There are some people who follow me & take a grievously wrong approach towards matters of dharma. This is for them: See below:

If you sincerely want to understand our shAstras conscientiously, this is a dangerous attitude you ought to abandon at the very outset.

You can EITHER:

1. Wallow in self-pity, resentment, victim-hood & political correctness, follow half-baked people who make you feel good & abuse venerable AcAryas as casteists

OR

2. you can actually bother to learn the tradition for what it is.
https://t.co/ewJM1fbWmB
You can scroll up from here and then read down. But for convenience's sake, I will be posting screenshots of the relevant portions of the thread in the next few tweets.
Introduction, some basic terms relating to the topic and historical context:
brAhmaNas, kSatriyas and the vish; relationship between these three groups and the supposed, respective occupations:
Was there occupational monopoly? Flexibility in terms of change of occupation. Did this flexibility mean that there were no longer any hereditary varNa identities for people to subscribe to? Not really.

Link to the thread quoted in the second picture:
https://t.co/vBllfJcvwY
Further instances of flexibility in respect of occupation. But remember that this flexibility doesn't negate or nullify the hereditary components of the identity.

Link for the article referred to in the screenshot below: https://t.co/NR0UyW4oi4
The special role of heredity in the case of brAhmaNas:
Conclusion:

This was a rather disconnected thread with a lot of jumping around between concepts. Will link other threads on this or related topics.
Here is a thread I did previously on shUdra contributions to dharma. It is quoted above already. Linking here again for convenience: https://t.co/iqozcBSj7P

Scroll up and read.
Here is a long & detailed exposition on how the term, "shUdra" evolved to attain a range of meanings & how shAstras responded to the changing connotations of the term.

https://t.co/lcG1BP4czQ - scroll all the way up & read:
Alternatively, https://t.co/fFpsoCPhZe but this cuts off the question that led to the thread.
How can we understand the special relationship between heredity & brAhmaNas? Is there a deeper significance or metaphyiscs behind it? Here is one way of thinking about it:
https://t.co/x9QRxJJdg9
A final submission for tonight: https://t.co/3r0fikWMhW
A thread on kSatropeta brAhmaNas: https://t.co/1WsZMzWzIB

Scroll up.
A thread on the special & indelible link between hereditary descent from a ऋषि & वैदिक practices. https://t.co/ZB8q2RjSwU
A brief translation of Mahādeva’s discourse to Umā on the birth-basis, varṇa progress in subsequent lives & the glory of good conduct in present life that entities one to honours. https://t.co/Obm7pijjaQ
Lineage as a ritual substance (dravya) to be input into ritual action - The philosophical meaning of heredity in rituals: https://t.co/mCH5xpffrP

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Great article from @AsheSchow. I lived thru the 'Satanic Panic' of the 1980's/early 1990's asking myself "Has eveyrbody lost their GODDAMN MINDS?!"


The 3 big things that made the 1980's/early 1990's surreal for me.

1) Satanic Panic - satanism in the day cares ahhhh!

2) "Repressed memory" syndrome

3) Facilitated Communication [FC]

All 3 led to massive abuse.

"Therapists" -and I use the term to describe these quacks loosely - would hypnotize people & convince they they were 'reliving' past memories of Mom & Dad killing babies in Satanic rituals in the basement while they were growing up.

Other 'therapists' would badger kids until they invented stories about watching alligators eat babies dropped into a lake from a hot air balloon. Kids would deny anything happened for hours until the therapist 'broke through' and 'found' the 'truth'.

FC was a movement that started with the claim severely handicapped individuals were able to 'type' legible sentences & communicate if a 'helper' guided their hands over a keyboard.