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agrarian society - akira the don lyrics

the hindu divide life into certain stages what are called the ashamas
the first is called brahmacarya
the second grehasta
and the third vanaprastha

brahmacarya means the stage of the stupid the apprenticeship
grehasta the stage of the householder
and vanaprastha the stage of the forest dweller
this is related to the cultural history of early india

before we have agrarian communities, we have a hunting culture which is on the move
in a hunting culture every male knows the whole culture
there is no division of labor
and the holy man of the hunting culture is of course called shaman
shaman is a i realized man
a man who knows the inner secret
he’s seen through the gate
and he finds it by going away alone into the forest and cutting himself off from the tribe
that is to say from social conditioning
and he goes maybe for a long period into the forest and comes back
he’s found out who he is and he sure as who he was told he was

but as hunting cultures settled into agrarian patterns of life what do they do?
they build a village and around the village they set up a stockade which is known as the pale
and the village is always of course standing at crossroads
though you get an agrarian society a division of labor
and the division of labor comprises four
in medieval europe we call them lord spiritual
lords temporal
commons
and serves
in india they are brahmins
chatria that means fighter
vaicher- merchants, traders
chutara- labour’s

so, you’ve got the priests
the warriors
the merchants
and the laborers
division of labor
the four sections of town
so, the four basic castes
so, when you are born you are born into a caste
and your duty as a grehasta or householder is to fulfill your caste function and to bring up a family
when you’ve done that you go back to the forest
back to the hunting culture and you drop your role and you become n0body a shaman again
so hindu calls one who does this a shramana which is of course the same word as shaman
and the chinese called him a shia
a shaman is an immortal
why immortal?
because it’s only the role that’s mortal
the big front
the persona

the one who you really are the common man that is to say the man who is common to us all
which you could call the son of man
that’s the real self
that’s the guy who’s putting on the big act
and of course, he has no name
n0body can put a finger on him
because you can’t touch the tip of the finger with the tip of the finger

- akira the don lyrics

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