Yet another perspective!

People of different age groups talk about different things when they meet up. Many of my friends seem to looking for the real meaning of life. One guy actually goes around paths not frequently scaled upon along God forsaken regions of the world like interior of Kashmir, rural Punjab and remotes areas of Thailand in search of The Truth. In fact, he has found some interesting discoveries about himself. His chronic age old medical malady has miraculously disappeared from his system baffling care providers and himself alike. He attributes it to his chance encounters with sages who carry with them an aura that defies logical scientific explanation. Like a drug, he keeps on his pilgrimage and the search.

Another friend found some rather ground breaking discovery in his research into Hinduism. His research, however, will not be approved by any academic professional as his source of research is... Youtube!

In the course of his 'research', he heard of some revolutionary things about Hindu religion. When I mentioned about the bastardisation of the religion by the introduction of the caste system by the Brahmin clan, he vehemently disagreed that it was a Brahmin invention. He proposed that the early practitioners of the Hindu way of life along the Indus River and Indus Valley had already discovered different individuals' varied temperaments and attitudes. Hence, they understood that different individuals are suited for different line of work; the intellectual or those with solid thinking faculties would be doing works related to worship, law, healing and leadership; those with raw power and quick temperament will be the fighters and guardians; those with financial skills as merchants; those dextrously skilled as hard smiths, goldsmiths, masons etc.; simpletons happy with repetitive non challenging menial works and so on. 

This workforce hierarchy was not created to confine skills to stay within a family but rather to reap the benefits of everybody's aptitude and ensure that the workforce is always ready for society. Somehow, along the way, things got lost in translation, and the work distribution system became a restrictive, condescending system to divide and rule society.