Today I was watching Satyamev Jayate, Aamir khan's program and his
subject was untouchability and that how it’s still there and how it’s deeply
ingrained in people's mind. I don't know why our thinking is like this why we
still believe in all these superstition and all the things which we know are baseless
and narrow minded but I also know that human
being can be the cruellest animal in the whole animal kingdom.
In India we always talk of preserving our tradition our customs
but do we really need to preserve all these things? Who remember the things
which actually brought these things into being. The Brahmins in India support
caste system based on the writings in Shatras they say. One of the paragraphs
shown on the show really caught my interest and I want to elaborate on that...
It was a scene where a Brahmin is telling about the caste system
he says the following...from the laws of Manu
From his mouth god created Brahman (Priest)
His arms Kshatriyas (ruler)
His thighs Vishay’s (commoner)
His feet the shudras (servant)
My teacher once told me that how we interpret things also
depends on us and it’s our weaknesses which make us take the wrong
interpretation so that the work becomes easier for us. I think the meaning of
this paragraph was something else and we have made it something else. These are
our weaknesses which make us do all the stupid things like
superstition, caste ism, etc. The Brahmans to make themselves supreme
has brought all these things into being and I am sure they will be punished
severely by the lord who they claim to preach 'cause as a person of god, Brahman
should be the first person to respect everything created by the lord. So I
really hope that this initiative taken by Aamir will become our initiative too.
