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**NeroASERCH** · 08-08-2012, 04:48 AM

Many TB families have come to accept their NB SILs on a par with their TB SILs. If the NB SIL is willing and deserving, why don't we perform an upanayanam for him and accept him as TB?

A family member girl married an Anglo-sexton American in an Ashram here in USA. The swamiji did upanayanam for the boy before marriage. The boy even today does Sandyanavandanam and just changed his poonal. The kids all have Hindu names. He is studying Gita, and attends Bhajan classes. To me he is more Brahmin than lot of born-brahmins.

Another family member born-brahmin never left India, but eats meat, and refuses to come for any pujas, and makes fun of the ways of his parents. To me he is not a Brahmin.

So who is Brahmin, and what is it that we are trying to preserve?

08-08-2012, 04:48 AM	#39
NeroASERCH Join Date Jul 2006 Posts 5,147 Senior Member	Many TB families have come to accept their NB SILs on a par with their TB SILs. If the NB SIL is willing and deserving, why don't we perform an upanayanam for him and accept him as TB? A family member girl married an Anglo-sexton American in an Ashram here in USA. The swamiji did upanayanam for the boy before marriage. The boy even today does Sandyanavandanam and just changed his poonal. The kids all have Hindu names. He is studying Gita, and attends Bhajan classes. To me he is more Brahmin than lot of born-brahmins. Another family member born-brahmin never left India, but eats meat, and refuses to come for any pujas, and makes fun of the ways of his parents. To me he is not a Brahmin. So who is Brahmin, and what is it that we are trying to preserve?
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