Bangalore: Over 65 monks who head various monasteries in Karnataka, spoke against the age-old Kukke Subrahmanya Temple religious practice of ‘Made-Snana’, in an assembly of renunciates at the Freedom Park in city on Monday.

Their protest show was to seek a ban on ‘Made Snana’ practice of rolling over plantain leaves left by Brahmins after meals in Temple premises, and also, to stop discrimination in lines among devotees during these meals.

The attack was on Brahmin superiority in their own temples over non-Brahmins who come there to worship.

When Dharma is in piteous conditions, the monks trumpeted, the Dharma-teachers(Gurus) have to step on to streets, to fight against social injustice, and bad practices in temples.

But it was not a show of strength, monks clarified. It was a fight against those unsocial forces, which had made a mockery of humanity, by ‘high and low’ distinctions.

The monks were against uncivilised practices carried on as customs or traditions. The convention was opened by Thontada Sidda linga Swami of Gadag, and addressed by Nidumamidi Swami. They attacked Pejawar Seer for approving the unsocial religious practice of eating separately, but not in one line, and rolling over leftovers of Brahmins after their holy meals in the temple areas.

The speakers called for society and Government (of BJP for Brahmins), to wake up and come forward to liberate human societies from age-old oppressive customs and systems that put some people above a large number of others, as in politics and business houses.

Most of the monks belonged to Lingayat seat, who have an ingrained hatred for Brahmins as a community, and their Gurus.

They condemned the present soft attitude of BJP Government towards hoary traditions created and followed by Brahmins in Indian Society, to the detriment of a majority of Hindus who are also devotees going to Kukke and Udupi every year.