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भिन्न वर्ण के पुरुष द्वारा भिन्न वर्ण की स्त्री से उत्पन्न सन्तान यानी ब्राह्मण यदि शूद्रा को गर्भवती बनाता है, तो उस शूद्रा स्त्री से उत्पन्न सन्तान वर्णसंकर कहलायेगी, क्योंकि उसकी जाति में दो भिन्न वर्णों के खून का मिश्रण है।)
इसीलिए मैं कहता हूं ‘वर्ण’ का सटीक अंग्रेज़ी अनुवाद ‘species’ हैं, ‘caste’ अथवा ‘class’ नहीं। ब्राह्मण धर्म का मानना हैं कि सृष्टि के आरम्भ में, यज्ञ के निमित्त, प्रजापति ब्रह्मा ने चार पृथक और ‘पदसोपान’ होमो प्रजातियां बनाई, जिनको वर्ण कहा गया। फिर इन्हीं चार वर्णों के मिश्रण से हज़ारों ‘वर्णसंकर’ जातियों की उत्पति हुई, जो पदसोपान में चार ‘वर्णशुद्ध’ जातियों के मध्य अथवा नीचे स्थान रखती हैं। क्योंकि ‘संकरण’ केवल दो भिन्न-भिन्न species के मध्य ही हो सकता हैं, एक ही species के सदस्यों के मध्य नहीं।
“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”
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Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”
―
“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
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“Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted.”
― The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas
― The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas
“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
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“Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, it renders the heart torpid or produces only atheists or fanatics. As an engine of power, it serves the purpose of despotism, and as a means of wealth, the avarice of priests, but so far as respects the good of man in general it leads to nothing here or hereafter.”
― The Age of Reason
― The Age of Reason
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