Some thought provoking incidents

Wednesday, September 13, 2006 Some thought provoking incidents What is your mission ? someone asked swami chinmayananda. The swami replied with a punch "to convert hindus to hinduism". How true it is ? when hindus cease to be hindus, what can be more saddening. Few incidents come to my mind. thye have indeed left a deep impact on my psyche. My grandmother was a teacher in a convent. Some of her best friends are catholic nuns. They used to visit us many times. I have even gone to the convent and visited the church. I have always had a good deal of appreciation for the discipline and orderliness of catholics An year later, i was taken on an school picnic trip. All of us students visited the murugan temple on top of a hill. All of us went inside a shrine except one kid who avoided the group and stayed outside. His name was mathew a boy of 11 years. Our teacher asked him for the reason and he told that it was totally forbidden to enter a non christian shrine. Another event in my home was equally thought provoking. My mother is a teacher. She invited her students , a gang of 8 girls to our house. It was ugadi day and my mother had prepared delicious prasad. All the girls accepted it, except one. Her name was elizabeth and she refused the prasad as if it was poison. I shocked to imagine that the mind of a 10 year old kid could be poisoned in such a fashion I have all reasons to believe that the christian missionaries are out to turn tolerant people into intolerant people. And for this very reason they have to prosecuted. Whatever be the acts of service and preaching, the intention behind all this is certainly most unholy. They are working under the orders of the vatican and are out here to destroy an age old culture. Why dont they try to convert muslims ? Have hindus ever thought about this. Why dont missionaries take up conversion activities in pakistan or bangladesh or indonesia ? we need to introspect. The fault is with us. We have to change from inside out. And for this Hindus should cease to be selfish. The government must take steps to protect the religious diversity of this nation ----- or i am afraid that we have to face more incidents like graham stewart staines ------------------ 4:19:03 PM Posted By jumbo jumbo Comments (4) Musings Comments jo Wednesday, September 13, 2006 4:52:53 PM Hi jumbo,u r right...cristian missionaries shud hav a daring heart to approach muslims for conversion...coz both of them r truely glued to their own religion...hindus need to understand this...they hav taken hindu's tolerance for granted...its high time for everybody to raise against such offence...lets respect n hav tolerance towards all religions. Born1945 Wednesday, September 13, 2006 4:54:29 PM Your are correct but partially.Muslims are also converted alongwith Hindus. The target is ...the one who is very poor or the one who is ill and have no mioey to eat and treat themselves. These people are the targets. Some organisations are good enough to start re-conversion. They are working on it..Areas are North,North-East India. They are opening Hindu schools over there.Everyone can contibute monetarly or by other ways ( posted as teacher for 6-12 months in schools over there...). Thanks to them.and regards to everyone Manish Wednesday, September 13, 2006 5:24:16 PM Yes indeed its true that the conversion is there for both muslims and hindus albiet only in India. I personally know many converts and if you sift through the lot carefully, majority of them have not only poor backgrounds but also are mostly from Dalit section of society. Missionarries find these downtrodden and alienated lot far easier to entice and convert. One basic thing which plays a major role is the funda of equality in christian sect and no casteism. Yes, its true that missionarries and preachers try very hard to make converts stick to some rules laid down by them to prevent such converts going back to original sects. This includes things like not entering other religion shrines and all.Either way its a fact that most converts realize at a stage that its a dream gone sour! But then its too late by then... Maybe its all about being educated and understand the game ... K. Venugopal Wednesday, September 13, 2006 9:58:14 PM Christianity and Islam devalued themselves, issued counterfeit coins of sham face value marked "This is the only true religion" and circulated in the marketplace of faith. The discerning Hindu eye, long ago issued the golden sovereign marked "Truth is one and the wise express it variously" and evolved a storehouse of spiritual experience. The world faces war of civilisations with faith poised to battle faith; the Hindu light of spiritual experience must most shine now, to save noble humanity.