More importantly, however, I'm also going to continue to do the work I owe people as a UC Hindu person in a UC Hindu household. Because the stories were still theirs, too. It feels much more likely that they rejected these notions outright. Could he not have known about that? Could it be that, somehow, nobody in the Bhakthi movement knew hat was in the epics and books of the religion and religious figures they were so closely involved with? In that time? That’s extremely difficult to believe. Krishna and Rama, both of whom explicitly and/or implicitly endorse the caste system in their respective epics. Purandhara Dasa, born a savarna, working as a goldsmith, gave all of it up when faced with guilt over the horrors of caste and spent the rest of his life making art - writing and composing classical music pieces, almost all in favour of Krishna, and also Rama. These poets and musicians continued to worship and make art about the same figures, often arguing against hindu bigotry in their work - the vachanas of Basavanna and Akka Mahadevi are good examples of this, if anyone is curious. Interestingly, a great deal of Carnatic classical composers belonged to the Bhakti tradition, a sect of Hinduism that rejected the casteism and misogyny of orthodox hinduism. In addition to writing, I also practice and train in Carnatic music and Bharatanatyam, both of which are heavily Hindu-influenced in terms of content. However, the Ramayana has never been Valmiki's alone.
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