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Adding the #Kula #Jati #Varna Paper into this thread, which I wrote a few months back.

indictoday.com/research/varna…
The Paper establishes the KJT-Complex from the first principles of Purushartha and Srishti-Sthiti-Laya.

It proposes a change and reconstruction of the same for the Modern World to face the Triad of Modernity, Industrial Revolution and Monotheistic Assault.

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In order to make a meaningful change in the Bharateeya Samudaya, we ought to understand how the Kula-Jati-Varna Complex (KJV Complex) has emerged from the Srishti-Sthiti-Laya perspective and the Purushartha.

The KJV Complex are instruments and enablers of the Purushartha.

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#Thread - slightly longer one on #Kula, #Jati, #Varna and the Traditional View covering history and traditional thought.

And some musings on the #Smriti -s

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Among the three

- Kula was the most real and coherent entity
- Jati was an aggregate of Kula-s
- Varna was the characteristic of an aggregate of Jati-s. It was more a perspective or View.

Will elaborate on Varna later in the thread.

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The organization of Kula was around a “Profession” and a custom designed Tradition/Sampradaya from the larger Hindu Philosophy.

A Kula always moved together because it was minimally self-contained for the “Purushartha Practice” in that Profession

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