00:00How can caste be something that comes by birth?
00:03An entire Upanishad is devoted to this, Pajra Suchika Upanishad.
00:08The student is asking the Rishi, what is caste?
00:12The Rishis were very fun-loving people.
00:14They loved to kind of toy with the disciples.
00:17They said, please tell me, does the body have caste?
00:20Does the blood have caste?
00:21Does the bone have caste?
00:24What has caste?
00:25The disciple is intrigued.
00:26No, no, no, all these things cannot have caste
00:28because these are just panchbhut.
00:31How can that have caste?
00:32This is just soil.
00:33How can soil have caste?
00:35Okay, okay, fine.
00:36So does the pure self, Atma, have caste?
00:39And this is Upanishad, this is Vedant.
00:42And the disciple is again,
00:43Atma is not even born, sir.
00:45How can it have caste?
00:46The Atma has no name, no form, no shape,
00:49no upadhi, no upma.
00:50How can it have caste?
00:52No attributes, how can it have caste?
00:54She says, don't you understand then what is caste?
00:56Caste is an imagination of the mind.
01:00Caste is neither in the body nor in the self.
01:03It is just in the mind.
01:04It's a man-made thing.
01:06Drop it right now, full stop.
01:08But to drop it, you'll need to have self-knowledge.
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