Am I a Machine or a Person?

Modern science tells that there is no actual self inhabiting the human body, that the individual is nothing more than a sophisticated robot with a genetically programmed brain who foolishly thinks that he is a person. While an ignoramus may blindly accept this fanatical dogmatic hogwash, one who is intelligent will challenge: "If there is there is no actual self, who is thinking that he is a person?" A machine does not have cognizance, the power to contemplate its own existence, while a person does. From the Vedic wisdom we gain a much more cogent understanding of the self as a primeval and cognizant particle of indestructible, indivisible, infinitesimal, invisible, inconceivable and immutable anti-material energy.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Is This All You Are?

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Question: Is Caste Determined by One's Birth

Does the varnashrama system (the system based on four social orders and four spiritual orders) provide its citizens the element of choice? What if a child born in a sudra (laborer class) family aspires to become something greater other than what his society has intended for him? Doesn't he have a right to raise his social order?

Your humble servant,
Sushant.

Answer: One's Social Position is Determined by Qualities, Not Birth

India's actual varnashrama system is based on one's qualities and activities, not the family of one's birth. For example, if one develops the qualities of brahmana (intellectual-priestly class), even if he comes from a low class family of dog eaters, he is accepted as a brahmana. The modern day caste system of India, which is based on birth, is not in accordance with the India's original varnashrama system, described in the Bhagavad-gita based on one's qualities and activities.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari