The section before this was about the history of Yoga, and I feel the author just had a fucking seizure while watching Fox News, before continuing to write the book. agony-consuming

Like what.

  • Ehrmantrout [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism are based on diversity, which is often misread as inequality. Every human being is different, because we all carry different karmic burdens from our previous lives. Each one has different strengths and weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. So, one rule cannot apply to all

    This is just a defence of casteism here. One belief is that people who have good Karma are reborn as Brahmins and those with bad karma are reborn in the “lower” castes. Thus they can justify casteism since those in lower castes deserve it by being evil in the previous birth.

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      interpreting Hinduism as wholly casteist is like interpreting Christianity based off all the preachers who think Black people are going to hell

      Lingayatism and arguably Shaivism in general doesn’t care about caste, and that’s like 100 million+ people. Also they invented the protestant reformation 400 years before Martin Luther existed

      • Ehrmantrout [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        1 year ago

        You are correct that the thousands of beliefs and sects under Hinduism cannot all be tarred in the same brush as casteist but that specific quote is definitely a nod towards casteism and discrimination against disabled people.