perhaps the views of vigneshji are not in good taste. and he can withdraw them.
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Dear Krish ji,
I dont really find Vignesh's post as offensive..in fact it made me laugh..so no big deal..let it stay.
Each person has their own opinion of who has knowledge and who does not have knowledge.
I remember a few years backs when I had gone to B'lore..it was a cold day so I was dressed in a Western attire and wore a Trench Coat.
I went to a shop run by a very beautiful Tamilian lady from Tiruvanamalai..she heard me and my husband speaking Tamil and told us she is from there.
Then she asked me what I wanted and I told her that I wanted a Aum figurine and she was showing me some and she asked me if I even knew what an Aum was.
So I said yes..than she asked me if I had kids and I said yes and she asked me my son's name and I said his name is Varun ..then she said 'Ok let me test you..do you know the meaning of Varun?"
So I stopped to think "how to give her a simple answer..I surely dont want to go into the details of the root word of Varun etc which has origins in the word Vari"..so I said its the name of Varuna Bhagavan.
She was surprised and said 'you know all these...but you dont look like a person who knows about our culture"
Then I took some Devanagari Om Namah Shivaya saffron colored shawl and she told me "do you even know what is written there?"
This time I told her "yes..its Om Namah Shivaya"
and she was "you read Hindi?" I said that was Sanskrit.
Then our madam was surprised and told me "if you know so much how come you are not dressed in a saree but wearing a Western attire?"
Then I thought this lady really wanted to win the conversation and I didnt reply her and just paid the bill and smiled at her.
So you see most people who have not had exposure to the outside world..have pre fixed notions that this should be this and that should be that.
The lady was expecting a person who knows something about Hinduism to be only dressed in a Saree ..so likewise Vignesh was expecting knowledge to be only with a Brahmin.
Pre fixed notions sometimes cloud our judgement.