Dear Sri Sravna
Thanks for your meaningful response.
You write:-
"It is not only surviving but are you able to sustain your survival? For that coexistence becomes an important requirement. If they (humans) are antagonistic towards coexistence they have the potential to obliterate themselves the fastest."
Why so? Is it possible to coexist with someone who is out to "obliterate" you?
Earlier, I wrote that I would refrain from discussing the "predator-prey relationship".
Much earlier I had even mentioned in passing 'The occupation of India's Aksai Chin by Communist China and its claims to India's Arunachal Pradesh as "southern Tibet".' (That was in the context of the wide and unqualified assertion that "changes will happen with everyone and it will happen for good ultimately." with which I sought to differ.)
The topic under discussion is South Indian Brahmins. So I take it that we are talking not about the undifferentiated human race in general but about the survival and the sustainability in the foreseeable future of South Indian Brahmins, be they Telegus, Kannadans, Thamizhans, or Malayalis, and about perpetuating their distinctive ways of life.
May I now seek your indulgence to point out that we need not look outside our own Indian-Hindu milieu to identify the predator-prey relationship? There are detractors and destroyers aplenty who would like nothing better than our extinction and our disappearance from the face of the Earth.
Much earlier I had queried:-
"Intelligence in humans, on the other hand, might well be something innate and unique, perhaps divinely bestowed and not confined "to the brain and intellect" nor to mere "perception". The flashes of inspiration experienced by our rishis (and sometimes even by ourselves) can perhaps be attributed to a "super-intelligence" resident within, and part of the jeevaathma?"
Let me suggest that anyone or any influence who or which would seek to destroy or result in destroying our South Indian Brahmin way of life encompassing this posited "divinely-bestowed" intelligence and/or this attributed "super-intelligence" residing within us as part of the jeevaathma, is the predator and that we are the prey.
Srimathi Renuka once wrote:-
"I do understand Brahmins are intellectually inclined. If we make a comparison with Chinese in my country. They are very knowledge oriented. Their Chinese medium schools are known to train students to think at every angle, result based and they are very good at maths. At the same time they learn their own language and culture.
"Those who are Buddhist never fail to practice their daily prayers and they attend Dharma school on Sundays and also learn Vipasana meditation once a little older.
Then they learn musical instruments especially the piano( out here indians and chinese love their kids to play the piano,
"Outwardly all these life style by Chinese is also similar to Brahmins.
Some who are strict Buddhist are vegan, no milk, no yogurt, no onion and garlic."
It is the same with the Chinese in my country. Can we South Indian Brahmins take a leaf out of the Chinese book for our own survival and sustainability?
We know that the Shias, the Bahais, the Ahmadiyyas, the Syrian, the Greek, the Eastern and the Russian Orthodox churches, the Presbyterian, the Anglican, the Baptist, the Methodist, the Lutheran, the Episcopalian, the Pentacostal, the Seventh-Day Adventist churches, the Latter-Day Saints (Mormons), the Salvation Army, the Balinese Hindus in Indonesia -- all survive, and even flourish.
Why can't we? Especially if we "gird up our loins", are prepared to make sacrifices, to learn from history, and to strive as a community?