What is your caste?

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What is your caste?This incident happened a few weeks ago. We

live in a North American city and my son is a teenager attending his

freshman in High School. As a part of his world culture class, his

teacher wanted to have a class demonstration of marriage system in

India. My son along with another girl student participated in the class

room demo and my son returned from the school that day and narrated his

experience to me. He asked me what caste did he belong to and what his

religion was.

The classroom demo apparently went like this:

The student: what is your name? My son answered what his name was.

The student: What is your caste? My son: I don't know.

The student: What is your religion? My son: I am not sure. We go to Baba, I guess that is my religion! What happened after the above conversation is beyond the context

of this write-up. It was a happy revelation for me that as the one who

"goes" to Baba, I have done something good without my knowledge. That

is, not to teach my children their caste and religion in the name of

their heritage. I observed that in the name of our culture and

heritage, there is a tendency to instill our identity as one belonging

to a certain caste or a religion, belonging to a certain region or

speaking a certain language. As Sai children what is more fulfilling

than having Baba has one's own and only identity. Only with that

identity, one would be able to achieve the harmony so needed for our

times and our children. (Contributed by Sai devotee)

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