Lineage

I come from a long line
of shudras,
vaishyas,
kshatriyas,
and brahmanas
And even mlecchas!
My great-great-grand dad born a shudra,
and died a vaishya
while great-grand, a vaishya all his life.
His son born a vaishya,
and became a brahmana
until his passing,
but not before his son adopted
the vaishya line, until
I came along,
and entered
my mother's lineage.
Now I have siblings and cousins,
shudras,
vaishyas,
kshatriyas,
brahmanas,
mlecchas, even --
all sprung from the same body,
the body
of the Great
Embodied
Person,
the Auspicious,
the Truth-Person,
the Sat-Purusha.
To speak of superiority
or inferiority
is as silly as to speak of
chocolate
or
vanilla.