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Written by Sri Swami Chandrashekarendra
Saraswati |
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As we have already seen, we cannot sustain the claim that vocations are
determined today according to the qualities of individuals and their
inclinations or aptitudes. Also untenable is the demand for equal
opportunities for all. To take an example: there are a certain number of
seats in medical and engineering colleges. For highly specialised and
new
subjects like nuclear science the seats are very few. When the
candidates
possessing the same qualifications (or merit) apply for admission to the
colleges teaching these subjects only a fixed number are selected.
Naturally, it is not practicable to choose all. Would it be right to
contend
that all candidates, even though equally qualified, who want to do
research in a new science like atomic physics, should be given an
opportunity? All those who apply for high positions in the government
will not be selected for appointment even though they possess more or
less same qualifications. The government decides that we need so many
doctors in the country, so many scientists, so many specialists and so
many officials. In choosing them, a number of candidates are naturally
rejected. This system is accepted by all.
It is in the same way as candidates are selected for seats in the
colleges or
for appointments in the government that a certain percentage of people
are thought to be sufficient for the purpose of conducting the rites
meant
to invoke the heavenly powers for the happiness of mankind
-and these few function on a hereditary basis. Not more are needed for
such a task since all the other work required for the proper functioning
of
the society will otherwise suffer. This is the principle on which
vocations
are divided. People agitate for the application for the principle of
equality
(a product of French Revolution) to scriptural matters without realising
that it has hardly any place even in worldly affairs. |
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