I am agreeing with you on the aspect of brahmins are not the only people who mistreated the others. But they are the center-stage in history and now also. go villages and see.
I also agree that they saved many old epics and vedas. But try to get the remaing things also. they destroyed many vedas/old epics which contains lot of knowledge and wisdom just make sure that they will never reach to other castes .(Its true and happened in many parts of india). after they claimed they done so that that these epics should not be go to odd hands/ill minded kings . but the real intentions are different. u know many years aadi sankaracharya has not been accepted by brahmins--- just for the reason he is extending the knowledge to commom man??.
What ever I had written is
1) To make the people understand the "OTHER" side of the coin - that even with extrordinary knowledge and wisdom how a community like Brahmins now in odd stage, because of the some mistakes (Even ravana has many good qualities, but punished for his bad quality). And i am not saying that other communities had not done any mistakes. But if u see our culture from ancient days - Brahmin is the center point - for education, administartion etc. Eventhough they have enjoyed such a fabulous positions, they done very little to the society. Why they are now reduced to this position??. Just because of their own mistakes - turning to materialism, adopting the lifestyles and habbits of other people (not all but many in number, ican say). I had a brahmin friend, their uncle is a very knowledgeable and he knows astrlogy and palmhistory as well. but whenever he goes to other places or relatives/friends places to fix marriage dates etc , he will not take a single rupee. He told me when i asked, once u r material may be money/wealth/ladies/bad habbits etc oriented u cant practice spirituality to full extent. Healso told that our people are now degraded because of their own faults - prefering material benefits/ no interest on spiritual knowledge/ being opportunistic etc. Once a Brahmin turns into a materialistic - how he can teach good for others, how he can be an ideal person, how he drive the people towards spirituality/ how he can still hold the respect??. He only told that as the other castes are kept in dark for centuries its affecting everybody today in india oneway or other. He is more interested in public service (not jobs), but he cant do because of the fear that he will be thrown out of the community/relatives. And also please dont be mis-understood, I donthave any specific hatredness towards Brahmins, as i have brahmin friends both having some good and bad qualities)
2) I am from FC, not SC/ST/OBC. But when I see deeply into their lifestyles of low caste, Its not only the financial aspect. But they are socially also suppressed. Thats why now they are so much of angry on FCs. Even I did not got any seat in govt colleges. I too deeply felt many times that reservation must be on the basis of economic level not on caste basis.
But for last 20/30 years we are facing these problems. But what about the dalits and others. Just tell me onething, whats the price u can pay to them for treating them as untouchables/distancing them from education etc done by our ancestors??. In past we have good social and financial positions. u people enjoyed it, but at the cost/effort/blood and sweat of the low caste people. Then no body of u have any complaints. now u feel the heat, u started crying. If u corrected at ealier days, I am sure that u might not be in this odd situation today. Thats why I had given the CHILD example. Can you do that??. Dont see the situation in cities. Go rural ares and assess the truth in the matter i written.
3) see the below link
http://www.rediff.com/news/2006/may/23franc.htm
Why a particular caste "working Sulabh Shauchalayas" is considering as something odd. why not they felt it if it is done by low caste people (they are doing it for centuries, but none of us has shown pity - instead we treated them badly). u people aspecially are averse to do any physical work. u wont cultivate, but u treat the farmer as untouchable, and u require is food. u dont care his blood/sweat he invested under sun/in rain to get the crop.
Now tell me is there any thing wrong an youngman who is child of such low catse people will have right impression on high caste people - who has tortured them for centuries?? (even though u r superior in knowledge). common man its a pity situation. u are knowledgable, but nobody is respecying u. u wont get respect by power or force or positions (because of these only u got respect in earlier days). even though u gets that is not true. A person will be respected,even if he is low in knowledge, when he is useful/adoptable and close the people and respect the people and make their lifes better. isn't it true??.
4) whenever some scientists in west, found/invented new things----our people says its already written in our vedas,epics etc. What brahmins have done for centuries by having such hugh tressure of knowledge. they distanced other castes from education, is it benefited them or the nation??.
5) I am not complaining that all brahmins are bad or cunning. But at the same time what they had done very good to the mankind, have the very unpardonable mistakes also. Having knowledge is good thing. but if its not usefull, whats the use. u have all knowledge which is not utilised for any others, then whats the use of having knowledge??. Hiding knowledge is sin. Making people live in dark is sin. Misleading others from education is sin. These are not crimes but sins, which will carry forwards to the generations. killing a person appears to be the great crime, more than that many soft-crimes/sins are there which will not appear as hard as killing. try to get ny point. I am not blaming, but asking u to get better insight in to the real matter.
Coorect me if iam wrong. But just throw stones as u dont like it. because these are real facts, whether u agree or not.
