Can Brahmanism, the soul of "Hinduism" be revived in India?
Brahmanism is not an amateur activity. The memory and pronunciation ability required, alone, is prodigious. I am happy to report that there are Vedic Schools in Japan and Germany who produce real quality. The Saama Gana School in Japan gave me a CD when I met the Japanese Professor of Sama Veda at the Pournami Vishnu Sahasranam recital at Meguro (Tokyo) that I found superior to that of the Sringeri Math.
Similarly, Lingayats (Veera Shaivites), Iyengars (Shree Vasihnavites), Ramakrishna Muth Swamijis and other non-Brahmins who were trained in the Maharaja of Mysore's Sanskrit College at Mysore were passably good but that institution is now even more run down that any Indian University and has no competent faculty as those who are capable are turned out by a few South Indian Maths, but Government wants degrees and caste (SC/ST/BC/OBC) certificates which Maths do not issue.
The memory and other skills of the Non Brahmins, however, due to genetic reasons, was found insufficient for anything more than certain limited areas suitable for a Temple Archaka, or a Purohita, or, at the most, the Theithreya Upanishad, and certainly not for the Brihaspathi of superior Brahmin Kutumbas or a Professor of a Sanskrit College.
In India, all education has corroded. But, with the single minded eradication of Brahmanism that has gone on since 1921 in the Madras Presidency and since 1959 in former Vijayanagar Viceregalities like Mysore and Travancore, there is not much hope left within India. Hardly any embers to fan even if a revival is sought. (Sanskrit studies in the North was already very weak after Ashoka and the Moslems, and the remnants of Brahmins in the East of India after the sepoy mutiny were blown from the cannons mouth by the British leaving a genetic hole that may never be filled, just as the Indian Constitution has. In the North and West, Islam and Sikhism (which the British Indian Poltiical Service infiltrated in 1921 and turned into Akali movement) put paid to Brahmanism much before the Indian Republic took on the task of eradicating Brahmanism.
The good news is that the Veda Pathashalas in Germany and Japan are well funded and solid. In three to four generations they may be able to produce reasonable Brahmin clones, and even if they lack the memory and brain networks necessary for several generations, will be able to function as a team to bring together the various areas of expertise present in the classical hereditary Indian Brahmin. The US is very mediocre and though they can recite bits and pieces of the Thraithreya Upanishad, are no where close to hereditary Brahmins.
"Whatever residual Vedic knowledge has left in this country, is due to poor Brahmins traditions.
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Henrich Heine (1787-1856): Great German romantic poet, essayist and journalist. Best known for lyric poems, his essays on German literacy, political, and philosophical thought contain remarkable prophetic insights.
The Portuguese, Dutch and English
have been for a long time year after year,
shipping home the treasures of India in their big vessels.
We Germans have been all along been left to watch it.
Germany would do likewise,
but hers would be treasures of spiritual knowledge." (Bhanwar Lal Sharma)
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