Shri Narayan Guru’s Views on Caste Based Discrimination and Social Equality

Abstract

This research paper presents the Shri Narayan Guru’s views on caste based discrimination and his effort to end this social evil and to establish equality among all human beings. Caste based discrimination is the curse of Indian Society and social reformers like Shri Narayan Guru proclaimed that India could not become a powerful and strong country without eradicating it. His views on this issue is totally different from his contemporaries. It is need of present time that we should study critically this concept. Caste based discrimination is totally against the sprit of Advait Vedant ( Non-dualism) philosophy. The practice of untouchability based on caste is totally wrong and it's a crime against humanity as well as God because we believe that everything is created by God. Same essence of divinity is present in all humans we should respect this divinity. We are not going to trace the origin of caste based discrimination in any texts and it’s effects on Indian society. It is nearly impossible to cover all the primary texts related with caste and all the teachings of our contemporary social reformers on caste system, caste discrimination and solutions in one research paper. It is not our purpose to go into the roots of caste system. Our concern here is the evil of inequality and exploitation it engenders across the entire spectrum of the Indian society, and the way Narayan Guru dealt with it. Our objective is to highlights Guru’s commonsensical and spiritual methods for solving this problem.