12-29-2004, 01:52 AM
Excuse me - the sankaracharya <i>insisted</i> that a Brahmin cook his food? Really? And therefore people listened to him?
I heard he[/U][/B]insisted he was innocent<b>[U]... why aren't these wonderful people who let him have his every whim listening to him then?
The Sankaracharya asked that </b>he be allowed to prepare his own food<b> as is his CUSTOM! (I wonder how many servants toil to make the "egalitarian" "Kalaignar's" meals!)
The sankaracharya will typically not eat anything unless it is prepared by his own hands or in a Brahmin's house. That is how my grandma used to be to! I'd like to know why that *traditional personal preference* should alienate </b>ANYBODY[B]!
The whole fundament of the argument is ludicrous. The persons being obnoxious here are the Food Nazis who want to force others to eat things they don't want to! Remember that scene from Lagaan?
I heard he[/U][/B]insisted he was innocent<b>[U]... why aren't these wonderful people who let him have his every whim listening to him then?
The Sankaracharya asked that </b>he be allowed to prepare his own food<b> as is his CUSTOM! (I wonder how many servants toil to make the "egalitarian" "Kalaignar's" meals!)
The sankaracharya will typically not eat anything unless it is prepared by his own hands or in a Brahmin's house. That is how my grandma used to be to! I'd like to know why that *traditional personal preference* should alienate </b>ANYBODY[B]!
The whole fundament of the argument is ludicrous. The persons being obnoxious here are the Food Nazis who want to force others to eat things they don't want to! Remember that scene from Lagaan?