Post 119:
I meant that all positions within the traditional Indian society contributed to keep it running. Perhaps glue was the wrong word. What the faithful claim about the koran as supposedly being a 'seamless garment' might be more applicable here. Indian society was dependent on the functions its people fulfilled: various arts, crafts, philosophers, traders, manufacturing industries, agricultural and other labourers, brahmanas in the temples, teachers, soldiers, rulers and policy-makers. All of them were necessary to keep the nation running. To pull out one of these 'threads' is to make the garment fall apart.
I merely meant to say that having only the Brahmana position filled is not going to protect the nation or produce the food required for an expanding population, nor is it going to make the goods required for daily use. The same holds for all the other positions: none can support a society by itself.
They'll specialise again to ensure the country can be kept running and to make sure that all the necessary functions of a whole nation are fulfilled.
If all the people in my grandfather's village had been teachers, where would the food have come from? Where would the people maintaining the village temple have come from? He taught people in order for them to become educated (and pass the teaching on to their descendants), as well as for them to be able to support their families and in this way contribute to support their nation.
I meant that all positions within the traditional Indian society contributed to keep it running. Perhaps glue was the wrong word. What the faithful claim about the koran as supposedly being a 'seamless garment' might be more applicable here. Indian society was dependent on the functions its people fulfilled: various arts, crafts, philosophers, traders, manufacturing industries, agricultural and other labourers, brahmanas in the temples, teachers, soldiers, rulers and policy-makers. All of them were necessary to keep the nation running. To pull out one of these 'threads' is to make the garment fall apart.
I merely meant to say that having only the Brahmana position filled is not going to protect the nation or produce the food required for an expanding population, nor is it going to make the goods required for daily use. The same holds for all the other positions: none can support a society by itself.
They'll specialise again to ensure the country can be kept running and to make sure that all the necessary functions of a whole nation are fulfilled.
If all the people in my grandfather's village had been teachers, where would the food have come from? Where would the people maintaining the village temple have come from? He taught people in order for them to become educated (and pass the teaching on to their descendants), as well as for them to be able to support their families and in this way contribute to support their nation.