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Dear Prapannas

I would like to submit to this forum that varna-ashrama dharma is defunct
and irelevant in the modern multicultural global experience in which we are
now living. The vast majority of Hindus are no longer concerned with caste
or its duties and obligations since we all have modern careers in big
multi-dimensional cities and no loger live in villages. Secondly ashrama
system has also been on the shelf gathering dust for more than a century.
Those who have been brahmacharis before grhastha are like flowers in the
snow. No one even considers vanaprastha and much less sanyasa. All that
remains of the ashrama system is the farce of kasi-yatra before a brahmin's
marriage and possibly the thread ceremony which is more a social function
that one of comittment to the brahmacari dharma! So let's stop this pretence
and paying of lip-service and as modern Srivaishnavas relegate varna-ashrama
dharma to the cultural museum where it belongs.

Adiyen

Sri Rama





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