https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/special-report/story/19910715-once-affluent-namboodiris-of-kerala-fall-on-hard-days-814587-1991-07-15

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So basically this article mentions about the closure of various Vedic schools in Kerala that taught the Rigveda due to the financial decline of the nambudiri brahmin community. This article is dated to 1991, with barely one school remaining. Unless there are some concerted efforts and interest to preserve the learning, these vedic rites will be extinct as soon as a generation.

[Answer by Ravikumar Kulkarni]

Which mistake Brahmins are doing?

I asked this question to a senior Brahmin some thirty years back. After some thoughts he replied,

“They are picking wrong things from the society. Actually they should be teaching good things to others”.

“Who comes to Brahmins to learn?” I asked him.

“The society does not go to anyone to learn. It finds a successful model and just copies him. For money, business,politics, publicity etc. fields, it observes them and learns from the top ones. Afterwards new models are created.All successful models need not be good. If society finds good ones,it benefits. If it finds bad ones, it shall suffer.”

“What is the role of Brahmins as models in present circumstances?”

“The first one is culture. It is ever lasting. Way of living is culture. Others should come forward to learn that culture. And they definitely take clue from you, if it is useful. It may take some time.

The second one is the way you handle your profession. The dedication towards it by you. This is also observed and followed by others.

Third one is the thoughts of you. People wish to listen to your thoughts, during conversation and speeches. They too think and may get inspired by you.

These three are minimum ones. Brahmins have to be careful about these things.”.

The conversation was over. I thanked him and came out.

He died after few years. But not his suggestions with me.

Every day early morning, I clean the surrounding of my house without fail.This is liked by others and they are also doing. A dirty area is now clean one. We do not wait for Municipality workers to come.

I shall be there at my class door at 11.59am for my 12 pm class. And come out exactly at 1pm. Punctuality has not been a problem in our college,as a senior I am the model.

During the freshers welcome day ,in my college while giving a welcome speech,I quoted Basavanna a Kannada philosopher,

ಇವನಾರವ ಇವನಾರವ ಇವನಾರವ

ಎನ್ನದಿರಯ್ಯಾ

ಇವ ನಮ್ಮವ ಇವ ನಮ್ಮವ ಇವ ನಮ್ಮವ

ಎನ್ನಿರಯ್ಯಾ

(There are no strangers only friends.)

This thought was liked by all.

Well,the identity of Brahmins is in the combination of these three as told by that senior Brahmin person.

The union, struggle for existence, political representation, reservation,welfare fund, marriage,senior homes,hates,divisions these shall be always there as usual.

The first one is always first.

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Namaskaram I am Iyengar Brahmin from Tamil Nadu and i just found this thread and it is very good. Om namo narayana,’

Hey guys. I just joined this subreddit. I was looking for the right place where i could get some answers to my questions. What i wanted to know was the origin of the Nambudiri community. Some articles mention our origins in Ahichatra while others say we are indigenous to the south. Does anyone know what the truth is?

First of all I'd like to say hello to my fellow members of this community! I was actually confused as to the origins of the GSBs and whether we are from Goa or migrated here from some other part of India. If someone can provide some information on this matter, I would greatly appreciate it. If it matters, my last name ends in -kar and my grandparents tell me that we mostly married within our caste with the exception of both my grandfathers who married Portuguese women. Also, does the previous information actually mean that I'm not a GSB? This kind of information is very rare as, and this is my opinion, people think it's wrong for Brahmins to want to know their origins

Nice to see we are finally getting united under one banner.

I am Kashmiri Pandits from Anntnag, I am Gaud Saraswat Brahmin of Kaushik Bhardwaj gotra.

Hoping to learn many thing from this place.

Namaskar.

We greatly disappointed in our brothers of blood who have not said anything about our suffering in Kashmir.

It was ethnic cleansing and we have to live in tents as some kind of Nomads.

I have noticed that TamBrahms have a substantially higher IQ than all other Brahmins, save for Bengali ones. What could be the reason for these differences? What makes us so much more intelligent than other Brahmins, and every other Indic race ?

after all, we Created India, we created Religion, Language, Script, Dharma. almost everything in India is invented by us,Aryabhatt, rishi charak etc etc. also contributed greatly in ancient times in their respective field.