Varna: also by birth

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Your quote below seems to support that janma has significance:

 

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> Morning Walk

> Geneva, June 6, 1974 740606MW.GEN

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> Yogesvara: There is one Englishman named Aldous Huxley...

> Prabhupada: Yes.

> Yogesvara: ...who wrote a book called "Brave New Worlds", and in that

> book, he predicted something that's coming true now, that there would be a

> process of biologically screening babies so that men could be breeded like

> animals, like they breed animals. So they would take one strain of

> chromosomes and breed a class of men who would make perfect

> administrators, and then they would breed another class of men that would

> be perfect sudras, and they would breed another class of men who would be

> perfect scientists.

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> Prabhupada: And that is already there. Guna-karma-vibhagasah. The, the, in

> Vedic astrology, jata-karma, they will say that "This child is a sudra,

> this child is a brahmana, this child is a ksatriya." By the birth, by the

> constellation of the stars, it will be done. It is already being done. And

> in the medical laboratory, the blood has been tested, brahmana, sudra,

> vaisya, there is different blood. Yes. The blood infusion. So if the, a

> different blood is infused, it does not act. So one doctor, in India, he

> was permanently keeping different bloods for different persons. So there

> is some meaning in the caste system. But that is not... In a brahmana

> family, a sudra may also take birth. Sudra blood. So to keep the blood

> brahminical, therefore the reformatory system is there,

> garbhadhana-samskara and all the samskaras. Before birth, they keep, to

> keep the blood brahminical, there is ceremony.

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> Also, don't be discouraged if everyone doesn't always agree with all your

> points. You are raising important points for discussion, so I hope you

> will continue.

 

That´s just natural, I know you to be open for arguments, I try to be

likewise, but as Gunamani and Mahanidhi pointed out I don´t really think

there is disagreement.

 

Yours humbly Trayimaya dasa