How to get rid of caste system in India? || Acharya Prashant

Acharya Prashant

Video Information: : 22.02.2023, SPA College (Online), Greater Noida  Context: ~ Where did caste system originate?  ~ What is Acharya Prashant's stand on caste?  ~ Is caste system bogus? ~ Why does caste system exist in India?  ~ How to resolve caste-based discrimination?   Music Credits: Milind Date ~~~~~

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00:00 You should not even know somebody's caste.

00:05 That's what.

00:06 That's how caste disappears.

00:08 As long as you are interested in somebody's caste, what's your caste by the way?

00:15 If I am interested, then I am casteist.

00:20 Caste goes when you do not even know the other's caste.

00:24 And that's how the society must be.

00:26 You meet someone, that person is standing in front of you.

00:30 Assess him.

00:32 The person could be good, bad, virtuous, ill, evil, whatever.

00:41 The person is right there in front of you.

00:43 Why do you need to know his caste?

00:47 The person is sufficient.

00:48 Is he not?

00:51 If he is sick, you want to help him or would you ask for his caste?

00:59 And if he is arrogant, you want to show him his place.

01:03 You don't want to inquire into his caste.

01:06 Getting it?

01:09 Yes, yes, I understand.

01:14 Closer to your age.

01:16 There is a beautiful girl and she is beautiful and she appears intelligent also.

01:24 In many ways, she is someone you want to approach.

01:29 And you approach her.

01:31 And the first thing you ask is, "What's your caste?"

01:37 How do you sound?

01:38 Who are you?

01:39 What kind of beastly question is this?

01:46 So it's a non-issue.

01:49 It's a non-issue and those who are still keeping this issue burning, they should be brought

01:55 to justice.

01:56 What's the point?

01:57 What's the point?

01:58 Why are you still interested in raising this again and again?

02:04 Why this bogey?

02:05 You will never have a complete absence of duffers, you see.

02:16 Even I suppose after 100 years from today, you will continue to have people who believe

02:21 in things like purity of blood.

02:23 They will say, "We have this kind of blood, falana blood and therefore we cannot marry

02:31 into some other caste or something.

02:33 The blood will become impure."

02:34 Covid came to teach them what blood really is.

02:40 Or a road accident.

02:43 The best teacher.

02:45 When you require immediate blood transfusion, you inquire into the caste of the blood donor,

02:52 you will die.

02:53 And then you in fact do not.

02:56 Because you know in your own heart that all this is just sham and your son is dying and

03:02 you say, "Please, please, please, let me be positive."

03:04 You do not say, "I want only Brahmin or Kayasth or Rajput be positive."

03:12 You don't do that.

03:13 Or do you do that?

03:14 No.

03:15 Then all these notions of superiority and purity of blood, they just vanish.

03:20 The thing is we all are people of mixed blood now.

03:28 Think of your own lineage.

03:30 Somebody in your line must have had a blood transfusion at some point in time.

03:35 Either your father or grandfather or somebody.

03:39 So you have mixed blood.

03:40 So have I.

03:41 Everybody has mixed blood.

03:43 So caste is gone anyway.

03:47 Finished.

03:51 Even if you go to the scriptures, they are very clear.

03:55 Very clear.

03:57 Jayate Shudra.

03:59 The one who takes birth is Shudra.

04:02 The meaning is very clear.

04:03 The body is Shudra.

04:09 So there is no difference at the time of birth.

04:13 Only the beast is born.

04:16 And then depending on how you navigate through life, the kind of choices you make, the status

04:23 of your consciousness is determined.

04:28 How can caste be something that comes by birth?

04:33 [Music]

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