[Advaita-l] Becoming Hindu - one possible solution?

ravi chandrasekhara vadhula at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 28 19:24:16 CDT 2010


Dear Sunil and all,

Caste, is loosely translated as jaathi.
Jaathi dharma is basically same as varna dharma.
This was also stated by Kanchi Shankaracharya, Chandrasekharendra Saraswati. IMHO, the 3 major sampradayas concur with this.

Ravi Chandrasekhara

--- On Sat, 8/28/10, Sunil Bhattacharjya <sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Sunil Bhattacharjya <sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Becoming Hindu - one possible solution?
> To: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
> Date: Saturday, August 28, 2010, 12:14 PM
> The caste system as is known now was
> created by the British for the census purposes. It appears
> that the present government may continue this practice of
> our past masters, Alberuni however gives quite a different
> picture.
> 
> --- On Sat, 8/28/10, Abhilash Shastry <abhilash.shastry at yahoo.co.in>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: Abhilash Shastry <abhilash.shastry at yahoo.co.in>
> Subject: [Advaita-l] Becoming Hindu - one possible
> solution?
> To: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
> Date: Saturday, August 28, 2010, 4:49 AM
> 
> 
> This is such an arrogant discussion. 
> 
> People talking patronizingly as if they are burdened with
> a sense of heavy 
> responsibility toward those unfortunate creatures who did
> not get born as Hindus 
> -quoting from this and that shastraa. Whom are we deluding
> here? The world is 
> not flocking at our doors to convert to Hinduism. There
> are just a handful of 
> romanticists who are probably unaware of the inequity
> imbuilt within Hinduism 
> who want to come to Hinduism. Give them an honest answer
> about Hinduism and its 
> caste system and half of them would not bother again to
> convert. Rest would be 
> of a sturdier material and would be well off either way
> whether you place them 
> in a high or low or left or right caste.
> 
> Namaskar
> 
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