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.

S.V.Shekar

Now at least S.V.Shekar is bold to demand 7% reservation.But the percentage of brahmins is 14%.He should demand more than 10%. Some hooligans thru petrol bottles at his house.this shows their cowardice and brute nature.they behave like animals without mind or intelligence.these fellows think brahmins are Aryans and indulge in racist behaviour with impunity. They were trying ethnic cleansing of brahmins.But brahmin tamil force is world wide now.The non-brahmin tamil force in the world adopts brahminical values and hence succeds.Only the non-brahmins of tamil nadu are incapable people who throw acid bottles and petrol bombs like terroists.Who knmows they may be terrorists in the making.Police should throw proper light by dedicated probe if they want any faith in democratic institutions.

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.

Many tamil brahmins don't cooperate among themselves. They think they are individually great.the main reason for all these are their old culture.Their women feed them with subservience and inflate their ego inside the house.

Once out in the street he is a minority and a weak fellow.He cannot intonate the tamil language as the majority tamilian.He still claims the his way of pronouncing the tamil words is superior to the majority which is far away from truth.

He thinks he keeps hygiene better while his moribund ways contribute to his accumulation of bacteria etc on his body.Poverty was a hall mark of such brahmins in earlier decades. Now many are rich and their wards are almost in the main stream of faceless culture of the urban areas.

In the name of supporting the poor vadhiyars and archakas they still conduct some religious rituals in their houses. Many collect donations and don,t help as these donations go into the pockets of those who manage the funds. They are adept in false accounting.Many are CAs or cost accountants know the ways to manipulate accounts silently.

They don't want to dabble in hard work for the community while they collect the money from the community even through the internet. Many such sites don,t have legal moorings and accountability and are happy to collect funds. They don,t declare their identities. and account details. While organisations like Tambras are inactive at the concept level and behave like secular organisations ,they don't voice their protest to oppressive behaviour of other communities towards brahmins. At least they show some accounts have a structure for organisation. The internet communities have no such structure or stature ,My advice to all NRI tamil brahmins is not to get duped by such immature organisations who accumulate wealth and money.If they indulge in violent activities who would be responsible.
We should not allow them to tarnish the name of the community by arming them with economic grist and funds. Before you donate please ask for accounts and other clearances from RBI etc.Ask for objectives and a certificate that they work towards objectives non-violently and legally.

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.

NEW upstarts of Tamil brahmins

There are many sites and fora devoted to Tamil causes and Tamil brahmin causes.the site WWW.Tamilbrahmins.com is one such site.

They talk all good as well as bad perspectives on Tamil brahmins. The administrators collect donations.They say that it is registered as a trust. some old bureaucrats retired from Delhi and NRI guys who are the new rich brahmins run the site.they don't give full profiles to public.They want to supersede Tambras as an institution.

Some talk about old Sampradayams.Some ask basic questions.Some indulge in innuendos and mockeries as was the habit of old Tamil brahmins.

When facts and truths are expressed that forum gets into a recoil mood and wants mutual admiration societies.

Further what they do with the sums amassed? they preach and criticise others.Even other castes.I am of the firm view that brahmins were and are being oppressed in Tamil Nadu and in India at large.But these site preach sermons against all caste and the way people post appears to me to ne anti-other castes than they are anti-brahmin.Other castes oppress and suppress the brahmin supremacy.But his pack of new NRI in coordination with some locals are more anti-Muslim and anti-other non-brahmins than those non-brahmins are against brahmins.

Brahmins are 7% and deserve 7% percent importance in mass societal activities and cannot claim all the 100%.importance.Further Tamil brahmins lack first
line managerial capacity.They are good as second line if we analyse at the macro-level.
Hence they cannot demand all the cake and make a far cry of oppression.

Further as they are veggies in a majority sense ,although the new rich NRIs are not in large number,they cannot exclude others of secular and "Sadbavana" characters from their fold.
this elitist thought that they are the only meritorious in the world adds lot of hubris in their character.Even brahmin women who belong to the new rich category behave in churlish manner,forgetting all modesty.Many brahmin girls elope with other caste boys as they consider brahmin guys as not very masculine or they don't consider them as dependable.

This Tamil brahmin site is taking cudgels for Archakas and some some priests.If you visit chidambaram and see the behaviour of the Gurukalls there you will understand the hatred towards these people are justified. High vacant hubris and haughtiness displayed by them is abominable. further there are priests in Tiruttani temple who fight cases to utilise the temple lands etc. these priests were growing in mushrooms in Malaysia and Singapore and visiting those temples.But hey were running businesses on the side.Many have shops or taxi business. they don't help their neigbours who are poor.

While i support the voice against any suppression or oppression I don't want the brahmins to conduct themselves by overdose of hatred of other non-brahmins claiming genetic purity.
As I have tried to educate the Tamil brahmins with my experience to accept realities and correct their cultural gaps.But the "selfish-gene" which is working is a bit exploitative in brahmins and more in Tamil brahmins. this should be consciously corrected.
Further i have found in them timidity with cunningness to look down upon other castes despite the fact others have tolerated them over a period of history without doing any ethnic cleansing.