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Did you just give yourself an intelligence certificate?

 

[renuka]

even twins also have their own genetic traits externally they may look alike not internally..gene selection process is very random..dormant and recessive genes and activation of genes are done according to their own karmic things decided by previous births also. Here i'm combining both eastern and western thinking.Probably it may be difficult for people to comprehend what i'm saying...Even though i wanted to be like my father, i have inherited more of my mother and their ancestor traits. Here only the intelligence portion of it , i acquired from my father but unlike my father my thinking pattern is.Every living being is unique in this world...no one can mimic another...there will be one and only one like everybody..even though there are billions or trillions of life...God's ways are also very unique and our destiny also.

Dear Vignesh,


Have you seen wild tigers in Thailand that live among Buddhist monks and become docile and playful?

Even a wild animal can submit to love and affection.

BTW I dont know how far this gene denoting behavior is true cos let me tell you about a dog I had when I was a teen.

My dog's name was Ugo Boy.

He was a mongrel breed but quite huge in size and a good looking dog.

He used to have a very calm disposition and used to be caring and loving to even other species of animals that frequented the house..he used to sleep with the cats all over him too and share his food with monkeys from the same eating bowl.

He had a peculiar habit of loving to eat Naivedhyam that my parents used to make for prayers.
My mum used to make Suji Halwa and my dog would insists that he wanted some before it was taken to the altar ..my parents tried giving him what was remaining in the pot(not that was served as Naivedhyam) but he would not eat that..he only wanted what was going to be served as Naivedhyam!

So my mum would take a small portion and serve him first and then he would eat it and follow her to the prayers room..he would sit thru all prayers and stand for Arti too.

The best part is he would never enter the prayer room unless he had taken a dip at the nearby stream.

So he sort of knew the prayer time of the house..take a dip in the stream ..have his Naivedyam and then attend prayers.

No one taught my dog all this..he just knew what to do and how to "pray".

So do you really still want to believe that genes alone determine our behavior?

Otherwise how do you explain my dogs behavior? Just to add..he only had 1 mate and never mated with other dogs that came by..my house was near a jungle and many dogs from the jungle would come around but he only had 1 mate and never touched his female offsprings even when they were at the mating age.

So he was Eka Patni Vrata too.

So tell me...isnt this unusual for a dog?

 

[vignesh2014]

Did you just give yourself an intelligence certificate?

I'm not giving intelligence certificate...i'm just telling because my mother is not educated and in my mother's side no body is educated. If i had come to this level , i feel i need some intelligence..i'm not comparing with people like you you are having high IQ and working in USA, getting pHD,etc., Normal intelligence i'm saying.

 

[vignesh2014]

Yes Environment definitely play a part..if a person is intelligent enough or genetically capable, he can utilize the circumstances.I'm not that much adaptable..may be if i have generalized it i'm very sorry for it..

 

[vignesh2014]

Did you just give yourself an intelligence certificate?

I'm not giving intelligence certificate...i'm just telling because my mother is not educated and in my mother's side no body is educated. If i had come to this level , i feel i need some intelligence..i'm not comparing with people like you you are having high IQ and working in USA, getting pHD,etc., Normal intelligence i'm saying.

I'm not asking you to give intelligent certificate...i'm just telling by observation..that does not mean that i'm thinking very much superior...whatever capacity i have , i owe it to my father. i don't want to enter into further debate

 

[vignesh2014]

You are saying that you have trained a dog...can you train a wild man like that..animal behaviour is different ...man's behaviour is different..may be when a person from birth is in one place can get the habits of that person somewhat..that does not mean that it will change his natural traits..

There are two stories told by Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (he is not doctorate in any subject but down to earth man)

A lion cub was growing in the midst of lambs ..the lion used to brag like "MEY" "MEY" but when a lion pushed him near the water and showed him his original face and asked to compare with his face..he realized that he was not a lamb..After that when the lion roared , the lion cub also started to roar knowing his original nature.

A parrot was trained by a saint to speak about veda, vedantha and all slokas..but when a parrot came and captured it, it started to scream in its own voice "KI" "KI"...therefore our vasanas and our inherent trait is more powerful than our up bringing.May be i don't know how to explain like Shri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa or Shri vivekananda

 

[renuka]

Dear Vignesh,

I am surprised that you choose to say that you inherited your intelligence from your father cos you say your mum is not educated.

I recently said what I am replying to you to someone who told me that a relative of his was uneducated yet was loving and a nice person.

The problem is we humans measure intelligence with literacy rate and college degrees.

Let me tell you that a person might lack formal education but still have a very high IQ and have wisdom that might put even some rocket scientists to shame.

Intelligence and wisdom has nothing to do with literacy rate.

At the end of the day its wisdom that counts in life and its Mata,Pita,Guru,Deivam....even Guru who teaches us only comes in 3rd place.

So kindly dont confuse literacy rate with intelligence..many people due to circumstances and poverty did not get a chance to study but that did not mean they were not intelligent.

Long back before men learned to read and write..life still went on..people learned by trial and error and by handed down wisdom....that is still education in my opinion.

Just becos humans learned to read and write some amount of pride came into being and then they started calling others illiterate....so please give your mother her due credit for your intelligence.

 

[renuka]

Dear Vignesh,

You might want to read this:

Males inherit more intelligence from mother

DR. KEITH WITT / CULTURAL COMMENTARY, NEUROBIOLOGY / 4 COMMENTS
Males Inherit More Intelligence from their Mothers [63]

SEP 9, 2012

A lot of fathers are going to hate this, but genetic research has found guys probably get a lot of their intelligence from their X gene, the feminine one. Of 23 sets of matched chromosomes we all have, twenty-two line up pretty similarly, but we differ on the sex chromosome—men get an X from their mother and a Y from their father, and women get X’s from both mother and father.
The Y chromosome in XY men has about a hundred genes, none of which seem to be involved with cognition—thinking, figuring, planning…you know, most of what we associate with intelligence. The X chromosome has a thousand genes, and a bunch of them influence cognition.

We do have twenty-two other matched sets of genes which almost certainly influence intelligence–after all, a third of our genes directly (and a sixth indirectly) have to do with programming our brain and nervous system. There’s data that suggest that there are genes on the second chromosome which also effect intelligence.
But, still, if you’re a guy and you’re born really smart or really stupid, a lot of that’s from your mother and grandmothers’ genome.


And, just to add insult to injury, how you do in the world—relate, attach, cause problems, be a joy to hang out with—is more a function of how your mother related with you the first two
years than how your father did. So, even in the nature/nurture conversation (do genes have more to do with who we are, or does our life experience and learning?) mothers have more influence. Research strongly suggests that, despite the fact that American fathers are way more involved with their kids today than in the fifties and sixties when I was growing up, those crucial mostly-mother-around early years have disproportionate influences on who we turn out to be. Like most mammals, human moms are the main caregivers and teachers during crucial baby/toddlerhood when brains grow like weeds and we’re getting set up neurologically and socially for life.

The guys-get-intelligence-from-X-chromosome finding is particularly ironic with the Nobel Laureate sperm donor program at the Repository for Germinal Choice, which operated in
California in the 80’s and 90’s. At the Repository—allegedly, we don’t really know—Nobel Prize winners donated sperm that women could buy for artificial insemination. Sorry, ladies, but if you had a boy there weren’t any cognition genes in the Y chromosome of that sperm. You’d probably have had a better chance of capturing freak genius for your sons from donor eggs from Nobel Laureates’ mothers.

Weirdly, the one caveat to this is that boys are at least six times more likely to have autism spectrum disorders—compromised abilities to empathize and relate with others—that
disproportionately involve Rain-man-like freak math and technical skills. Rain Man is a film with Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise where Dustin Hoffman plays an autistic man who can do incredible math calculations in his head, but, like most autistic individuals, is a social disaster. We like our kids to have freak talents, but not at the cost of compromised social adjustment.

When I told all this to my friend, Patricia Albere, a single mother most of her son’s life and a keen observer of ego in all its forms—and, let’s face it, male ego, can be uniquely infuriating
around gender and pride—she found it delicious that the genetic legacy of mothers and grandmothers could so strongly affect boys’ intelligence.

“You’ve got to write a blog about this,” she said.
So, Patricia, here you go.
I’ve since thought about why Patricia and I found all this so funny. I believe there’s a lot of distress in many of us—men and women both—over men oppressing women throughout the ages, and that this distress tends to amplify teasing or sarcastic humor about men. Historically, if there are problems with birth, genetic heritage, or children, women have been blamed by men. I believe this hurt over past injustices accounts for the sometimes self-righteous excitement many feel when discovering facts like older fathers are more likely to have autistic or schizophrenic babies, or that intelligence is more heavily influenced by the female X chromosome than the male Y chromosome.
My favorite anthem to this sentiment is Woman in chains by Tears For Fears, a plea for love and liberation for women everywhere. Check it out, and, if you were born with any particular
skills in thinking and technical problem solving, be sure to thank your mother and grandmothers, because it’s probably their genes that give you that edge.

 

[krish44]

thats why renuka , we see the mother of boys before accepting boys into our families. I have been suspecting that boys who are amma kondus make intelligent husbands , fathers. you are bringing chromosome theories to prove the same . you are saying what we already know.lot of parents are looking for sperm donors from iIT students in india.what is your advice for them. look at mothers first before deciding.lol

 

[vignesh2014]

I don't believe in western research. Even if you say that i have inherited from her the intelligence, it is not only that she is uneducated..even my peria amma also.But she never cared to listen to other's opinion (MAY BE I'm Also like that...may be this trait i got from my mother), She will never give respect to people when she is in utmost anger (May be this also i'm).
My father is a very calm and composed person (that i'm not). My father is very educated. B.A(hons) ., F.C.A., (A SENIOR CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT). some people even though they are not educated, they may be well behaved ..they may not be arrogant (ALL THESE BAD QUALITIES I HAVE because it is in my genes)...My mother cares about others when somebody cares for her ..she gives to others when some body respects her and talks good (These are all the characteristics i have...I lost many jobs because of my short tempered nature...may be this i'm not blaming on my mother but may be due to my short comings)..I have observed my mother from childhood onwards..i have been the most favourite son of her till i got married. After that she became more fond of my wife than me..This i feel she needs some security and protection from us. She never adjusts even for seeing TV..Just like child , she wants everything in her own way (May be i'm also having this bad quality)..I don't know how to explain all these things...I feel i have more bad qualities inherited than good qualities.Just like Ravana inherited from her mother rather than from his father..Still i want to help my mother in times of loneliness because i know how i felt when i was lonely.She had been distanced because of her behaviours (MAY BE AS A CHILD SHE MIGHT NOT HAVE HAD WHATEVER SHE WANTED...My father was also not that much close to my mother)..ANY WAY WHATEVER MOTHERLY QUALITIES SHE HAS I LIKE THOSE THINGS.I'm CONVINCED THAT I WOULD HAVE BEEN A BETTER PERSON IF PROPER HAD BEEN DONE FROM MY FATHER AND MOTHER SIDE.(BECAUSE IAM FEELING WHICHEVER CHILD IS PROPERLY CARED FOR IN CHILDHOOD GROW TO BE A BETTER PERSON).

 

[vignesh2014]

Which parent gives you the most dominant genes?


Except for a few special cases (see below), it doesn't really matter which parent gave you which gene. If a gene version is dominant, it will dominate whether it came from mom or dad.
So your chances of getting a dominant trait don't depend on which parent it came from. If mom gives you the dominant brown eye version of an eye color gene, odds are you'll end up with brown eyes. Same thing if dad passes the same gene. In neither case would you have higher odds for getting brown eyes.
Now that isn't to say that if mom has brown eyes then all her kids will too. They could end up with the other parent's recessive blue or green eyes. Or an eye color that neither parent has!
This is how brown-eyed parents end up with a blue-eyed child. Or how two parents who don't have red hair have a redheaded baby.
As you can see, genetics is a complicated business. But one thing we do know...no one is more likely to favor one parent over the other. Which traits you get depend on the combination of genes you get from both parents.
What I'll do for the rest of the answer is explain a bit about how genes work. Then I'll focus on some situations where the parents do matter. As you'll see, this is usually when a trait is on the X chromosome.

Dominant and Recessive
Let's say that a child has a mom with brown eyes and dad with blue eyes. Since brown eyes are dominant, the mom can have either one brown (B) and one blue (b) version of an eye color gene or she can have two browns. As geneticists like to say, she can be either Bb or BB.
To make things easier, we will say that she is BB (both genes are the brown version). Since the dad has blue eyes, he has two copies of the recessive blue version. He is bb.
Each parent will pass one copy of their eye color gene to their child. In this case, the mom will always pass B and the dad will always pass b. This means all of their kids will be Bb and have brown eyes. Each child will show the mom's dominant trait.
Now if we flip things around where the father has two brown versions (BB) and the mom has two blue ones (bb), the child will still end up Bb and having brown eyes. It doesn't matter if B came from mom or dad. It only mattered that the child got a B.
I don't want you to think that if one parent shows the dominant trait, all their children will too. They may not. Let me give another eye color example to show you what I mean.
Imagine a mom with one version of the brown and one version of the blue eye color gene. She is Bb and has brown eyes. Dad is bb and has blue eyes.
These are the same eye colors that the parents had in the first example. But the result could turn out very differently.
The kids each have a 50% chance of having mom's brown eyes and a 50% chance of having dad's blue eyes. (This is because mom has a 50% chance of passing her B and a 50% chance of passing her b.) So in this case, the kids can end up with mom's dominant trait or dad's recessive one. Which one is a simple matter of chance.*
And if we take a Bb dad (brown eyes) and a bb mother (blue eyes), there is still a 50% chance for the child to have blue eyes. Again it didn't matter which parent gave which gene version. What was important is that these two gene versions were involved.
This is true for many, many traits besides eye color. But not all of them. Sometimes it matters whether your mom or dad has a dominant trait.
Blame (or Thank) Mom Through our discussion so far, you may have picked up on the fact that we have two copies of our genes - one from mom and one from dad. But this isn't true for every gene.

 

[vignesh2014]

But this isn't true for every gene. - This may be the case that i may not have inherited intelligence from my mother.

 

[vignesh2014]

Dear Renuka,

You might want to read this:

The guys-get-intelligence-from-X-chromosome finding is particularly ironic with the Nobel Laureate sperm donor program at the Repository for Germinal Choice, which operated in california in the 80’s and 90’s.

Here X chromosome is found both in father and mother. If it is X chromosome, it does not mean it is from mother. These are all DNA combinations. I also heard about mRNA...These talk about mother's lineage predominant but it does not talk about intelligence.

 

[vignesh2014]

we get 23 pairs of chromosomes from both father and mother

Sexually reproducing species have somatic cells (body cells), which are diploid [2n] having two sets of chromosomes (23 pairs in humans with one set of 23 chromosomes from each parent), one set from the mother and one from the father. Gametes, reproductive cells, are haploid [n]: They have one set of chromosomes. Gametes are produced by meiosis of a diploid germ linecell. During meiosis, the matching chromosomes of father and mother can exchange small parts of themselves (crossover), and thus create new chromosomes that are not inherited solely from either parent. When a male and a female gamete merge (fertilization), a new diploid organism is formed.

 

[vignesh2014]

If a gene version is dominant, it will dominate whether it came from mom or dad.

 

[BRAHMACHARI]

Dear Brahmachari,

May be there has been a feeling that only one who is Brahmin by birth needs to study all these and sometimes there are also some "restrictions" imposed for Non Brahmins.

Many a times we do read that a NB is not supposed to recite the Gayatri Mantra etc...I once met an Iyengar priest from India who told me as a woman I should never recite the Gayatri Mantra.

Now many people might feel not encouraged when they are told this cos they might get scared that they are committing a sin but those who fear nothing study what they want to study.

That is what that holds back many people in Hinduism....but I wonder why your are wondering?? Cos you did mention in another post that Non Brahmins should not become priests and rob away a Brahmins birth right duty..so frankly speaking..why are you wondering??

If one who desires to become a priest is considered a "robber"....how do you expect the study of Sanskrit and religion to prosper?

Madam,

The Non-Brahmins may be forbidden or hindered to do certain things practically. But they are not forbidden/hindered from reading the sanskrit sacred texts, understand their meaning and apply the principles in their life, in their conduct and character.

Everyone who is a priest may be brahmin, but not everyone who gives a discourse on bagwad gita is a brahmin. even non-brahmins in chinmaya mission, arsha vidya peetam, iskcon etc give excellent discourse on bagwad gita.

i know one mr. srivatsankachar who is neither tamilian nor brahmin but excellent teacher of tamil religious texts like thiruvasagam, thiruvaimozhi, tirukkural etc.

so nothing, including caste, hinders anyone from learning sanskrit and reading the sanskrit texts. absolutely nothing hinders anyone from practising the principles found in sanskrit texts, building a good character after hindu principles.

 

[tks]

An interesting perspective I came across which I am sharing here...

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Sir William "Mark" Tully, OBE, who worked for BBC for a period of 30 years before resigning in July 1993 and held the position of Chief of Bureau, BBC, Delhi for 20 years, was awarded Padma Shree, KBE, Padma Bhushan, one of the most respected journalists in the world,writes on Indian Politics:



"I can say without the shadow of a doubt that when history will be written, the period over which she (Sonia Gandhi) presided, both over the Congress and India, will be seen as an era of darkness, of immense corruption and of a democracy verging towards autocracy, if not disguised dictatorship, in the hands of a single person, a non-Indian and a Christian like me. Truth will also come out about her being the main recipient for kickbacks from Bofors to 2G, which sheuses to buy votes."




The sun has already set; darkness is just about to start. Do you blame it on bankruptcy/blindness of Congress or country';s misfortune. It is both. Now read the complete analysis, which follows. THE TRUTH & THE HIDDEN FACTS. I was surprised when the Congress party gave me a Padma Shri – I am the only foreign journalist to ever getit. For, in my forty years of political reporting in India, I have always been a vocal critic of the Nehru dynasty. Someone even called me recently: “a vitriolic British journalist, who in his old age chose to live back in the land he never approved”.



It started with Operation Blue Star. I was one of the few western correspondents who criticized Indira. As I have said since then numerous times, the attack on the Golden Temple and the atrocities that followed the army operations, produced in all sections of the Sikhs a sense of outrage that is hard today to alleviate.



As everybody knows, Indira Gandhi helped my fame grow even more, by wanting to imprison me during the Emergency she clamped and finally throwing me out of India for a short while. But the result was that the whole of India tuned in, then and thereafter, to my radio’s broadcasts, ‘The Voice of India’, to hear what they thought was ‘accurate’ coverage of events.

When Rajiv Gandhi came to power, I first believed that he was sincerely trying to change the political system, but he quickly gave-up when the old guard would not budge. I criticized him for his foolish adventure in Sri Lanka, although I felt sorry for him when he was blown to pieces by Dhanu, the Tamil Tiger.



It is in Kashmir, though that I fought most viciously against his Govt and subsequent Congress ones for its human right abuses on the Kashmiri Muslims of the Valley. The Congress Governments tried indeed several times to censor me and the army even took prisoner my Kashmiri stringer, whom I had to rescue by the skin of his teeth. I am also proud that I was the first one to point out then, that the Indian Government had at thattime no proof of the Pakistani involvement in the freedom movement in Kashmir.



Thus I always made it a point to start my broadcasts by proclaiming that the Indian Government accuses Pakistan of fostering terrorism», or that “elections are being held in Indian-controlled Kashmir”…As I was so popular, all the other foreign journalists used the same parlance to cover Kashmir and they always spoke of the plight of the Muslims, never of the 400.000 Hindus, who after all were chased out of theirancestral land by sheer terror (I also kept mum about it).



As for Sonia Gandhi, I did not mind her, when she was Rajiv Gandhi’s wife, but after his death, I watched with dismay as she started stamping her authority on the Congress, which made me say in a series of broadcasts on the Nehru Dynasty: “It’s sad that the Indian National Congress should be completely dependent on one family; the total surrender of a national party to one person isdeplorable. You have to ask the question: what claims does Sonia Gandhi have to justify her candidature for prime-ministership?Running a country is far more complicated than running a company. Apprenticeship is required in any profession — more so inpolitics”.



I heard that Sonia Gandhi was unhappy about this broadcast. Then, after President APJ Abdul Kalam called her to the Raj Bhavan and told her what some of us already knew, namely that for a long time, she had kept both her Italian and Indian passports, which disqualified her to become the Prime Minister of India, she nevertheless became the Supreme leader of India behind the scenes. It is then that I exclaimed: “the moribund and leaderless Congress party has latched onto Sonia Gandhi, who is Italian by birth and Roman Catholic by baptism”.



She never forgave me for that. Yet, today I can say without the shadow of a doubt that when history will bewritten, the period over which she presided, both over the Congress and India, will be seen as an era of darkness, of immense corruption and of a democracy verging towards autocracy, if not disguised dictatorship, in the hands of a single person, a non Indian and a Christian like me.Truth will also come out about her being the main recipient for kickbacks from Bofors to 2G, which she uses to buy votes, as the Wikileaks have justshown.

Finally, I am sometimes flabbergasted at the fact that Indians – Hindus, sorry, as most of this country’s intelligentsia is Hindu – seem to love me so much, considering the fact that in my heydays, I considerably ran down the 850 million Hindus of this country, one billion worldwide. I have repented today: I do profoundly believe that India needs to be able to say with pride, “Yes, our civilization has a Hindu base to it.” The genius of Hinduism, the very reason it has survived so long, is that it does not stand up and fight. It changes and adapts and modernizes and absorbs – that is the scientific and proper way of going about it.



I believe that Hinduism may actually prove to be the religion of this millennium, because it can adapt itself to change.Hindus are still slaves to MUSLIMS and CHRISTIANS On the name of secularism,lots of facilities and cash incentives are given to Muslims and Christians. Haj subsidy is given to Muslims for Haj yatra, wages of Muslim teachers and Imams are given to Muslims are given by looting the Hindu temples. No such subsidy is given to Hindus for going to Hindu religious places or any wages to Hindu religious priests or Hindu teachers. In fact congress secular government creates many obstacles for Hindus for going to Amarnath Yatra.



Even after 65 years of independence reservation is given on religious grounds while it should have been abolished by this time. If at all reservation or subsidy is needed, thenit should be purely on economic grounds rather on the grounds of minorities. Such reservations affect the quality of work. Congress party giving various kinds ofallurements to minorities to buy their votes with Hindu money. In the government, many people are with Hindu names but in fact many are Muslims and Christians with Hindu names (**) to fool Hindus and to show in the government, majority people are Hindus.

** The obvious reference is to Ambika Soni etc


Here is reference to Q&A with Sir Tully

I think we need Indian answers to Indian problems, says Sir Mark Tully | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis

 

[CHANDRU1849]

An interesting perspective I came across which I am sharing here...

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Even after 65 years of independence reservation is given on religious grounds while it should have been abolished by this time. If at all reservation or subsidy is needed, thenit should be purely on economic grounds rather on the grounds of minorities. Such reservations affect the quality of work. Congress party giving various kinds ofallurements to minorities to buy their votes with Hindu money. In the government, many people are with Hindu names but in fact many are Muslims and Christians with Hindu names (**) to fool Hindus and to show in the government, majority people are Hindus.

** The obvious reference is to Ambika Soni etc

Here is reference to Q&A with Sir Tully

I think we need Indian answers to Indian problems, says Sir Mark Tully | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis

Is Ambika Soni Christian or Hindu?

 

[vgane]

Is Ambika Soni Christian or Hindu?

It is obvious..She is a practicing Christian

 

[sarang]

Related, but light.
Dr. Issac Asimov is a popular science fiction writer and a phd holder in chemistry. His parents are russian emigrants.
His mother enrolled in a english language course. Her teacher, finding her progress above average asked her about her family background. When the teacher learnt that Asimov was her son, said - no wonder you are good as you are the mother of Asimov. The old day retorted - you are wrong, he is good because he is my son. Genes flow in one direction.

 

[Naina_Marbus]

Is Ambika Soni Christian or Hindu?

Converted to Christianity, but hiding behind Hindu name? Even Wikipedia entries can get deleted and changed with time!! Check the image below.

 

[renuka]

What has a name got to do with religion?

Names indicate race and country of a person.

Names like John,Muhammad etc existed even before Christianity and Islam came into being.

So names like Ambika denote Indian origin and does not mean the person having the name has to be a Hindu.

I know many Indian Christians who only keep Indian names cos they say that by race they are Indian and need to maintain the Indianess of their names.

So technically speaking names do no denote religion.

 

[sarang]

Indian muslims and christians are clever. They have a hindu sounding name as well as religion revealing name used interchangeably.

What has a name got to do with religion?

Names indicate race and country of a person.

Names like John,Muhammad etc existed even before Christianity and Islam came into being.

So names like Ambika denote Indian origin and does not mean the person having the name has to be a Hindu.

I know many Indian Christians who only keep Indian names cos they say that by race they are Indian and need to maintain the Indianess of their names.

So technically speaking names do no denote religion.

 

[renuka]

Indian muslims and christians are clever. They have a hindu sounding name as well as religion revealing name used interchangeably.

There is no such thing as Hindu name or Christian Name or Muslim name.

Names are based on a language of the region..for example take my name Renuka....originating from the word Renu meaning Dust,Minute particle.

This name has no religion attached to it ..for the matter your username Sarang..means Deer in Sanskrit.


Most Hindus keep Sanskrit based names or their local lingo names...thats all.

Names like John for example is NOT a Christian name but an anglicized version of the Hebrew Yohanan..so as I said before names have no religion.

 

[vignesh2014]

Renuka ji

Renuka is the wife of Jamadagni rishi..Therefore its origin is definitely sanskrit ,(may be renu means dust or minute particle because she had been beheaded by Parasurama and her head fell in the dust...i don't know that may or may not be the reason but your name is sanskrit and brahminical name only)