There is a merit which comes to a person when he gifts a house to a person. The same merit will come when you give as a gift a house and some land to a Brahmana. Even Adisesha (the thousand hooded serpent who forms the bed of Sri Vishnu) cannot enumerate or describe the good merits of the gift made to a Brahmana who has wife and children. A Brahmana who does the things prescribed for people of other castes, loses his position and has no happiness even in the next world. Likewise a Shudra who does the works prescribed for a Brahmana will not have a higher status or merit. But sage Parasara does not hold this view.