On Feb 23, 2009, at 9:11 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
Curtis wrote:
When India elects a Sudra as their leader they
can brag too.
There are no 'sudras', Curtis - you're just
perpetuating the myth like you were trained to do.
But in fact, almost all of India's leaders have
been dark-skinned.
According to friends who worked on staff at MIU for very low wages,
and supposedly to get on course, i.e. pay for the TM-Sidhi course,
they were treated like shudras, like lesser-evolved people, who
shouldn't be touched or engaged. The idea, they felt, was that more
evolved people would naturally receive the "support of nature" and so
they were naturally more prosperous. If you lacked money to the
extent that you had to (essentially) beg to get on a course or be
able to hang at MIU/ meditate in the domes, you were in effect (not
only a slave of sorts), an untouchable. Or at least that's the way
they felt they were treated. It's an unspoken caste system in the
same sense that racism can be covert and engrained without
necessarily needing out loud racial slurs or comments.
Perhaps we should start calling it the apaurusheya-jati?
