Is Jāti Decided by Birth or Profession?
I am sharing a story of how I witnessed the opposition of an inter-caste marriage of a dear friend of mine. She would cry over the phone narrating her story to me everyday saying that her parents are not ready to accept this boy who is not a Brahmin by birth and whom she is in love with from the past five years! I would be fuming inside being unable to do anything much, but only trying to console her in the best way I could and not let her lose hopes. It went to such an extent that the parents said they would commit suicide if she married him. Now what a difficult situation for my friend to take a decision. It ultimately ended up with her having to leave him with such a heavy heart that she will never forget in her life. A few months later, she was married to a Brahmin boy suggested by her parents. The truth was that she still had the fresh scars of the wound from her past relationship. Definitely a wound so deep will take years to heal! After her marriage, she would not call me often