India's caste system of inequality and equality

 Perhaps there is no country in ancient times without a class system. In Korea alone, the distinction between aristocrats and rascals was strict until the Joseon Dynasty. There were times when a rascal was completely blocked from his official duties, and even when he was dragged and beaten by noblemen for no reason, there was a time when he had nowhere to complain. Nevertheless, India's caste system has been talked about by the population for a long time because it still works today. With the development of information and communication technology, the word "one earth" has come to reality. Whether it is "equality before the law" or "equality before God," the term "equality before the law" has long become a global ethical standard, but I still tie people up with a class system, and I can't believe that there are people on this planet who think you can't get married because you're a Sudra. It is even more difficult to understand because of the fact that there is still an old-fashioned status system in a country that boasts thousands of years of history and culture, not a savage tribe in Africa. The reason why India's caste system remains the same even though the world is changing is because of the belief in the law of karma at the bottom of this system. In other words, it is all because of the work of a previous life that some were born into a rich family, and some were born into a Sudra on the street. The law of karma is the basis of Hinduism. Unless faith in Up's law disappears, the caste system will still be strong. In other words, the caste system will not disappear as long as Hinduism remains strong. In fact, Hinduism is not entirely wrong to say caste. The origin of the caste system is divided among scholars. There is even a saying, "There is a theory of origin as many scholars as there are." In the hymn of Purusa (Purusa) Chapter 10 of Rig-veda, when ancient gods gathered to sacrifice the cause of people's ancestors, they sang, "His head became Baramun, his arms became Kushatriya, his legs became Baisha, and Sudra came out from his feet." It is a song about the times when ritual supremacy was remarkable. In addition, Abe J.A. Dubois, who was missionary in South India for more than 30 years at the end of the 18th century, says that the caste system was artificially created for their own benefit, but this complex and organic social system was not created at once by some people. Like Hinduism, the caste system should also be viewed as a system formed by the 'invisible hands' of the majority of the public through centuries. Originally, the word "caste" was neither Indian nor English. The Portuguese, who first entered India, saw that there was an exclusive inner marriage group in Indian society, and what they called "casta" later became castes in English. In Portuguese, Casta means "a group of people." The Indians called Bararna the four-star class of Baramun Kshatriya Baisha Sudra, which, strictly speaking, was inconsistent with the inner marriage group the Portuguese intended to refer to as Casta. The word caste corresponds to a more subdivided 'jati' of Barna. The word barna originally means 'color', suggesting that India's four-sex system was formed in relation to skin color. In other words, the four-star system is basically a distinction between white-skinned conquerors and black-skinned conquerors. The caste system was established as a strict social norm after the Manu Code (around the 2nd century BC). In reality, what defines the lives of the Indian people is not the Barna in a broad sense, but the Chinese zodiac sign. The key factors that distinguish the Chinese zodiac are common origin and common occupation. In other words, it forms a zodiac sign for people who are of the same lineage and also live in the same profession. Marriage is also between people of the same Chinese zodiac. In ancient Indian society, Jatti seems to have been a functional classification for organic integration of society. It is Barna or Jatti that classifies members of society so that they can work in the right place according to their aptitudes and abilities. As it gradually became hereditary, it had several negative aspects. In fact, the four-star system used in India is somewhat different from our general understanding. Among the four classes, all three upper classes are classified as regeneration (dvija), and men belonging to this class are eligible to participate in the Veda ceremony through the initiation ceremony held around the age of 10. In this respect, the positions enjoyed by the top three classes are equal, and the distinction is only relative. On the other hand, Sudra is a lifelong family member who cannot hold a regeneration ceremony and is subject to various religious and social discrimination. It is classified into completely different categories from the top three classes. Religiously, these are people who cannot give up in this life. For them, nirvana is only possible in their next lives. You can only think of nirvana after being born again as a member of the upper class by building a lot of good work in this life. There are untouchable people further below Sudra. We usually confuse Sudra and the untouchable into the same category, but in India, the two are very different. Both are low-income people, but Sudra is in the caste system, while the untouchable people are completely outside the caste system. The fact that there is no word for them in Indian language means that they are not human beings. From the standpoint of self-degradation, discrimination in class according to caste is not inequality at all. Rather, it becomes equal. In other words, if a person who has done a lot of very bad things in his past life or a person who has done a lot of good deeds in this life eats well and lives well, the logic that it is inequality is established. Paradoxically, inequality is equality. Of course, this presupposes belief in past life and end life. [Religious newspaper]