22 Jul 2024
[Ms. Geetha Lahari asked:- Paadanamaskaaram, Swami. The first generation of souls were having caste based on birth as decided by God. Next future generations of souls had freedom to choose the caste and hence, it was decided based on qualities and deeds. You also said that the first generation means the entire Satya Yuga, which spans for 32 lakh years. In that case, the soul, which is born as Brahmana by birth would be blessed with knowledge regarding God and will reach the abode of God easily compared to the souls of other three castes. Isn't it the partiality of God that makes the spiritual journey of the first Brahmana soul inherently easy and fast. Please enlighten me. -At Your Divine lotus feet, Geetha Lahari]
Swami replied:- God created four souls containing pure awareness. He assigned one duty to one soul and another duty to another soul. How can you say that partiality exists here? You have taken four bottles filled with pure water. You have added four different colours separately to four different bottles. One bottle can get one colour only. All the four bottles have equal probability of getting any specific colour.
In Satya Yuga, there was no free will. The children of the first soul, who were assigned a specific caste by God, learnt the knowledge of that profession without any choice. Learning knowledge always depends on the atmosphere in which a specific child grows up. Hence, the descendants of that caste became proficient in that knowledge generation by generation in Satya Yuga, especially in the absence of free will. Later on, in other Yugas, the free will was given by God and hence, there was freedom in selecting any line of knowledge that belongs to any caste. Hence, the definition of caste system was changed after Satya Yuga. In Satya Yuga, the definition was that caste was decided by birth. Later on, in other Yugas, the definition is that caste is decided by qualities and deeds possessed by an individual and not by birth.
Now, your objection is that Brahmanas were favoured for a long time in Satya Yuga to be in the spiritual knowledge than other castes. Here, you have committed a fundamental mistake. The Brahmanas are supposed to preach the spiritual knowledge to all other castes. The spiritual knowledge was not preserved among Brahmanas only. All other castes received the entire spiritual knowledge from the Brahmanas. God favours those, who practice spiritual knowledge. A Brahmana may be the preacher of spiritual knowledge but may not practice it. A receiver of that spiritual knowledge from a Brahmana belonging to another caste may practice it and receive the grace of God. A teacher of Physics is teaching Physics to a class and clarifying doubts for all students. The son of that teacher may be in that class. Being father, does the teacher give any extra knowledge to his son?
Partiality is meaningless because any water bottle has equal probability of getting any colour by chance. The subsequent procedure in Satya Yuga and other Yugas also does not have any partiality because preaching of spiritual knowledge does not mean practicing it and achieving the divine result. All are preached and anyone taking real interest and practicing it gets the divine fruit.
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