One More Look at the Caste System

“You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”—Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (IV.4.5)

Let us classify the castes (simplistic?) according to this principle:

If your deep, driving desire is for:

Knowledge and wisdom — then, you are a Brahmin

Power, authority, leadership — then, you are a Kshatriya

Money, resources — then, you are a Vaishya

Enjoyment — then, you are a Shudra

Someone commented: If so, a vast majority of the people in the world would love to be Shudras, isn’t it?

I replied: True, but without the acquisition of the other goods that the other higher castes are seeking, that enjoyment is precarious, hard to obtain, and cannot be sustained…and that does NOT mean the other castes are NOT enjoying…the Brahmin gets enjoyment from knowledge and wisdom, and that very knowledge and wisdom can bring in its train power, leadership, authority, money, resources, and enjoyment…but NOT necessarily in the measure in which the other castes are seeking them, but the Brahmin would have understood the significance of contentment, and therefore even if he has in less measure the goods that other castes have, he will still be as happy. But, every caste will have access to the goods of all the castes lower to it but very rarely access to the goods of the castes higher to it, if I can put it simplistically.

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Kerala Governor Claims British Introduced Caste System in Hinduism

Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar claims British introduced the caste system in India during census, changing social structures. Learn more.

#CasteSystem, #BritishIndia, #KeralaGovernor, #IndianHistory, #SocialJustice

https://newsletter.tf/kerala-governor-claims-british-introduced-caste-system-in-india/

Did the British create India's caste system? Kerala Governor Arlekar says yes, arguing Hinduism only had a 'varna' system before colonial rule. This changes how we see history.

#CasteSystem, #BritishIndia, #KeralaGovernor, #IndianHistory, #SocialJustice

https://newsletter.tf/kerala-governor-claims-british-introduced-caste-system-in-india/

Kerala Governor Says British Made Caste System in India

Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar claims British introduced the caste system in India during census, changing social structures. Learn more.

By shooting the Nazi ICE who will be enthusiastically grabbing brown voters as they head for the polls, or what?

How are "we" supposed to "ensure we have them?" Meaning elections. How? What is the magic wand, Democrats, you sell-outs since Reagan beat Carter, America's last chance to be anything but a Nazi state, as it turned out?

Pixie dust?
Frog costumes?
Should we call "our" representatives to beg them to ignore the billionaires funding their elections, but funding nothing else?

How are "we" supposed to "ensure we have them?" We are not elected. We don't have armies. Should we blow bubbles in the direction of our executioners?

We are admonished to never shoot back, for that might make the Nazis executing us at will really mad.

Now we're taxed twice - federal taxes and federal tariffs. This isn't democracy, and Congress is not our ally. It is our mortal enemy paying criminals, handing them weapons and allowing them to be masked, to shoot us dead in the streets for the sin of observing them.

Burn Congress to the ground. It represents Elon Musk's class, and nobody else.

Mamas, don't let your kids join the military, for it is fully supporting the murderers, killing boaters for the Nazi regime.

#America #ICE #elections #midterms #CasteSystem #corruption #fascism #Pentagon #Democrats #Republicans

The History of Sushruta and the Famous 'Indian Nose Job'

The famous Cowasji’s unknown “plastic surgeon” was not an elite Ayurvedist, but was nevertheless a skilled practitioner, and belonged to the larger traditions and knowledge-systems of medicine in the subcontinent.

by Dr. Kiran Kumbhar
The Wire
January 16, 2026

https://thewire.in/history/the-history-of-sushruta-and-the-famous-indian-nose-job


#India #Asia #caste #CasteSystem #bahujan #IndianNoseJob #NoseJob #surgery #PlasticSurgery #Ayurveda #Sushruta #SushrutaSamhita #Charaka #CharakaSamhita #Adivasi #Buddhism #Jainism #VedicSociety
The History of Sushruta and the Famous 'Indian Nose Job' - The Wire

The famous Cowasji’s unknown “plastic surgeon” was not an elite Ayurvedist, but was nevertheless a skilled practitioner, and belonged to the larger traditions and knowledge-systems of medicine in the subcontinent.

The Wire

Baba Adhav the grassroots campaigner and leader of the socially oppressed passed away at 96

An intrepid and committed social reformer and organiser of the urban working class, labourers, domestic workers, waste-pickers, Baba Adhav of the “Ek Gaon Ek Panavtha” (One Village One Water Source/Well), who challenged the caste system, died in Pune on Monday December 8

SabrangIndia
December 9, 2025

https://sabrangindia.in/baba-adhav-the-grassroots-campaigner-and-leader-of-the-socially-oppressed-passed-away-at-96/


#Asia #India #Pune #BabaAdhav #urban #UrbanWorkers #workers #labourers #RagPickers #caste #CasteSystem
Baba Adhav the grassroots campaigner and leader of the socially oppressed passed away at 96 | SabrangIndia

An intrepid and committed social reformer and organiser of the urban working class, labourers, domestic workers, waste-pickers, Baba Adhav of the “Ek Gaon Ek Panavtha” (One Village One Water Source/Well), who challenged the caste system, died in Pune on Monday December 8

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How a seventy-year-old Presidential Order still shapes Dalit life after conversion

Even after embracing new faiths, Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims continue to face caste-based exclusion. Yet a 1950 Presidential Order blocks them from constitutional protection.

by Khalil ur Rehaman
The Leaflet
December 6, 2025

https://theleaflet.in/equality/how-a-seventy-year-old-presidential-order-still-shapes-dalit-life-after-conversion


#Asia #India #untouchability #dalits #caste #CasteSystem #Hinduism #Christianity #Islam
How a seventy-year-old Presidential Order still shapes Dalit life after conversion

Even after embracing new faiths, Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims continue to face caste-based exclusion. Yet a 1950 Presidential Order blocks them from constitutional protection.

The Leaflet
President Lee calls for urgent reforms, warning that South Korea's financial system risks entrenching a 'financial caste' and demanding swift solutions.
#YonhapInfomax #PresidentLee #FinancialSystem #Reform #SouthKorea #CasteSystem #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
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