Yay so the birth of the new year just happened and with people resembling Taio Cruz's song i decided to pen down the thoughts which have been gnawing my mind for quite a while. I'm happy to announce that i have successfully maintained my last year's resolution to quite a greater extent, although i haven't devised any resolutions for this year. Anyway this isn't going to be another post on resolutions,since am almost done with that topic i decided to write this post on something which i have been observing for a couple of months..something that disturbed me to an extent.Well it isn't about the popular Delhi rape case or similar stories. I decided i shouldn't write about that since it is the much talked (hyped) about subject.
Now from where do i begin..i have always had issues with beginning my post or rather opening up the topic since the thoughts keep flowing at a greater velocity in my mind.Most of us would have heard about Brahmanism.I'm not referring to the creative aspect but to that of the religious side.A Brahman refers to the term supreme self or rather that's what i came across while reading an article.The ancient theories have defined us brahmins as supreme not that is a bit barbaric but then the reason for it was stated that the most intelligent people came from this part of the group,hypocrisy isn't it. Well it is not especially in those days.
There were many reasons for that statement,i'm not going to mention those in this blog post. Things in the ancient period were defined for a cause,more of a reason for which it was followed that way. But as time passed people started following it blindly and there were various versions according to their comfort level.Sadly the essence is missing these days.The way things were practised is being seriously ignored by the gen y or x or whatever.I find lot of people scoffing off the practises,mocking at it while the entire world brands them as being a Brahman. It is like they are frantically trying to move away from the originality and trying to affix themselves to the other type of living and in the end sadly they are neither here nor there. Of course this is 21st century and we having conquered the so called doomsday - 21st DEC(I'm still trying to find the person who created the sun tsunami theory..lol !! )the religious beliefs are meaningless.
But then sadly i find that we brahmins are the only ones who are scoffing at out religious theories whereas i find the people of other religion (Islamic..Christianity..Buddhism etc) sticking on to their practises no matter where they are.This was seriously disturbing since i found many people in the past few weeks laughing at Brahmanism..making us appear like fools which is seriously pathetic.This has lead to various conclusions about the rest of the people due to the presumptuous nature of the society.On one side i find fellow brahmins mocking at us and on the other side i find the rest of the world mocking at Brahmanism which leads to a conclusion that we are eventually being ridiculed.
I wonder what made me convert this post into a very serious one but i wasn't able to help it but to pour down the thoughts.Hope the new year brings about some changes !!!
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5 comments:
Well its just the way you look at it, we brahmins are intelligent enough that if we try other things also we would never hamper our real culture or humanity. We are not like other religions where they just forget humanity and just stick to their ancient sayings bcoz society will laugh. We just need to understand how to answer those people who laugh on us for our experimenting and inventing attitudes..:P
huh!i like this post!Brahmins are hated for the culture and the slang.
Is it a historical revenge or just a hierarical vengence or personal experience is still a question.
All religion have their own culture,slang,way of living.But when it comes to Brahmins, even some of the filmi dialogues and songs are a kind of mockery.Its because we don care abt or we ignore or we cant fight back or we are just 'brahmins'.
I can understand there was a where we had authority over everything and we had upper hand.
But what about human respect.
'Treat the people the way they treat you'.
Respect the culture and forget the religion .
problem is brahmin relgion is only making life tougher . do we have brahmins as a group naaaa . we have , iyers , iyengars, tamil iyer, telgu iyer and so on . We are packs of group called brahmin . Each imposing rules which prevents others from even talking or marry or follow other group practise .
A late comment:
I don't think Brahmin is a separate religion. (Correct me with proof, If I am wrong). Brahmins are said to be the protectors of Vedas. They are the part of Sanatan dharma which is nowadays called as Hindu religion.
I agree with you in all sense. But brahmins are the part of Hinduism. If some one laughs at brahmins they are laughing at Hinduism :)
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