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Default Can we do Manu? - 01-02-1999, 04:20 AM
> Speaking about the potency of sastra, I would rather think
> of the opposite case - the potency to turn mlecchas into devotees. Not to
> turn devotees into mlecchas.
>
> My impression is that the idea behind "we will become mlecchas
> if we approach Manu-samhita" is rather that, according to
> this scripture, we are classified a priori as mlecchas without
> being given even the concession to read and study the Vedas
> on the first place, what to speak of anything else. According
> to Manu-samhita, we all are mlecchas. Period. But according
> to the Bhagavat-gita, Srimad-bhagavatam and Caitanya Caritamrita
> this is not necessarily the case.
>
> I do not see the conflict in our "looking" to Manu-samhita,
> but in the way of the selective application of it, as it could
> be seen from the recent "vedic revolution" idea, when only some
> chosen parts have been taken in consideration (the ones that
> regulate the activities and status of women), and when this
> sastra has been taken as the last word for only one class of
> the society (guess which one).

I think your whole text makes a lot of sense.
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