The Evil of Castism & Religions Teaching It. See What Actions Will Send A Person To Hell Based On His/Her Caste

These are old translations. I’m reluctant to draw conclusions from them, having found mistranslations in old Buddhist translations.

If these translations are only half-true, Casteism and anything related to it is against human dignity and should be stamped out in all its forms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

PURANAS 

Garuda Purana (translated by Ernest Wood & SV Subrahmanyam, 1911, http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/gpu/index.htm)
Chapter VI. An Account of the Kinds of Sins which lead to Hell

• Consorting with Low-Caste Women Is An Offence:

18-24 “The Brâhmiṇ who sells liquors, and consorts with a lowcaste woman; who kills animals for his own gratification, not for the prescribed sacrifices of the Vedas”

• Brahmins that don’t study their texts go to hell, yet a Shudra that studies the Vedas also goes to hell. This forces the unworthy in high places and blocks the worthy to stay in low places:

18-24 “Who has put aside his Brâhmaṇic duties; who eats flesh and drinks liquor; who is of unbridled nature; who does not study the Śâstras;”

• Shudras That Read Holy Scriptures, Perform Sacred Rituals or Consort With Brahmin Women Go To Hell

18-24 “The Śûdra who studies the letter of the Vedas, who drinks the milk of the tawny cow, who wears the sacred thread or consorts with Brâhmiṇ women;”

• Shudras That Don’t Do Necessary Ceremonies For Upper Castes Go To Hell

“27. Who did not make gifts of black cows, nor perform the ceremonies for those who are in the upper body [note: Brahmins and Kshatriyas are said to come from Brahma's mouth and arms respectively, hence the 'upper body'. Shurdas come from Brahma's feet]; having suffered great misery in it, go to the tree standing on its bank.”

• Having Children With Lower Caste Women Loses A High Rank

“37-38. The Brâhmaṇi who places a harlot on his bed, goes to a low condition; begetting offspring of a Śudra woman, he is certainly degraded from the Brâhmiṇ rank: That wretched twice-born is not worthy of salutation at any time; those fools who worship him certainly go to hell.”

CHAPTER V

An Account of the Signs of Sins.

• Speaking Against The Caste System Causes Rebirth As A Pigeon.

23. Who deceives a friend becomes a mountain-vulture; who cheats in selling, an owl; who speaks ill of caste and order is born a pigeon in a wood.

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Upon gonig to hell, they are tortured and then reincarnated as rocks, plants, animals and eventually Lower-Caste Humans. So people are born into lower-castes because of previous transgressions and are expected to have a miserable life:

63. All these evolve thence into the human condition; having come back from hell they are born in the human kingdom amongst low outcastes, and even there, by the stains of sin, become very miserable.

• Remember to blame the sick for their own illnesses:

“64. Thus they become men and women oozing with leprosy, born blind, infested with grievous maladies, and bearing the marks of sin.”