Guest guest Posted October 4, 2009 Report Share Posted October 4, 2009 namaskarams  Does this have any value while one wants to know/understand atma anatma viveka ultimately ?  or one should know what is forbidden and hence avoid what elders advise with shraddha and move on to understand what is atma anatma viveka in advaitic vedanta ?  Will this come under the verse in Chapter 2   nasato vidyate bhava nabhavo vidyate satah  Marriage is a karma an action whom to marry is with knowledge a guidance from elders and without any iota of doubt ishwara prasadam.  so " knowing " what vedas state and then " marrying " the act itself has to be again understood with the karmic bagage a living being comes with(past karmas,past lives et all) .  the one who wants to defy all norms is of course in a different journey a choosen path ie mind set known to argue,defy and hence will maybe marry a maternal relative and not understand repercursions maybe !!  like many marry outside of vedic dharma as seen and when many marry within same vedic followers and eat meat or take alchohol or stop taking altogether!!   so this makes one think what value will that add to assimilating neti neti in atma antama understanding.  humbly  sukanya shankar --- On Sat, 10/3/09, S.N. Sastri <sn.sastri wrote: S.N. Sastri <sn.sastri Marrying one’s maternal uncle’s daughter advaitin Received: Saturday, October 3, 2009, 9:24 PM Marrying one’s maternal uncle’s daughter In mImAmsA paribhAShA, by Krishna Yajvan, a standard work on pUrva mImAmsA, (similar to vedAnta paribhAShA for vedAnta), there is the following interesting statement:-- “Such usage among the cultured as marrying a maternal uncle’s daughter, however, is unauthoritative, because this is forbidden by the smRiti text, “Marrying a maternal uncle’s daughterâ€, etc., and therefore contradicts the smRiti. Swami Vidyaranya refers to this practice, which is prevalent in the southern States of India, in the following statement in his work Jivanmuktiviveka:-- “The southern Brahmanas censure the northerners, well-versed in the Vedas, as meat-eaters. The northern Brahmanas retaliate by ridiculing the southern custom of marrying the daughter of a maternal uncle and for carrying earthenware during travelâ€. S.N.Sastri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 5, 2009 Report Share Posted October 5, 2009 Namaste The Baudhayana Dharmasutra 1.2.3 appears to sanction the practice of marrying the daughter of the mother's brother or the father's sister for south indians and that north indians should not adopt this custom. And he also mentions the peculiar practices of the north indians which the south indians should not adopt. Kathirasan 2009/10/5 sureshbalaraman <sureshbalaraman > > > > > In order that wealth is retained within the family,the culture of marrying > cousins was/is prevalent in south india.Amongst some muslim communities > cousins of the brothers itself marry. > > suresh. > > > -- Kathirasan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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