I type a very decent mesg and rediff marks it abuse. I'm tired of this website's incompetence.
To put the mesg across short, I was being extremely sarcastic and sad. Such a great man suffered a stroke and is having to struggle to play the violin. Can it get any harder on one's heart?
I also feel bad for having expressed my frustration in this manner in this post. I apologise. I'm reporting my mesg as abuse and hope it'll be removed soon.
But I maintain that Brahmins are getting a raw deal from daylight robbers in India.
RE:Brahmin!
by sri on Apr 18, 2008 09:23 PM Permalink
It's a pity, I agree, but sometimes the pendulum has to go the other way before it settles back in the middle.
RE:Brahmin!
by siddhartha on Apr 18, 2008 09:49 PM Permalink
the same brahmins who for ages kept literally half of our population as outcastes?? forced them to live like animals ?
if brahmins hadnt supported and perpetuated their superiority and the inferiority of rest of castes specialy untouchables, then others might have had as good a chance of inventing all of the stuff u mentioned above.
RE:Brahmin!
by Easwar Sarangapani on Apr 18, 2008 10:48 PM Permalink
Siddharta, so you are convinced that all ills of the untouchables/ other downtrodden castes would not have existed had it not been for the brahmins? Brahmins never wielded power and hence did not have administrative power to enforce laws. Don't follow the dravidian philosophies perpetuated by M Karunanidhi & his cohorts blindly who propogate only hate politics. Do some intuitive research on your own before mouthing off.
And btw, brahmins constitued and still make less than 5% of TN population and have never been violent. Is that what ticks you off, as they have been very successful even in times when other communities such as yours trying to pull them down?
RE:Brahmin!
by pattu on Apr 18, 2008 11:04 PM Permalink
There is nothing to do with Brahminism with this great article. Yes he is a Brahmin, and yes, this is what a brahmin should be. I am a non brahmin and I know inh Vedas the cast-ism was done on basis of Karma and not by priviledge. A brahmin by birth may not be a brahmin if he doesn't have a quality of a brahmin, that is knowledge, wisdom, compassion and lack of greed and fame. In Vedic period, a son of a 'sudra' could be a Brahmin, if he had those qualities. The so called Brahminical priviledged society is born after Manusamhita, which is a distortion of classical Vedantic Hinsuism, which gave us the sin of by-birth castes and untouchability. What this person did is he followed Geeta in his whole life, that is he did his karma with devotion, without thinking about the fruit of it. Yes, he is a true Brahmin, not by birth, but by his qualities. Really inspires.
