....The social structure and social mechanics make the better jobs available to higher Varnas and lower level jobs to lower Varnas. A lower Varna within the Hindu framework is allotted the job; which is in consonance with his heredity status. A person belonging to higher Varna is trained for higher jobs and a lower Varna person is trained for lower jobs. It is so because in heredity oriented society the training for jobs is also based on heredity. The only persons available to teach one are his parents or the persons belonging to his caste. Others would not teach him because of caste consideration. A Brahman would never teach Vedas to a Potter who provided pots for the entire village. A Shudra artisan would never teach his job to higher Varnas because nobody would be interested in job; which infringes on his dharma. The pure (powerful controller) should not learn the impure (manual and unclean) jobs and the impure (landless and powerless) should not learn the pure (pious and power) jobs. Either way would be adharmic and hence extremely desirable. If the pure and impure got mixed and spread impurities and contaminating dharma then it was a highly undesirable and despicable activity. This enforced the rule that the only training one got was the heredity one. It was natural also that the son was taking up the father’s occupation; it is another thing that no other option was available to the son. The optionless son got the occupation as if though it was destined for him. Actually his all life was predestined; the lawmakers ensured it. It was a predestined allocation, which was supposed to last till eternity; it was a hallmark of eternal system. It was the vision of lawmakers, which took account of all times to come till eternity. They aimed to provide the eternal solution to the problems of their all their coming generations. No body was really bothered about the society as whole as such.
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