From the Bhakti List Archives
SAIRAM,ASHWIN M,MR
• Sat Sep 21 1996 - 00:47:52 PDT
greetings to all,
I'm very pleased that this mailing list has restarted so we can continue
our paths to enlightenment.
I have a few questions to ask of you all. I hope somebody can help me
out.
I would like to know in the simplest terms possible what a Brahmin is.
i.e. what makes a Brahmin and what is required of him/her.
Secondly, as a university student with many local friends and
acquaintances, I consider it an important duty of mine to try and promot
vegetarianism amongst them. I am able to defend my point of view fairly
easily with plausible arguments. It is with my Hindu friends that I run
into problems trying to convince.
I was hoping to find out if there is any explicit passage in any of the
scriptures we follow that mention one musn't eat meat. Or at least a
notion that alludes to something along those lines. If anyone has read
something as such please let me know.
Thanks,
Ashwin Sairam