Fwd: Fw: Fwd: Who will marry our priests ?

October 1, 2008

Respected Prabhu,

First, you have concluded the varnashrama dharmam to be stupid sentiments which is not acceptable. To begin with, it is only because brahmins have not protected the vEdAs and that vEdAs were abused by everyone that today's state prevails. For anything and everything there needs to be protectors.. Can you go and access something confidential from the parliament or a research lab of the government or the defence ministry details? One needs to identify the path towards accessing these. Many might get disqualified due to various reasons. For example, a person suffering from short-sight is not eligible to be in military. Isn't the short-sight a birth defect? Could you ask why the government rejects people because of their short sight which came by birth? Similarly, vEdAs deal with advanced science that deal with dEvatAs which are subtle entities. One needs to be a master of the thri-guNAs and must be an embodiment of sattva guNA in order to deal with

these dEvatAs. Anyone, through severe penance and austerity can attain absolute sattva guNA. This is what the rishis had done. After attaining such guNA they mastered the art of controlling these dEvatAs(vEdic knowledge). And they passed on their guNA composition to their next generations via genes.. This is how the brahmaNAs clan has come so far and became the sole owners of the vEdAs. So, brAhmaNAs by birth possess an eligibility to access these powerful dEvatAs. But that does not mean they can control them. They have to follow all the staunch practices that were followed by their ancestors. Otherwise, they would be brahmaNAs just by birth and not by practice and hence will have no powers. So, simply reading vEdAs alone will not give you anything. Nor simply being born as a brAhmaNa will help. It comes out of extreme penance or by birth + proper practice. Non brahmins could take up the former path (VishwAmitrA is an example). brAhmaNas are of

8 types - janma, kruthi, gnyana, bhakti, siddhi and 3 more that is not on top of my mind. Being a brAhmaNa by birth is just a small step. The 7 further levels are the tougher part.

So, accusing brahmins to have not shared vEdAs are of no use. If one is really interested in the absolute knowledge, one must put in the corresponding efforts. A deer can't keep asking how a lion cub is born for a lion and hence will become a lion in the future that controls the deer clan. All these are based on the efforts put in the previous births. Neither should brAhmaNAs be arrogant that they are born as brahmins nor should others envy that brAhmaNAs alone have access to the vEdic knowledge in totality. After-all, all that a brAhmaNA does with the vEdic knowledge is to wish and pray for the social welfare. When someone does it free for us, why should we question or interfere in their job?

I have not tried to answer your question precisely as the answer should be found by yourself through your own means. I have just explained some of the misconceptions about brahmins and have given reasons for their ownership on the vEdic knowledge.

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan lakshmi narasimhan--- On Wed, 1/10/08, Prabhu 26 <prabhu.37 wrote:

Prabhu 26 <prabhu.37Fwd: [sri ramanuja] Re: Fw: Fwd: Who will marry our priests ?sriguru, v.lakshminrusimhan, ramanuja Date: Wednesday, 1 October, 2008, 5:31 PMThe Article is really good, can anyone in the group tell me where they

teach Vedas for non brahmin, shiva iyer has mentioned that jewish

businessman was so happy since his son willing to become rabbis,in

christian and muslim religion there is no obstacle stating only few

people can read the holy books, but in hindu religion, except brahmin

no one is able to read vedas, i know many people who are following

acharyam and anustanam but they are not able to read vedas because

they are non brahmin, i also see a lot of people not following

acharyam and aunstanam and they are able to read vedas because they

are brahmin, tell me who is brahmin and who is non-brahmin, u cannot

seperate people by birth, is anyone in the group can reply to this

article why there is a seperation, first try to clear the stupid

sentiments what we are following, if vedas are teached to everyone, i

am sure that there will be a lot of people will be interested to

become priest, including me, so stop talking about other religion, let

us clean ourselves, i expect shiva iyer and lakshminrusimhan to give

reply to the question.

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v.lakshminrusimhan <v.lakshminrusimhan

Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:02 PM

[sri ramanuja] Re: Fw: Fwd: Who will marry our priests ?

ramanuja

srimathE rAmAnujAya nama:

srimathE varavaramunayE nama:

sri aNNan tiruvadigaLE sharaNam

An interesting topic indeed. One of the major root cause is

the 'Astika nAstikAs'. mAmunigaL says in one of the pAsurams that

one should treat 'Astika nAstikAs' no worse than a nAstika i.e both

being thoroughly stupid, notorious and dangerous.

These 'Astika nAstikAs' adorn 12 TirumaNs during important functions

and come in grand dothis to appear as great scholars. But, they are

totally hopeless and zero in AchAra anushtAnams. They don't follow

shAstrAs, nor know any penny worth in the vEdAs / vedAntAs,

praBandAs or pUrvAchArya granthas. No faith / mahavishwAsam towards

either the supreme or their AchAryAs. These people see only pride in

claiming that they are born as brahmins. They don't even indulge in

any kainkaryams. They do only parihArams under the pretext of

dharmam for their own developments. They eat onion / garlic /

drumstick and all types of food that are not bhagavad / bhAgavada

prasadam. Some even don't perform shrArdhams. They don't have the

guts to have a shikai even after their retirement. They are so proud

of their gray hair indeed appearing in style. They do all these

under the name of alignment with the modern trend / world. What they

don't understand or realise is that this so called educational

system, law and order, judicial system, parliament system, economy

every thing was implanted by westerners in order to destroy the rich

knowledge that our lineage possesses. They fall as a prey to the

western culture, science and knowledge which is grossly immature,

inadequate, insufficient, and incorrigible. Worst of this is the

inclination towards the intolerable cinemas and the Television

nonsenses.

And the worst news is, unfortunately, such 'Astika nAstikAs' are

more than 95% in the society. Such people, grow their children the

same way. They grow their daughters adorning them with sleeveless

shirts and tight jeans and pamper them will all obscurities under

the name of luxuries / trend. Girls come to temples in salvars and

boys come in pants. It is absolutely a shame, but who cares.

As vEdAs say, vEdAs fear when it falls in the hands of those who

don't know how to use them. The result is that the vEdic knowledge

which is the supreme most from all perspectives, has started

disappearing. Unless a conscious effort is made by every person who

claims to be a sincere believer of vEdAs, nothing can be done.

Everyone has a notion that the world is like this - without money

nothing could be done. 'Try being a sincere follower of vEdic

tradition, you won't have money for the food for the day' is what

everyone sarcastically say. While I laugh at such accusations, I

have an interesting point to make. Think about 'every organism' in

the world other than human beings. Who is feeding them? Do they earn

money and save? Don't they eat, give birth to their kids, grow them

till an adult, and then die? How is that possible in all the

terrestrial, aquatic and arial beings other than the human? Which

means, the supreme lord has provided everything for us to live. We

don't have to make ourselves go through the nonsense of modern trend

to live our basic life. More than the non believers, it is we who

claim ourselves to be believers(?), who, under the name of

livelihood, are consciously corrupting the vedic society and

creating an irrepairable damage to the vedic knowledge and thus to

the entire society/world/universe itself.

May be it is time to think and get into action instead of expecting

some magic or some incarnation of the lord to come and clean. It is

a shame to expect the lord to come and do the cleanup while He has

given all the ability for us to do it ourselves.

mudalvanai chindiyAda appAvakArigaLai padaittavan enganam

padaittAnkolO?

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan lakshmi narasimhan

, "Dr.V.Sadagopan"

<yennappan

wrote:

>

> SrI:

>

> Dear Sriman VenkatakrishNan & Sriman Siva Iyer :

>

> Thanks very much for posting this important article .

> It provides focus on an important area . Sri Ahobila Matam

> and Sri Andavan Aasramam are training these future scholars

> with not only sampradhAyic knowledge but also modern skills

> ( Computer skills) that could increase their employabilty

> in the main stream as well , while rooted in their

> Vedic Training . I am sure that other AchAryAs are giving

> serious thoughts to this difficult situation . Our young girls

> want to run as far as possible from qualified Vaidhika

> bachelors with tufts (Sikhai) and who can not take them to

> the movies & restaurants .

>

> I know one Bruhaspathy , who has fully trained his son

> in performing all the Vaidhika Kaaryams , while sending

> him to school to earn a Technical degree from an IIT .

> His other son is staying in a classical Veda PaatasAla .

>

> These are real problems needing real and creative solutions .

>

> V.Sadagopan

> -

> venkata krishnan

>

> B.C.VENKATAKRISHNAN.

> website www.vedascience.com

>

> --- On Mon, 9/29/08, V.M.Ramkumar <vmrk.74 wrote:

>

> Monday, September 29, 2008, 2:17 PM

>

> Thought provoking fact in our life........ ......

>

> Who will marry our priests ?

>

> The other day, I had been to a VEDA_PAATHASHAALA

in Kerala, where they impart VEDIC education in the four Vedas, esp

the YAJURVEDA, with the prime objective of creating highly trained

priests and trained VEDIC chanters for conduct of various Hindu

functions and rituals.

>

> As a NRI, and also a trained YAJURVEDI myself, I

find lots of peace and solace whenever I'm able to give back to

such great institutions providing the priests of our great religion

who are important cogs of our faith, without whom we would all be

lost.

>

> I was impressed at the number of young men

training enthusiastically in the Vedas and the chief old priest

welcomed my modest donation. And then he added with a wry smile.

>

> NRI Hindus like you and other well to do Hindus in

India come here and give us lots of money and resources for our

Vedic school and we are no doubt indebted to them. BUT NOBODY GIVES

US GIRLS IN MARRIAGE FOR ALL THIS ELIGIBLE YOUNG MEN HERE, EVEN THE

HIGHEST QUALIFIED PRIESTS..WHY? ? AREN"T THESE YOUNG MEN NOT GOOD

AS ANY DOCTOR OR LAWYER OUT THERE BY VIRTUE OF EXCELLING IN THE

VEDAS, THE ENGINE OF OUR HINDU CULTURE. WHY DOES OUR SOCIETY GIVE

THESE YOUNG MEN SECONDARY STATUS AND LOOK DOWN UPON THEIR

PROFESSION?? , the old priest asked and set me thinking.

>

> YES: THE OLD PRIEST WAS VERY RIGHT. WE DO NOT

WANT OUR SISTERS/DAUGHTERS TO GET MARRIED TO ANY PRIEST EVEN IF THE

PRIEST IS WELL QUALIFIED IN THE VEDAS AND EVEN HAS GOOD INCOME.

> EVEN YOUNG HINDU GIRLS, MESMERIZED BY WESTERN

VALUES AND FASHION DO NOT WANT TO MARRY PRIESTS... WHY???

>

> And immediately my thoughts went to their

counterparts in other religions

> and what I see is this:

>

> THE MULLAH, THE RABBI, THE FATHER, HAVE GOT MUCH

MUCH BETTER STATUS IN THEIR SOCIETIES AND CIRCLES THAN OUR HINDU

PRIESTS. MANY OF THE MUSLIMS FEEL THAT IT IS THE HIGHEST HONOR IF

THEIR DAUGHTERS/SISTERS COULD GET NIKAAH WITH A MAULVI WELL VERSED

IN THE KORAN.

>

> And here I mention my encounter with a

multimillionaire Jewish business from Australia (where I live)

proudly sending his two sons to Israel to get trained in a Jewish

Seminary where they could choose to become highly qualified rabbis,

should they deem so. I then asked this businessman as to whether

he would have any objections if his sons became Rabbis instead of

joining him in his business or taking up other-so-called- made-it

occupations. For this the businessman replied without hesitation:

I WILL BE THE MOST FORTUNATE FATHER IF MY SONS BECOME QUALIFIED

RABBIS."

>

> And then I wondered: HOW MANY RICH HINDUS

WILLINGLY SEND THEIR SONS TO VEDA PAATHASHAALAS WITH THE SOLE

INTENTION OF MAKING THEM PRIESTS???

> THE ANSWER: ZILCH... AND THIS IS A MATTER OF

GREAT SHAME FOR ALL HINDUS.

>

> AND WE TALK OF SURVIVAL OF HINDUISM IN BHARAT WHEN

WE DO NOT GIVE A DAMN FOR EVEN OUR GENUINELY WELL QUALIFIED

PRIESTS????

>

> MASTERING THE VEDAS IS AS PROFOUND AND EVEN HIGHER

THAN BECOMING A DOCTOR OR A LAWYER OR A SCIENTIST...

>

> THERE IS AN IRONIC SIGN IN Udupi AND IT READS:

>

> HERE PRIESTS AND COOKS CAN NEVER GET MARRIED!!!

>

> SHIVA IYER, om.sriguru (AT) gmail (DOT) com

> 260908

>

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October 1, 2008

Sri:Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama:Dear all,Adiyen was listening to the below upanyasam this morning while reading this mail.Adiyen would encourage all to please listen to it as well, as Sri U Ve Velukkudi Swami has covered this topic (at least adiyen thought it was very relevant).Talk is from Azhwar Kanda Thiruvengadamudayan, NamAzhwar pasuram explanation[101 track name ~20-minutes into talk and 102 track name first half] referring to uttara/pin vakhyam of Dwayam as expounded by Azhwar...4th 10 Eeshan Vaanavar.Please pardon any mistakes of this neechan.adiyen Ramanuja dasan Akhila Bhuvana Janma Shtema bhangadilileVinata Vividha bhuta vrata raksaika dikse,Sruti sirasi Vidipte Brahmani SrinivaseBhavatu mama parasmin semusi bhaktirupa.May knowledge transformed into intense love directed toSrinivasa, the highest Brahmam, become mine;the Being to whom creation, preservation and dissolutionof the universe is mere play, whose main resolve is to offerprotection to all those who approach

Him in all humilityand sincerity, and who shines out like a beacon lightout of the pages of the scripturesLakshmi Narasimhan Venkatapathy <v.lakshminrusimhansriguru; ramanuja ; Prabhu 26 <prabhu.37Wednesday, October 1, 2008 9:04:06 AMRe: Fwd: [sri ramanuja] Re: Fw: Fwd: Who will marry our priests ?

Respected Prabhu,

First, you have concluded the varnashrama dharmam to be stupid sentiments which is not acceptable. To begin with, it is only because brahmins have not protected the vEdAs and that vEdAs were abused by everyone that today's state prevails. For anything and everything there needs to be protectors.. Can you go and access something confidential from the parliament or a research lab of the government or the defence ministry details? One needs to identify the path towards accessing these. Many might get disqualified due to various reasons. For example, a person suffering from short-sight is not eligible to be in military. Isn't the short-sight a birth defect? Could you ask why the government rejects people because of their short sight which came by birth? Similarly, vEdAs deal with advanced science that deal with dEvatAs which are subtle entities. One needs to be a master of the thri-guNAs and must be an embodiment of sattva guNA in order to deal with

these dEvatAs. Anyone, through severe penance and austerity can attain absolute sattva guNA. This is what the rishis had done. After attaining such guNA they mastered the art of controlling these dEvatAs(vEdic knowledge). And they passed on their guNA composition to their next generations via genes.. This is how the brahmaNAs clan has come so far and became the sole owners of the vEdAs. So, brAhmaNAs by birth possess an eligibility to access these powerful dEvatAs. But that does not mean they can control them. They have to follow all the staunch practices that were followed by their ancestors. Otherwise, they would be brahmaNAs just by birth and not by practice and hence will have no powers. So, simply reading vEdAs alone will not give you anything. Nor simply being born as a brAhmaNa will help. It comes out of extreme penance or by birth + proper practice. Non brahmins could take up the former path (VishwAmitrA is an example). brAhmaNas are of

8 types - janma, kruthi, gnyana, bhakti, siddhi and 3 more that is not on top of my mind. Being a brAhmaNa by birth is just a small step. The 7 further levels are the tougher part.

So, accusing brahmins to have not shared vEdAs are of no use. If one is really interested in the absolute knowledge, one must put in the corresponding efforts. A deer can't keep asking how a lion cub is born for a lion and hence will become a lion in the future that controls the deer clan. All these are based on the efforts put in the previous births. Neither should brAhmaNAs be arrogant that they are born as brahmins nor should others envy that brAhmaNAs alone have access to the vEdic knowledge in totality. After-all, all that a brAhmaNA does with the vEdic knowledge is to wish and pray for the social welfare. When someone does it free for us, why should we question or interfere in their job?

I have not tried to answer your question precisely as the answer should be found by yourself through your own means. I have just explained some of the misconceptions about brahmins and have given reasons for their ownership on the vEdic knowledge.

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan lakshmi narasimhan--- On Wed, 1/10/08, Prabhu 26 <prabhu.37 wrote:

Prabhu 26 <prabhu.37Fwd: [sri ramanuja] Re: Fw: Fwd: Who will marry our priests ?sriguru, v.lakshminrusimhan, ramanuja Date: Wednesday, 1 October, 2008, 5:31 PMThe Article is really good, can anyone in the group tell me where theyteach Vedas for non brahmin, shiva iyer has mentioned that jewishbusinessman was so happy since his son willing to become rabbis,inchristian and muslim religion there is no obstacle stating only fewpeople can read the holy books, but in hindu religion, except brahminno one is able to read vedas, i know many people who are followingacharyam and anustanam but they are not able to read vedas becausethey are non brahmin, i also see a lot of people not followingacharyam and aunstanam and they are

able to read vedas because theyare brahmin, tell me who is brahmin and who is non-brahmin, u cannotseperate people by birth, is anyone in the group can reply to thisarticle why there is a seperation, first try to clear the stupidsentiments what we are following, if vedas are teached to everyone, iam sure that there will be a lot of people will be interested tobecome priest, including me, so stop talking about other religion, letus clean ourselves, i expect shiva iyer and lakshminrusimhan to givereply to the question.---------- Forwarded message ----------v.lakshminrusimhan <v.lakshminrusimhanWed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:02 PM[sri ramanuja] Re: Fw: Fwd: Who will marry our priests ?ramanuja srimathE rAmAnujAya nama:srimathE varavaramunayE nama:sri aNNan tiruvadigaLE sharaNamAn interesting topic indeed. One

of the major root cause isthe 'Astika nAstikAs'. mAmunigaL says in one of the pAsurams thatone should treat 'Astika nAstikAs' no worse than a nAstika i.e bothbeing thoroughly stupid, notorious and dangerous.These 'Astika nAstikAs' adorn 12 TirumaNs during important functionsand come in grand dothis to appear as great scholars. But, they aretotally hopeless and zero in AchAra anushtAnams. They don't followshAstrAs, nor know any penny worth in the vEdAs / vedAntAs,praBandAs or pUrvAchArya granthas. No faith / mahavishwAsam towardseither the supreme or their AchAryAs. These people see only pride inclaiming that they are born as brahmins. They don't even indulge inany kainkaryams. They do only parihArams under the pretext ofdharmam for their own developments. They eat onion / garlic /drumstick and all types of food that are not bhagavad / bhAgavadaprasadam. Some even don't perform shrArdhams. They

don't have theguts to have a shikai even after their retirement. They are so proudof their gray hair indeed appearing in style. They do all theseunder the name of alignment with the modern trend / world. What theydon't understand or realise is that this so called educationalsystem, law and order, judicial system, parliament system, economyevery thing was implanted by westerners in order to destroy the richknowledge that our lineage possesses. They fall as a prey to thewestern culture, science and knowledge which is grossly immature,inadequate, insufficient, and incorrigible. Worst of this is theinclination towards the intolerable cinemas and the Televisionnonsenses.And the worst news is, unfortunately, such 'Astika nAstikAs' aremore than 95% in the society. Such people, grow their children thesame way. They grow their daughters adorning them with sleevelessshirts and tight jeans and pamper them

will all obscurities underthe name of luxuries / trend. Girls come to temples in salvars andboys come in pants. It is absolutely a shame, but who cares.As vEdAs say, vEdAs fear when it falls in the hands of those whodon't know how to use them. The result is that the vEdic knowledgewhich is the supreme most from all perspectives, has starteddisappearing. Unless a conscious effort is made by every person whoclaims to be a sincere believer of vEdAs, nothing can be done.Everyone has a notion that the world is like this - without moneynothing could be done. 'Try being a sincere follower of vEdictradition, you won't have money for the food for the day' is whateveryone sarcastically say. While I laugh at such accusations, Ihave an interesting point to make. Think about 'every organism' inthe world other than human beings. Who is feeding them? Do they earnmoney and save? Don't they eat, give birth

to their kids, grow themtill an adult, and then die? How is that possible in all theterrestrial, aquatic and arial beings other than the human? Whichmeans, the supreme lord has provided everything for us to live. Wedon't have to make ourselves go through the nonsense of modern trendto live our basic life. More than the non believers, it is we whoclaim ourselves to be believers(?), who, under the name oflivelihood, are consciously corrupting the vedic society andcreating an irrepairable damage to the vedic knowledge and thus tothe entire society/world/universe itself.May be it is time to think and get into action instead of expectingsome magic or some incarnation of the lord to come and clean. It isa shame to expect the lord to come and do the cleanup while He hasgiven all the ability for us to do it ourselves.mudalvanai chindiyAda appAvakArigaLai padaittavan

enganampadaittAnkolO?adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan lakshmi narasimhan , "Dr.V.Sadagopan"<yennappanwrote:>> SrI:>> Dear Sriman VenkatakrishNan & Sriman Siva Iyer :>> Thanks very much for posting this important article .> It provides focus on an important area . Sri Ahobila Matam> and Sri Andavan Aasramam are training these future scholars> with not only sampradhAyic knowledge but also modern skills> ( Computer skills) that could increase their employabilty> in the main stream as well , while rooted in their> Vedic Training . I am sure that other AchAryAs are giving> serious thoughts to this difficult situation . Our young girls> want to run as far as possible from qualified Vaidhika> bachelors with tufts (Sikhai) and who can not take them to> the movies & restaurants

.>> I know one Bruhaspathy , who has fully trained his son> in performing all the Vaidhika Kaaryams , while sending> him to school to earn a Technical degree from an IIT .> His other son is staying in a classical Veda PaatasAla .>> These are real problems needing real and creative solutions .>> V.Sadagopan> -> venkata krishnan>>>> B.C.VENKATAKRISHNAN.> website www.vedascience.com>> --- On Mon, 9/29/08, V.M.Ramkumar <vmrk.74 wrote:>> Monday, September 29, 2008, 2:17 PM>>> Thought provoking fact in our life........ ......>>>>> Who will marry our priests ?>> The other day, I had been to a VEDA_PAATHASHAALAin Kerala, where they impart VEDIC

education in the four Vedas, espthe YAJURVEDA, with the prime objective of creating highly trainedpriests and trained VEDIC chanters for conduct of various Hindufunctions and rituals.>>> As a NRI, and also a trained YAJURVEDI myself, Ifind lots of peace and solace whenever I'm able to give back tosuch great institutions providing the priests of our great religionwho are important cogs of our faith, without whom we would all belost.>>> I was impressed at the number of young mentraining enthusiastically in the Vedas and the chief old priestwelcomed my modest donation. And then he added with a wry smile.>>> NRI Hindus like you and other well to do Hindus inIndia come here and give us lots of money and resources for ourVedic school and we are no doubt indebted to them. BUT NOBODY GIVESUS GIRLS IN MARRIAGE FOR ALL THIS ELIGIBLE YOUNG MEN HERE, EVEN

THEHIGHEST QUALIFIED PRIESTS..WHY? ? AREN"T THESE YOUNG MEN NOT GOODAS ANY DOCTOR OR LAWYER OUT THERE BY VIRTUE OF EXCELLING IN THEVEDAS, THE ENGINE OF OUR HINDU CULTURE. WHY DOES OUR SOCIETY GIVETHESE YOUNG MEN SECONDARY STATUS AND LOOK DOWN UPON THEIRPROFESSION?? , the old priest asked and set me thinking.>>> YES: THE OLD PRIEST WAS VERY RIGHT. WE DO NOTWANT OUR SISTERS/DAUGHTERS TO GET MARRIED TO ANY PRIEST EVEN IF THEPRIEST IS WELL QUALIFIED IN THE VEDAS AND EVEN HAS GOOD INCOME.> EVEN YOUNG HINDU GIRLS, MESMERIZED BY WESTERNVALUES AND FASHION DO NOT WANT TO MARRY PRIESTS... WHY???>>> And immediately my thoughts went to theircounterparts in other religions> and what I see is this:>>> THE MULLAH, THE RABBI, THE FATHER, HAVE GOT MUCHMUCH BETTER STATUS IN THEIR SOCIETIES AND CIRCLES THAN OUR HINDUPRIESTS. MANY OF THE MUSLIMS FEEL

THAT IT IS THE HIGHEST HONOR IFTHEIR DAUGHTERS/SISTERS COULD GET NIKAAH WITH A MAULVI WELL VERSEDIN THE KORAN.>>> And here I mention my encounter with amultimillionaire Jewish business from Australia (where I live)proudly sending his two sons to Israel to get trained in a JewishSeminary where they could choose to become highly qualified rabbis,should they deem so. I then asked this businessman as to whetherhe would have any objections if his sons became Rabbis instead ofjoining him in his business or taking up other-so-called- made-itoccupations. For this the businessman replied without hesitation:I WILL BE THE MOST FORTUNATE FATHER IF MY SONS BECOME QUALIFIEDRABBIS.">>> And then I wondered: HOW MANY RICH HINDUSWILLINGLY SEND THEIR SONS TO VEDA PAATHASHAALAS WITH THE SOLEINTENTION OF MAKING THEM PRIESTS???> THE ANSWER: ZILCH... AND THIS IS A MATTER

OFGREAT SHAME FOR ALL HINDUS.>>> AND WE TALK OF SURVIVAL OF HINDUISM IN BHARAT WHENWE DO NOT GIVE A DAMN FOR EVEN OUR GENUINELY WELL QUALIFIEDPRIESTS????>>> MASTERING THE VEDAS IS AS PROFOUND AND EVEN HIGHERTHAN BECOMING A DOCTOR OR A LAWYER OR A SCIENTIST...>>> THERE IS AN IRONIC SIGN IN Udupi AND IT READS:>>> HERE PRIESTS AND COOKS CAN NEVER GET MARRIED!!!>>> SHIVA IYER, om.sriguru (AT) gmail (DOT) com> 260908>

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