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Story of how beefeater Brahmins became absolute vegetarians?
To give additional information about how Adi Sankar treated defeated pundits of other religions. It looks from the findings that this Adi Sankar was an extremely cruel person and does not deserve to be considered as a great personality. He was a ruthless, unscrupulous, mean and a professional priest. Adi Sankar was no saint, as it is depicted today. He was an evil person!
Adi shankara did take the help of various Hindu kings who were influenced by him so as to persecute Jains and Buddhists. It was not by acceptance. Given below is a piece of writing by Mr. Jamnadas which amply demonstrates what was done by Adi Shankara to Jains and Buddhists.
Examples of Violence in Brahmanism - Hinduism:
Are there any examples of violence? Of course, they are in plenty! No ‘avatar’ of Brahmanic tradition is without having an arsenal of arms, with a possible exception of ‘unworshipable’ or ‘apujya’ Buddha.
Other example is Vithhal in Pandharpur, Maharashtra
Here we will only consider examples by burning. Specially because the fire and atrocities of Holi are concerned with the backward castes.
Please, explain what you mean by that?
Among others, Kumarila Bhatta was engaged in life and death struggle against Buddhism [See K. Jamanadas, "Tirupati Balaji was a Buddhist Shrine" 1991, Sanjivan Publications]
others say that Tirupati Balaji is originally skandhha or Kartikeya.
Swami Apurvanand, an author from Vivekananda tradition, describes, on the authority of an ancient text “Shankara Vijay” by Anandagiri.
How Dharmapala, a Bouddha Aacharya of Nalanda Boudha Vidyapitha was defeated in ‘shastrartha’ by Kumarila Bhatta. Kumarila uncle of Brahmin scholar, Dharmakirti who was defeated and humiliated by Dharmapala, decided to study Buddhist shastras as he thought ‘it is always necessary to study the enemy before attacking it’ and joined Nalanda in the guise of a disciple of Dharmapala, in order to acquire enough knowledge of Buddhism so as to defeat Buddha’s doctrine. After studying Buddhism for some time, he challenged his guru Dharmapala, defeated him in ’shastrartha’, and saw his guru embrace ‘tushanal’ and avenged the humiliation of his nephew Dharmakirti. Tushanal means, a funeral pyre made up of hay and dry wood. Dharmapala declared before being burnt alive, “I am defeated by brilliance of Kumarila, but still I believe in supremacy of Buddha’s doctrine, I am not deviated at all from Buddha, His Dhamma or His Sangha, and so I would renounce my life rather than renounce Buddhism”. This is an account from a Brahmanic book and not from a Buddhist one.
Shastrartha, Swamiji tells us, involved scholarship i.e. an ability to quote from ancient texts, literary acumen, and ability to debate and argue without cause, without logic, without demonstration of so-called yogic powers etc., or in simple language ability to quarrel! [Swami Apurvananda, "Aacharya Shankara" 2nd edition. 1989, (Marathi translation of Bengali book), Ramakrishna Matha, Dhantoli, Nagpur, p. 94 ff.]
So Brahmins were quarreling and not arguing? Do you mean to say modern day debating logically was not known to Brahmins of those days?
Swami Vivekananda has described how Aacharya Adi Shankara used to enjoy the burning of Buddhist monks after defeating them in shastrartha. This is what he says: “And such was the heart of Shankara that he burned to death lots of Buddhist monks by defeating them in arguments (quarrel?). What can you call such an action on Shankara’s part except fanaticism?” [Vivekananda: Complete Works vol. VII, p. 117 ff.]
Jains were impaled: It is reported that about eight thousand Jains were killed by impalement (killing with sword?) when they did not agree with Brahmins’ ideology and what is more important is that this incidence was celebrated and commemorated by perpetuating a festival in temple of Madurai, which goes on even today. [K.A.N. Sastri - History of South India].
This can denote why 6th of December, ‘A day of Mourning’ by millions of Bahujan followers of Ambedkar, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and Muslims, was converted in a ‘Day of Victory’ by Brahmins over the demolition of Babari Mosque.
Why Jains are not included in this list, while they were the ones who were impaled? Explanation required.
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Above given information gives following revelations. Adi Sankar was a devilish person and can be equated with modern time Devil, Osama Bin Laden. Other Devils we have seen in the history of India are Francis Xavier from Portuguese Goa, who persecuted thousands of Hindus including Brahmins simply because they did not embrace Christianity. Even until today Vatican has not asked for pardons from the people of India for theses acts of a Jesuit who was working under Vatican authority. So, can we say Adi Sankar, Francis Xavier and Osama Bin Laden are belonging to the same category?
Can you believe, that Osama bin Laden will be revered like Adi Sankar or Francis Xavier, after about four centuries from now on?
We shall discuss similarity and difference in their activities after we get reactions of other readers.
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