00:00How can caste be something that comes by birth? An entire Upanishad is devoted to this, Pajra Suchika Upanishad.
00:06The student is asking the Rishi, what is caste? And the Rishi in the way of the Upanishads, they said, please tell me, does the body have caste?
00:13Does the blood have caste? Does the bone have caste? What has caste? And the disciple is intrigued.
00:17No, no, no, all these things cannot have caste because these are just Panchabhut. How can that have caste? It's just soil. How can soil have caste?
00:23Rishi says, don't you understand then what is caste? Caste is an imagination of the mind.
00:27Drop it, drop it right now. But to drop it, you'll need to have self-knowledge.
00:31You have to realize, you have to go into yourself, you have to understand how the mind functions and then you will know how things like caste survive.
