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otherwise fake ascetics would take the
field. Hence the real brahmin should be
It is the penance and celibacy that make
real brahmin. It is the ideal behaviour which
implies non-attachment towards worldly matters that idealises a person.
Once this emphasis on actual behaviour,
rather than mere sermons on it, was laid bare
before the then somewhat demoralised society,
Mahavira led this attack on the caste system. He had the courage to declare that
It is the Karman and not the birth that
determines the social status of a person. These ideas were revolutionary ideas indeed! And the receptive intelligent ideological elements In Brahmanism welcomed these ideas. It is significant
to note that the ganadharas of Lord Mahavira were
brahmins!
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