Real Revolution — Page 17
17 the founders of this culture eliminated the possibility of any revolt against the order. The Shudras might have rebelled, had they been left with the impression that they would always remain Shudras; or the Kashatryns might have done so, if they had been taught that they would always have to play second fiddle. But both were effectively silenced by the hopeful belief ingrained into them that the Brahmans, Kashatryas, Vaishas and Shudras were not races in themselves; that the castes represented only assignments given to good or bad souls according to their deserts. In an army we find that a Jamadar, bears no grudge againt a Risaldar, nor a Risaldar against a Lieutenant, because each knows that these are ranks open to him as well, in time, on the basi< of merit. Similarly, in the mentality bred by this doctrine, the Shudra could have no malice against the Vaishas, nor the Vaishas against the Kashatryas, nor. Kashatryas against the Brahmans, all these positions in the caste system, based on a theory of the transmigration of soul, being the result of good or bad deeds in a previous phase of existence, and therefore open to the. Shudras, the Vaishas and the Kashatryas, if they lived good lives under the spiritual guidance of the Brahman. . In this way the founders of the Aryan civilization, by basing their entire social theory on the central idea of racial superiority and a rigidly selective breeding to perpetuate their dominance, eliminated, for ever, all possibility of any serious revolt against that order. . They created a strong but false hope in the mind of the