I think you did not read the passage you quoted for me, yourself first. Am reproducing it for your benefit:
It does not matter to anyone that you, your family and your friends, do not treat anyone badly based on caste; or indulge in segregation / discrimination.
The mutts endorse segregation and discrimination. Please read the kamakoti articles. Am doing a copy-paste:
Caste according to the Vedas and the Gita from the Chapter "Varna Dharma For Universal Well-Being", in Hindu Dharma : kamakoti.org:
Whatever 'proof' has been mentioned in the subsequent pages, has been refuted not only by historians who have documented jaati as a later development, but also by all the ekadandi traditions (note that kanchi mutt supposedly follows the saraswati sanyasa marga amongst the dasanamis; so why do not the other saraswati dasanamis have the same views? why kanchi mutt's views are so exclusively its own).
The article then goes on to endorse birth segregations and expects each varna and jaati to follow their own dharma and codes of conduct.
Which means, that a chandala must continue to be treated as an outcaste, and must not be allowed to listen to vedas. Same goes for shudras who must not accumulate money, be servile and not listen to vedas. And women must also continue to be servile and not get educated or go to work and be independent.
Except brahmins, no other caste has a scriptural basis as a "spiritual" basis to follow any of these as "dharma" or a code of conduct.
Other castes can, have and will give up discriminatory practices over time, as and when education and awareness increases. They have no "dharma" obligation to follow such things.
But as long as mutts continue to endorse these things, people like the abnomals we see here will continue to exist. They will continue to talk of their existence since yugas or thousands of years, about brahmin exclusivity, greatness, and about "victimhood" for not being allowed to "practice their dharma". [In what way is the anger and "victimhood" of a dalit wrong then? Dalits have indeed suffered 'like the jews'].
And these 'brahmin' abnormals are the ones who will continue to become part of right-wing activism working against "secularism" or the state. They do not consider indian constitution lawful since (like muslims who want sharia), they want to turn back the clock into times when they are free to practice their "dharma" or codes of conduct of segregation and discrimination (with themselves as 'brahmins' on top of the varna ladder - it does not matter to them that they do not follow anything required for a 'brahmin' to follow since they are already 'brahmins by birth', so that is sufficient for them..).
And do note, that extremist-watchers do believe that just like wahabbis, in future, the right wing extremists won't hesitate to "take up arms" like "parashurama" and fight. They already do not hesitate to kill. We already have people as part of various senas. They attack churches, TV stations, and of late, such people have also become involved in things bomb blasts (like the malegaon bomb blast).
So i have clearly explained where i am coming from.
We fail to realise that we are heeding in the same direction as islam with hindusim.
Age of Manusmrithi: between 200 BC and 200 AD. See Wiki article.
a) For composition between 200 BCE and 200 CE see: Avari, p. 142.
b) For dating of composition "between the second century BCE and third century CE" see: Flood (1996), p. 56.
c) For dating of Manu Smriti in "final form" to the second century CE, see: Keay, p. 103.
d) For dating as completed some time between 200 BCE and 100 CE see: Hopkins, p. 74.
e) For probable origination during the second or third centuries AD, see: Kulke and Rothermund, p. 85.
f) For the text as preserved dated to around the 1st century BCE. see:
Encyclopedia Britannica Concise,
Manu-smrti (Hindu law) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia.
I think i already replied. Are you asking in a diff context.
From wiki article:
Read:
Vishuddha Manusmriti, (Arsh Sahitya Prachar Trust, Delhi, Fourth Edition), by Surendra Kumar, p. 5.
If you go to monks, they are not able to connect certain verses to the explanations which they are able to give on the rest of the text.
But what historians like Surendra Kumar, other monks, other people, etc think will make a difference only to the people who follow them - not to the larger masses, not to 'brahmins'.
If these things can make a difference to the society as a whole, only mutts have to act on it - since they are the ones propagating smrithis asking all hindus to follow them - they have to be clear about which smrithis to follow, what parts to follow and which parts are to be considered null and void (inapplicable in present times).
Regards.
