Guest guest Posted October 29, 1995 Report Share Posted October 29, 1995 Deleepan wrote: >The presence of verse 1.41 makes the absence of >its rejection significant. In the absence of such a >rejection, one is left to conclude that according to >Srimad Bhagavath Geethai birth determines varNam. This need not necessarily be the case. Because all the statements of Arjuna in Chapter 1, including 1.41are totally rejected by Krishna in Ch.2, verse 11. Following which Krishna teaches what is right. Arjuna asks numerous questions in Ch 2-18, but not one time he brings back any of the points he made in Chapter 1. This implies thatArjuna accepts that all his arguments in chapter 1 are wrong that thus never brings any of those issues back again. Here is my (Bhashyam!) views on Ch1.41 I think here Arjuna is talking about children out of wedlock, orphaned children and children raised by helpless widowed mothers in isolation. Any grand scale war would artificially increase the number of women and children as compared to the adult males. The very fact that the chaturvarnya survived, past the Mahabharatha war is a testimony to the fact that the chaturvarnya was more resilient (governed by the natural law of Gita) and not always determined strictly by birth. If that was true we should have lot less number of kshatriyas than the other varnas, considering so many kshatriyas perished in the war(s). It was sort of supply and demand type of thing even in india(!). Once there were sufficient numbers selected by natural process, then that particular varna was defended by unnatural (manipulation) means. For example, in the USA, physicians were allowed to immigrate from other countries in the1970s, because of the shortage of MDs. Now, the American Physicians are fighting toe and nail to keep those foreign MDs OUT, just to safeguard their high $/hour wages! K. Sreekrishna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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