KIRON KRISHNAN Yesterday we had discussion over who can be your guru, and your answer was our father who initiated us through Upanayana. Also I had a similar doubt regarding "How to know ones Sva Shaka", for which Abhivadhana was the only answer. Joining the bigger "devil, the Caste System". I recollect KIRON KRISHNAN mentioning this not to be a "Caste by birth". Now connecting these dots, if caste system is not intended to be by birth; its crucial for anyone interested in learning vedas that he knows Sva-Shaka. The Abhivadana seems to be not solving the problem right here, as it is coming out of a lineage. The fathers shaka is passed onto the son. Hows does sva-shaka and caste system fit into the puzzle? Please enlighten.
If I am not wrong, some vedic scholrs say, mullers writing is half baked .
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't arrive on such a conclusion before reading what he had to say. I am reading this now, have you read it before? What is your opinion?
ReplyDeleteMAX MULLAR WAS A GREATSCHOLER ON INDIAN MATTERS. I DO NOT KNOW SUCH A CONCLUSION IS ARRIVED AT AND BY WHOM. TODAY IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO TEST THE AUTHENTHICITY OF HIS WRITINGS. MOST OF THE BOOKS REFFERED BY MULLAR ARE NOT AVAILABLE
ReplyDeleteI like one fact which Max Muller discusses in this book. That is most of the west first discriminated against Vedas sighting the reason that it was transmitted through one caste, Brahmins. But Max Muller states that not everyone in a community writes/preserves for the future. Even in our modern times, only some small percentage does this and they are called authors. Others might be simply busy in their day-to-day activities. So do not discriminate, and try to learn what the Vedas has to say first.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing Max Muller continuously repeats is the word Aryan. Is there any non-indians who did not believe in Aryan-theory?
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