Meat Eating and Alcohol are Secondary - they spoil and individual but dont harm the others. Vegetarianism is a different issue altogether ...
My point is .. anybody and everybody who is born in a Brahmin Family and Who is a Vegetarian and Who Chants Gayathri Manthra 108 times a day does not become a Brahmin unless he contributes something to the society in terms of Science, Education, Spirituality or Livelyhood, without any selfish deeds.
As of the Access, Most of the Vedas are Digitized and can be accessed freely over the Internet.
Brahmins have lost the respect of other castes in the modern times because they have fallen prey to the materialistic world like others and lost their position of being "Holier than Thou"
There are Hundreds of Vedic Schools running allover India but we dont find too my people dedicating themselves to their cause newayz.
Moreover, all that starts well need not end well - one may have a good beginning in life but one distraction is enough to ruin everything and thats what ishappening to the Brahmin community now.
