The Brahmin community withheld the
rights to Vedanthas from the rest, for millenniums which in turn happened to be
the key reason of unawareness amongst Hindus about own religion. Majority of
Hindus are in oblivion as they fail finding apposite reasoning for their innate
belief, including me. For generations, they get engrossed with superstitious
thoughts and actions by default. Thus,
they crawl in obscurity without even knowing ‘what is god?’
‘The Guru’ was a torch held
spiritual reformer who tried nullifying the aftermaths of caste system in
Hinduism and the categorical monopoly of Brahmins towards Vendanta and religious
affairs. He denounced the fallacies associated with the caste system. Caste
system was incorporated by the mid of ‘Dwapara yuga’ and this bifurcation was
made in the basis of four main stream professions which was existed in the civilization
of that time. As centuries passed, caste began to be inherited rather than
getting acquired by merit or attributes.
Unfortunately this separation sneaked into the spiritual facet also
which caused building an indestructible barricade in the social order which
made so called lower caste’s life miserable over the time. Various castes and
sub-caste lead their life as per customized versions of customs and rituals correspondingly.
As a result, the word ‘caste’ kept on acquiring vindictive meanings. During ancient
times, non-Brahmins were prohibited to get exposed to Vedanta and Upanishads; lower
castes were cast off from versatility of the societal bliss. I heard that none
of the Vedas mentioned about Casteism! At the end, Swami Adisankaran was enlightened
that caste system was manmade and its social definition in existence is bizarre.
Swami Vivekanandan and Raja Ram Mohan Roy too tried to abolish ‘un-touchability‘
and to stamp out the weird notion about Casteism; the poisoning caused to the
world's eldest religion.
At present, for any socio religious
affairs castes and communities are being considered and society is both the
beneficiary and sufferer of this mechanism.
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