[Advaita-l] Advaita-l Digest, Vol 61, Issue 20

[Praveen R. Bhat]

Hari Om, Bharadwaj-ji,

In continuation of your mail, may I add Kanchi Paramacharya's words? He says
w.r.t. losing Brahminhood, that it happens in a family after three
generations of having stopped the Gayatri mantra chanting!

praNAm,
--Praveen R. Bhat
/* Through what should one know That owing to which all this is known!
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On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Dr D Bharadwaj <dr.d.bharadwaj at gmail.com>wrote:

> The comfort of a crisis-free identity of the sudra for us? Not yet. Yes, we
> can have it, perhaps, if we disown the lineage to
> the Rshi and give up the smskaras like Upanayana.
> Otherwise, we can only be called bhrashta brahmanas.
> The brahman title sticks until then.
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> It is not easy to shake off the brahman title, whatever the
> burden of performance from the world and perhaps from
> our own conscience.
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> sarvE bhavanthu sukhinah
> sarvE santhu niraamayaah
> sarvE bhadrANi pasyanthu
> maa kaschit duhkhabhAg bhavEt.
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> SrIramaNArpaNamastu
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> Dr. D. Bharadwaj
> drdbharadwaj at gmail.com
> dr.d.bharadwaj at gmail.com
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