Is a devotee born in a brahmin family working in a bank a brahmana or a vaishya?

From: ankush sharma
according to varnaashram dharam a person who is working in a bank and born in brahmin family following regulative principles and chanting 16 rounds ,who is he a brahmin or a vashya.please describe.

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it is simply honest reporting first person a devotee is first and foremost a Vaishnava now the qualities, the varna of a person is determined not just by the birth but also by the guna and karma so if one is engaged in banking which is primarily a Vaishya activity then from the guna karma perspective one could say that one is a Vaishya but if one has been born in a Brahminical culture and has been living in a Brahminical way then one may still be having the guna of a Brahmin so that’s why the whole Varanasian system in Kali Yuga is quite messed up and we don’t have to become obsessed with trying to decide what my Varana is as devotees even if somebody is working in a bank actually if somebody is having a business that person is a Vaishya if somebody is doing Vaishya duty but if somebody is working as an employee then that is not primarily a Vaishya activity generally in the Vedic culture those who take salaries they are considered to be not Vaishyas but Shudras now Shudra may seem to be a very strong value judgmental statement to us which may hurt us also the point here is that Vaishnavas are transcendental and we are not here trying to at a material level determine who belongs to what Varana and there is no need to get into a hair splitting analysis of this so our Varana is determined by our guna and karma both the kind of qualities that we have and the kind of activity that we are doing so therefore now often in Kali Yuga many people are engaged in a way that is not necessarily according to their propensities for example many people get into engineering and medicine because those are the glamorized professions nowadays may be management MBA so people who get into these professions may not necessarily have those propensities so exactly determining the Varana of a particular person is not a very easy task in Kali Yuga and at the same time it is not a very important task it is not going to as because the Varanashram system has been so much disrupted Prabhupada would explain that the primary purpose of the Varanashram system is that Varana is for the body Ashram is for the soul so Varana system is basically an arrangement by which people can take care of their material necessities in a way that is overall compatible with and conducive for their spiritual advancement which is taken care of by the Ashram system so in Kali Yuga because that social structure is not there the Varana classification doesn’t really help in taking care of people’s material needs and necessities so therefore that classification doesn’t have to be given much importance we have to arrange for some way in which we can take care of our bodily necessities and our family responsibilities and we should have to do it in such a way that it doesn’t militate against our spiritual principles so the important point is that we should be practicing devotional service seriously and making spiritual advancement so our primary identity as souls is Vaishnav Dharma is the Vaishnav Dharma that we should serve Krishna and if we are chanting 16 Ramayana’s following 4 agate principles then that is important and one doesn’t have to bother too much about which Varana one belongs to