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away from them. This is caste discrimination. We are not talking about caste discrimination in this cell. We are superior and the other person is inferior. If you go to an astrologer, he will not take the papers by hand. He will ask you to leave your papers there. Same is the position even if a brahmin goes to the astrologer. Discrimination is a bad quality that comes out of first knot.
Have you ever been to Nambudri temples? Kerala temples. Brahmin there will leave the ‘Harathi ‘- camphor plate at a place. He will not touch any body and also he will not let any body touch him. Irrespective of the person, he does this. His thinking is, as if he is very religiously disciplined and may become impure when others touch him. I am pure and you are impure
In our childhood days Acharyas used to be there with 12 upright marks on the body, religiously disciplined and used to move separately. Where they eat, we can’t even go. Even when they come to our home and eat, we can’t be around. They are not in any enclosure while eating. While the recitation of Purusha suktam goes on, they will be eating. Till they finish, no one should eat is another
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