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

[ravi chandrasekhara]

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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