Page 8 - Sri Aurobindo on Kurukshetra and Kshatriya Spirit

. . . the truth behind it [chaturvarna] exists

and is one of some considerable

importance in the perfection of our power

of nature; but we have to take it in its

inner aspects, first, personality, character,

temperament, soul-type, then the soul-

force which lies behind them and wears

these forms, and lastly the play of the free

spiritual Shakti in which they find their

culmination and unity beyond all modes.

For the crude external idea that a man is

born as a Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaishya or

Shudra and that alone, is not a

psychological truth of our being.

Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, 24: 742