Wednesday, 14 September 2016

EVOLUTION OF CAST SYSTEM & IDOL WORSHIP.

These days we see that our country is divided on cast lines by our politician's for their vote bank

politics and people are getting exploited by them.But in our ancient civilization cast were based on

work not by birth. In Vedas it is mentioned that the person who used to teach was called Brahmin,the

person who used to govern or fight for their community were called kshatriyas,the person who used

to do trading were called vaishya and the person who used to clean or work for others called shudras.

It was never by birth.


But slowly the brahmins in few hundred years started asserting themselves and told the ignorant

public that they are superior to everyone and they are direct representative of God on earth.As i have

mentioned in my earlier articles that in Vedic times we used to worship only the natural elements like

earth,water,fire,air & sky but these brahmins to establish their authority on the masses and taking help

of natural calamities like earthquakes,floods,eruptions of volcanoes or different type of diseases they

instilled fears in their mind and started Idol worship and slowly started different rituals to increase

their authority and income and that is how this caste system became by birth.

Slowly in hindu religion they introduced sati rituals and child marriage and parda system to exploit

the women who had equal rights in the vedic time and they had the rights to choose their husbands by
doing swayember. So slowly our society became Patriarchal in nature. Now women like Trupti Desai

has started asserting themselves again for equal rights which was available to them 5000 to 7000

years ago in Vedic times.

  

1 comment:

  1. Religion was always one of the means for asserting the power of some over others.

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