Buddha, Hinduism, Mithraism, Baha'i, & etc.Hindusim and the caste system"I brought it up simply to show that Hinduism has never been concerned with civil rights. As to how some professed Christian's treat people that is between them and God since the Bible does not teach or approve what they do."
i think you have misunderstood. the castesystem is bad, and hinduism does not endorse it. the gita only says:
"In the Bhagavad Gita, Ch.4, Verse 13
The Lord says:
"The fourfold caste has been created by Me
according to the differentiation of Guna and Karma;"
In the Bhagavad Gita, Ch.18, verse 40 the
Lord says:
"There is no being on earth, or again in heaven among the
gods, that is liberated from the three qualities born of Nature."
Gita Ch. 18, V.41:
"Of Brahmanas, Kshtriyas and Vaishyas, as also the Sudras,
O Arjuna, the duties are distributed according to the qualities
born of their own nature."
"
what it means is that we are born with different capabilities, and that we must do. some feel they're calling is to be a cop (kshaktriya) or to be a priest (brahmin). but of course, over time the brahmins changed the caste system to be based on your birth. if you are born into a warrior family, then you automatically become a warrior. but this is not said in scripture. due to man and his temptation to become selfish, he has perversed the caste system to become discriminatory. once a person is born into a family of that work, then he must do that work. this differs from what scriptures says about how the work must be determined on a persons' individual skills and abilities and gifts, not by birth. and so man has perversed it into a system of high and low, and outcasts. this is what is called the caste system.
this discrimination is not based on the color of skin - varna (color). it is often mistaken to be, but how can it? are there white people? red people? black people? no. color of skin varies from work one does. if one spends a lot of time in the sun, they become dark. if one lives in the himalaya mountains, they are of course light in skin.
also the whole aryan invasion theory is false.
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