12-15-2006, 09:47 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->And why exactly are we concerned about a set of people who have a particular term printed on a certificate? What special sympathy do these people demand? What would be the loss if a set of people identified by their certificate cease to be? Is the definition of these particular group based on sources other than scriptures? Is there something more than the people that you are concerned about?
Isn't all these talk only on definitions based on certain books deemed to be scriptures?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Because these particular set of people seem to be facing discrimination and why do you think they are demanding sympathy, maybe they are only demanding that they be given equal rights as proclaimed by the constitution nothing more or nothing less.
There is no loss if they cease to be in the sense of disowning the label stuck on them that is their choice, the definition here is based on what the GOI uses to classify a particular person as a Brahmin.
The talk here is not solely based on definitions found in the scriptures, otherwise we wouldn't find people here stating %'s of Brahmins in different states and their income levels or some other statisitics because we don't even know if the majority of the people sampeled in the surveys even live upto the exceptations of a Brahmin found in the scriptures.
Isn't all these talk only on definitions based on certain books deemed to be scriptures?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Because these particular set of people seem to be facing discrimination and why do you think they are demanding sympathy, maybe they are only demanding that they be given equal rights as proclaimed by the constitution nothing more or nothing less.
There is no loss if they cease to be in the sense of disowning the label stuck on them that is their choice, the definition here is based on what the GOI uses to classify a particular person as a Brahmin.
The talk here is not solely based on definitions found in the scriptures, otherwise we wouldn't find people here stating %'s of Brahmins in different states and their income levels or some other statisitics because we don't even know if the majority of the people sampeled in the surveys even live upto the exceptations of a Brahmin found in the scriptures.