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Body (Cont’d)
It is not very difficult to understand the difference between the
field and its knower, the body and the knower of the body. Any
person can consider that from childhood to old age he undergoes
so many changes of body and yet is still one person, remaining.
Thus there is a difference between the knower of the field of ac-
tivities and the actual field of activities. A living conditioned soul
can thus understand that he is different from the body.
- BG 13:1-2, purport -
Caste System
The social institution known as varëäçrama-dharma—the institu-
tion dividing society into four divisions of social life and four
occupational divisions or castes—is not meant to divide human
society according to birth. Such divisions are in terms of educa-
tional qualifications. They are to keep the society in a state of
peace and prosperity. - BG 16:1-3, purport -
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