If king Ravana was a Brahmin , how can his sister Soorpanaga be a demon or Asuri?

Question

Do both of them belong to Rakshasas? How can a Brahmin be a Rakshasa?

Answer 1

Your ATTN: Infinity.

Please do not bring Thirukural into this casteism. Thirukural does not talk about any religion or caste like the Vedic religion. If you don't know Tamil please do not quote a Tamil verse instead quote a Sanskrit verse. Meaning of Anthanar is not Brahmin. AN+THAN+NEER+AR means one who posseses the qualities of crystal clear water. That means to say this Thirukural refers to  Siddhars and not Brahmins. One who has clear Chittam are Chittars.

Answer 2

brahmin is caste demon is instinct.bad instinct, bad habits. evil in mind.

Answer 3

Brahminism was Ravans profession His Karmas was of Rakshasa

Those days Socity was classified based on profession

Now also in modern organizations we call sweepers as sweepers & managers as managers

Answer 4

A devil can be created out of anybody! a brahmin can become a non-brahmin if he does everything that a ?Brahmin is supposed to do.Killing animals and eating flesh and drinking alchohal etc A non-brahmin can also become s brahmin oif he follows the routines of teh brahmins .

See Thirkkural

"Anthanar enbore aravore , evvuyirkkum senthanmai poondu olzhukalan."

"A bramin is one who stands by the path of dharma and shows comapassion and love for all beings in his routine conduct ".

You can do this to become a brahmin.

Answer 5

The person who has knowledge of Brahmah is Brahmin(Jisko Brahm ki gyan ho vo Brahmin hai). Ravana was certainly a brahmin going by that vedic understanding.

V that was a good insight. The Ariana role has not been much connected.

Answer 6

Firstly you need to understand in context what is an Asura or a Rakshasa. These terms are many times mistakenly used  interchangeably. Rakshasa is by deeds and a Brahmin with bad deeds may be referred to as Rakshasa in religious literature. Asuras was a reference to the Persian Zorastrians. The "S" was pronounced as "H" in Persia. They called themselves "Ahura", the followers of Ahura Mazda.   They referred to the Sindhu river as the Hindu. The people who lived by the Sindhu came to be known as Hindus to them. The real name of the Dharma is Sanatana Dharma and followers can be called Vedantists.

There are numerous battles mentioned between the Devas and the Asuras in Indian texts. Asuras came to signify everything evil in Indian literature, while the Devas came to signify everything evil in the Persian texts. The word "Devil" is actually derived from Devas. The Asura and Devas battles were a fight between Aryan tribes (Zorastrians and Vedantists) and not with the Dravidians. In time Persia was conquered by Muslims and they started calling people who lived in India as Hindus too. Indians themselves started calling themselves Hindus over time!

Answer 7

he was the son of a brahmin but his mother was a rakshasi he get education from his father means his brahmin culture but he became rakshash due to his maternal grand father(nana) coaching and his mother advise, and sooparnkha was a rakshahshi and a brahmin as well

Answer 8

Who said he was a Brahmin? This was painted by all the interested parties.However let us not rake up the issue.There were three types of people such as Devgan,Naragan and Asurgan.You now decide which side you will support and Why?