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• “Adultery means production of unwanted children known as varna-sankara, who disturb the world.”

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• “The confusion between ‘jati’ and ‘varna’ when the caste system is described.”

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• “It is evident; therefore, that Sanskritisation reinforces and consolidates the ‘immutable varna hierarchy’ rather than dislodges it or modify it.”

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• “Astrology, yogic ideas of prana and kundalini and even the ideas of reincarnation, karma and varna (that is, caste order) are justified in the language of modern physics and evolutionary biology.”

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• “The "Verenna" part, while clearly derived first and foremost from the old Sanskrit root varna which in the Rig Veda means "one who claims to be NT Wrong deceitfully".”

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• “The Sanskrit word for caste, varna, also means color.”

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• “The ancient racial division on the basis of varna or color was basically such a system of aesthetics that crystallized into a rigid caste system based on preferred professions.”

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• “Forty verses of Guhyasamaja tantra is written in a very mystical and profound language; its each verse is formed by taking one varna of evam maya srutam thus interpreting the real intent of the secret verse.”

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• “The original Hindu word for caste, varna, literally meant “color,” and caste has functioned in India historically as a kind of “apartheid.””

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• “The Balijas were proud of their Sudra status, in a world previously dominated by a classical Sanskritic varna scheme that insisted that kings had to be Kshatriya (two castes higher than Sudras).”

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