Hi Srivatsan, Its nice to have an Adhyaayi admist us. Could you enlighten us more about the Vedas and its teaching please? I have never read the Vedas even in translation and all i have read is about the Vedas. In regards to the subject under discussion, is the Varna system not mentioned in the Vedas ? How different is the Varna System from the Caste sytem. Till date i was of the opinion they are one and the same. (Apologies for the ignorance).