15 Jul 2018
Shri Hrushikesh (On Phone):- How nice You explained the entire logic behind caste system! But, my friend is rigid on his own old argument only. Now, he has entered into a new topic of human incarnation!
Swami replied:- A student memorized the definition of Newton’s laws of motion only. If you ask any other law in science, he repeats the same definition and you are dumb stuck with surprise. The student says “See. By my reply, the other side became silent!” Do you think that any further reply to such student has any use? You will say to him “yes. You are correct” and then leave from that place thinking that further conversation with him will lead to your admission into a mental hospital! Hence, the saying resulted that a rigid person is stronger than mighty king. I like to modify this saying by saying that a rigid person is stronger than even Almighty.
The deservingness of receiver is important for preaching spiritual knowledge (Jnaana Adhikaarii). In the absence of such deservingness, even though the preacher is God and the preached knowledge is excellent, there will be no use. Even if you throw good seeds (concepts of true knowledge) on a rock (rigid fellow), even though the cloud rains (grace of God), there is no trace of use. Hence, even God fails in such case and God Himself said in the Gita that one should not move such rigid people having little knowledge and the rest filled with the rigidity of ignorance (taanakrutsnavido mandaan...). God Krishna tried to convince Kauravaas, but, could He succeed? They tried to tie Him with rope. He did justice through war, but, Gaandhaari (mother of Kauravaas) gave Him curse that He will be killed along with His family! Shankara tried to convince Abhinava Gupta (Shaakteya), but, he killed Shankara through black magic! Swami Dayaananda tried to convince people on caste and gender, but, blind traditional people killed Him by poisoning food! Jesus tried to preach true spiritual knowledge, but, egoistic and jealousy people crucified Him! Hence, people undeserving to digest the spiritual knowledge will never change and permanent hell is the only leftover solution for them as said in the Gita (Taanaham dvishatah...).
Your friend talked about protection of religion. Before its protection, you must identify the real portion of religion established by God and ancient sages. There was a recent middle period in which the blind tape recorder-priests have introduced certain ignorant concepts as tradition. Their ignorance is well understood, which is due to lack of study of the meaning of the scripture. Such ignorant concepts got mixed with the true religion. The Ganga river even after mixing with Yamuna river is called as Ganga river only till she joins the sea! Hence, before protecting the religion, you have to isolate these blind ignorant traditions and make the religion pure. In doing such filtration, you have to base on a simple concept that God will not speak the concepts, which are unjust and illogical.
There is a Sanskrit verse, which says “all old is not gold and all latest is not the best”. You have to examine both old and new through sharp analysis and find out the truth. You have to accept that truth whether it is old or latest. A rigid fool follows only either old or new blindly without analysis (Puraanamityeva na saadhu sarvam, na chaapi sarvam nava mityavadyam, santah pariikshyaanyatarat bhajante, muudhah parpratyayaneyabuddhih). There is another Sanskrit verse which says that a rigid fool drinks only salt water from a well neglecting the sweet drinking water even though available, saying that the well was dug by his father! (Taatasya kuupoyamiti bruvaanaah, kshaaram jalam kaapurushaah pibanti). This adulteration of religion is present in all the world religions and quarrels are coming only due to these impurities mixed as wrong insertions. If you filter all the world religions from these inserted impurities, you will be astonished to find the same one true religion that is collected as the filtrate in the filtration of every religion!
Especially, Hinduism is contaminated with this caste-gender system like a healthy person effected by cancer, which led to splits and its weakness. Why this difference of caste and gender exist by the birth of the body with which especially the qualities of the individual soul are not at all connected? Birth and death belong to the body only and not to the soul and qualities exist in the soul only and not in the body. Body does the work or deed (karma) as per the quality (guna) of the soul only. In such case, the quality of the soul is the final authority. The soul having good qualities is sent to a family having good souls for its encouragement and such family is again decided by the similar qualities only and not by mere birth. In these concepts, the body and its birth- place are not important. The contents of the letter are important and not the outer postal cover. If you say rigidly that qualities are transferred from one generation to the other (which is against the theory of genes) by saying that God transfers the qualities to the next generation by His unimaginable power, then, why persons having different qualities are seen in the so called fixed caste? Gender is worst since the difference is created between two issues born to the same parents in the same caste! In such case, how can you find great female Vedic scholars in the Vedic age?
Coming to the topic of human incarnation raised by your friend, the main characteristic (proof) of human incarnation of God is excellent spiritual knowledge (Prajnaanam) because it is this knowledge only that gives right direction to the devotion and practical sacrifice and service. If right direction is not there, both devotion and practice go in the opposite wrong direction. It is for this purpose, God incarnates in human form on this earth frequently because His preached knowledge gets contaminated every time with bacteria by wrong interpretations. When the cooked food is spoiled after some time, the mother cooks food again and serves it to her family members. Love and miracles are also associated secondary characteristics of God in the sense that they are also found elsewhere. Knowledge supported by love and miracles is the main proof to recognize the human incarnation since the actual need for any human being is to get right direction through true spiritual knowledge either in worldly life or in spiritual life. The human incarnation is having two components mixed homogeneously to result in a single phase. The first component is ‘Sat’ or God, who is charging the second component called as the human being-medium, which is ‘Guru’ or human being or tyat. Such human incarnation coming for the main purpose of preaching the true spiritual knowledge is called as Satguru. Sages accepted Krishna as Satguru thorough the Gita. Scholars accepted Shankara, Ramaanuja and Madhva as Satgurus through their commentaries only. Jesus was accepted as Satguru by wise western scholars through His Bible. Mohammad was accepted as Satguru by elite Muslims through His Quran. Buddha was accepted as Satguru through His four preachings by learned Buddhists and so on.
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