What is Intellectualism or Intellectual Way of Living

Technically speaking, intellectualism is an ideology wherein the subscriber predominantly relies on his/her intellect rather than physical capabilities for whatever he/she does. Its practical interpretation is a way of life dominated by use of intellect at every step the person takes. This makes a great difference in way a person thinks, speaks and performs. Let us see how it matters in day-to-day living of a person.

Supremacy of Logic

Humans have a highly developed faculty of thinking and logically deciding on problems faced by them. Therefore, logic is the first and foremost asset of human life, and making the best use of it is essential for being humane. It forms the core of intellectualism for the logic being the application of intellect.

When great scholars were developing humanity for use of intellect, enemies of humanity brought in a vicious concept of 'faith' to human life, wherein a person need not to think and logically decide on an issue but go by what somebody else guides him/her to do. Purpose of developing faith in people has been misguidance and exploitation of people by some cunning preachers of faith.

Since, humans have inertia, they look for easier ways of leading life. Faith comes handy to people saving them from complex process of thinking and logically deciding. Hence, faith became more popular than logic as way of life. This reduced number of intellectuals in humanity.   

Application of Intellect to Life

Wisdom of a person guides him/her to success in achieving his/her goals without consideration of what is right or wrong. But intellect of a person illuminates him/her with knowledge of right and wrong, and forces him/her to be on the right path irrespective of whether he/she loses or wins in games of life. Even in a loss, such a person has the contentment of being on the right path, while a wise person may find physical comforts of life but feels discontentment or even repentance for what he/she might have done to win a race. This differentiation in wisdom and intellect makes an intellectual person to have and comply by moral values as basic principle of life and then applies wisdom to achieve success.

Since majority of persons want success, intellectuals are always in a minority in a society, and make a distinction by being flag-bearers for being followed by some others looking for standard principles of life.   

Synergy in Thoughts, Speech and Actions

The first sign of a person being moral is that he/she does what he/she speaks, and he/she speaks what he/she thinks. This makes his/her mind clear free from confusion of ambiguities, saving him/her energy for serving greater purposes of human life.

Such a person is always straight forward which goes against modern practices of diplomacy wherein a person speaks sweetly even with bitterness in his/her mind and actions. This trait further reduces number of subscribers of intellectualism.

Individual Freedom with Social Discipline

Since our great ancestors decided to have human settlements at fixed places, we became social animals. This imposes social discipline on each of us limiting our freedom to individual level only. Another implication of this intellectual trait is to respect rights of others through pursuing own rights, and also fulfilling own responsibilities before expecting others being responsible members of society.

This provision of intellectualism was vehemently breached by enemies of humanity through preaching religions and putting it into social arena of individuals for guiding their social lives. Since religions have been many with mutually contradictory preaching, social displays of religious performances put followers of different religions at war with one another. The right course should have been to put religious faith into individual arena of persons.

Duty of Giving Back to Life

Human life is a precious gift of Nature to us, for which we need to pay back to Nature by producing and making our children better members of humanity. This way only, we can ensure continuity of a happy human life on the planet. Apart from this being our social responsibility, it is our our individual responsibility too as a parent.

Working for Livelihood

Everyone of us needs food, clothing to cover our bodies, shelter to live in, and many other comforts of human life. All these things need us to earn money through working. Even with huge inherited wealth, a person should not lie idle or loiter here and there just because he/she is sure of meeting all his/her needs from the inheritance. Further, we are obliged to raise a family to continue human life on the planet, this too needs us to work for economic support of the family. Anybody not having a proper work for himself is not fulfilling his/her basic humanly duty.

Creating for Advancing Humanity

Modern human life needs thousands of things as necessities, facilities, conveniences, such as motor vehicles, computers, telephones, furniture, dress materials, variety of foods, oils and cosmetics, drugs and medicines, etc for each of us. Such things are available to us because somebody else created these. It becomes our duty to give back to humanity as creators of something new. Nobody can afford to remain just a user or consumer of such things like a parasite. such creations are the basic things through which humanity has advanced as superset of natural life.

Optimum Use of Resources

Every living-being survives and progresses by consuming resources from the Nature external to him/herself. Hence higher availability of resources to every living-being may mean survival of more units of life and their better qualities of life. While others may not understand this, intellectuals understand this well, they use minimum of resources to let these be available to others and manage themselves optimally.

This strategy includes minimization of wastes produced and thrown back to the Nature by them, and may need recycling of wastes. For example, conversion of human excreta into useful manure for growing fruit, vegetable and fiber plants in a garden, and further making use of organic wastes from plants and kitchen into more manure for the plants may make a family unit or a set of persons self-reliant for meeting most of their medicines, foods and fiber requirements and producing almost nothing to pollute the Nature. Such practices may ensure good health to all through right selection of food plants for growing in the garden.

The water drawn for underground is given back to the ground through rain-water harvesting during rainy season wherein the rain water from the area is taken to the lowest point and dropped into the ground through a boring. Same boring is used to provide Earthing to the Electricity circuit of the home.       

Performance Efficiency

General definition of efficiency of a system is the ratio of output to input of the system which is always less than 1. Efficiency of human life is thus measured in abstract terms through study of what a person gives out to the World external to him/her and what it takes from it. Both the input and output may be positive as well as negative. say, giving out foods for somebody is positive but giving out pollutants to the World is negative output. Similarly, an input of a food item is positive while absorbing some pollutants and neutralizing it is a negative input. 

With intellectual living as depicted above, a person essentially intakes fresh potable water, may be some food items, clothing, building material, etc from outside, and outputs a huge quantity of food, firewood, timber and medicinal items produced in the garden, and most importantly gives out nothing that is negative. Further, he/she provides homes for a large number of birds, insects, etc in the garden.

Another important service an intellectual provides to humanity is developing and exemplifying a rich tradition for others to follow. His/her children grown through intellectual living prove to be more responsible citizens than others. This makes the whole family a precious asset for society.       

Economic Worth of an Individual

Key to progress in quality of life and development of human civilization is economy for which probably each of us works through personal income to family income to national economy, and finally to economy of the whole humanity. Though direct worth of a human-being can't be based on his/her economic status, no worth survives without economic well-being.

Economy means basically keeping balance in income and expenditure. Each family unit of today has most often a single source of income but with many ways of expenditure. Important expenditure heads may be enlisted as food and health, clothing and housing, and education and entertainment with their ideal average share of 50 : 30 : 20. Mismanagement of human affairs has added one more head of economic exploitation through Aristocratic politics and faked Divine terrorism. Exhibitionist tendency of humans has further distorted how people spend their earnings. Average human-being are forced to provide, directly or indirectly, about 30 percent of their incomes to political and religious head. This has distorted the average share of human expenditure heads to about 20 : 30 : 20 : 30 for food and health, clothing and housing, education and entertainment, and charities and taxation, respectively. Each of these heads counts in progress and development of individual to humanity levels.  

This distortion in expenditure heads has adversely affected humanity with cost of increment in crimes and blockade of civilization advancement. The results are noticeable needing no keen eyes.

Politicians, administrators and religious preachers make the richest class of people with probably no or minimal productive work while hard-working humanity under their control has been struggling for survival.  

Mismanagement of economic affairs is the worst in public domain accounts of governance and religions leading to economic and social corrupt practices as premium business of humanity.

About 70 percent of humans on global level suffer from one or more of chronic diseases. This suffering goes to about 90 percent in many nations of the World.

Crimes have been on the rise continuously since recorded history of humanity leading to more miseries of average humanity. Moral values in humanity haven vanishing.

Commercial considerations have penetrated to matters like health, education, justice, etc which need be covered under public welfare for overall development of human civilization.

Economic Classification of People

From Economics point of view, there are broadly three ways people live by by their own will or under compulsions.

Lavish Living

This lifestyle aims at spending lavishly principally for three reasons -

To seek comforts, luxuries and conveniences,

To seek high status in society, and

To cover up for sense of insecurity

For adopting this lifestyle, the persons are required to earn enough to make their two ends meet for which they keep no consideration of right or wrong practices of earning money. Most of the persons of this lifestyle keep too busy in maintaining their economy that they find no time for enjoying life through family and social relationships, entertainment and recreation, and most importantly through paying attention to keeping good health. Therefore, this lifestyle makes the person more and more miserable as they often age with three types of problems -

Health : Most of the lavish spenders develop vices, particularly of womanizing and alcoholism, which reflect on their respective health. The health problems raise their heads as the persons advance in age. Since such persons do little physical work, resilience of their bodies is often low making them more prone to attack by diseases. 

Exploitation : Lavish spenders try to purchase everything, they need even rarely, at whatever price. All such price tags have high margins for manufacturers and traders, leading to their high level of exploitation. When such persons are young, their earnings are high and they don't bother for such exploitations. But with advancement in age, their earning power dwindles with corresponding increment in their worries about the exploitations. Moreover, for keeping their social status high they are expected to contribute more for social purposes. This also enhances their exploitation, hence the worries.

For their involvement in illicit activities for more and more income, people of this class try to compensate them psychologically through charitable acts with reliance on godly and religious exhibitionists, making them super-rich with no productive work by themselves.   

Economical Living

 As far as economy and quality of life are concerned, middle class people with limited earning out of their hard work serve their purposes of life in optimum ways with care about what they get from market for the prices they pay. Some of these people try to appear like the lavish spenders in their possessions with shopping cheaper things from the market for their low incomes with the result of accumulating third-grade materials in their homes and worries of maintenance of these. In the process, they get exploited. Another section of this class tries to keep a balance in quality and prices of materials they shop, hence bargain with selection of the best options within their limits of affordability.

Just Surviving

A third group in the humanity with limited resources and means of living under their command keeps on struggling for survival within their poor incomes. Most often, they rely on inferior products hence suffer with poor health. Even good quality of medical treatment remains out of bounds for these people. They have no entertainment means except having sexual pleasures, hence produce large families to feed. This makes them more poor, sick and problematic. Life expectancy and education remain the lowest in these people.   

Psychological challenges to one's Economy

First, there are necessities, then, we create needs for conveniences and then we have wants for progress, comforts and luxuries depending on how we perceive our needs and wants. For all these things we focus on getting money. But we rarely seek happiness through contentment of or satisfaction from what we already have or even set a limit for what would be enough. Thus the craving for more of wealth goes on, but there are exceptions to this. These exceptions are not for the reason that they don't have necessities, needs or wants but for the reason that they have barriers in getting inflow of money by all means for their self-imposed moral discipline, unlike common people generally do.

Here, I would focus on why persons deny getting rich through self-control for their own psychological barriers of morality and ethics. 

Crimes and Corruption

Government and employees and those of some large private organizations often involve in corrupt practices for monetary gains through misusing their official powers. Some mighty persons crush weaker persons for monetary gains. Some others involve in thefts and other crimes for such gains. Such persons and groups thereof economically thrive through anti-social activities, still there are a few who won't involve in any of such activities even if they have opportunities and living in poverty. This bar on the self is imposed for keeping up their moral values and conscientiousness. Thus, moral values etc become another block of economic prosperity.

Habitual Pleasure Seeking

Fermentation was originally devised for curing skin ailments. Later, people found that the fermented beverages have intoxicating effects which provides a sort of unusual pleasure to the drinker. With this concept in progress, fermented drinks have become sources of intoxication, hence, pleasures ruining economy of a huge number of persons on the globe becoming habitual of intoxication. Then, people devised many other ways of intoxication which dipped more persons into intoxication and economic wreckage.

Similarly, many other bad habits of seeking pleasure, such as going to prostitutes for sexual pleasures, etc ruin economy of a great number of persons who don't consider consequences of such short-term pleasures.  

Fatalists

Indian society was taught by a poet named malook Das in the following words -

iaNh djs u pkdjh] ikgqu djs uk dkeA nkl eywdk dg x;s lcds nkrk jkeAA

This means that birds etc don't work still survive. So the poet's advice is that the God looks after all. Hence, no need to work. Though all people might not have read the advice, but most of the religious-oriented persons believe in working of fate that pre-decides future of everyone. With this concept in mind, such persons keep on looking for comforts and conveniences of life without working hard for these. This keeps the poor people poor forever. 

Gambling is a game in which a bidder is promised a bounty against investment of a small amount of money, provided his/her fate is favourable. With this hope, the gamblers keep on putting at stake whatever they have and lose everything they had, thus ruining themselves.

Charities and Donations

I like to go on my pleasure or research tours like a hermit with minimum luggage, mostly a few books, notebook, pen, pencil, some dry foods like roasted grams, a mat, a sheet of cloth, and one spare dress etc all kept in a shoulder bag. Hairs on my head are generally long and many times, my beard, too, grow long for no-shaving on the way. If the place I visit is a pilgrimage, people mistake me for a beggar like many others on such places, and donate things to me without my asking. In such a case, firstly I refuse to accept but if I fail to convince the donor, I handover the materials so received to somebody else needing or looking for such things. My consideration on this is that I don't live on charities but depend on my work only.

Once, after a free meal at a religious place in high mountains (called Bhandara in India), I began washing used utensils there to work for the food I had taken. The organizers of the Bhandara requested me not to do that but I didn't relent. Later, a person came to me and told me that I was snatching means of his livelihood there by washing the utensils which was the work assigned to him. I got his point and stopped the work. After that I refuse to accept free meals in such Bhandaras.

So many of us have such inhibitions in their minds which put them in trouble or inconveniences of economy at odd places, while many others with no such inhibitions and making such things as means of their livelihoods enjoy riches after some begging.  Here I would be dealing with such inhibitions affecting one's economy.

The most powerful community of India at all times is habitual of living on charities and donations without any hitch through generations, while many other communities and persons hate living on such aids from others. The governments often promote in poor people living on their aids, and most of the persons are eager to listed as poor to get the benefits. Still, there are some who are averse to such assistances for keeping up their social status and self-esteem. Thus, consideration of self-esteem in getting something for others is the first challenge to economy of some persons.

Charities, donations and welfare schemes work as deterrent to one's economy in reverse way too. People dependent on these don't like to work hard for survival or progress thinking that they will get something from others for survival. Thus, these social parasites block their own way of hard-working for progress.  

Status Complex

Most of the persons don't like to do mean jobs like sweeping, domestic help, etc for their consciousness of their social status thinking what others in their society would think of them. Some such persons go far from their native places for taking up such petty jobs without telling the truth to their close social contacts. In both of these practices, persons' economies are adversely affected.

Persons in India celebrate marriages and even death of veterans of their families through feasting others to keep their social status high in others' eyes, even after borrowing money for such celebrations. Thus, status complex is another block on economic progress.

Some persons involve themselves in charitable activities just for being appreciated by others though their personal economy may not afford a charitable act. They just compete or imitate those who can afford, and thus ruin their economies.

Perfectionism

Many persons choose to do their jobs perfectly even losing sight of practicability or economics of the task performance. In the process, they ruin their economy. Although doing a job perfectly is not a bad idea in itself, but all aspects of a performance must be looked into during execution. All tasks don't need perfection for economic and many other reasons. Not only this, even in a task needing near-perfection, some components may not be as important as others, and the performer must pay his/her attention in accordance to the importance of different components of the task.  

Economically Worthy Human

Money serves very important purpose of happy survival of an individual. But if a person goes beyond psychological barriers to economy outlined above, a small quantity of regular income proves sufficient in providing happiness of living. Important points in this regard are worth mentioning here.

Properly selected food items, and their quantities and quality can keep a person healthy with longevity and resilience needing no medical services.

Adequate protection from climatic extremities through clothing and shelter is a necessity of modern human life. Due to current scientific knowledge of humanity, these facilities may be so designed so as to become no economic burden. For example, a home may provide all the necessary comforts of life without provisions of artificial illumination and temperature control.

After informal education from parents, children need formal institutionalized education which contributes to national worth, hence need be freely and uniformly arranged by the government from public taxation. This would improve on national worth without burdening individuals economically.

With cultivation and promotion of social discipline in society, all defense, crime control and justice machinery of the government may become redundant or reduced to minimal. This would lead to a society free from exploitation improving upon economy of every individual.

Religious faith must be limited to individual life, hence its public display must be prohibited. This would save people from psychological and economic exploitation by religious preachers.

Involvement of government in individual's life must be limited to management of common resources, with minimal taxation on people saving them from working for serving lavish politicians and administrators.    

Above-said are hypothetical provisions which are beyond materialization in near future, hence should not be waited for by individuals for leading a happy life. But every individual must review his/her own lifestyle to remold it closest to the ideal situation in light of the above-said clauses, and make him/herself happier and a worthy human-being.

Why nobody Truly Knows Anybody Else

We work under presumptions of knowing other persons in our contacts, but individuality of each of us is too complex to be understood by anybody else. If mutual knowing of two persons were possible, there would remain no possibility of misunderstanding between them. Since we often notice misunderstandings and disputes among persons familiar to each other, we may safely infer that the two persons were not knowing each other. Not only that, even most of the persons fail in knowing themselves that is why they take wrong decisions about matters fully under their own control. Most of the sicknesses among humanity are results of this misunderstanding of the self.

Dimensions of an Individual

A person's existence gets expressive in three dimensions - physical, mental and intellectual through the three organs body, mind and brain, respectively. A living body is a passive organic system having many subsystems interwoven and supportive of each other functionally. It functions under partial control of the mind, and the body and the mind combination functions under overall control of the brain. Thus, the brain is the supreme commander of an individual.

From practical experiences, we know that even supreme commanders fail in exercising full control over their domains with the result that elements of domains become undisciplined and even revolt occasionally against their supreme commanders. Similar is the situation with the command line of the body, mind and brain.

Reason for Indiscipline

Like the practical life incidences, the command line fails for control of the supreme commander being indirect with a hierarchy of mediators in between the ultimate domain and the supreme commander. In case of an individual, the mind is the mediator between the body and the brain which plays its own tricks in between to gain more authority over the body. Tricks of the mind are termed as wisdom of the individual, which gets played often in conflict with the intellect of the person.

Wisdom and Intellect Conflict

Wisdom of an individual is applied with sole purpose of getting things done for the body in accordance of her wishes which may not be appropriate always for the negative human traits raising their heads through the body. All crimes by humans are committed for these negative traits with full support of the individual's mind and justified by the wisdom of the self. For this reason, each criminal tries to justify his/her committed crime. Wisdom doesn't have analytical power but is merely empowered to get the desired results by hook or crook.

On the contrary, the intellect, function of the brain, with its faculties of memorizing studied and experiential information, logical reasoning, and imaginative extrapolation of information through application of logic is capable of judging right from wrong, if properly applied to a problem. But for the complexity of body and mind functions, it is impossible for the intellect to keep watch on everything under its overall command. It relies on the wisdom standing in between with the instruction of referring any matter to it whenever needed. Another reason for the limitation of the intellect is its being mono-tasking, while a multitude of processes keep ongoing every moment in the body of an individual. So, relying on wisdom is a compulsion of the intellect.

The Societal Scenario

For the reason explained above, an individual can truly know another individual through application of one's intellect only. Since, the intellect remains burdened with a huge workload all the time, the wisdom is empowered to know the person which plays its tricks for own vested interests. In the process, the other person is not understood well but presumed to be understood. Since the matter is not referred to the brain by the mind under the presumption, the brain doesn't get involved in the matter leaving it to the mind.

Collapse of Social Conscience

In the year of 2000, I came to my native village Khandoi in district Bulandshahr of Uttar Pradesh State of India after I had almost left it in 1961 for my further studies, career and professional duties. I had decided to close on my Engineering Profession and involve myself in Social Engineering with the objective of improving quality of life in rural India to begin with my own native village. On my arrival in the backward village from a developed urban culture with flourishing profession, people were astonished and when I told them that my objective was to work with them and for them for getting better services from the government and administration, they seemed to welcome me. But it proved to be a faked gesture as just a formality.

My Struggle on Electricity Front

With my basic concern of improving quality of life of people in the village I presumed that the people would welcome if I get them better electricity supply, transport facilities, etc. I knew the universal fact that everything has a cost, and better services would mean more cost to the people. I began with electricity supply to the village having a badly shattered electricity distribution lines from the government monopoly. People were hardly getting any supply and whatever was available was with voltage fluctuating beyond limits of tolerance, and with no reliability. Only thing people liked about electricity supply to them was that it was freely available to them for the government monopoly company never bothering for revenue against their electricity supply. Their losses were compensated for through government funding. In return, the officials concerned were happy for no complaints from the people about their poorest possible services. So, things were going on peacefully with both sides satisfied in their own ways.

But this was not the picture in my mind for which I had arrived in the village to resettle myself permanently. I didn't want anything free that costs money, and I wanted to have good quality of electricity supply and related services from the officials concerned. I insisted on villagers to have authorized electricity connection and pay for electricity consumed by them. About 100 agreed and became authorized electricity consumers while other 400 insisted on relying on stolen electricity.

With my efforts and contacts at the highest level, things related to electricity supply in the village were improved. This facilitated the authorized consumers as well as those involved in electricity thefts.  Irony of the situation is that unauthorized consumers of electricity are actually source of personal incomes of officials hence they have no interest in having authorized consumers for their organization.

In due course of time, condition of electricity distribution network has been deteriorating for carelessness of officials and its misuse by the people. As soon as I get it corrected, misuse is increased and situation begins deteriorating fast. So I have developed a feeling that by getting the network in good condition, I serve those involved in electricity thefts thus promote misuse of electricity.

I Give Up

Electricity supply case was first test case of my social concern, wherein I have been proved wrong. Now the situation is that the Government officials meant to serve people, as well as the people themselves have become highly immoral, and both are very well serving each other's purpose of getting maximum from others' pockets with paying for what they get. Both seem to be made for each other and complementing each other with their illicit characteristics. Persons trying to intervene to improve the situation are out of sync of both and disliked. This is where I stand today in the village. So I give up on my concerns for the rural people and their problems.

What I am to Do, Now

I can't help my society in improving quality of life of people as a native of the village, but there is nothing that debars me from improving upon my own strength through studies, research and authorship as a global citizen. So I have decided to remain indoors for most of the time and devote myself fully to study of Vaidic scriptures which indeed have scientific knowledge of immense value to humanity, not only of the present but for a long time to come. The most important part of this knowledge is related to human health, promising lifespan of about 500 years.

I have been experimenting with knowledge available in Vaidic scriptures to improve upon my own health and hence my lifespan. I have set a target for myself to have the lifespan of about 250 years. I am quite hopeful on this and making good progress. I want to prove to people that Vaidic scriptures are of great value to humanity through my own life. 

What does it Mean to Humanity

Every individual is principally concerned with three subject matters - his/her own life, his/her Society, and the Governance he/she is bound to follow. For each of his/her actions and efforts, he/she looks at the outcome balance with respect to these 3 concerns, with an expectation of some positive results through his/her own perception. 
Irony of human life is that all these concerns can't be taken care of simultaneously for mutual confrontations of these. Therefore, the individual sacrifices his/her own interests on one concern or the other. For this sacrifice, he/she wishes to get compensated for through other concerns. If this compensation is missing, the person refuses to make sacrifices.
In all such cases, it is the Society that is ignored and suffers the most in the individual's concern for his/her own life and his/her compulsions under governance system. Ignorance and sufferings on social front too cost the individual heavily but secondarily and mostly in the long run, causing increased sufferings for the whole humanity in the long run. This is why humanity has been suffering on account of social discipline.
As far as India is concerned, the situation has been perilous for a very very long time, and there is very little concern for it by individual members of the Society. Hence, the doomsday for India is closing on a dark future for the Nation, Society and the Individuals.   

Why Male Domination of Human Society

It was about 2500 years back from now, on the land of Indian subcontinent, that a youngman called Siddhartha fell in love with Ahilya, wife of a Vaidic scholar Gautam Buddha of Deva community. Siddhartha applied make-up on his persona to look like Gautam and went to Ahilya when real Gautam was away from home. Siddhartha posed as the real Gautam and made love with Ahilya, and made her pregnant. This person later declared himself as Buddha and established Bauddha Religion.

On return home of real Gautam and his wish for a love play, Ahilya was surprised and told him that he had been with her in bed not long back. Gradually, the misdeed of Siddhartha came to light which saddened Ahilya. On knowing pregnancy of Ahilya from him, Siddhartha presented his claim on Ahilya as his wife for she would soon be the mother of his child. Brahma, the seniormost person of Deva community, intervened and asked Ahilya about the truth. She confirmed that she was going to be the mother of Siddhartha;s child. Ahilya was given to her as his wife.

This incidence put up a question mark on wisdom of women, particularly when many wild races were coming to the land and trying to play tricks on women for their sexual exploitation. With this, racial purity was considered to be in danger. Ways were searched for keeping the racial purity.

Second danger to maintaining racial purity was from women of other races asking for impregnation from scholarly superior persons and even enticing them for copulation. Vaidic scholars used to oblige such women as their acts of mercy on the demanding women. Children so produced would usually have attributes from both the parents. This was not to the liking of scholarly persons. They wanted children produced by them to have their own attributes only. Even women too wanted the same for their children being bright scholars irrespective of their own racial backgrounds.

Third danger to racial purity was seen from Vaidic scholars liking women from other races. For example, Muni Agastya marrying princesses of Persia, ex-wives of Alexander, after killing their husband during his camping on the subcontinent. Even Jesus Christ married women of another race. Such scholars too didn't like their children to have racial attributes of their mothers'.

With all the above-said experiences of Vaidic scholars, they considered it in the interest of maintaining racial purity that the society must have domination of men, as women were too soft, delicate and prone for corruption that they can't be relied on for keeping purity of the race.

A medicinal way for maintaining racial purity was invented by Muni Mahavir, also known as Varddhaman by followers of Jainism, and provided in Bhavaprakash - an exhaustive work on Ayurveda by Muni Kapil and Agastya. Use of roasted Asafoetida (solidified extraction from tree Asafoetida) to be regularly consumed by men along with their being vegetarian. This would ensure that children produced by such men would have attributes like their fathers only irrespective of their mothers. He provides the name 'Agnivesh' to this property of men. Muni Kapil and Agastya, authors of vaidic scripture Bhavaprakash declared that they became fully 'agnivesh', meaning thereby that they produced children like themselves.

Parpatee (roasted Asafoetida) is said to be a fragrant material, takes care of the consumer like a mother. It has properties of cold, complexion improver and is eliminator of poisons in wounds.