Asceticism, Samsara, and Castes

The Hindu religion revolves around 3 things most importantly; Samsara: the cycle of life, death, and rebirth, Castes: a strict set of social status, and, the ascetics: a few select renouncers. The idea of Samsara is to escape the cycle of life, death and rebirth. To find release, or liberation (known as moksha in the Hindu religion.) The caste system is what you could call strict. There are five different categories of status; Brahmins: priestly, Kshatriya: the warrior, Vaishya: the householder, Shudra: the servant, and, Dalits: the untouchables. You are born into a caste, and the decisions you make in life, effect where you will be placed in reincarnation. In a way, this system is a Hindu version of Christianity's Adam and Eve, meant to illustrate social status. One who chooses to follow asceticism, is what you would call a Holy Man. These men deny themselves of certain pleasures in life, and show extreme devotion to a higher deity. I believe Hindu religious practices and beliefs informed the Buddas new dhamma in a few ways. They have the same idea of finding a form of enlightenment, but go about it in different ways. Also, the idea in Buddhism of, how all of life is suffering, reminds me of the idea of escaping samsara in the Hindu religion. To me, both are a form of suffering, all for the idea of a better self, and a better life.