--- Rajib Das [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some responses to the points you have made:
1. As per my readings, earlier it used to be called
just Dharma (not Varnashrama Dharma) and Dharma
became
Sanatana Dharma later when other religions came
about
on Indian soil which are also
Souravda,
Some responses to the points you have made:
1. As per my readings, earlier it used to be called
just Dharma (not Varnashrama Dharma) and Dharma became
Sanatana Dharma later when other religions came about
on Indian soil which are also essentially Dharmic in
origin. I haven't really
--- Rajib Das [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here are a few questions. Hopefully you guys can
answer:
many of the questions you ask can be encapsulated into
why am i a hindu? i leave those questions alone,
because those are personal questions which every man
has to answer for himself. i am
I would say that all these questions are meaningless unless you wish to find a solution -- within Hinduism -- to remove casteism. Why would one wish to dwell on something which has turned out to be evil -- unless one wants to remove that. Second, if the contention is that since caste system as
Thanks Xourov for another extremely well researched, informative and thoughtful
piece.
At 11:37 AM -0800 3/26/06, xourov pathok wrote:
a short note on the caste system:
the varna system, which found its first mention in the
rig veda itself, has been the only unbroken tradition
of hinduism.
a religion.
Santanu-da.
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a short note on the caste system:
the varna system, which found its first mention in the
rig veda itself, has
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Subject: [Assam] caste system
a short note on the caste system:
the varna system, which found its first mention in
the
rig veda itself, has been the only unbroken
tradition
of hinduism. gods have come and gone (from indra
to
rudra to krishna), forms of worship has changed
(from
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Sent: Mon 3/27/2006 4:37 AM To: assam@assamnet.org Subject: [Assam] caste system a short note on the caste system:
the varna system, which found its first mention in the rig veda itself, has been the only unbroken tradition of hinduism.gods have come and gone (from indra
Hindu identity. But
it may well be the most honest and logical way out
for those who
seek a religion.
Santanu-da.
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xourov pathok
Sent: Mon 3/27/2006 4:37 AM
To: assam@assamnet.org
Subject: [Assam] caste system
a short
Santanuda,
Thanks as always for very considered responses. Yes, I
admit I couldn't escape putting in rhetoric there in
those list of questions.
Let me put in further questions to your responses. I
will still await responses to my questions from the
rest of the group here.
Further questions:
1.
Another question:
1. Isn't the concept of Jati distinctly different from
that of Varna in its original sense? And that Jatis
were codified under the Varna system only as late as
the 19th century? I have read somewhere - and this
might be wrong - that this codification started under
Islamic
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From: "Rajib Das" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Roy, Santanu" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Chan Mahanta"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; "xourov
pathok" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; assam@assamnet.org
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system
a short note on the caste system:
the varna system, which found its first mention in the
rig veda itself, has been the only unbroken tradition
of hinduism. gods have come and gone (from indra to
rudra to krishna), forms of worship has changed (from
yajnas to puja) but the varna system has
a religion.
Santanu-da.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of xourov pathok
Sent: Mon 3/27/2006 4:37 AM
To: assam@assamnet.org
Subject: [Assam] caste system
a short note on the caste system:
the varna system, which found its first mention in the
rig veda itself, has
Subject: [Assam] caste system
a short note on the caste system:
the varna system, which found its first mention in the
rig veda itself, has been the only unbroken tradition
of hinduism. gods have come and gone (from indra to
rudra to krishna), forms of worship has changed (from
yajnas to puja
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