the icons and symbols

Shaivaities subtly worship phallus which is the iconic symbol of creativity of the male.
Vaishavaites show marks and symbols which are similar to female organ in outline

Why? this shows godliness is nearer to sex.When acharya Rajneesh wanted to reach God thru sex and sexuality oriented activities these people decried and humilated his words as yankee culture. See the basic theme and cardinal icons of hinduism are symbols of procreation or signs akin to that on human body

Aged Iyengars

Many aged Iyengars are orthodox without being scientific.They presume and assume as if they are are very clean and they only represent God and take up cudgels for the poor.they do all activities which are immoral.Some bus drivers of the Mutts in south smoke and even indulge in many unhygienic activities.
Iyengar priests and vadhyars tell wrong mantras and even they charge in Rs1000/ hr for pujas while the world is grinding at different pace,these people loot the brahmins.
Sanskrit slokas that are not understood by even brahmins are blurted out or shouted in a unmusical and unhealthy manner.All the sampradayas are mostly propagated by old Iyengars who are detrimental to brahmin culture.
They amass donations and propagate activities which are non-productive.

Book thought to be non-conceptual by the west later appreciated as relevant

Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by kniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

I purchased the book from Land Mark Chennai and got quite absorbed in reading this small book.
this seems to be relevant in our talk on Tamil Brahmins.Cooperation and flocking together for security reasons were a sociological necessity. The book was published in early years of 20th century...many have taken the concept for group work and cooperation and coexistence.Indians follow this concept like the animals as stated by the author.
Thus there is an important genetic orientation in the flocking either for a religion or cause or a dogma or even simple mutual assistance. Even self help groups are born out of the disposition in the evolution.

this important factor is followed by christian groups and even Muslims by namaz etc.Hindus celebrated in groups in temples but did not further the concept into action.They kept walls of separation like "anti-bonding orbitals of the covalent bonds" in chemicals.
Tamil brahmins observed some rituals using sanskrit as language to further the distnct separation from local masses who were for survival non-vegetarians.the Sanskrit they used was evolved out of local intonations.The Sanskrit spoken by the north Indian brahmins and southern Tamil brahmins differed in content and even pronunciation.
These are because of preservation of a different genetic direction for survival of ego and a feeling of superiority as if they were god-heads.