Chapter (অধ্যায়): INDIA'S MESSAGE TO THE WORLD PAGE-310Page: 310 of 516
21.Brahminhood by descent-various races have claimed and acquired the right in the past as well as in the present.
22.No claim is made by the doer of great deeds, only by lazy worthless fools.
23.Degradation of Brahminhood and Kshatriyahood. The Puranas said there will be only non-Brahmins in the Kali Yuga, and that is true, becoming truer every day. Yet a few Brahmins remain, and in India alone.
24.Kshatriyahood-we must pass through that to become a Brahmin. Some may have passed through in the past, but the present must show that.
25.But the disclosure of the whole plan is to be found in religion.
26.The different tribes of the same race worship similar gods, under a generic name as the Baals of the Babylonians, the Molochs of the Hebrews.
27.The attempt in Babylonia of making all the Baals merge in Baal-Merodach-the attempt of the Israelites to merge all the Molochs in the Moloch Yavah or Yahu.
28.The Babylonians destroyed by the Persians; and the Hebrews who took the Babylonian mythology and adapted it to their own needs, succeeded in producing a strict monotheistic religion.
29.Monotheism like absolute monarchy is quick in executing orders, and a great centralisation of force, but it grows no farther, and its worst feature is its cruelty and persecution. All nations coming within its influence perish very soon after a flaring up of a few years.
30.In India the same problem presented itself-the solution found-{Sanskrit}.
This is the keynote to everything which has succeeded, and the keystone of the arch.
31.The result is that wonderful toleration of the Vedantist.
32.The great problem therefore is to harmonise and