fears of a brahmin

Sundara raj, the Iyengar a retired IB man, who stays just at the gate of the great Padmanabhaswamy temple died yesterday. He shot into fame because of his suit against the trustees of the temple.
Why did he file a suit? Some say the present Maharaja and trustee of the temple asked for rent for his house where he was staying since generations and he never thought that he would be asked to vacate. His family was very close to the earlier Kings.
But some say that, as many people in the temple, he too feared that the present temple trustees and their henchmen were bent upon destroying temple property. But they never expected this big.
So it struck in my mind that it is the Brahmins, in spite of their goodness, did all bad to the Temple, the Fort area and even to the religion - out of fear.
The Brahmins were welcomed to this land by the Kings. The Puthen Street for eg.was gifted for better commune living.
These theruvu, Fort, are all built by Vastu experts. Each street had a temple.
It was a beautiful concept also.
The brahmin family can live peacefully without any other income.
But see what has happened..
The brahmins slowly forgot the temple. They slowly joined the Government service and became fixed monthly earners. That went on for years. But in my childhood, the class first, school first and SSLC first , why all exam firsts, were Brahmin children. But now brahmin boys are no where in the picture.
Look at the vedic side. There is terrible shortage for priests. Children do not learn vedas. At the maximum one in a ten may have learned Sahasranamam and Rudram. They have forgot sandyavandavam.
But go to temples, other caste people are experts in many vedic verses.
The street houses, which are to be held as heritage buildings, are now desecrated and concrete buildings have come up. Many a neighbour are at loggerheads because they have common walls and its miserable when your neighbour turns his house to concrete houses and no brahmin has either respect to Vastu or are they able to build as per vastu and the commune living has gone. Above all they sell these houses to non hindus and the temple precints will have different culture.


Less to speak of vegetarianism among brahmins.

Where are we heading..The Brahmins who are supposed to be the guardians of Hinduism, the Vedas ..where is the safe hands..

All this happens because of the fears of the brahmins..