Media Bias : Swami Jayendra Saraswati

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periodically attempts are made to reform the practice of hindu religion to make it more inclusive and bring other castes[read non brahmin,etc] into it. The sects like kanchi or iyengar orders somehow work to keep their exclusive tag as it is their USP and appeal to higher sects. even tamil schools in delhi lost their appeal for brahmins once the tamil slum kids were admitted into them and quality education ceased as unintended consequence. Now most tamil brahmins prefer convent school and number of tamil kids learning tamil as subject and knowing tamil reading and writing has dwindled. Same will happen to mutts dominated by high castes. Broadbasing will lead to exit path for brahmins

Dear Shri krish,

I am not aware of any 'planned' attempt to reform the practice of hindu religion during the last seven decades except whatever happened as part of our freedom movement and the subsequent constitution. If you are referring to anything else, kindly let me know.

I am of the view that kanchi (i.e., the kanchi mutt head and the followers/devotees of that mutt) and iyengar order (the vaishnavite schism within hindu religion which has a nearly thousand years' existence) are two entirely different things. For example I was told about a very rich and powerful iyengar advocate who was, at one time, a very staunch devotee of the senior kanchi swami but turned completely against the swami and the kanchi mutt because that senior swami while publicly advocating equality of brahmin widows with married women, refused to accept "paada poojai" in that (iyengar) advocate's house because his threedaughters had been (very unfortunately) widowed and had not donned the mottai paatti attire. This was told to me by that advocate's nephew who emigrated to US during 1966 or 1967.

All iyers are not followers of kanchi and the recent sankararaman murder has driven away some brahmin devotees from that mutt. All iyengars are also not beholden to that mutt.

In Trivandrum (and this is the case in most parts of Kerala) our servant maid's - a NB - grandchildren are admitted to a very high profle and high-cost private school as compared to the school in which many tabra children go even today. Even the low-caste people, as parents, aspire that their kids should grow up with the best secular education which will enable their kids to grow up and stand equal to all other Indians.

If the mutts make an all-inclusive approach, the brahmins may get out but the NBs, by and large, try to imitate the brahmins in the religious field as distinct from secular education. Hence, if brahmins get away from a mutt in which the mutt's orientation itself is brahmin-centered, the NB followers also will get reduced in due course.

These are my views pls.