BRAHMIN COMPLEX

[GNANA SUNYAM]

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We are aware of the following Complexes:
# Inferiority Complex
# Superiority Complex
# Electra Complex
# OCD Complex
# Austere Severity Complex

...and there are many more.

Many years ago, in MIT, the Jews were a severe competition for me in presenting thesis on a particular program of study.

In India Brahmins score above others on the same subject. The identity of the subject is immaterial here.

But in MIT, my reaction to the Jews was, 'How dare you outbetter me? After all you guys are not Brahmins!'.

But years have passed. I have travelled a long journey on time. I have matured somewhat.

When I look back, I wonder why I reacted so. Not only I, my fellow brahmin friends and relatives, in other universities also reacted so.

Is this any complex with us?

Why is it everything about us is supreme, superior? If it is not ours, why is it sub-standard in all probability?

Is supremacy claims are true, justifiable or are our minds conditioned and programmed to conceive so?

We have a zeal, passion, to shine, to sparkle and to excel in anything and everything. We are all most welcome to have such zeal. But is it our property? Is it our belonging?

Are we possessive about greatness, greatest and other superlatives?

 

[GNANA SUNYAM]

Yadha yadha hi dharmasya glanir bhavathi bharatha......

Whenever our tenets are challenged, why is it we hasten to clench our fists for an ego combat?

Why do we assume the role 'Champions of Sanatana Dharma'?

 

[GNANA SUNYAM]

We are swift to quote Vivekananda, "Hinduism is the mother of all religions"

This same Vivekananda also said, 'Had I lived during the times of Jesus, I would have torn my heart and washed His legs with my blood"

 

[renuka]

We are aware of the following Complexes:
# Inferiority Complex
# Superiority Complex
# Electra Complex
# OCD Complex
# Austere Severity Complex

...and there are many more.

Many years ago, in MIT, the Jews were a severe competition for me in presenting thesis on a particular program of study.

In India Brahmins score above others on the same subject. The identity of the subject is immaterial here.

But in MIT, my reaction to the Jews was, 'How dare you outbetter me? After all you guys are not Brahmins!'.

But years have passed. I have travelled a long journey on time. I have matured somewhat.

When I look back, I wonder why I reacted so. Not only I, my fellow brahmin friends and relatives, in other universities also reacted so.

Is this any complex with us?

Why is it everything about us is supreme, superior? If it is not ours, why is it sub-standard in all probability?

Is supremacy claims are true, justifiable or are our minds conditioned and programmed to conceive so?

We have a zeal, passion, to shine, to sparkle and to excel in anything and everything. We are all most welcome to have such zeal. But is it our property? Is it our belonging?

Are we possessive about greatness, greatest and other superlatives?

Though I am not a Brahmin, I would like to say that the feeling of superiorty depends on what a person or community identifies themselves with.

For eg for a Brahmin, knowledge is their domain.
So they view someone else who is intelligent as a potential competition.

A person from a bussiness community and super rich will not envy a gold medalist in a university because he is not there to get a gold medal but to gain the required knowledge to continue his legacy and money earning capacity.
He will view another bussiness magnet as his competition.

So it all depends what we identify with.

 

[renuka]

Yadha yadha hi dharmasya glanir bhavathi bharatha......

Whenever our tenets are challenged, why is it we hasten to clench our fists for an ego combat?

Why do we assume the role 'Champions of Sanatana Dharma'?

Your answer is in your post itself.
Its the Ego Combat.

 

[renuka]

We are swift to quote Vivekananda, "Hinduism is the mother of all religions"

This same Vivekananda also said, 'Had I lived during the times of Jesus, I would have torn my heart and washed His legs with my blood"

The same Swami Vivekananda said,

"For our own motherland a junction of the two great systems, Hinduism and Islam —Vedanta brain and Islam body — is the only hope".