LET ME FIRST DEFINE FOR YOU WHO A BRAHMIN REALLY IS. BRAHMINS ARE BLESSED BY SHIV TO BE THE UPHLODER OF THE DHARMA. Shiv created the first brahmin as Brahma. All other brahmins born from progenies created by Brahma through Shiva.
The Following Are his qualities :-
1) ONE WHO KEEPS AWAY FROM FLESH, LIQUOR, MONEY, AND WOMEN(BRAHMACHARYA). WHO WEARS ASHES AS MARK OF RESPECT FOR DEATH AS THE FINAL ABODE OF ALL LIFE.
2) DEDICATES HIS LIFE TO LEARNING AND DISSEMINATING KNOWLEGDE. AND LIVE ON ALMS FROM SOCIETY AND DHAKSHINA FROM WILLING STUDENT.
3) WHO IS PIOUS IN HIS THOUGHTS, WORDS AND ACTIONS. WHO IS A WELL WISHER FOR THE WHOLE HUMANITY/LIFE AND UPHOLDER OF DHARMA AND WHEN KSHATRIYAS STOP TO DO THEIR JOB, HE BECOMES THEIR VANQUISHER.
4)ONE WHO DWELLS ON THE NATURE OF LIFE AND AFTERLIFE, AND TRUTH/GOD SEEKER(BRAHM GYAN).
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by Subrahmanya R on Apr 12, 2008 09:55 AM Permalink
If all brahmins were expected to follow Brahmacharya, there would have no brahmins today!
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by Skype net on Apr 12, 2008 10:02 AM Permalink
Subrahmanya, Bramhacharya is a stage/phase in Brahmin's life. After marriage, bramhacharya phase completes and daampathya stage opens.
May be you ment the same. But your reply sounds like 'No Brahmins follows Bramhacharya'
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by JaiHanumaan on Apr 12, 2008 10:07 AM Permalink
You right .. there are no true brahmins today! They are not completely honest in doing their duties. This is the effect of kaliyug. Most of them are struggling by its effect and are fallen only in the name of caste.
BRAHMIN IS entitled to a soulmate who is righteous to bring about righteous children.
And sex is not the only way you can procreate. If sex is done for pleasure you are already fallen.
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by sudipta sarkar on Apr 12, 2008 09:57 AM Permalink
There are so many Brahmins that i know that are drunkards, womenisers, and they are teachers as well.. Cut the Crap!!!
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by Manjula A on Apr 12, 2008 12:14 PM Permalink
Even during the time of Abhigyana Shakuntalam, Kumari Shakuntala, born and brought in the most pious Ashram, ran around half clad purposely in front of King Dushyanta and bore him a child. King Dishyanta regused to even recongnise that pious Brahmin Lady Shakuntala for years together after that Child Bharat was born of unwed parents. Aryans have always been promiscous, according to the Aryans, that is only piety. Aryans are people who had practised Niyoga, which means widows are made to sleep with thier brothers in law for bigetting children. They practiced Niyoga for almost 1500
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by JaiHanumaan on Apr 12, 2008 10:12 AM Permalink
5) HE HAs TAPAS IN HISLIFE.
I would agree with sarkar, modern day brahmins are just caste brahmins, they are no better than a chandalas. Anybody and every body can start to change the names and caste and start to call themselves brahmin. Its a shame the way society has fallen today.
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by Venkat on Apr 12, 2008 10:20 AM Permalink
Hanuman, To defend yourself, dont call Brahmins as Chandalas. May be you might have seen such Brahmins mostly in City area.
But there are Brahmins in city as well as in village areas who are having better qualities than your definiton.
However, any one of you can say you are a clean human being? Ask yourself before writing on Brahmins.
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by JaiHanumaan on Apr 12, 2008 10:12 PM Permalink
I am not defending myself sir, just stating the pain and anguish i feel for the society today, for its embrace of materialistic values by all castes by leaving their high morals of simple living high thinking in the name of westerniation and modernization.
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by Mahendra Patel on Apr 13, 2008 02:46 AM Permalink
GO FOR THIS DEFINITION, A REFINED ONE ,JANATA BRAHMA ITI BRAHMIN, KNOWER OF GOD IS CALLED BRAHMIN
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by Manjula A on Apr 12, 2008 12:17 PM Permalink
Brahmins can never become Chandalas. Chandalas are native Indians while Aryans are foreigners who came unfed and unclothed to India.
