdul Kalam, Einstein and Gautam Sidharth. Then there are those who have the capacity to rule; these include people like Winston Churchil, Lal Bahadur Shashtri. There are others who can generate wealth; these include people like William Gates, Narayan Murthy and the Walton family. Lastly there are people who derive pleasure in service and these are people like Mother Theresa and Mahatma Gandhi. (extracted from the posting on Hindu Universe in this news)   King King Shantanu meets the fishergirl Satyavati and falls in love. Thus begins the great historical story of Mahabharata   Starting November 6, 2004, PVAF published news items about the basic essence of vARAN system created by grandfather creator pRjaapti bRH`maa in this universe we live in and current understanding and conundrum of peoples living their veDik lifestyle around the world by the DHARm of vARAN system...... Today PVAF continues to publish further commentaries on vARAN system based on the knowledge from various veD texts and real life experiences One of the veDik recommendation while reading any these commentary is for YOU to factor in the ordained effect of kli-yug on all creations as explained in yesterday's article and many other veD articles on this PVAF web site...This will help to remove many a questions in YOUR mind about the ambiguity of the practice of vARAN-DHARm in the present veDik time era we live in called kli-yug... The disintegration and corruption of vARAN system is due to mankind unable to live by the rules and regulations of DHARm to make vARAN system functional for the benefit and welfare of mankind on their eternal path of life-time journeys to achieve moKSH........the ultimate purpose of all YOUR life-time travels to date and to the rest of YOUR time in eternity..... moKSH state is where YOU as your aat`maa (soul) will experience pure suKH (bliss) in the form of aanND even being embodied with any body and form YOU may wish to take to perform DHaaARmik kARm as per the wish of creator bRH`m....  Please click on the next line to read the commentary which has been published directly as posted on the web site HINDU UNIVERSE ........

Varna System and the current caste system Posted on HINDU UNIVERSE by ekrishna on 02/12/00 We learned how human kind can be divided in four general categories. There are those who can think and intellectualize; they are the Brahmins; these include people like Abdul Kalam, Einstein and Gautam Sidharth. Then there are those who have the capacity to rule; these include people like Winston Churchil, Lal Bahadur Shashtri. There are others who can generate wealth; these include people like William Gates, Narayan Murthy and the Walton family. Lastly there are people who derive pleasure in service and these are people like Mother Theresa and Mahatma Gandhi. These categories do not match each other as per the current caste system. President Abdul Kalam is a Moslem, Einstein a Jew and Gautam sidharth a kshatriya. What happened? Is there a relationship between the Varna system that Krishna talked about in Gita and the caste system of today? There does not appear to be. Let me try to understand what might have happened. This is my speculation and I have no definite source for this thinking. Let us accept that there are four different kinds of people. Let us accept Krishna’s classification. One possibility is to find the potential of these people when they are young and then give them appropriate opportunity. This is not as simple as it sounds. Aptitude detection is one of the hardest challenges we face. The parents have difficulty detecting the potentials of a child as much has an institution when they go to school or a college. If we could channelize a singer into a music school and a painter into a painting school, life will be so wonderful for all of us. The same thing happened 2500 years or so ago when the King found out that his son is going to be an ascetic. The infant was no other than Gautam Sidhartha, the future Buddha. A saint came and proclaimed to the King that his son will be a saint. The King could not accept the destiny. He tried to change the fate by shielding the boy from anything that could lead him to becoming a saint. The boy grew up and became an adult. He was shielded from seeing any old age and any one die. He saw one death and one old age and his life changed. A Brahmin was born in the family of Kshatriya and the Kshatriya King was unable to deal with this child. It is possible that a system was put in place long time ago to avoid these mishaps. A system could have put in place to facilitate a Brahmin temperament soul to find a suitable place where his potential will have a better chance of becoming accepted. The journey is not limited to one life. Our journey continues from one life to another. I am a Brahmin. I have been meditating for a long time. I have been a scientist and have been involved in many inventions. I am going to die one day. I am not enlightened. My journey is not finished yet. I have to come back. What can facilitate me to come to a family and society where I can progress further from where I stand today. A system in my view was placed in the society then. The society then understood the journey from life to life better than we do today. Our scriptures describe the devaloka and pitriloka as if they were in touch with each other. There were some people who had researched in those areas to an extent that they could communicate with those spaces. It is therefore not inconceivable that this system in place created the caste system. The meaning was to facilitate different kinds of people to further themselves in their own areas. Accidents did happen in those times as well. Mahavira was born to a Kshatriya family as well. But, by and large the system worked well. This perhaps was one of the most important experiments performed in our history. What went wrong? How vulnerable was this system. The result is in front of our eyes. The caste system of today has become a hierarchical system and has been totally corrupted and it is no wonder that it does not work. The Brahmins were revered. The King used to travel to the Brahmin. Raja Dasarath would go to Guru Vashishtha and listen to what he has to say. He will never go against what Guru Vashishtha has to say. Guru will also not say something because he wants a favor from the King. What happens now? Many Gurus are known today by which politicians go to them. They are not important because they have something divine in them. They are important because they keep company with the Prime Minister or some other such body. The caste system of today has been corroded. Blames can be laid on several factors including the people in the higher pedestal at one time. The system is non-functional in strict sense. I agree with a reader of my previous column when he wrote: “VARNA SYSTEM is no more there for last 2000 years. It has met a natural death. In its place a discriminatory Caste System was installed.” It is unfortunate that the experiment based on Varna system had to end this way. However, that does not mean the classification is wrong. There are still four categories of people. They are no easier to identify and the system in place is not that helpful for channeling their potentials. The Varna system of classification still is as true as it was in Krishna’s time. The caste system on the other hand has met its demise. This is the reality although there are those who wish it were otherwise.

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