Posted by: mokshya May 13, 2006
cont.. PLEASE COMMENT ON BAHUNS........
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"Only profession monopolized by cast is purohit profession and bauns should be scrapped of that". I don't know where you got this from... As far as I know, Newars have their own priests, so do many Mongoloid clans... Despite that, if many prefer bahun priests over their own and call them for their yagna and pujas, I don't see anything wrong with that..... "In the history of India particularly South India, it was the bauns who wiped away Buddhism from that part". If you go through the history of India, Millions of Hindus were wiped out by Muslims and another millions were forced to convert... Now if you really apply the Indian *wiping away* theory to a nation like Nepal, then our fellow muslim Nepalis deserve the same fate that those South Indian Brahmins got.... But I don't think we ever think of doing that because we know we are different and so are our muslim brothers.... Same goes for Brahmins of Nepal too... It's not like all Brahmins are bad or all Newars are bad...There are some bad and some good everywhere... But let's not generalize all of them and let's not divide ourselves on the base of race, gender, religion or ethnicity.... Brahmins to an extent deserved to be where they are today... When there was no education prevalent in Nepal, they went abroad for their studies... Education makes all the difference and it made a difference in the group too.. They became more aware about the nation and they could differentiate between what was right and what was wrong.. They knew it all so they became the leaders and rest of us followed.... There is no caste more powerful than the other... But, if we keep whining like this, we are doing no more than proving that Brahmins are superior to others indeed.... To get what they have today, we ought to work for it.... In fact work much harder than what they did then when there was not really any competitiion because now it's a different story altogether... Be it any caste or group of people, nobody likes to give their power, status, name or fame that EASILY.... If we were where Brahmins are today, even we would like to keep everything to ourselves... It's a pure human nature to be selfish... So it's not at all about Brahmins giving their enjoyed privileges to others... It's about "others" asking, fighting or working to get where they are....
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