Brahmins should get up at Brahma Muhurta

However, the life of a Brahmin was the most difficult. As per the Shastras (holy books) their duties comprised of teaching, learning, performing Yajna (vedic rituals), accept charity and give charity.

The typical daily schedule of a Brahmin, according to the Sastras, is described as following:

• A Brahmin must get up two hours before the sunrise (Brahma muhurta).

• After getting up, he cleans his teeth, bathes in cold water and performs prayer

• Next he performs rites or sacrifices to the gods

• Next is the daily study and chanting of the Vedas

• In the second part of the daytime, the Brahmin must teach his disciples the Vedas

• Afterwards he must gather flowers himself for the worship he is to perform.

• Since he is not expected to earn a salary, he must beg for his food and also for the materials for the conduct of various sacrifices.

Shastras gave Brahmins the right to beg for their food and other requirements. They were not expected to accumulate wealth and own lands. They must donate excess charity to the priests. Brahmins were permitted to eat only Sattvik or simple food which included raw fruits and vegetables, milk, and limited cereals.

The daily schedule, eating habits and duties prescribed for Brahmins, were based on long experience of Indian philosophers. They had understood that the only method to create divine or eternal knowledge was to rise above the worldly pleasures of senses.

This is reported as a stipulation....but nowadays brahmins don't worship god so intensely at least publicly because of the anti-racist feelings unleashed by the Dravidian parties of Tamil Nadu.Many have become scientists and contribute to society.but the non-brahmins occupy business and other vocations including politics and try to amass wealth.Even today brahmin shines in his work and is dutiful in majority.He shows higher morals and integrity.

Tamil NEw years Day!!!

I follow the reasoning by Dawkins and the ilk. Mr.Karunanithi is bent upon changing the age-old tradition of celebration ogf the Tamil New year on April 13 ie Chithirai 1.Can he rename the pongal day as Chithirai 1 so that that would become the beginning of the tamil calender?

He is trying to pull a cultural revolution in Tamil Nadu...As Mao did in china. Let him understand that we are living in the internet age of which he can hear and see and not think and work.He has no cognition of the information age being very old.

Can he give the reasons for the shift of the day? Mainly brahmins celebrate the Tamil Newyear on the Vishu day...or April 13.....Is he still peeved on brahmins....?
Why this drama of shadow boxing?
People know that the present Govt does not represent the forward class and Dalits equally.May Thirumavalavan will realise this quickly and join BSP to save Dalits.
Agitating against the brahmins so-called absent domination OBC classes and Backward classes came to power in Tamil Nadu riding on the Anti-hindi feeling of the masses.Now the real downtrodden ie Dalits are secondary and brahmins have become an extinct force...If Karunanithi thinks like this it is incorrect.Brahmins will join with Dalits to see the cultural damage is repaired and due positions are restored.

new Tamil Brahmin portals and moneys collected.

Many portals have come up for tamil brahmins and play on the sympathies of the expats and try to garner funds. How the funds are used? They don't reveal this transparently.In the name of Tamil brahmins these portals should not indulge in violence and illegal activities.

Tamil first and bramins next........................

Mr MK frequently quotes Bharathidasan who has taken his name from Bharati who is a brahmin. He recognised the Tamil devotion of Bharati and not his Brahmanism.Even Bharati has declared that there no castes. While such a follower of Bharati and Bharathidasan is anti-brahmin in his utterances.

Many brahmins talk and behave that they have taken God on a lease and they almost own the religion.This behavior without any usefulness to humanity can preach retrograde steps only. What is required for the world is a peaceful life and eradication of poverty and then happiness and decent and worthwhile life for the human beings.

Now the brahmin boys are quite busy leaning and earning in computer comapanies.They should come forward to think universally and in a group to help humanity.

Tamil brahmins links

http://realitycheck.wordpress.com/2006/12/09/another-statue-story/


www.india-forum.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php?t914.html

www.tamilbrahmins.com/archive/index.php/t-137.html


www.answers.com/topic/e-v-ramasami-naicker


www.forumhub.com/tnhistory/index_old.html



www.hinduwisdom.info/Glimpses_XIX.htm

http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=FHq&q=Tamil+brahmins+anti-brahminism+Karunanidhi+EVR+Iyers++Iyengars+&btnG=Search&meta=


www.livemint.com/2007/11/16235400/TN8217s-antiBrahmin-moveme.html

ier.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/14/2/255?ck=nck


hamsa.org/StThomas_Chapt_4.htm


www.hindunet.org/srh_home/1996_3/msg00232.html

Brahmins of Tamil nadu are meek souls following their rituals and other avocations.Many are cooks,run hotels(brahmin hotels),Grukkals ,Vadhyars. They have all along shunned adopting carpentry,masonry and such hard physical jobs, because there daily routine and some words in the Vedas and other brahminical texts pull them apart towards worshiping God on a daily basis with rituals like the jews.As orthodxy fed them with bhojan on freely from landlords and temples they carried on a mental journey of bakthi.Thinking the imaginary path of God and religious ways will help them to lead a good life.

But the surge of materialism saw a few as advisers to Kings on many matters.They were quick to grasp mathematics and science because of their habit of reciting verses and memorizing them.Over a period of time these habits have got impregnated in the genes of the brahmins and their progeny.

They quickly grabbed the authority of expertise and to some extent concern.But the position remained secondary economically.

Above links give an idea of the hatred they are subjected to the extent of oppression.As they don't react with violence like the Muslims they were bashed right left and center.If the politicians of parochial nature in TN don't have any issues or points to talk or if they wan to divert the attention of the people they used to lecture against brahmins as they don't react with violence or opposition.

The same politicians cannot utter a single word against other castes and sub-castes as they are majority if put together in the electorate.