06 Mar 2022
[Shri Anil asked: Swami, in Thrylokya Gita Chapter-14, You mentioned that “The first four souls born from different limbs of the divine body of God are born with the qualities of those specific limbs. And the first Brahmana was really the Brahmana by birth. This first Brāhmaṇa soul was Brāhmaṇa by birth since it was the plan of God. We agree in accepting the first Brāhmaṇa soul as Brāhmaṇa by birth having the qualities of Sattvam or knowledge and also Brāhmaṇa by practice.”
Based on the above context kindly clarify my following question.
Were the first souls created by God based on qualities or profession? It seems that they were classified based on qualities since it is stated that the first-born Brahman was a real Brahman by birth. And as we go towards the other 3 castes, Rajas and Tamas qualities increases in the other 3 three castes even for the first -born souls. When we grade the first-born souls in each caste, there is a gradation in their qualities. Therefore, we can say that the 1st Brahmana was the best among the 4 castes, the person born in the 2nd caste is relatively best compared to the remaining 2 castes and so on.
The above case is again supported by the acceptance of argument of 99% cases of decision of caste by birth. Only 1% exception is seen based on the qualities and subsequent deeds. Did God purposefully create the first soul in the Brahmana caste as the best and the remaining souls in the remaining 3 castes as bad in qualities in increasing order? Swami kindly clarify on this. At Your Lotus Feet-anil]
Swami replied: The first soul created by God from His face is given those qualities that are necessary for their subsequent deeds. Before the donation of those qualities to the soul created by God, the soul has no inherent credit of any greatness. All four souls created by God are exactly equal to each other and the four sets of qualities are distributed among the four souls so that each soul gets one set of qualities. You have taken four cups of milk and added four different colors to those four cups of milk so that each cup gets one color. Suppose, you feel that red color is topmost and blue color is lowest. Can I say that you have favored one cup with red color and you have disfavored another cup with blue color? Will you accept the partiality? You have to add one color to one cup and that cup can be any cup. How can I blame you with partiality? You cannot add red color only to all the cups.
Who has decided that the red color is the topmost and the blue color is the lowest? We say that this gradation is wrong by itself. No color is greater than any other color. These are just four different colors. If the soul born from face is thought to be great by preaching the spiritual knowledge, We say that the person practicing the spiritual knowledge is greater than the preacher of the spiritual knowledge. Now again, can you blame partiality due to greater practice than mere preaching theory. This becomes not only endless but also, a meaningless fight.
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