Caste Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
I have no partiality for any party in the caste question, because I know it is a social law and it is based on diversity of Guna and Karma.
Swami Vivekananda
Take a man in his different pursuits, for example when he is engaged in serving another for pay, he is in shudrahood; when he is busy in transacting some piece of business for profit on his own accounts he is a Vaishya; when he fights to right wrongs, then the qualities of a Kshatriya come out in him; and when he mediates on God or passes his time in conversation about him, then he is a Brahmin. Naturally, it is quite possible for one to be changed from one caste into another. Otherwise, how did Vishvamitra become a Brahmin and Parashurama a Kshatriya.
Swami Vivekananda
Caste is a social custom and all our great preachers have tried to break it down. From Buddhism downwards, every sect has preached against caste, and every time it has only riveted the chains. Caste is simply the outgrowth of the political institutions of India; it is a hereditary trade guild.
Swami Vivekananda
Caste should not go; but should only be readjusted occasionally. Within the old structure is to be found life enough for the building of two hundred thousands new ones. It is sheer nonsense to desire the abolition of caste. The new method is evolution of the old.
Swami Vivekananda
In religion there is no caste; caste is simply a social institution. Religion therefore is not to blame, but men.
Swami Vivekananda
Wealth, power, intellect, or beauty suffices for the individual to leave the status of birth and scramble up to anywhere he can here too has every chance of rising from a low caste to a higher or the highest; only, in this birth land of altruism, one is compelled to take his whole caste along with him
Swami Vivekananda
Caste is a natural order; I can perform duly in social life, and you another; you can govern a country, and I can mend a pair of old shoes, but that is no region why you are greater than I, for can you mend my shoes?… You are clever in reading Vedas, but that is no reason why you should trample on my head. Why if one commits murder should he be praised, and if another steals an apple why should he be hanged? This will have to go. If you teach Vedanta to the fisherman, he will say, I am as good a man as you; I am a fisherman, you are a philosopher, but I have the same god in me, as you have in you. And that is what we want, no privilege for any one, equal chances for all; let everyone be taught that the divine is within, and everyone will workout his own salvation.
Swami Vivekananda
