12-05-2010, 05:49 PM
Quote:If you were interested*, in your place, I'd ask the grandparents/parents/any relative a generation or two older, press them for details. Hindus don't always tell you everything about the religion, sometimes you may have to you ask them in order to remind them that you don't really know enough. (They might just go about assuming someone else would have already explained it to you or that you already understood it by ... osmosis or something.)
I disagree. One does not need to know the theory and origins to hand over traditions.
Quote:Clearly, I am not poised to tell you why the pottu/bindi is Hindu - if that's what you were fishing for.
Naah, I do not have to fish for knowledge. But I stay away from asking "arrogant" people as much as possible, thanks for the Internet it is easier these days. My wife, and several, women who wear pottu do not wear it for any other reason than that they are used to wearing pottu; one could call it as a accessory to their attire too.
You are free to continue to froth and judge others, let me not get in your way.