--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 30, 2005, at 2:23 PM, hanumanhoffman9 wrote: > > > > >> > >> The Vashnavite revival also coincides with the rise of the mercantile > >> castes. > > > > I don't understand what you mean by "rise". When did these castes > > not exist? > > It's not that they did not exist but that they came to the forefront > of religion and promoted the sentimental, puritanical and > materialistic elements of religion. It caught on and marginalized the > more yogic elements in favor of temple worship, devotional cults, etc. >
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