Caste System in India || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Caste System: The Final Word || Acharya Prashant, with SPA Delhi (2023)

Transcript

00:00The man who believes in caste is also the man who believes in thousand other stupidities

00:04because they belong to the same family. The man who will be casteist will most

00:08probably be ritualistic as well. So these stupidities go together.

00:11For example, it's very difficult to be casteist and not superstitious.

00:15The man who will be casteist will also be superstitious.

00:17It's very difficult to be casteist and not violent. The casteist man will be violent as well.

00:22So when you drop caste, you find all these other things are dropping as well.

00:25The person is right there in front of you. Why do you need to know his caste?

00:29Those who are victims of caste oppression, they start hating all the scriptures.

00:33And I keep telling them, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

00:36Yes, I understand. There are certain books that promoted the caste culture.

00:41But those books are not at all central to religion.

00:44And they are not at all to be counted as spiritual.

00:48Go to the real books. And that's the reason why I love Vedanta so much.

00:52Vedanta has no space for all this nonsense.

00:54Caste is a social construct. Deep spirituality has nothing to do with caste.