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Podcast: SANATAN SANSKRITI
Episode: Ancient Indian Cast System Varna Vyavastha explained by Ashish P. Mishra Part 2
Description: This classification into four tiers of social structure can be understood in different contexts. One way of looking at it is, those who did not take responsibility for their own lives or those who did not take responsibility with the situations in which they lived in, such people were termed as #Shudras; he is taking responsibility only for his survival, nothing more. The #Vaishya is somebody who takes responsibility for himself, his family and his community. So trading was given to him. Today, the whole system, the whole business atmosphere is very different, but in those times the trader is...