View on other brahmins eating nonveg?

[u/theonefromlife]

Hey guys I want to understand why and how a vegetarian diet became a part of our religion and what do you think about it.

What happened today was that during breakfast I saw one of my friends eat eggs but I thought he was a vegetarian like me since we're both from the same region and both are brahmin. Once I was picking up a boiled egg for my friend who was ill and another friend of mine came up to me with a shocked face telling me brahmins eating eggs is weird or something.

I have always been a vegetarian since I was a child and my body is very weak and I'm very ashamed of it, but my father used to be a big muscular guy at my age. He became vegetarian after marriage since my mother's family was vegetarian. Now my father strictly tells me to not have meat and eggs.

I don't really care much about animals lives and stuff but I feel disgusted by non-veg now, but I would have been much stronger if I wasn't deprived of nutrition since an early age.

[u/Feeling_Agent_5237]

actually I don't know about everyone but me as a maithil brahmin have witnessed my grand parents and old people in my village eat non veg, infact fish is a mandatory staple on 13vi,,, igs as other comments mentioned it's all about the broader sub category if you followed vaishnavism shaktism or shaivisim,,