12-18-2004, 04:48 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Shankaracharya has insisted only a Brahmin cook should prepare his food in jail. Lower castes are traditionally considered to be polluting.
(I want pork chops and sushi in jail! )
By this alone, JS is further enraging the people and the brahmins are further alieanating themselves from the Hindu mass<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->.
Nothing sinister about wanting a Brahmana cook, because that is the other profession that they were found in great numbers. Even those who were not Brahmanas insisted on Brahmana cooks, because it was generally believed they observed a higher degree of personal hygiene . I am not defending the acharya but it is certainly not worth making a mountain out of a molehill. Of course one could be less transparent and say the cook should be a graduate of the Vedic culinary institute, but alas Brahmanas have not learnt PR yet.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->I am mentioning this so that the community considers this point of view and get out of the cocoon they have built themselves in. Be a priest and be loved and respected, and your knowledge of the scriptures sought after, or drop the brahmin identity altogether<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->.
Alas It is not i who draws attention to the Brahmana identity but the dravidianists who insist that i wear the brahmana label. Whether it is the contemptuous manner in which they refer to me as a Papan, or whether they refuse me admission based on merit they will not let me forget that i am a Brahmana (incidentally our domestic help are Dalits ... so please i could do without the unctuous lectures on how not to oprress those who claim to be oppressed) .
(I want pork chops and sushi in jail! )
By this alone, JS is further enraging the people and the brahmins are further alieanating themselves from the Hindu mass<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->.
Nothing sinister about wanting a Brahmana cook, because that is the other profession that they were found in great numbers. Even those who were not Brahmanas insisted on Brahmana cooks, because it was generally believed they observed a higher degree of personal hygiene . I am not defending the acharya but it is certainly not worth making a mountain out of a molehill. Of course one could be less transparent and say the cook should be a graduate of the Vedic culinary institute, but alas Brahmanas have not learnt PR yet.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->I am mentioning this so that the community considers this point of view and get out of the cocoon they have built themselves in. Be a priest and be loved and respected, and your knowledge of the scriptures sought after, or drop the brahmin identity altogether<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->.
Alas It is not i who draws attention to the Brahmana identity but the dravidianists who insist that i wear the brahmana label. Whether it is the contemptuous manner in which they refer to me as a Papan, or whether they refuse me admission based on merit they will not let me forget that i am a Brahmana (incidentally our domestic help are Dalits ... so please i could do without the unctuous lectures on how not to oprress those who claim to be oppressed) .