a couple of questions

[Guest guest]

greetings to all,

 

I'm very pleased that this mailing list has restarted so we can continue

our paths to enlightenment.

 

I have a few questions to ask of you all. I hope somebody can help me

out.

 

I would like to know in the simplest terms possible what a Brahmin is.

i.e. what makes a Brahmin and what is required of him/her.

 

Secondly, as a university student with many local friends and

acquaintances, I consider it an important duty of mine to try and promot

vegetarianism amongst them. I am able to defend my point of view fairly

easily with plausible arguments. It is with my Hindu friends that I run

into problems trying to convince.

 

I was hoping to find out if there is any explicit passage in any of the

scriptures we follow that mention one musn't eat meat. Or at least a

notion that alludes to something along those lines. If anyone has read

something as such please let me know.

 

Thanks,

 

Ashwin Sairam <asaira