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Bahmin
Bahmin
"One should reject the following brahmanas: those with missing limbs, those with
extra limbs, those who behave unjustly, hypocrites, those who falsely accept the
signs of some status, professional astrologers, professional priests, physicians,
the
sons of unmarried women, their sons, worshipers of many gods, priests of the
village, priests of the sudras, priests of the untouchables, those who have failed
to
take their second birth, their priests, performers of religious rites, betrayers,
salaried teachers, the students who pay the salaries, those who are nourished by
the food of sudras, those who associate with fallen persons, those who are ignorant
of the Vedas, those who fail to observe the sandhya rites (chanting the Gayatri
mantra), government servants, those who do not wear clothes, those who quarrel
with their fathers, and those who reject their father, mother, spiritual master,
the
sacred fire, or the study of the scriptures. Such persons are considered the worst
kinds of brahmanas and are disgraces to their line. Learned persons should
carefully reject these persons while performing the sraddha ceremony for their
fathers."
When those brahmanas whoknow the condemnations of the Visnu yamala hear such
things, they should keep their mouths shut. The Yamala says: asuddhah sudra k-alpa
hi
brahmanah kali s-ambhavah
"The brahmanas born in Kali-yuga are impure and no better than sudras "