The Village -15

...Getting education also qualifies to be major offence. One reason is that it involves sitting of high caste children with untouchable children which is responsible for spread of impurities directly from person to person. One should know this dharmic fact. This can make all the high caste children impure which require bathing at home or risk the spread of impurities in other members of family and thereby in the whole of village society. This can impurify whole of the village endangering the pure, sacred and innocence dharma. Secondly it goes against the major rule of Varna dharma of subordination of untouchables to higher Varnas. The education enables the untouchables to fill the gap between themselves and others. Thus it is a major move toward their emancipation. And high castes do not like them to get nearer; the lower down they are, the better it is. The education among the untouchables jeopardizes the entire dharma. However the education to them is considered purposeless especially when the traditional education specialists in other Varnas are available. Only the higher three Varnas are eligible for education. After all there should be labor specialization. The untouchables are deemed to be fit only for leatherwork, scavenging and at best for doing the agriculture labor or lower level unskilled work. This is the maximum talent they are supposed to possess and not the awesome talent of cramming Vedas. They are supposed to be unfit for any higher-level work like education. There were the golden times for Brahmans when the molten lead was poured into the ears of impure people who happen to hear even a single word of sacred and divine Vedas. Such times of non-competition are looked upon by upper castes with nostalgia. Tears after tears are shed for disappearance of such dharmic times. These tears come straight from the pious, pure and innocent hearts. If untouchables are allowed to study then it is an indication that the civilization has since degenerated to abysmal depths. The education is not supposed to be part of life of these lowly people and it should not become one. Getting education means going to school which means encroaching on the dharmic monopoly of high castes and which is strongly resented in village society. It is needless to say that the schools are deemed to be meant for upper caste people. It is getting to be repetitive but the crippled lives of the people from lowest stratum have been a integral part of the Hindu civilization for 2500 years which requires to be repeatedly told. The people from lowest stratum are supposed to follow their traditional jobs only for which they are supposed to have appropriate and innate talent. They should not cut off themselves from their traditional roots of their cultural heritage. In addition it was the dharma which their ancestors followed faithfully. In getting education they are supposed to be flouting the rules by which their forefathers lived. ...