If hatred increases, it will not benefit any one. To pursue the ideal of "all are equal" is like running after the mirage to slake one's thirst. It will only breed discontent. The rulers must now assemble and consult the representatives of the people, namely, the pundits and experienced elders and discuss the value of this ancient system of social organisation. Instead if they just decide on the basis of external forms and features that there is some poison in this and run into panic, that will only reveal their ignorance. The rulers as well as the pundits both have the happiness of the people at heart; why, this Varna system originated with that very end in view. It has led to comments because it was not practised on the continued counsels of the wise.

Take one small example: some nations have manufactured bombs that can wipe out Lakhs of people at one burst. Though they know this is bad, the rulers are themselves encouraging it. If the bombs are used as the whim takes them, ruin will fall on all. When chaos threatens, they are to be used only for self-defense; the purpose is not the destruction of the world but the protection of the values of one's own country and culture. So also, the Varna system is to be treated as strong armament to protect the country and culture. The rules and regulations, the restrictions and recommendations are all to defend the people from ruin. They are disciplines which have to be honoured in the way they are laid down and followed strictly and correctly. To deal with them as the whim dictates, without regard to the directing bunds, the limits and the boundaries is to invite anarchy.

Therefore, the elders, the rulers, the great pundits and the leaders of the community guarded and fostered this organisation and preserved it; think of this for a while and the truth will flash on you - whether it is beneficial or not. If it was ruinous to society, would they have fostered it? Do you mean to say they were all foolish, or that they did not have the present type of scholarship or they were brainless?

No, no. Their intelligence, scholarship, spiritual eminence, their spirit of inquiry and their impartial unprejudiced approach to social problems can be found only among one in a hundred today. Ascetics who dedicated all their intellectual and moral strength for the welfare of the world, which task was the very breath of their life; yogis, spiritual warriors and maharshis who sought to confer true contentment on the human community, these were the framers of the social organisation which the 'moderns' condemn. They were not like the reformers of today, who yearn for welfare in a profusion of words, but who undermine the very thing they profess to yearn for by their actions! This type of trick was unknown to the ancient sages. Modern ideas and plans are hollow and insincere. The present plans are all castles in the air. They cater more to the conceit of the planners and do not carry much meaning to others. The castles start falling down even while construction is proceeding in another place!