Mahesh Yogi interview

[Guest guest]

Maharishi Mahesh yogi's interview

with Larry King (CNN) can be read:

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/12/lklw.00.html

 

Maharishi Yogi, like Swami Vivekananda and

VaLLalaar who wrote 6000 poems in tamil

rebelling against caste discrimination,

is a karNIka. Called KulkarNis in Maharashtra.

KarNikar excelled in Tamil scholarship

always. The competition between potters

and karNis is told in TolkAppiyam commentary.

Auvai Duraisay Pillai was a famed Tamil professor

and a Karnikar. JayamkoNTaar, called Kavichakravarti

by Chola emperors like Kulottunga I, was a Karnikar.

We're fortunate to have the only extant work

on lokAyata in Tamil by JayamkoNDaar.

Its poetic beaty is unrivalled when compared to

extant works on lokaayata. Eg.,

the one in Sanskrit by Jayarasi. Interesting

to note that JayamkoNDaar uses many Hindu gods'

myths to ridicule, and this has earlier been

done by AshvaghoSa in his buddhacaritam. Also,

his vajrazuuci is against the varNa system too.

BTW, is AshvaghoSa also a KarNiika? (Commonly

one would be told, I guess, AshvaghoSa was a braahmaNa.

But take kaaLidaasa, his name is very untypical

for a brahmin of 4-5th century. KaaLi worship

was not the main job of brahmins then! We constantly

have sayings and verses in sanskrit about Kaalidaasa's

non-veg. diet.)

 

See in Project Madurai website, the tamil text, kArAn2ai

vizupparaiyan2 vaLamaTal by JayamkoNTaar:

http://www.tamil.net/projectmadurai/pub/pm0060/valamatal.pdf

 

Karnikar caste origin legends:

INDOLOGY/message/1660

 

Regards,

N. Ganesan