[brahmin_world] Swami Vivekananda about Brahmin

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To my mind the curses on Brahmins are listed below:-1. Overestimation of one`s knowlege on all matters and finding fault with or criticizing fellow brahmins as a form of sadistic pleasure.2.Not co-operating with fellow Brahmins in religious, social and other activities.3.Poverty or hand-to- mouth living though classified as "Forward class or community" by powers that be. The above list is by no means exhaustive. Many more can be added.By and large Brahmins are near intellectuals and do well academically. In India, since Brahmins are not classified as "Backward" , even academic toppers are denied admission in top Government professional colleges where fees are

relatively lower nor can all Brahmin parents meet the kind of demands in the name of capitation fees etc. made by private professional colleges. So much about social and economic implications of being a Brahmin now.There were times when Brahmins were respected for their learning etc. Now Brahmins are treated as outcasts. Brahmins were followers of scriptures in toto in those days. Do we measure up to the standards maintained by our ancestors? We do not even now the compliance levels of say,our great grand-father or even our grand father. Are not we Brahmins ourselves responsible for this state of affairs? Have we not turned a blind eye to the injunctions of scriptures? How many of us know as to what our scriptures are and what they contain or as what they advise us. Pl. think.G.Balasubramanianmahalax2000 <mahalax2000brahmin_worldSent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 9:27:10 AM[brahmin_world] Re: Swami Vivekananda about Brahmin

 

 

 

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I fully agree with Swami Vivekanda. Keeping fault on our side we can not find fault with others. See Muslims and christians they strictly follow their religion. Brahmins deviated from our path for the purposes of livlihood. But how to correct. Kanchi Mahaperiyava introduced very simple systems to rejuvenite sanskrit studies etc but not followed whereas karnataka govt. introcuced sanskrit as the language to be learnt by everybody.

Laxman.

 

brahmin_world@ . co.in, Prasanth Jalasutram <jvrsprasanth@ ...> wrote:

>

> THE FUTURE OF INDIA

> Volume 3, Lectures from Colombo to Almora

>

> The Brahminhood is the ideal of humanity in India, as wonderfully put

> forward by Shankaracharya at the beginning of his commentary on the Gitâ,

> where he speaks about the reason for Krishna's coming as a preacher for the

> preservation of Brahminhood, of Brahminness.

>

> It is the duty of the Brahmin, therefore, to work for the salvation of the

> rest of mankind in India. If he does that, and so long as he does that, he

> is a Brahmin, but he is no Brahmin when he goes about making money. You on

> the other hand should give help only to the real Brahmin who deserves it;

> that leads to heaven. But sometimes a gift to another person who does not

> deserve it leads to the other place, says our scripture.

>

> You must be on your guard about that. He only is the Brahmin who has no

> secular employment. Secular employment is not for the Brahmin but for the

> other castes. To the Brahmins I appeal, that they must work hard to raise

> the Indian people by teaching them what they know, by giving out the culture

> that they have accumulated for centuries. It is clearly the duty of the

> Brahmins of India to remember what real Brahminhood is. As Manu says, all

> these privileges and honours are given to the Brahmin, because "with him is

> the treasury of virtue".

>

> But it is one thing to gain an advantage, and another thing to preserve it

> for evil use. Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it

> must be used for good only. So this accumulated culture of ages of which the

> Brahmin has been the trustee, he must now give to the people at large, and

> it was because he did not give it to the people that the Mohammedan invasion

> was possible.

>

> It was because he did not open this treasury to the people from the

> beginning, that for a thousand years we have been trodden under the heels of

> every one who chose to come to India. It was through that we have become

> degraded, and the first task must be to break open the cells that hide the

> wonderful treasures which our common ancestors accumulated; bring them out

> and give them to everybody and the Brahmin must be the first to do it. There

> is an old superstition in Bengal that if the cobra that bites, sucks out his

> own poison from the patient, the man must survive. Well then, the Brahmin

> must suck out his own poison.

>

> To the non-Brahmin castes I say, wait, be not in a hurry. Do not seize every

> opportunity of fighting the Brahmin, because, as I have shown, you are

> suffering from your own fault.Who told you to neglect spirituality and

> Sanskrit learning? What have you been doing all this time? Why have you been

> indifferent? Why do you now fret and fume because somebody else had more

> brains, more energy, more pluck and go, than you? Instead of wasting your

> energies in vain discussions and quarrels in the newspapers, instead of

> fighting and quarrelling in your own homes — which is sinful — use all your

> energies in acquiring the culture which the Brahmin has, and the thing is

> done.

>

> Source:

> http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Complete_Works_of_Swami_Vivekananda/Volume_3/Lectures_from_Colombo_to_Almora/The_Future_of_India

>

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>

> Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya

> Prasanth Jalasutram

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