Saying that caste system has to be there in this day and age is like saying racism has to be there

or slavery has to be there. Do you know where racism and slavery are practiced the most in the world today? It is South Asia. The same region where casteism is also present. We have some problems that we have to address. Whenever the issue of caste is raised the defenders of caste immediately point to the theory of caste system and blame the corrupt system for what it is today. It is predominantly the upper castes who make these statements because they have the most to lose if the caste system falls apart. You will rarely hear a lower caste or an untouchable make this argument. A caste system is absolutely unnecessary if a person is to lead a life based on his/her ability. It is very common to hear Indians compare the caste system to individuals in other societies and in India itself following a profession based on their passion for that profession. The difference is night and day. All engineers for example do not belong to a specific caste. A Brahmin and a Sudra can be an engineer. But the Sudra engineer can never dream of marrying the Brahmin engineer although their abilities are the same. I am not aware of any document generated by an elected government that lists the skills that a person has to have to be in a particular caste. Before the requirements for each caste are finalized we should also make sure that the standards are acceptable to all members of Indian society. This way a kid born to a Sudhra will know that if he does A, B, and C then he will be a Brahmin. Some of the tasks that the Sudhras do like cleaning the streets, toilets or cremation can be easily learnt by all including Brahmins. So maybe a Brahmin would be a caste that would have the ownership of mastering the scriptures and at the same time cleaning the streets in front of their houses!! Ability is a combination of various factors including genes and social conditions. A lot of knowledge transfer takes place between the parents and the kids. So if a persons parents are illiterate farmers then the chances of their kids becoming experts in scriptures and therefore becoming Brahmins are negligible. If the farmers kids and their grand kids keep trying they may one day become expert in scriptures. The notion that a person who is a Shudra is servicing society by producing day-to-day needs is not correct. A shudra is doing it because he/she has no

other choice. To gain the skill set to compete with the rest of us will take him/her generations and time and money that they do not have. So the concept that all human beings are equal (except in their ability) is a wrong one. The upper castes in India have enjoyed certain benefits that the lower castes in India have not had for hundreds of years. We cannot ask people to compete on abilities when half of them cannot even read or write!! We know through DNA analysis that caste system in India is thousands of years old and is much more complex than a grouping that is based on profession or a persons ability. With a few exceptions older migrants to India from Africa are predominantly the lower castes and the newer migrants from parts of Europe and Central Asia are the Brahmans and the upper caste. Abilities of human beings and human life experiences are much more complex. A person can be an engineer during the day and a farmer during the weekend or vice versa. A person can be interested in scriptures in the teens and then decide to become meat trader later in life. A person can be a plumber and a blogger. Physical attractions between individuals are not limited to their abilities. It is natural for people with totally different abilities to feel attracted to each other. So we should stop the discussion of caste based on some infantile explanations in the Vedas, Upanishads or Gita (written by people with vested interests) and then try to focus on the real issue. The truth is that casteism is nothing but another form of racism. It is a form of segregation and a form of discrimination. There is absolutely no justification for it. A person who is born in a lower caste cannot marry an upper caste, cannot enter the house of a Brahmin, may not be able to enter certain temples, cannot perform Poojas and may have to live in a different part of the town. All this will be true even if the lower caste person is Albert Einstein. This is not corruption of the system. This is how it always was. This is the reality in India today and it is definitely not acceptable. Just like racism and slavery this is not a system that has to be reformed but this is a system that has to be thrown out.

First of all the Aryan and Dravid have been proven false, it was the brain child of british to break the unity of Bharat. Dr.Ambedkar teared apart the theory of Aryan invasion theory. Even in West, 4 class of people could be found. Clergy, Warrior, Merchant and Servers. Servers or Shudra is not at all a vile caste. It was not considered as low. As per Veda, Shudra is one who is devoid of knowledge. So, every man or women is shudra by birth. They have to acquire Brahmana by austerity. India fell when this caste system became hereditary. Even by the abolishment of caste system, no one can alter the inclination towards a certain field. Someone will be attracted to mystics or spirituality, eager to know the life after death, some one will be attracted to administration, warfare, someone to making money or someone will work for society. The person making shoes, cloths etc should not be considered as low. They are serving society by fulfilling daily needs. Even they can be a Brahman by practicing spirituality. The Byadh Gita is one of the great example where a killer of animal delivered profound wisdom to a Brahmin. So, caste system is natural inclination, not a tool for ruling, though it was most misused.

The following is a quote from Dr. Lalji Singh who is a Padma Shri award winner and a fellow at the Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology (Hyderabad): The present day Indian population is a mixture of two ancestral groups of the prehistoric period Ancestral North Indians (ANI) and Ancestral South Indians (ASI). We should stop blaming the British and start looking at scientific data. Words like Aryan and Dravidian are just generic terms and their meanings can be debated. But what cannot be debated is what our DNA is telling us. What it tells us is that over the past 60,000 years or so many groups of people have migrated to India from Africa and the Middle East. There is also a group that has migrated to India from the Steppes (Central Asia/Southern Russia). We can call these groups whatever we want but we cannot keep denying their existence. They are our ancestors. If you have any doubt, send you DNA to a lab for testing as I did. My DNA clearly tells me that I am one of those people whose ancestors are from Southern Russia. Most Brahmins fall into this category!! You continue to equate caste (which is determined by birth) to groups that are based on professions. To propagate the myth that caste is equivalent to profession you point to scripture. But there is a problem of logic. You cannot point to scripture to support beliefs that are based on scripture. It is like saying that Christianity is the true religion because the Bible says so!! Where is the independent evidence to suggest that the caste system that the scriptures talk about, and what you believe in, was different then from what it is today? What is special about dividing society into 4 groups based on their profession? Why cant we divide it into 8 groups based on profession, why can we not divide people into groups based on how much weight they can lift? What is the basis for a Sudra becoming a Brahmana based on knowledge? Why cant this be based on how many kids, land or gold he/she or has? The system you are describing would mean that some Sudras would have advantage over other Sudras depending on education, social status and wealth of their parents. The only way this can be avoided is if when a kid is born to a Brahman the kid is taken away from the parents and made to live with Sudra kids!! Therefore a Sudra whose parents have reached Brahmana status has a much better chance of becoming a Brahmana himself/herself than a Sudra whose parents are still at Sudra level. By putting the emphasis

on Knowledge over other things like money, land, physical attributes, kids etc. the Brahmanas have rigged the system because they already had control over knowledge!! You are stating that India fell when this caste system became hereditary. Can you tell us when this happened? DNA indicates that caste system based on ANI and ASI existed thousands of years ago. This was in place even before the Vedas were written. How do the authors of the Vedas know what the caste system was thousands of years before their time?

As regards the Gita, you have mentioned Krishna says in Chapter 4, sloka 13, chAturvarnyam mayA srushtam guna karma vibhAgasha: .. The four characteristics which classify people based on character (attitude) and Action are created by me. This is the correct meaning. Krishna says here VARNYAM (characteristics) and not varnam (classification). Look at the missing Y.This is fallacy of Sanskrit. Ramayana was written by Valmiki who in present day context is DALIT, he praised LORD RAM. Krishna is from YADAV community who is OBC/SC in present caste system even Brahmins worship him without seeing his caste. SO HOW COME THERE IS CASTE SYSTEM IN HINDU RELIGION. Purans, Manu Smritis are not be taken as authentic one as true version of these are diffAs per the Genetics is concerned it is purely biological. Several types of races did exist around vedic age, also in India (better to say Aryavarta). So, there may be difference in DNA, but that should not be criteria of castism, as people did not know about DNA and genetics, but classification could be done by physical characteristics like skin, height etc. So, even before Vedas, human society were divided, but when civilization crystallized so there must be need to address to solve the issue. So, varna as per the classification of mental inclination or qualities came in the picture. It was not based on upper caste lower caste and included any sense of inferiority. But later it was degraded and Brahmins became superior. Upanishads are called Vedanta the end of Veda. Such insult was made by Brahmins as the high philosophy of Vedanta was realized by Khastriya. But in Upanishad probably first attempt was made to find the common origin of human, and that was Brahman. Everything is Brahman. So, caste (not varna) concept is totally negated here. As I have repeated that Varna was developed as per the inclination of mind so there is nothing wrong in it. Well, I was reading one article on Kashmiri Pandits. It says that who ever comes to higher studies in Kashmir (Kashmir was supposed to be the best education hub after Kashi in those times)be it of any caste has been awarded the title of Pandit (which means knowledgible). Also I know few rainas and and bhats from kashmir. They too in the agreement that not all of the kashmiri hindus are Brahmin, but they all have been refered to Pandit. So it was immaterial even in those days when our forefathers havent born yet.