My rant on purohitas, their fees and dharma. In this day and age someone who sends his kids to a gurukula or mutt is taking an extreme risk. I would even dare say he or she is gambling the future of the kids who will grow up to face unstable seasonal income /1
And uninterested candidates for marriage proposals. Dharma still survives because few people think it is honorable to carry out ancestral duties. The day 100% of people give up, Hinduism is doomed to put it bluntly. There's not a single instance in history where a civilization/2
Survived after the priest class is gone. It really is a number game. You need a pool of people trained in ritual matters. Some rare one will have the sAvitR^I siddhi and has the "savitA experience" from the pool. Someone else may get sampūrņa agnisiddhi. But majority will be /3
Mediocre. You really need to support the entire pool even to entertain the possibility that some accomplished śāstrajña with siddhis will emerge. If there is no tradition pool someone like that emerging by pure chance is close to zero. This is not that hard to understand.
Of course we face numerous problems.
1. Lot of us are already aware of the barrage of anti-v1 propaganda. Unmatta variety 2 really has perfected the art for 2000 years. Paarpana paradesis instead of realizing that this strategy was used by u2 in various countries get coopted /5
1. Lot of us are already aware of the barrage of anti-v1 propaganda. Unmatta variety 2 really has perfected the art for 2000 years. Paarpana paradesis instead of realizing that this strategy was used by u2 in various countries get coopted /5
The strategy of demonizing the priest class has historically been very effective.
Some strategies to cope and hold fort:
1. There can be a supplementary pool of people who have regular jobs. I've seen that these are typically mamas after a certain age, kids off to college or working. Mamas instead of thinking pañchasūktam as pinnacle of learning can go deeper
1. There can be a supplementary pool of people who have regular jobs. I've seen that these are typically mamas after a certain age, kids off to college or working. Mamas instead of thinking pañchasūktam as pinnacle of learning can go deeper
Side note on demonization:
2. Anushthanas: A stripped down sandhyā takes less than 10 minutes. This is bare minimum. Within sandhyā literally everything has a prāņāyāma. Just mastery of this can take you places, but no.
We'll pay a handsome sum for the repackaged 'mindful meditation'or 'breath awareness meditation'. Then don't cry if mlecchas claim Hindu prāņāyāma is a British invention. Already yoga is being digested and our contribution is denied in mleccha ecosystem.
2. There is no yogasiddhi without a baseline health. This may sound unrelated: but do invest some time in cardio and weight training. Watch the diet. Imagine meditating with bum knees and growling stomach.
3. Don't defend propaganda against you. Keep balls of bullshit and hurl back😀 against paradesis. Look up @KalavaiVenkat who has elevated this to art form.
@KalavaiVenkat Parpanaparadesis cannot be educated. Only brutally mocked.
