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Recently came across a very good video on YouTube by a guy named cogito(1) which mentions Bhagavad gita, vedas and gives a good unbiased intro to Hinduism. If
by superasn 5y ago
Recently came across a very good video on YouTube by a guy named cogito(1) which mentions Bhagavad gita, vedas and gives a good unbiased intro to Hinduism.
If you're curious about it and how the whole thing like caste system, etc evolved it's a good intro.
(1) xlBEEuYIWwY
- thunderbong 5y agoI think you meant this link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlBEEuYIWwY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlBEEuYIWwY
- alex_smart 5y agoOverall a good video, but it gets one part wrong: caste has always been from birth, not ability. This is a dishonest interpretation that has been attempted to seemingly make Hinduism more compatible with modern values. As an example, in Ramayana, in a story starting from chapter 73 (The Death of a Brahmin's Son), Rama kills a Shudra for performing ascetic rituals. The unrighteousness of this Shudra performing these rituals - suitable for Brahmins - was apparently the reason for the death of the child.
- random314 5y agoMost of the caste aspects afaik were introduced into the original texts after 400BC. These include Balakand, uttarakand (shambuka), Gita etc. This implies some form of birth based caste system existing before 400BC which was solidified via new religious texts and additions to already popular old texts culminating with the Manusmriti and rigid caste system by 200 AD. The obvious beneficiaries were the Brahmins who wrote the text. Older texts are a bit more fluid in terms of birth based caste.