--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote:
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote:
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> 
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > An elitist superstition codified
> > > > is no less of an elitist superstition.
> > > 
> > > Note that he justifies his own non-Shankaracharya-hood 
> > > based on the Jyotish chart...
> > 
> > I don't think I get your point, if you had one. 
> > 
> > Seems to me that to claim that caste is based 
> > on one's Jyotish chart (it's not...it's based
> > on the caste of the birth parents) is a way to
> > claim that one is *eligible* for a position open
> > only to Brahmans simply because one can find an
> > astrologer willing to say that the person is a
> > "Brahman based on his chart."
> 
> And yet, what if MMY *was* being considered for the position 
> until his chart was made? Justifying his lack of position 
> due to his chart certainly gives him an out that admitting 
> that his family name was recognized as "unworthy" by the 
> Jyotishi doesn't.

I honestly don't know which strikes me as more
pathetic -- a man so insecure and vain as to still
be hung up on events that happened over 50 years 
ago, still trying to justify them in his mind, or 
a follower of that insecure man who is hung up 
on the same thing.








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