Fwd: A true Brahmin

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advaitin , Shyam <shyam_md wrote:

 

Pranams Shastri-ji,

Perhaps it is the sign of our times - of the Age of Kali (Kali Yuga)??

 

Sage Markandeya seems to have forecast this with remarkable insight in the

Mahabharata, Vana Parva:

 

" And Yudhishthira said,..I am filled with curiosity, however, in respect of what

may happen in the Kali age. When morality and virtue will be at an end, what

will remain there!

And Markandeya said, '….In the dark age (of Kali), O thou best of the Bharata

race, morality mixed with three parts of sin liveth by the side of men.

Accordingly morality then is said to wait on men, with only a fourth part of

itself remaining. ..And men with false reputation of learning will, by their

acts, cause Truth to be concealed. .. in consequence of the littleness of their

knowledge, they will have no wisdom. And for this, covetousness and avarice will

overwhelm them all. And wedded to avarice and wrath and ignorance and lust men

will entertain animosities towards one another...And Brahmanas and Kshatriyas

and Vaisyas with their virtue contracted and divested of asceticism and truth

will all be reduced to an equality with the Sudras..those men who are devoted to

ceremonial rites…will be avaricious and will also appropriate and enjoy what

belongs to others..those things will also be enjoyed by men in such times, the

enjoyment of which hath

been forbidden in the scriptures. And the Brahmanas, speaking disrespectfully

of the Vedas, will not practise vows, and their understanding clouded by the

science of disputation, they will no longer perform sacrifices and the Homa. And

deceived by the false science of reasons, they will direct their hearts towards

everything mean and low….. And the whole world will be filled with mleccha

behaviour and notions and ceremonies, and sacrifices will cease and joy will be

nowhere…men will cease to trust one another. And full of avarice and folly the

whole world will have but one kind of food. And sin will increase and prosper,

while virtue will fade and cease to flourish. And Brahmanas and Kshatriyas and

Vaisyas will disappear, leaving, O king, no remnants of their orders. And all

men towards the end of the Yuga will become members of one common order, without

distinction of any kind…And at such a time men will seek those countries where

wheat and

barley form the staple food. And, O monarch, both men and women will become

perfectly free in their behaviour .. the wife will never be content with her

husband, nor the husband with his wife. And the possessions of men will never be

much, and people will falsely bear the marks of religion, and jealousy and

malice will fill the world. ..And people will, without compunction, destroy

trees and gardens. .And when the end of the Yuga comes, everybody will be in

want. .. "

 

How prophetic.

 

Hari OM

Shyam

 

 

 

 

--- On Mon, 6/22/09, snsastri <sn.sastri wrote:

 

 

snsastri <sn.sastri

Re: A true Brahmin

advaitin

Monday, June 22, 2009, 2:19 AM

 

 

 

 

 

 

Manu Smriti II.168 says-- " The Brahmana who without having studied the Veda in

the proper way, labours after other things, falls, even in his present life, to

the condition of a Sudra, together with his descendants " .

I wonder how many of us qualify as Brahmins by this test. I certainly do not.

 

Best wishes,

S.N.sastri

 

 

 

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