I beg to differ. Vegetarianism is not a different issue altogether. You are spirit soul living in a temporary material body. So is an animal. What right does a man have to slaughter fellow living being? Meat eating is wrong, period! There are not ifs and buts.
Contribution is a qualitative term that cannot encompassed easily. Each person has their own boundries in terms of contribution. If I can make $1000 contribution towards charity then it is within my boundry. That does not make me any less or more brahmana than what I am. A poilitician offering charity does not become a brahmana so what u r saying is erroneous. Intelligence is by God's grace and it occurs irrespective of Brahmins or Khatriyas etc. So not every brahmin is intelligent enough to contribute to science and technology.
As long as you do Thri-Kaal Sandhya Vandhanam, chant Vedas, practice devotional service to the Lord obserive the four princinples ANY living soul in this world is a Brahamana.
It is forbidden in the Vedic literatures for any Jack and Jill to read Vedas from the internet or any such sources. Vedas must be inherited in a Guru-Sishya Parampara. Otherwise it carried no weightage. Gayathri mantra must be given to one by a qualified Pandith or a Guru without which it carried no effect. You can chant all Sri-Sutham and Purusha-Sutham you want but it was not gotten from a Guru then it is pointless.
