[Advaita-l] Personal - Advaita and Caste System

[chetan nagaraja]

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Chetan



On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Satish Arigela <satisharigela at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Caste system, and varNa system are good things. They are not divisive.
>
> Why would an advaitin or anybody abolish something good.
>
> What kind of a screwed up fool would want to abolish the caste system?
>
> It is not uncommon to see most modern Indians still hang on to such
> ^%$^$#-up
> notions!
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Suresh <mayavaadi at yahoo.com>
> To: advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
> Sent: Wed, October 27, 2010 10:25:21 PM
> Subject: [Advaita-l] Advaita and Caste System
>
> Namaste,
>
> I understand that caste system was an integral part of Indian society, but
> isn't
> it strange that advaitins did nothing to abolish it? I can understand
> dvaitins
> and the rest maintaining caste system - they believe in distinctions, not
> only
> between souls and God but also between the souls themselves. But advaita
> preaches a lofty ideal, namely oneness.
>
>
> How could such people preach the divisive (not to mention racist) caste
> system
> on the one hand and the noble idea of nondualism on the other? It is so
> contradictory and baffling.
>
> I hope someone can shed some light on this. I also hope no one takes my
> post the
> wrong way. At least to me, advaita and caste system are like light and
> night -
> they seem to have nothing in common. So it seems to me that the advaitins,
> from
> Sankara to Vivekananda to the latest guru, all had a good chance to reform
> Hindu
> society - and failed to do so.
>
> Suresh
>
>
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