2. But untouchability is not the same thing as the “Vern Ashram” of the Hindus, and that its abolition does not mean the abolition of the “Vern Ashram”. To me the “Vern Ashram”, is the natural division of human society all-over, into four classes (the priestly and the ruling classes; the trading and the labouring classes), as propounded by the Holy Vedas and the Gita. To confine it (Vern Ashram) to the Hindus of India, is to confine and limit the universal truth uttered by the holy Books. By having so confined it, has led to the unnatural division of the Hindus into the four castes.
