here is something interesting

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http://www.iish.org/publication1.html

 

They seem to have created recordings of Vedas!! I just came accross trhe site by

brousing.

 

Of course!! be careful; some people say that unless you are born of a brahmana

yoni you are ineligible. Being born of a brahmana yoni makes you eligible for

everything and others are ineligible for everything. So all westerners are

ineligible even to hear it *smile*. And if they have their way they will pour

molten lead into your ears. so keep away from them under pain of loosing hearing

(at the very least).

 

This birthrightists base their authority NOT on any vaidik injunction but on

corrupted self agrrandizing statements of later times.

 

The shastras define brahmana as a person who has known Brahma; Vipra as a person

who cleaves his own special path.

 

But selective amnesia makes them forget that there are also other injunctions

like to cross the seas is to loose caste - then the born brahmin ceases to be a

brahmin.

 

Similarly missing Sandhya makes you loose caste. Sandhya HAS to be performed at

the three sandhyas. Morning, noon and evening. Combining is a later invention.

 

Similarly a true brahmana is not supposed to engage in other vocations. If they

do they again loose caste. But these are conveniently fogotten and greater

emphasis is made on birth rights.

 

Of course it is OK that Agastya the greatest brahmana has a low caste who is

also his Guru.

 

Of course the Gayatri they cling on to has as Rishi a non-brahmana -

Vishwamitra.

 

but these are lost in selective amnesia.

 

I believe bramana charecter comes from action and study and not birth. So even a

white man can be a brahmana while a brahmana who is not practicing his tradition

will be a mere chandala.

 

If the injunctions are violated it demands specific expitiatory rites. How many

can or will do them?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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