Weekly page from Hindu Dharma: Divided by Work but still of One Heart

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Namaskar

This week's page from Hindu Dharma is

"Divided by Work but still of One Heart"

from "The Vedic Religion And Varna Dharma" at http://www.kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part3/chap4.htm,

which is attached with this email. Here are

the first few lines from this page:

I spoke about the different jatis, the work

allotted to each of them and the rites and customs

prescribed for each. What I said was not entirely

correct. The vocation is not for jati; it is jati

for the vocation. On what basis did the Vedic

religion divide the fuelsticks[that is the jatis]

into small bundles? It fixed one jati for one

vocation. In the West economists talk of division

of labour but they are unable to translate

their... (see attachment for more)

 

Next week we will send you the page

"Why only in this Country" from "The Vedic

Religion And Varna Dharma".

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Hindu Dharma is a translation of two volumes of

the well known Tamil Book "Deivatthin Kural",

which, in turn, is a book of 6 volumes that

contains talks of His Holiness Sri

Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Mahaswamiji of

Kanchipuram. The entire book is available online

at www.kamakoti.org

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-This article(page) makes interesting reading.

'Divided by work but still of one heart.' Who is of one heart? Those

who made the rules or those who were victimised under this rule? The

puranas do not mention about division of people into different jatis

and classifying them as Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Visyas and sudras; and

again the so-called sudras into numerous categories , more than three-

fourth of them falling under the untouchsble group. Not only were

they considered as the menial class,forced to do menial work that

noone else was prepared to do, they were treated as slaves and made

to do slave work, with no payment of any sort in return.They were

denied all rights and previlages that human being are entitled to.

They wwere even denied temple worship because they were barred from

going near the temple. That means religion and even God were

reserved for the previlaged ; again based on jati?

 

Then the author talks about America where advantaged and

disadvantaged people fight against each other because of selfishness.

Selfishness is inherent in human nature whether western or eastern.

Hindus are no different.

I think the author has no real knowledge about American system and

life style. America is a free country and a land of opportunity.

Advantages and disadvantages depend on one's capability ,they make

100million dollars or hundred thousand dollars depending on their

intelligence and drive for hard work and not based on class and jati.

 

 

These classes of labor were created by people of the two upper class

jatis for their very own advantage and convenience. The same way

western countries then, and the Gulf countries today, kept slaves.

" our religion survived as living force because of these divisions "

Not at all. More than half of the Hindu population were vonverted to

other religions because of this same division. Dont let's fool

ourselves.

The other reason for its BARE survival is because Hinduism is not a

religion as it is but it is a Phylosophy of Life and individuals do

not have to pay strict adherence to religioua rites.

 

It is only in Hindu India that we have this disgusting jati system;

not in America, Europe, Russia, Africa or Australia. I know because I

lived and worked in most of those places.

 

Jai Sree Krishna!

..-- In guruvayur , " Auto Mailer at Kamakoti.org "

<venky_athome> wrote:

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> Namaskar

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> This week's page from Hindu Dharma is " Divided by Work but still of

One Heart " from " The Vedic Religion And Varna Dharma " at

http://www.kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part3/chap4.htm , which is

attached with this email.

> Here are the first few lines from this page:

> I spoke about the different jatis, the work allotted to each of

them and the rites and customs prescribed for each. What I said was

not entirely correct. The vocation is not for jati; it is jati for

the vocation. On what basis did the Vedic religion divide the

fuelsticks[that is the jatis] into small bundles? It fixed one jati

for one vocation. In the West economists talk of division of labour

but they are unable to translate their... (see attachment for more)

>

> Next week we will send you the page " Why only in this Country "

from " The Vedic Religion And Varna Dharma " .

>

> Subscribing and Unsubscribing info at

http://www.kamakoti.org/feedback/sendhindudharma.php

>

> (This email has been sent using automated tasks)

>

> Please report problems, if any, to venkatesh@k...

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> Note:

> Hindu Dharma is a translation of two volumes of the well known

Tamil Book " Deivatthin Kural " , which, in turn, is a book of 6 volumes

that contains talks of His Holiness Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi

Mahaswamiji of Kanchipuram. The entire book is available online at

http://www.kamakoti.org/ .