राम
Abhanga 943Social Criticism

The Insignificance of Caste

English Translation · I.P. 943

WHAT is akin to the devil ? A cruel heart; a cruel and grasping spirit in man. The source of virtue is in the inner parts; caste and family cannot ensure it. To taste poison, to distinguish brass from pure gold, you need no evidence but a particle of it. Tuka says, How good it is to come in contact with the truly well-born ! there is nothing but butter stored up in them ! CASTE IN COMPARISON OP VIRTUE 305

Tr. J. Nelson Fraser & K.B. Marathe (1909)

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Social Criticism

Rebuke of hypocrisy, caste pride, false teachers, greed, and religious pretence.

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