Real Revolution — Page 16
16. Wherever the Aryan civilization went, its political and social institutions rested on this foundation. The son of a Brahman would always be mentally superior; that of a Kashatrya physically, as a soldier; and a race that took care to guard its purity of blood along these lines would perpetuate its strength and its hold on others. . That is why their religious thought, too, remained subservient to this basic idea. For instance the. Vedas decreed that if words of the sacred texts should happen to fall into the ears of a Shudra (the untouchable), molten lead should be poured into them. Only the Brahman, the Kashatrya and the Vaish were entitled to listen to the sacred mantras, not the Shudras. . As far I have been able to see, their belief that man repeatedly returns to this world after death, and passes through many transmigrations of the soul, is also a direct result of the philosophy just mentioned. . They believed that for a superior race to maintain its position it was necessary that souls with a superior calibre should always be coming into it, and for this purpose they propounded the theory that the intellectually higher souls in the fold of each caste took rebirth after death as Brahmans; those martially superior, among the. Kashatryas; while those gifted with better business acuemen were reborn as Vaishas, the bad and the worthless descending among the Shudras. ' By implanting this doctrine in the mind of the lower castes,