EP 20: Reincarnation
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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The Role of the Castes in India
In India, this notion of playing your role is epitomized in the term dharma. The whole society is a single body and the individual is something as far as he functions as an organ of that body. This is entirely contrary to the Greek idea of the individual as himself the final entity. And what are the duties of the castes and what are their functions? When one goes to India there are hundreds of castes. Every occupation practically is a cast. They are almost on the lower cast levels. Work unions, we have some building up now. You can't join it unless your father and grandfather, this is now becoming a cast. One of its functions is to protect the
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