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Re: ARTICLE : What worth is Braahminism?
In article <ghenE0H906.3pn@netcom.com>, sourav@hotmail.com says...
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>If you have access to "Vajra Suuciikaa" upanishad, then please refer to it.
>It is not a very long upanishad. It has tried to examine what is it that
>confers braahminhood. One possibility examined is that of birth which is
>rejected. After bringing out several possible alternatives and consistently
>rejecting them based on some analysis, it concludes that a braahmin is one
>who is fixed in brahman.
There is a nice sloka which I heard from His Divine Grace A.C.
Bhaktivedanta Svami Prabhupada. I don't know the original source.
It goes like this:
janmana jayate sudrah
samskarad bhaved dvijah
veda-pathad bhaved viprah
brahma janatiti brahmanah
"By birth, one is a sudra. By training of samskara, one
will become twice-born. By study of the Vedas, one becomes
a learned man, and one who knows brahman is a brahmana."
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Hare Krsna,
-m
