Video Information: : 22.02.2023, SPA College (Online), Greater Noida
Context:
~ Where did caste system originate?
~ What is Acharya Prashant's stand on caste?
~ Is caste system bogus?
~ Why does caste system exist in India?
~ How to resolve caste-based discrimination?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Context:
~ Where did caste system originate?
~ What is Acharya Prashant's stand on caste?
~ Is caste system bogus?
~ Why does caste system exist in India?
~ How to resolve caste-based discrimination?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~
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00:00 You should not even know somebody's caste.
00:05 That's what.
00:06 That's how caste disappears.
00:08 As long as you are interested in somebody's caste, what's your caste by the way?
00:15 If I am interested, then I am casteist.
00:20 Caste goes when you do not even know the other's caste.
00:24 And that's how the society must be.
00:26 You meet someone, that person is standing in front of you.
00:30 Assess him.
00:32 The person could be good, bad, virtuous, ill, evil, whatever.
00:41 The person is right there in front of you.
00:43 Why do you need to know his caste?
00:47 The person is sufficient.
00:48 Is he not?
00:51 If he is sick, you want to help him or would you ask for his caste?
00:59 And if he is arrogant, you want to show him his place.
01:03 You don't want to inquire into his caste.
01:06 Getting it?
01:09 Yes, yes, I understand.
01:14 Closer to your age.
01:16 There is a beautiful girl and she is beautiful and she appears intelligent also.
01:24 In many ways, she is someone you want to approach.
01:29 And you approach her.
01:31 And the first thing you ask is, "What's your caste?"
01:37 How do you sound?
01:38 Who are you?
01:39 What kind of beastly question is this?
01:46 So it's a non-issue.
01:49 It's a non-issue and those who are still keeping this issue burning, they should be brought
01:55 to justice.
01:56 What's the point?
01:57 What's the point?
01:58 Why are you still interested in raising this again and again?
02:04 Why this bogey?
02:05 You will never have a complete absence of duffers, you see.
02:16 Even I suppose after 100 years from today, you will continue to have people who believe
02:21 in things like purity of blood.
02:23 They will say, "We have this kind of blood, falana blood and therefore we cannot marry
02:31 into some other caste or something.
02:33 The blood will become impure."
02:34 Covid came to teach them what blood really is.
02:40 Or a road accident.
02:43 The best teacher.
02:45 When you require immediate blood transfusion, you inquire into the caste of the blood donor,
02:52 you will die.
02:53 And then you in fact do not.
02:56 Because you know in your own heart that all this is just sham and your son is dying and
03:02 you say, "Please, please, please, let me be positive."
03:04 You do not say, "I want only Brahmin or Kayasth or Rajput be positive."
03:12 You don't do that.
03:13 Or do you do that?
03:14 No.
03:15 Then all these notions of superiority and purity of blood, they just vanish.
03:20 The thing is we all are people of mixed blood now.
03:28 Think of your own lineage.
03:30 Somebody in your line must have had a blood transfusion at some point in time.
03:35 Either your father or grandfather or somebody.
03:39 So you have mixed blood.
03:40 So have I.
03:41 Everybody has mixed blood.
03:43 So caste is gone anyway.
03:47 Finished.
03:51 Even if you go to the scriptures, they are very clear.
03:55 Very clear.
03:57 Jayate Shudra.
03:59 The one who takes birth is Shudra.
04:02 The meaning is very clear.
04:03 The body is Shudra.
04:09 So there is no difference at the time of birth.
04:13 Only the beast is born.
04:16 And then depending on how you navigate through life, the kind of choices you make, the status
04:23 of your consciousness is determined.
04:28 How can caste be something that comes by birth?
04:33 [Music]