There was a post in social media bemoaning that in the villages the streets that had lots of houses occupied by Brahmins have become deserted and now occupied by people of different faith. The temple in the village is barricaded for people to visit for doing their worship in a few places. In another place the temple is in shambles and under the control of a person of a different faith but there are no vigrahas there. Let us look at this from a different perspective.
When our parents were alive and got a decent education they wanted a good job and migrated to the nearest town or city. The parents of those parents were living still in villages and therefore, the umbilical chord was still there to make the parents to visit the villages. Once the parents of those parents passed away, the necessity to visit the villages had been dwindling and it became a unnecessary expenses and visit. Our generation saw that we got education in towns and cities and got a job there at or in another far off city. Thereby, there was a migration from where our parents were settled. But the umbilical chord connecting us to the village was no more there and we also did not visit the village and retain the houses.
Our children now get educated abroad and are getting employed there itself. Slowly the umbilical chord connecting our children to our parents and their place of residence is getting thinner and thinner and one day will totally break. Then the children will find it unnecessary to visit the house of the grand parents in the town. Slowly the house in the town will be facing the same fate as that of the village house of our grand parents.
Over a period of time,the people will be bemoaning that the Brahmin children who migrated abroad do not come back; it will be akin to our grand parents who were lamenting that we never visited the village. The houses in the villages will be purchased by people of a particular faith who have immense wealth at their disposal from foreign sources. Slowly unable to digest their practices of slaughter, meat eating etc.other brahmins in the street would sell their houses and leave. That is what had been happening in the villages. Slowly the streets which were boasting of Veda mantras in Sanskrit and Thevaram, Thruvasagam and Tiruppallandu in chaste Tamil will be singing the verses from the holy book in a language not understandable even to those people of that faith.
If the Brahmins had wanted to, could have stopped this malaise long back. But we did not want to and we continue to NOT want to change that. After the work life was over, and retired from serious work, if the Brahmins migrated back to villages, this situation would not have arisen. We got so much used to the comforts of the city life, we think it will be too difficult in villages.
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