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Originally Posted by jasbirkaleka   Dear Randip Singh Ji. I have the greatest hatred for Deras,so called Sants, and Caste-based Gurudwaras, as you must have read in my posts And I am a rationalist to the extend possible,if not outright an atheist. But I think it will take me some time to accept the idea of marrying into another caste,thou I have no hatred against any caste.It is not a question of a higher or a lower caste as I am a Jat Sikh and a Vaishya , if we go by Hindu caste-system.
Amalgamation is not such a big thing.Diversity too has its own beauty.Same as differant languages and dialects have their own charm.  |
If we go by the Hindu caste system, the Jatts were seen Sakas and fallen Kshatriya's condemed to be Sudra's (if you read Manu Smirti thats what it says).
In village life you have a weird set up, where a Jatt see's himself as the highest because he owns the land. A Brahman, who is landless is looked down upon by the Jatt, yet the Bahman calls the Jatt a Sudra. You have the Khatri who see's himself as Kshatriya, yet is seen by others as a Bania. The Bania is despised by the Jatt. The Tarkhan works alongside the Jatt and of equal staus but is seen as lower by the Jatt, and the Tarkhan looks down upon the Jatt because he see's himself as a descendent of Vishwakarma the creator, and so it goes on and on and on and on.
I can't see how this has a place in our modern society.
In order to save Sikhi, and the message of our Great Guru's we must let go of these things and learn to respect one another.
On culture and diversity I think people have a bigger loyalty to area and village. For example, the Misl leaders had one thing in common. They were all Majhails.