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No sujatha, brahminism and brahmin-bashing is unfortunately not a thing of the past.What im upset about is the fact that some people in the society have taken up the idea of worshipping to such heights that they forget that other people need help in the society.

Forgive me,but I have no problems with the brahmin or people from any other society.But the issue here is that there are things to do besides worshipping,things that can help other people? I really don't know if the Mutt does a lot of charity work but what im saying is that the salvation these people (those in the mutt and the followers)seek can be got otherwise too.For instance why cant they direct their help towards the downtrodden and those who struggle on a meal a day?

Why cant we do this work ourselves?Why does it have to take a Albanian christian by the name of Agnes Gonxha Bejaxhia to do charity work in Kolkata?

I don't have answers with me but what I can say is that the Hindu Faith itself is like that( no offence)U can recall the ideas of Karma for that matter.

If u have better answers then keep me posted.

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For u to read, Mithra
The system,the system,the system.Im not surprised that the system failed.Which system doesnt?
As far as I know all ‘god-men’ are chosen when they were little thumb-sucking kids.A few days back I saw a doc.on NGC about tibetan monks choosing a little kid to be the next head priest in some monastery.
Religion has no explaination.Just a set of sometimes popular sometimes not-so-popular beliefs.
The system here cannot be considered to be a proper system.Ok...if some guy thinks that a little kid is gonna show them the path to enlightenment one day and the next day he decides that a middle aged woman survived the near death experience is the next ‘superwoman’ and he convinces all people around him to follow what he says then where on earth is the system?U cant surely call this ad-hoc ‘recruitment’,a system.

I agree with the fact that humans havent changed at all tho’ our beliefs might have changed.Our social structure demands a leader to be there and we find one,wherever possible.

And for the record can you find a non-brahmin opinion?Like I said we ve not moved out of our medieval mood.

The God-Man?

Shankarachrya was released yesterday.My neighbours were so overjoyed that they translated his release into a mini Diwali.Sweets were served and crackers were bursted.
"Truth has finally triumphed"one of them said.My dad believes in him strongly.But I continue to remain a skeptic in this whole issue.
Downstairs,I was talking to my watchman about it and he said that his community hardly believes in such people."God men dont exist...atleast not for us",He said.
I know that there arent any solid evidences against him but thats not what Im talking about.You will find out in a bit.

The entire fiasco (not sure if that is a good term) has shaken the grounds of religion.Shankarachrya was a god man ...only for the brahmins.His devotees are mostly brahmins.Im not so sure if he was so great a person.

The papers flash many ads about him starting colleges and hospitals.But what has he done for the people who form the bottom-most strata in the society.His hospitals and colleges are commercial places.Why doesnt his hospitals provide free help for the poor?Why cant he increase the level of education by introducing some sort of scheme to uplift the downntrodden?

A friend of my dad's said that the Tsunami was the result of Shankarachrya's arrest.WHAT NONSENSE IS THIS?He was saying that we shoudnt make the gods angry and more natural disasters would follow if he werent released.

How can people say this?
Shankarachrya might be good or not-so-good after all.But one thing is sure.We people arent able to come outside the medieval society system that ruled for quite a long time.We sometimes are desperately out of touch with the modern times.