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Or is thechaatur varnyamHis real will, whether one likes it or not? The answer could be found in the Lord's avers the Lord identifies by their nature and disposition are - the virtuous, the vile, the passionate and the deluded Isn’t the proposition that people of a given nature and disposition could be bracketed into one single caste so absurd? After all, even a given family provides many shades of hu the case, could Krishna be so naive as not to know about it! Above all, hasn't He declared in s 29 ch9,

‘None I favour, slight I none

Devout Mine all gain Me true’

Slokaslikechaatur varnyamthat would be encountered intermittently in theGitaare but mischievous, if not malicious, interpolations meant to buttress the Aryan caste prejudices and thus should be dismissed as such

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Thus spoke the Lord:

Advice this to Sun I gave

Told he Manu

Ikshvaku thus got in turn

2

Folloorld My word for long

Lost which mankind in due course

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It’s but love I nurse for thee

Made Me reveal this Secret

Wisdoave Sun

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Thus spoke Arjuna:

Born of no co!

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Thus spoke the Lord:

Born all here times umpteen

Aware am I but know not thou

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Beyond the pale of birth ’n death

On My volition I take birth

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Wanes if good ’n vile gain reign

Know it's then that I come forth

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It’s thus I from time to time