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From: SAIRAM,ASHWIN M,MR (BUFG_at_MUSICB.MCGILL.CA)
Date: 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 <asaira@po-box.mcgill.ca>