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**LottiFurmann** · 04-29-2012, 12:29 AM

Please explain "What Is Lost"?
Like BostonShankara once wrote, "what are we protecting"?
What is Brahmanism? Why must it be preserved?

In Mr. Vsubbu's words
Incidentally how many brahmins living in TN maintain their culture? Like Renuka said:
Have you given this a thought..correct me if I am wrong.Isn't a Pattar(palghat iyer) actually a TB that had settled in Kerala?
Didnt they assimilate with the local cultural and food habits?
Did they lose anything by doing so?
I feel our Hindu ancestors adapted and assimilated much more than anyone of us. Mr. Rambadran laments:
Our brahmin culture is sacred which is still preserved in the south Please enumerate what is this culture? Is it common to all south Brahmins? Is it even common to all Tamil Brahmins?
I feel culture is local, to the extent that what one family follows is distinct from their neighbor.
Yes things change, may be for good or bad, I do not know.
We used to travel by steam engine, now we travel by diesel engine, we may travel by electric engine, the mode may be different but we reach the same destination. So what is that we are lamenting?

04-29-2012, 12:29 AM	#23
LottiFurmann Join Date Jan 2008 Posts 4,494 Senior Member	Please explain "What Is Lost"? Like BostonShankara once wrote, "what are we protecting"? What is Brahmanism? Why must it be preserved? In Mr. Vsubbu's words Incidentally how many brahmins living in TN maintain their culture? Like Renuka said: Have you given this a thought..correct me if I am wrong.Isn't a Pattar(palghat iyer) actually a TB that had settled in Kerala? Didnt they assimilate with the local cultural and food habits? Did they lose anything by doing so? I feel our Hindu ancestors adapted and assimilated much more than anyone of us. Mr. Rambadran laments: Our brahmin culture is sacred which is still preserved in the south Please enumerate what is this culture? Is it common to all south Brahmins? Is it even common to all Tamil Brahmins? I feel culture is local, to the extent that what one family follows is distinct from their neighbor. Yes things change, may be for good or bad, I do not know. We used to travel by steam engine, now we travel by diesel engine, we may travel by electric engine, the mode may be different but we reach the same destination. So what is that we are lamenting?
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