User:Vajrasuchika

Hello, I'm VajraSuchika. My name is inspired from Vajrasuchi Upanishad, one of the upanishads from ancient Indian/Hindu philosophy.

I have to use 'Indian' because there is another book 'Vajrasuchi' attributed to Buddhist monk Ashvaghosa, which has similar and elaborate contents and according to a few scholars, the latter is the commentary on Vajrasuchi Upanishad with many more quotations from Smriti and Sruthi such as Vedas and Mahabharata. Essentially, both of these books are against the superiority of Brahmins by claiming that a person does NOT become a Brahmin by birth, by body, by deeds, by rites or by knowledge.

Vajrasuchi Upanishad states that Brahmin is one who realizes the same soul that's present in him is present in everyone, in accordance with the non-duality Monist doctrine of upanishads. Although Asvaghosha doesn't talk about soul, his book agrees with qualities of who a brahmin is, which are renunciation, not driven by wordly desires, and who does not have pride.

Both books do a sustained attack against the "delusion of brahmins" by stating that everyone is same in the matters of life, and everyone can become great and achieve a spiritual realization. The arguments presented in both books appeared to me very logical, very clever with a sustained attack on all fonts ranging from physical attributes, scriptural sanction, language structures and cultural notions. This is one among the favourite short Indian literatures of mine.

My interests are mainly in Science, Computer Science and epistemology. Although I'm not a philosophy student in any sense, the way of knowing things and how certain things can become reified through the structure of language along with the commission/omission during knowledge production by the producers of knowledge exercising their power in accordance with the power/political/material incentives, has a profound and scary impact on me.

I'm not a frequent editor and will only edit if I notice inconsistencies in the page I read.