End of caste system || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Caste System: The Final Word || Acharya Prashant, with SPA Delhi (2023)

Transcript

00:00I don't know why we still have a debate over caste.

00:03That's what is quite astounding.

00:06Caste should have been relegated to the museums and the history books by now.

00:12It should have become a non-issue.

00:14What's interesting is who are the people who still keep it alive as an issue?

00:18And what do they want?

00:19It's a relic.

00:20You should not even know somebody's caste.

00:22That's what.

00:23That's how caste disappears.

00:25As long as you are interested in somebody's caste.

00:27What's your caste, by the way?

00:28If I am interested, then I am casteist.

00:31Caste goes when you do not even know the other's caste.

00:34And that's how the society must be.

00:36You meet someone.

00:37That person is standing in front of you.

00:39Assess him.

00:39The person could be good, bad, virtuous, ill, evil, whatever.

00:45The person is right there in front of you.

00:47Why do you need to know his caste?

00:49If he is sick, you want to help him?

00:52Or would you ask for his caste?

00:53It's a non-issue.

00:54And those who are still keeping this issue burning,

00:56they should be brought to justice.