BRAHMINS

Brahmins

https://ramamohanraocheruku.blogspot.com/2017/09/brahmins-article-by-mariawirth.html

Common people in the West know hardly anything about India. But one thing they all know: India has an “inhuman” caste system, which is an important feature of their religion, Hinduism. Most also “know” that Brahmins are the highest caste, which oppresses the lower castes, and worst off are the untouchables.

 There is likely an agenda behind it.

Yes, the caste system exists, and untouchables, too. And it exists all over the world. Curiously, “caste” (casta) is Portuguese for race. It is not even an Indian term. The ancient Vedas mention four varnas—Brahmins, Kshatryas, Vaishyas and Shudras, which form the body of society, like the head, arms, thighs and feet from the body of a human being. It is a beautiful analogy which implies that all parts are important. True, the head will be given more respect, but will you ignore your feet? Not everyone is made for intellectual work, fortunately, because a society without farmers, traders, workers won’t be possible. All have their role to play. And in future lives, there are likely to be role reversals.

Varna was not hereditary originally. It depended on one’s predominant guna (quality of character) and one’s profession. The job of Brahmins was specifically to memorise the Vedas and preserve them absolute correctly for future generations.

 Due to their satwa guna, Brahmins were least likely to be abusive to other groups in society.  There are today many Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Shudras, who do not follow their dharma any longer and therefore should not consider themselves as belonging to their inherited Varna.

 

 Just see this fact. The club of Madikeri town in Karnataka and probably all over the country, as an old Indian gentleman brought to light a bill stuck to the wall of the club that read, “Dogs and Indians not allowed” during the Bretishers' regeme. We may not see such boards now nor are we aware that such discrimination was there in the past.

 Let us turn to this point. Why is nobody upset that the agriculture policy of the British colonialists starved some 25 million Indians to death?

the British, after slavery was abolished, the British, sent indentured labor from India all over the world in cramped boats, where a big number died during the journey already (and were spared the torture in the sugar cane estates)?

Why nobody talks about what the Muslim invasions did to Hindus and especially to Brahmins? How cruel they were? How many Hindus were killed or made slaves? How many Hindu women committed mass suicide by jumping into fire so that they won’t fall into the hands of the Muslim troops?

Nowadays, due to ISIS we can well imagine what happened then, yet the Leftists and even “respectable” British parliamentarians are not concerned with all this. They are concerned with the “most inhuman caste system” of India. It can be safely assumed that the colonial masters tried to drive a wedge between the castes by “fixing” the former fluidity of varnas in their census from 1871 onwards. And today, their democratic successors, though without political power in India, try to drive a wedge with the help of manipulative media and even parliamentary legislation in their own country.

 So why are the so-called atrocities of the caste system so hyped? The reason may well be to divert the attention from those who actually should feel guilty about what they did and still do to India. It’s not the Brahmins. Many of them suffer today, mainly due to reservation and, though poor in many cases, by being excluded from benefits which are given to religious minorities or lower castes.

But this is not the only reason why the caste system and Brahmins are being bashed worldwide. Another important agenda is to shame Brahmins, to make them feel guilty about their forefathers and to make them reluctant to follow their original dharma of learning and teaching the Vedas. The goal is to make Vedic knowledge disappear in India, because it poses a danger for Christianity and Islam. It can easily challenge their so-called “revealed truths”. Vedic knowledge makes sense and is therefore the greatest obstacles for Christianity and Islam to expand over the whole world.

Unfortunately, a lot of Vedic texts are already lost. The former Sankaracharya of Kanchipuram, Sri Chandrashekara Saraswati Swamiji   says in his book “The Vedas” that out of 1180 shakhas, into which Veda Vyasa divided the four Vedas some 5000 years ago, only eight are still in use. (Just wondering: would a search in England, Germany and other countries rediscover some of this treasure?)

It is about time to stop this Brahmin bashing and stop portraying the Indian caste system as the worst that has ever befallen humanity. It sounds so fake, especially when ISIS gets neutral treatment by just mentioning facts, like, “ISIL burns 19 Yazidi women to death in iron cages because they refused to have sex with fighters” without any emotional colour or condemnation.

 Some time ago, I saw an old Brahmin couple in a temple in south India. They had dignity, but were very thin. When prasadam (sacred food) was distributed, they were in the queue before me. Later I saw that they joined the queue again…. It was in all likelihood due to poverty.

Brahmins don’t need to feel guilty about their forefathers. They can be proud of them, because it is only thanks to them that India is the only country that has preserved its precious, ancient wisdom at least partly. Yet others should indeed feel guilty, but those others are brazen and won’t. They rather vitiate the atmosphere with unjustified hatred for Hinduism and anti-Brahmanism.

» Excerpts from the article of Maria Wirth, a German author and psychologist who has lived in Uttarakhand for a long time.

The following worthy comments are for your perusal:

Chinta Rama Krishna Rao

 దేవా! నిన్ను భజించు బాలు రిక నీదే భారమంచున్ సదా!

భావాతీతుఁడ! నిన్నునాత్మఁ గనగన్ వారాత్మదర్శార్తులై

జీవాత్మన్ బరమాత్మ మేళనమునన్ చేయున్ యోగమీ పద్ధతిన్.

నీవే కావుము జ్ఞాన భిక్షనిడుచున్ నీరేజపత్రేక్షణా!

Cheruku Ramamohanrao

భవితకు (చిరంజీవులకు) మీ ఆశీర్వాద పద్యము అక్షర సత్యమగుగాక

Vanmurthyvaranasi

At this small age only the children can learn anything, good or bad. It is the elders to put them in Right path.

 राकेश शर्मा

अद्वितीय भाव दर्शनम्।

हार्दिक-अभिनन्दनम्। शुभ-मंगलम्।

सादर श्रीकृष्ण रात्रि वन्दनम्।

 Cheruku Ramamohanrao

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