Guest guest Posted September 10, 1998 Report Share Posted September 10, 1998 > > >COM: Gunamani (dd) ARD (Arhus - DK) wrote: > >> [Text 1675046 from COM] >> >> Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. >> >> Just one question. >> >> If the brahmanas become corrupted what to do? >> Any prescribed emergency-formulas for the society, dependants, >> >> environment >> etc. build into the system of varnasramadharma? >> Your servant Gunamani d.d. > >Brahmans lead by example, not by legislation. If someone is setting a bad >>example, they are automatically not a brahman. the safeguard is that all >>are educated tha t being a brahman is more than being erudite, wearing a >>certain uniform (10 cent string,, etc), being rubberstamped by some >>institution, or performing a certain set of rituals. Being a brahman is >>based on qualities. Quote on the emergency and bramanas, the answer is to 'train': ==================================== Srimad-Bhagavatam Canto 7: Chapter Eleven, Text 17 PURPORT The occupational duty of a brahmana should not be accepted by persons in lower social orders, especially vaisyas and sudras. For example, an occupational duty of the brahmana is to teach Vedic knowledge... Even a ksatriya cannot accept the duties of a brahmana unless there is an emergency, and then even if he does so he should not accept charity from anyone else. Sometimes brahmanas protest against our Krsna consciousness movement for creating brahmanas from Europeans, or, in other words, from mlecchas and yavanas. This movement, however, is here supported in Srimad-Bhagavatam... Because spiritual culture has been stopped all over the world, there is now an emergency, and therefore it is now time TO TRAIN those who are considered lower and condemned, so that they may become brahmanas and take up the work of spiritual progress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 11, 1998 Report Share Posted September 11, 1998 >While I certainly >believe it is possible to increase the quality of our social culture along >the lines of VAD, there are no simple 'pre-packaged' solutions. True. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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