If you have married outside the Brahmana community, you are not longer a brahmana and neither your progeny are brahamanas.
If you have married outside the Brahmana community, you are not longer a brahmana and neither your progeny are brahamanas
I can see so many people saying " You can believe in whatever you want" that's not how the dharma sastras work
Most new gen brahamans are not willing the accept the above truth, but the verdict of the shastras must stand first. Therefore, I've decided to elucidate on this matter. May sri hari vayu gurugalu be pleased with this . May jagadguru Sriman Madvacarya protect all. May Narayana be pleased.
- Brahmanatva is primarily birth based. Only a brahaman born to a Brahmana mother and Brahmana father of different gotra and different pravara is eligible to be called a Brahmana in the first place.
If the mother is brahmana and the father is not, and the father is a brahmana and the mother is not, it is a totally different case and the sastras without fault state that the varnas of such progeny are not brahmanas.
You may prove me wrong. I can quote several sastras but I will attract the scrutiny of those outside the Brahmana community and therefore this sub will tumble down.
- For those saying "We have read on Mahabharata and other books about dharmaraja on how Brahmanatva is guna based"...
Please understand that the shastras have split Brahmanatva into svabhavika and aupadhika.
Svabhavika -> pertaining to svabhava (intrinsic nature)
Aupadhika -> pertaining to externalities ( our sharira, our interaction with the world)
Whatever you read about dharmaraja and others are talking about svabhavika part. Aupadhika brahmanatva is different.
Pramana for the above : The sastras mention "brahmanas will sell vedas in Kali Yuga (smd bhagvatam).
You may ask : how can someone selling the Vedas be called a Brahmin in the first place? He cannot be a svabhavika Brahmana at that point, but he is an aupadhika brahmana and aupadhika always holds valid for sastras. All sastras give samskaras based on aupadhika charectors
Verdict : Not only these , the sastras have given several other pramanas that Brahmanatva is in the aforementioned way.
You may be a kshatriya but a svabhavika Brahmana, you may be even an animal but can be a svabhavika Brahmana. But aupadhika and svabhavika is superior.
In no case, one who is not an aupadhika has been entitled to the rituals of aupadhika brahamana except in the case of vardana in former yugas.
But in Kali yugas such boons are not present, therefore on the basis of dharmasastras the verdict is very clear.
A progeny of a Brahman and a non brahmin, and those who marry outside the Brahmana community or those who marry within the same gotra and pravara are not brahmanas at all.
May sri hari vayu gurugalu increase our ananda and protect the sajjanas
I am up for a discussion on this. Anybody if you have doubts please ask me.