04-08-2006, 02:07 AM
From another forum..
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I want to say this is all humility Dr. [edited], but not reverentially, that brahmins have NO role in Hindu reform. They can encourage, be the inspirants, advisors, cheerleaders, etc., but it is we, the people, who must lead, set the parameters and determine the expected outcome, whatever it is.
I have in the past called on brahmins to move to secular careers, leave the subcontinent even. There is no malice here. Its best for everybody.
We will make calamitous tragic mistakes even. But great souls will rise amongst us and eventually we will make it and lead the world.
I like to be wrong on this one, but it seems to me that yet again it will be the south Indians, the Tamils specifically, who will have to lead this reform. The other subcontinental cultures are just not passionate enough, not audacious enough to throw the dice, and just wait for the tamils to light the fuse. You see, for the tamils, something is always wrong and needs to be fixed. <!--emo&
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->None! That is, if I speak for the masses.
I want to say this is all humility Dr. [edited], but not reverentially, that brahmins have NO role in Hindu reform. They can encourage, be the inspirants, advisors, cheerleaders, etc., but it is we, the people, who must lead, set the parameters and determine the expected outcome, whatever it is.
I have in the past called on brahmins to move to secular careers, leave the subcontinent even. There is no malice here. Its best for everybody.
We will make calamitous tragic mistakes even. But great souls will rise amongst us and eventually we will make it and lead the world.
I like to be wrong on this one, but it seems to me that yet again it will be the south Indians, the Tamils specifically, who will have to lead this reform. The other subcontinental cultures are just not passionate enough, not audacious enough to throw the dice, and just wait for the tamils to light the fuse. You see, for the tamils, something is always wrong and needs to be fixed. <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->Look at me. Better still, look at yourself!<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->