The Rajput is a Rajput because of his belief in the eternal law of causation, in the unfailing truths of karma and re-incarnation. The Rajput is a Rajput because to him the universe is one of law, order and justice, and God, the Universal Soul, is the Supreme Disperser of justice and Wielder of the destinies of all in strict conformity with the karmic law. The Rajput is a Rajput because he knows that he was not suddenly created out of nothing by a whimsical God and that his birth in his particular family within particular surroundings and influences is not mere unaccountable accident. He is a Rajput because to him the ultimate object of life is moksha or final emancipation from all evil and conditioned existence, and actual realisation of the supreme bliss, absolute and infinite, and because he is aware that his present life on earth as a member of the Rajput community is a favourable opportunity given to him to directly aim at such ultimate object from where he is, by following the practical ways and means, denoted by the one word ‘Kshatriya dharma’ and known through his sacred literature. He is a Rajput because, birth being meaningful to him and existence purposeful, he knows that he has come in his present incarnation to learn the lessons of training in the Kshatriya dharma, the particular varna dharma, prescribed for one of his birth and antecedents and that those lessons are the ones most needed for him in view of his further spiritual progress. (Adapted from the words of Sri Ramananda Sarasvati Swamigal)
