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Dear Swamiji, Recently i heard a lecture from a Guru who says one person takes birth as a soodra and with his karmas he becomes a brahmin. i hv a different view on this. One person is taking birth with 3 liabilities – liability to devas, hrishis and pithrukal. A brahmin boy is getting upanayanam at his 8th age and from that day onwards he is doing sandya vandanam where tharpanam is a vital item. Putting poonool (sacred thread) on right side he is doing tharpanam to devas and putting the poonool as mala he is doing tharpanam to hrishis standing in the water to eastern side and putting the poonool to left side he is doing tharpanam to pithrukal standing to southern side. Thus from his 8th age to say 70 years he is doing the tharpanam in the morning and evening, thus reducing the liabilities to hrishis, devadas and pithrukal. This custom is not followed by vysya, shathriya and soodras. Then how they are reducing the liabilities – by way of temple visit, reading puranas and ithihasas and doing pithru karmas to the departed ones. Liabilities to the parents are commonly done by looking after them at their old age. Again brahmins are doing shodasa samskara karmas which other community is not doing. When he is in mothers womb, pumsavana and seemantham etc are done which are part of shodasa samskara and thus he is coming out as a brahmin boy only. A person who is taking birth in a brahmin, vysya, soodra or shathriya family depends on his karma phala. How he lives here is secondary. A brahmin can live as a chandala and vice-versa. Since these are the facts, how can we say that a person is taking birth as a soodra. Pls advs.