Dear sir,
Actually I did not want to debate anymore on this topic but the red rag matador bull fighting line here was also used in your reply to my post.
Please do not think that some of us roam around with prejudices.
I have never known any TB in my life in the real sense.
All TB contact I have had was from Forum.
Majority here are fine and have predominance of Sattva.
But there are also some with massive doses of Rajas and Tamas out here itself who keep professing their outlandish love and desires.(via Private Messages)
When I first landed in Forum I was under the impression that TB's are mainly Sattva Guna but now I have come to realize after some personal messages received of the weird kind
that TB's are just like any other community cos similar behaviour patterns are also seen in other communities too.
In each community there is the Good,the Bad and the Ugly.
So all my learning experience about TB's are only from this forum.
Caste was never spoken about in my home..in fact I was not even aware of my caste heritage till very late teens when someone asked me.
The only Brahmins I have known well is my mother and her relatives and they are not Tamil Brahmins.
In fact I never even knew they were Brahmins cos they themselves never spoke about caste.
BTW bulls are color blind..any colored rag can make them mad.
Red is Rajas and might actually stimulate the Matador to be more active.
Dr Renu
I know there are many Satvic TB out there
One may not get that view by reading posts in this forum sometimes !
Let me share my thoughts about birth brahmins.
In a right family where Sativic world view exists demonstrated by a vision of sameness in how they relate to other human beings (as well all beings) a person is well groomed to learn. Furthermore they may have ready access to all the material that can allow one to mature into a Guna Brahmin.
A Guna Brahmana is someone who is predominantly Satvic, with secondary attribute of Rajasic nature and traces of Tamasic nature.
I have met people from many cultures who are Guna Brahmanas. They were not born in a Brahmin family for most part.
Unfortunately many do not mature into a Guna Brahmin from their birth status in my limited contact.
The fellow who goes to temple and says lofty things to please some God-form often tend to be ignorant and has unfortunately a wrong notion.
Why should the Lord of the Universe want some fellow to come and say lofty things about the Lord so that the Lord can get pleased. As if the Lord of the cosmos does not have anything better to do LoL
This is so silly, and thank God (Isvara) - that is NOT the vision of the ancient sages of Isvra.
Such people who focus only on lofty prayers tend to be phony in my limited experience. They are ready to hurt others by their thinking, their action and their words in their desire to think they are pure. Why do they worship - out of fear (Artha) and desires (Kama).
Even those that want heaven into a kind of desires. There is nothing great or extraordinary about such people.
I think this post was about an ordinary woman who showed some extraordinary courage to achieve a family and did not care about the views of narrow minded birth brahmins.
Let me conclude that this topic brought out the real pride and prejudices that has been very revealing indeed for me...
ray:
