How does the caste system related to Hinduism?

Answer 1

the rights

Answer 2

In Hinduism, caste is deeply rooted in the belief in karma and reincarnation. Over 3,000 years old, the Hindu Caste System divides Hindus into four categories - Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shudras based on their past lives, karma, and family origins.

Answer 3

Hello, i add, may the caste system not has relation about the religion, but may the reason be, that, each nation has culture from their grandfathers and each person of it feel responsibility of care it, then each person in it interested for caring their religion and cultures and spread it and improve it gradually and optionally..

Answer 4

The caste system divides Hindus into four main categories - Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and the Shudras. Many believe that the groups originated from Brahma, the Hindu God of creation.

The origin of the caste system is not known with certainty. Hindus maintain that the proliferation of the castes (jatis, literally “births”) was the result of intermarriage (which is prohibited in Hindu works on dharma), which led to the subdivision of the four classes, or varnas. Modern theorists, however, assume that castes arose from differences in family ritual practices, racial distinctions, and occupational differentiation and specialization. Scholars also doubt whether the simple varna system was ever more than a theoretical socioreligious ideal and have emphasized that the highly complex division of Hindu society into nearly 3,000 castes and subcastes was probably in place even in ancient times.

In general, a caste is an endogamous hereditary group of families bearing a common name, often claiming a common descent, as a rule professing to follow the same hereditary calling, adhering to the same customs—especially regarding purity, meals, and marriages—and often further divided into smaller endogamous circles. Moreover, tribes, guilds, or religious communities characterized by particular customs—for example, the Lingayats—could easily be regarded as castes. The status of castes varies in different localities. Although social mobility is possible, the mutual relationship of castes is hierarchically determined: local Brahman groups occupy the highest place, and differences in ritual purity are the main criteria of position in the hierarchy. Most impure are the so-called “untouchables,” officially designated as Scheduled Castes in the constitution of modern India. Many Scheduled Caste groups now prefer the name Dalit (“Crushed” or “Oppressed”). Among the Scheduled Castes, however, there are numerous subdivisions, each of which regards itself as superior to others.

Traditional Hindus maintain that the ritual impurity and “untouchability” inherent in these groups does not essentially differ from that temporarily associated with mourners or menstruating women. This, and the fact that some exterior group or other might rise in estimation and become an interior one or that individual outcastes might be well-to-do, does not alter the fact that there was social discrimination. The Scheduled Castes were subjected to various socioreligious disabilities before mitigating tendencies helped bring about reform. After independence, social discrimination was prohibited, and the practice of preventing access to religious, occupational, or civil rights on the grounds of untouchability was made a punishable offense. Despite these prohibitions, Scheduled Castes were sometimes barred from the use of temples and other religious institutions and from public schools.

From the traditional Hindu point of view, this social system is the necessary complement of the principles of dharma, karma, and samsara. Corresponding to hells and heavenly regions in the hereafter, the castes are the mundane social frame within which karma is manifested and worked out.

Answer 5

The caste system is a complex social hierarchy that has been a part of Indian society for centuries. It is not explicitly mentioned in the Hindu scriptures, but it is often seen as being rooted in Hindu beliefs about reincarnation and karma.

According to Hindu belief, a person's caste is determined by their karma from a previous life. Those who have accumulated good karma will be born into a high caste, while those who have accumulated bad karma will be born into a low caste. This belief in karma is what gives the caste system its religious sanction.

Answer 6

In ancient Hindu society, people were separated according to their professions after a while it was replaced by caste system