Continuing here from Ravi ji's post in the same thread :-
1. Vedas and Caste.
This is the established dogma that the Vedas purport and support Varna /caste. The facts are that in the Rig Veda the oldest Veda, there is one hymn called the “ Purush SUktaM” hymn that suggested this, the one the Sujata refers to.
It is the 10th book. (Mandal).( the RV is now on line)
This is late Mandal, and this hymn is very probably a late interpolation in a late book.
The Rig Veda does not talk of Ksahtriya, Brahmin etc except for the one solitary verse.
In fact the Rig Veda is completely anti the Brahminical, customs that we have been spoon-fed over time and in our sonomolescence accepted unthinkingly.( which is our own fault, if we refuse to become literate)
The standard Hindu doctrine and the Rig Veda are a considerable variance from each other. in certain important areas;
: 1. Widow re marriage
The Rig Veda recommends it, the current form of Hinduism (Sanathan Dharma) vaishnavism, condemn it.
Guess what the Jats follow.
2. First cousin marriage.
This custom is totally taboo in Jat society, exists in Brahmin society especially in the south, and the East. The rajputs follow it, it is f\given sanctity by the Brahminical Hindu text.( If OK for Lord Krishna, it is OK for me!!)
In late texts, the Mahabharat, etc this is supposedly shown as an acceptable custom, and Krishna is shown as marrying his son Anriruddha to his sister's daughter. thus giving sanctity to the custom, by what becomes a Vaishnav avatar( Krishna).
The more I reflect on these issues, I realize there is much more to uncover and we should not accept these versions of our past uncritically.
Some Jat scholars have taken to Sanskrit and indological Studies.
How this came about is an area that needs more concentration by Jat scholars, who are willing to learn Sanskrit, Prakrit, etc and peel away the onion peels, behind which the original truth is hidden.
It is not common knowledge that most of the Rishis and over 60 clans in the RV are Jat Clans (Gotras). B S Dahiya wrote an excellent book bringing this fact out.
The RV is then essentially a Jat document, Jat Philosophy, History etc.
The Brahminical element comes in much later, in a historical timeline. There is some thinking the Brahmin priestly custom itself is not Aryan., but was grafted on the Aryan stem.
if you discuss this with Brahmin philosophers, they will get uptight and tell you that Hinduism is not just the RV, but also the other Vedas the other Hindu texts, smR^itis and so on and so on.
One core issue is why the discord between the RV and later Hinduism?
If this is addressed, it may do much to do away with intellectual base of the hoax of 4 Varna superiority/inferiority propagated over the ages
Ravi Chaudhary
lord krishna didnt married his son to his sister. mahabharat found today is not in its original form. for centuries cunning and selfish people have added certain unacceptable concepts in it to solve their own purpose. the original mahabharat (called Jaya kavya) had 10000 shlokas, but the mahabharat found today contains more than 1 lakh shlokas. so all these are impurities added my sampradayik people of different cults with a selfish motive. so dont blindly accept everything that is written in mahabharat and ramayan, as they are adulterated a lot in past.