FaujHistorian
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Oh yaar, when you do not know about certain things, then please do not comment on them - no matter how much they hurt you. Learn to be accepting of others.
Those records of my immediate genealogy on both sides goes that goes mere 10 generations back, and of its other inheritors, are with me - I have memorized it - a must when we enter adulthood. Whenever I want to find my genealogy further back, I can always get it from my purohit in Kashi. All of my ancestors' visitations have been recorded there for thousands of years. Yes - thousands of years - do not be surprised simply because you don't see such things in other cultures. We are already in the process of digitizing it, and one of the families has dedicated itself to the preservation of the records, leaving the job of priesthood and scholarship to other families.
Believe it or not, but many institutions in the US too have begun to digitize similar genealogical records of many other families, although the original records, howsoever tattered, will always be with the purohit of any particular family.
So simply because you do not encounter any people around you who are aware of their lineage, but encounter only those who are at loss of their ancestry, does not mean all others are like that.
My family has been the follower of Shri Bodhayana (author of Sulba-Sutra), and subsequently of Shri Shankaracharya, and of Shri Ramanujacharya. So I am fully aware what Vedantic "philosophy" I am supposed to follow to rid of the debt of a beautiful life and knowledge bestowed upon us by our Acharyas.
But thank you for your doubts, and Happy New Year to you too dear
oral traditions at best.
Moreover such things are linked mostly to high castes
how many castes (majority of Hindus) at the bottom of the heap have such records?
So I do not want to say anything bad about Acharyas.
But Brahmins in generals have wrecked havoc with the lineage of lower castes and did that for centuries.
instead of being "proud", Brahminism must be denounced at every moment
Why
Brahminism is 1000s of times worse than how Blacks have been treated and enslaved in Americas.