[Advaita-l] Who is shrotriya brAhmaNa ??

[V Subrahmanian]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Ravi Chandrasekhara via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Pranam,
>
> To add further, would a non Braahmana qualify as a Guru?
>

In the Bṛhadāraṇyaka upaniṣad there is the 'Ajātaśatru brāhmaṇam' where the
King, a kṣtriya, Ajātaśatru, is Guru to teach brahma vidyā, to Bālākī, a
brāhmaṇa.

Read that portion for more details.

regards
vs


> Ravi Chandrasekhara
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> > On Sep 3, 2015, at 07:30, Bhaskar YR via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> >
> > praNAms
> > Hare Krishna
> >
> > I asked this doubt in FB.  Posting here also for want of more view
> points / clarification.
> >
> > who is shrotriya ?? I always get this doubt whenever I see modern day
> veda and vedAnta scholars who also engaged themselves in material pursuits
> like working in software companies, as scientists, engineers etc. and talks
> about other subjects as fluently as they can in veda-s and vedAnta. I am
> not saying or implying that a shrOtriya should always breath in and breath
> out only veda / vedAnta and shAstra nothing else.. but what I am thinking
> is can the modern day scholars who have equal fluency in shAstra as well as
> material science be called shrOtriya-s ?? As we know shruti says for brahma
> jnAna we have to approach a shrotriya brahmanishTa guru ("sa
> gurumevAbhigacchet shrotriyam brahmaniShTham") while it is difficult to
> recognize a brahmanishTa guru, it is also becoming difficult to notice a
> shrotriya. Has our shAstra anywhere explains about external appearance of a
> shrotriya?? whether he has to always wear an attire that is permitted and
> prescribed in tradition i.e. always wearing dhOti (pancha kaccha, upaveeta
> without wearing the stitched pants & shirts etc.) traditional mark on
> forehead, strict adherence to the vedic rituals etc.?? If these external
> appearances are completely absence in a person but effectively and
> deligently conveys the purports of shAstra-s like any traditiional Acharya,
> can we accept this person, who is dependent on some other work/profession
> other than vaidika karma for his livelihood and wears jeans & t-shirts,
> shorts, burmuda-s etc. a shrOtriya?? or he is mere academic who learnt the
> shAstra-s like any other material science and the socalled veda and vedAnta
> jnAna and his skills and eloquence in that subject are mere EXTRA data that
> he stored in his mind along with other materealistic knowledge ?? I request
> the esteemed friends / prabhuji-s to share their thoughts on this subject.
> >
> > Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> > bhaskar
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