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Re: REQUEST : Can some one identify the characters in the story?
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To: soc-religion-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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Subject: Re: REQUEST : Can some one identify the characters in the story?
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From: saibaba@ccs.neu.edu (durgaprasad ayyalasomayajula)
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Date: 3 Nov 1996 19:03:40 GMT
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Newsgroups: soc.religion.hindu
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Organization: College of Computer Science, Northeastern University.
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References: <ghenE04psz.1nD@netcom.com> <ghenE081FJ.M30@netcom.com>
: : > him even though the details of gotra, etc. were not known,
and it could not
: : > be known for certain if the boy was indeed born into
a brahmin family.
: : >
So a brahmin is one who speaks truth and spends with a
Prostitute(I am wrongly
using this word for mother Jabala to make my point clear
and I beg apologies)
: : But Shankara disagrees with this conclusion. Shankara in his Brahma Sutra
: : Bhashya argues that the fact that Satyakama passed the "honesty test" proved
It is better for Shankara to agree with me if he had proclaimed so,
that not one is born brahmin NOT by birth but only by virtue.
: : was demonstrated by the fact that Satyakama had come honest, for no born shudra
when everything is brahman where did sudra and brahmin come from?
AdiShankara is supposedly a realised person and there was
an incident in his life which is given below that he is a
realised person, so he may not have said that.
: Lord Shiva himself came to him in form of a Chandal, to
: inculate in his-self that goodness and shivtava can be found
: in every human being. So, reliance on Bramha-Sutra, (in the context
: of the fact that we do not have a direct quote, but rather a mere
: allusion) is not wise.
-- Prasad
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