Ramana Maharshi views about varnasrama differences

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One visitor asked Bhagavan if it was not necessary that the varnasrama

differences should go if the nation was to progress.

 

Bhagavan: How can one say whether it is necessary or not necessary? I never

say anything on such subjects. People often come and ask me for my opinion

on varnasrama. If I say anything they will at once go and publish in the

papers, ‘So and so also is of such and such an opinion.’ The same scriptures

which have laid down varnasrama dharma have also proclaimed the oneness of

all life and abheda buddhi as the only reality. Is it possible for anyone to

teach a higher truth than the Unity or Oneness of all life? There is no need

for anyone to start reforming the country or the nation before reforming

himself.

 

Each man’s first duty is to realise his true nature. If after doing it, he

feels like reforming the country or nation, by all means let him take up

such reform. Ram Tirtha advertised,‘Wanted reformers — but reformers who

will reform themselves first.’ No two persons in the world can be alike or

can act alike.

 

External differences are bound to persist, however hard we may try to

obliterate them. The attempts of so-called social reformers, to do away with

such classes or divisions as varnasrama has created, have not succeeded, but

have only created new divisions and added a few more castes or classes to

the already existing ones, such as the Brahmo-Samajists and the

Arya-Samajists.

 

The only solution is for each man to realise his true nature.

 

Source: DAY BY DAY WITH BHAGAVAN From the Diary of A. DEVARAJA MUDALIAR

 

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