'Conversion is the birth right of Christians'
Dr. Jai Maharaj
Has a movie been made about Staines? If not, one
needs to be written in order to expose the truth
about these people.
Jai Maharaj
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Om Shanti
[ Subject: Re: Conversion is the birth right of Indian Xians
[ From: pmo...@aol.com (PMohan)
[ Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
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[ Date: 19 Oct 2002
[
[ Well, Well!!
[
[ Now the whole truth is coming out for all of us to see!
[
[ These Psedo-liars had gone everywhere screaming for last
[ three years that they do not convert anyone. When Graham
[ Staines was lynched by some miscreants, they went to town
[ screaming he was not converting anyone.
[
[ If these liars/converters cannot speak truth about their
[ activities, then there is a natural room for suspicion!
[
[ Jai Hind.
The above was in response to:
[ Subject: Conversion is the birth right of Indian Xians
[ From: aryanviking <aryan...@europe.com>
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[ Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002
[
[ AP bishops condemn anti-conversion law
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[ TIMES NEWS NETWORK
[ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2002
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[ HYDERABAD: The AP Council of Churches and AP Catholic
[ Bishops Council Commission on Public Affairs held a joint
[ session on Friday, to discuss the implications of the
[ anti-conversion ordinance passed by the Tamil Nadu
[ government.
[
[ The commission said churches are against forced
[ conversions and the 'draconian law' is unwarranted. Joint
[ commission chairman Jerri A Oliver, in a press release,
[ has urged the Tamil Nadu government to withdraw the
[ ordinance.
[
[ The Andhra Pradesh Churches will observe October 20, as a
[ day of prayer in solidarity with the Tamil Nadu
[ minorities. Meanwhile, the All India Christian Council
[ has denounced the Tamil Nadu religion conversion
[ ordinance, terming it, violative of the Constitution.
[
[ The anti-conversion laws attack citizen's human rights,
[ 'demonise' minorities and besmirch India's global
[ reputation, the council said.
[
[ In a press release issued here on Friday, the council
[ said Tamil Nadu's chief minister J Jayalalithaa's
[ measures in promulgating the ordinance have provoked
[ global condemnation. "It is a deliberate, cunning scheme
[ to terrorise the minorities and to pamper the Sangh
[ Parivar," it said.
[
[ "The church in India rejects conversions by force fraud
[ and inducement. In fact the term 'forced and fraudulent
[ conversions' is used for political ends to divert public
[ attention by right wing vested interests who are in fact
[ forcing their own brand of 'one nation, one culture and
[ one faith ideology on the people of India', All India
[ Christian Council president Joseph D'Souza and secretary
[ general John Dayal said in the press release. Condemning
[ the demand made by RSS chief K Sudharshan for a central
[ act against the conversions, the council called for a
[ satyagraha by the Dalits and minorities against "the
[ Hindutva conspiracy".
Paulo Joe Jingy
"Dr. Jai Maharaj" wrote:
> Has a movie been made about Staines? If not, one needs to be written
> in order to expose the truth about these people.
Go for it. Bet it would be a *HUGE* hit. (That's sarcasm).
> [ These Psedo-liars had gone everywhere screaming for last
> [ three years that they do not convert anyone.
Psedo-liars? Perhaps you meant *Pseudo-liars*? That would mean that
they told the truth--right?
Must be a popular religion if the government has to pass laws to keep
people trapped in it.
--
Paulo Joe Jingy
Dr. Jai Maharaj
Paulo Joe Jingy <pauloj...@yahoo.com> posted:
> Must be a popular religion if the government has to pass
> laws to keep people trapped in it.
Christians FORCE conversions -- many countries
have banned this criminal activity.
Paulo Joe Jingy
"Dr. Jai Maharaj" wrote:
> Christians FORCE conversions -- many countries have banned this
> criminal activity.
Apparently there are some who don't want *any* conversions. Hmmm...
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?artid=24594074&sType=1
Religious Conversion Ordinance critics are secessionists: RSS
PTI ?[ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 08, 2002 10:25:19 PM ]
COIMBATORE: The RSS unit in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday said that those who
opposed the new ordinance on religious conversions promulgated by the
state government were indirectly supporting another partition of the
country on the basis of religion.
Thanking Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, state RSS chief R V S Marimuthu
told reporters here that if conversions were not curbed by a stringent
law, it might result in an increase in the number of particular
religions and lead to another partition on the basis of religion.
Alleging that conversions were the stepping stone and acted as platform
for terrorist activities in the country, Marimuthu said there were also
the possibilities of the emergence of `small Kashmirs' in various parts
of India.
-----
"...if conversions were not curbed by a stringent law"
Conversions--not *FORCED* conversions. How very strange. Perhaps
you're mistaken about the intent of the law? You think?
--
Paulo Joe Jingy
Paulo Joe Jingy
"Dr. Jai Maharaj" wrote:
> Christians FORCE conversions -- many countries have banned this
> criminal activity.
Here's another one--a lot like the other one. Do you want me to keep
going?
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?artid=24393503&sType=1
Sankaracharya welcomes govt's religious ordinance
PTI ?[ SUNDAY, OCTOBER 06, 2002 10:18:18 PM ]
CHENNAI: The Kanchi seer, Sri Jayendra Saraswathi, on Sunday welcomed
the Tamil Nadu government's new ordinance banning religious conversions
in the state and said a similar law to cover the entire country should
be framed.
In a statement here, he said it was regrettable that even 50 years after
independence, conversions were taking place in the name of god.
"This law banning conversions would help in fostering peace, harmony and
unity in our society. Politicians and the public should help the
government in enforcing this law. Since a legislation alone cannot
achieve its stated purpose, the people's cooperation is essential," he
said.
-----
"...it was regrettable that even 50 years after independence,
conversions were taking place in the name of god."
Once again--there is no mention of the magic word *FORCED*, is there?
Nope--it seems that these gentlemen are opposed to conversion--preiod.
What do you think?
--
Paulo Joe Jingy
Paulo Joe Jingy
"Dr. Jai Maharaj" wrote:
> Christians FORCE conversions -- many countries have banned this
> criminal activity.
Could this be the *real* reason for the new law?
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?artid=24793865&sType=1
Munnani plans 'Hindu awakening' meet
PTI ?[ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2002 10:22:16 PM ]
MADURAI: The Hindu Munnani is organising a state level "Hindu awakening"
conference here on October 20, in support of the Tamil Nadu government's
ordinance banning conversions.
Munnani state organiser R. Ramagopalan told reporters here that the
ordinance had come at a time when full-scale conversions were going on
in the country. In several localities, conversions had led to clashes
between the majority and minority communities, he alleged.
Referring to the reported threat issued by Christians to close down
educational institutions, he said "they should not threaten the majority
community. They should remember that there are many who are willing to
run the schools."
He also came down heavily on the Congress which had passed similar
ordinances in Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and Arunachal Pradesh but was
opposing the same in Tamil Nadu.
Minorities should welcome the ordinance as it had taken into
consideration the welfare of the community as a whole, he said,
dismissing as 'childish' the charge that the AIADMK government had
brought the ordinance to win favours from the BJP.
-----
"...the ordinance had come at a time when full-scale conversions were
going on in the country."
Once again--nothing about *FORCED* conversions. Just
*conversions*--period. In other words--the majority religion is
starting to lose their grip on the people. So they're making a new law
to reverse this trend.
Which brings me back to my original point.
"Must be a popular religion if the government has to pass laws to keep
people trapped in it."
--
Paulo Joe Jingy
Dr. Jai Maharaj
[ From: Dr. Jai Maharaj
[ Date: December 28, 1998
CONVERSIONS MADE UNDER THREAT: VHP
The Deccan Chronicle
Monday, December 28, 1998
Jaipur - Vishwa Hindu Parishad executive president Ashok Singhal on
Sunday accused Christian Missionaries of converting people by
threatening with Naxalite reprisals for non-compliance.
Speaking at a function at Jamdoli near here on the eve of the
three-day meeting of the VHP central executive committee and board
of trustees, Singhal said the local people were being terrorised
into conversion by different Christian Missionaries and the
Naxalites were being used as a 'kawach' (shield).
All those who dared to obstruct them were told that they would be
gunned down by the Naxalites, the VHP leader alleged. Singhal also
made a veiled attack on Congress president Sonia Gandhi saying that
an emerging leader of the country was also influenced by "Christian
forces".
He said the threat before the country from "vidharmis" (apostates)
was currently at its climax. The VHP leader also saw political
motives behind the conferring of the Nobel prize on an Indian,
saying it was part of a strategy to facilitate Christian
Missionaries to step up their activities through more involvement
in spreading education and literacy.
Meanwhile, CPI (M) politburo member V S Achuthananadan on Sunday
said that Giriraj Kishore's reported statement that the Viswa Hindu
Parishad would not accept any Supreme Court verdict against the
construction of a Ram Temple at Ayodhya.
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[ Subject: The Christian Conversion Problem in India
[ From: dharm...@my-deja.com
[ Date: October 11, 1999
Problems have emerged with fundamentalist Christian
missionaries trying to convert Hindus in India. Probably
the most tragic consequence has been violence on both
sides (though the media has tended to emphasize violence
done against Christians). In addition, missionary
activity has disrupted many families whose members have
been proselytized. Important aspects of culture have been
lost with many Indians, such as yoga, ayurveda, and
vegetarianism (the Western diet is an abomination; the US
has astoundingly high rates of heart disease, stroke, and
morbid obesity).
One aspect of the conversion controversy that has been
ignored is that many of the foreign backers of Christian
conversion have an agenda that transcends religion. Many
of the missionary efforts have a distinct right-wing
flavor. The Reverend Jerry Falwell (who is a big
supporter of worldwide evangelism) pointed out that in
the US whenever his church converts a person, the next
thing that happens is that his church registers that
person to vote. Other American evangelistic groups have a
covert agenda. I am only half joking when I say that many
of these fundamentalists want to transform Hindus into
American Christian fundamentalist suburbanite
Republicans.
We need to develop strategies to constructively deal with
the issue. Thuggery and vigilantism are not options to
those who value ahimsa. Efforts must be made to prevent
bloodshed. Rather, I believe an effective strategy is to
expose these people to the light of truth.
Expose their trickery and their hidden agendas. For
instance, the American television network ABC did an
expose of evangelist Robert Tilton who was not only
preaching in India but asking for financial contributions
(which Tilton used to support his lavish lifestyle).
After the program on Tilton aired, Tilton's ministry went
quickly downhill. I ask for others who have constructive
ideas to post them.
Some good news: 1) Pat Robertson, who has encouraged
missionary activity in India by claiming that Hinduism is
"demonic", has have tough times with his political
organization, the Christian Coalition. Robertson was a
major power broker in Washington. Robertson's vision was
an American where only Christians and Jews could hold
public office and where Hindus and other religious
minorities would be second class citizens (in clear
violation of the US Constitution). The Christian
Coalition no longer has as much clout in Washington and
has lost its tax-exempt status. It has mostly been due
to diligent Americans who constructively opposed
Robertson and his agenda.
Also, Hinduism is flourishing in the US, especially with
the more educated Americans, despite the fact that there
are no missionary efforts. It has been popular because,
although it is the oldest living faith, it is still very
vibrant.
End of forwarded article
Dr. Jai Maharaj
By Biswajeet Banerjee
The Times of India News Service
The Times of India
Wednesday, March 10, 1999
Lukhnow - Conversions to Christianity continue to be of prime
concern to the RSS. [They are to the entire world. - JM] Just
how important this is is indicated by the observation of a senior
functionary that during the three-day national executive meeting
here this week, the RSS leaders will be shown a video film on the
Riang tribe of Mizoram. The film, according to the functionary,
shows the tribesmen suffering [Quotes removed. - JM] at the hands
of the missionaries.
``This film is a true story about a tribe of the north-east which
refused to bow to the submissive tactics of the Church and for
which, it had to pay a price,'' said a senior RSS leader.
He said there were around 60,000 Riang tribals who were
predominantly Hindus. They resisted the pressure of the Church, he
claimed, and as a result had their names removed from the voters
list in 1993. They brought this to the notice of the then chief
election commissioner, T.N. Seshan. He postponed the election till
their complaints were verified. Enraged at this, ``the dominant
Christians burnt the villages of the Riangs, raped the women folk
and humiliated the elders'', he alleged.
The leader, who refused to be named, added that after the conclave,
he would be willing to speak openly and on record over the issue.
``This film shows how Christians have held the Hindus [Quotes removed.
- JM]to ransom and the poor state in which the Riang tribals are living
now, said an RSS prachaarak.
The senior RSS leader said the Sangh had its job cut out because it
had to face hostility from both Muslims and Christians. The Sangh
Parivar would clarify its stand on conversions at the national
executive, he said. The other sore point on the Sangh agenda was
failure of the BJP - its political wing. The Sangh Parivar had no
objection in admitting that the BJP had failed to achieve what was
expected from a party in power.
Although the national executive of the RSS is to start on March 11,
the central executive council of the Sangh started its
deliberations on Monday. BJP national president Kushabhau Thakre,
RSS general secretary H.V. Sheshadri, Vishwa Hindu Parishad chief
Ashok Singhal and other RSS leaders, including Moropant Pingle,
Suresh Rao Katker and K S Sudarshan, took part in the
deliberations.
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>> Christians FORCE conversions -- many countries have banned this
>> criminal activity.
> Once again--nothing about *FORCED* conversions. Just
> *conversions*--period. . . .
You're wrong. Read:
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Paulo Joe Jingy
Keep pushing your Hindu propaganda. I quoted Hindus who supported the new
law, because they didn't want *conversions.* These Hindus did not mention
anything about *FORCED* conversions. They are against conversions--period.
Which shows the real intent of the law.
You quote an article that mentions the upheaval conversions cause in homes.
Welcome to the club. Religious conversions have always caused upheaval.
Even in the article you quote, it mentions violence by both sides on this
issue.
And I believe the wording of the law forbids conversions by *force or
allurment*, with the majority religion defining what the terms *force* or
*allurement* actually mean.
Once again a quote from a person who supports the new law:
"Munnani state organiser R. Ramagopalan told reporters here that the
ordinance had come at a time when full-scale conversions were going on in
the country."
All your weasel words won't change the true intent of the law, which is to
stop conversions. It can't be more obvious.
--
Paulo Joe Jingy
Dr. Jai Maharaj
The Hindu
Wednesday, January 6, 1999
Ahwa, Gujarat, Jan. 5 - The controversy surrounding the recent
communal clashes in the Dangs district of south Gujarat today took
a new turn with two veteran Gandhian leaders describing the
incidents as a ``reaction to conversion'' and demanding a total
legal ban on conversion in India with immediate effect to prevent
the situation from worsening.
Two of the surviving Gandhians and Sarvodaya leaders, Mr. Ghelubhai
Nayak and Mr. Chunnibhai Vaidya, will submit memoranda in this
regard to the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, during his
proposed visit here in the next few days. A meeting of Sarvodaya
leaders was held in this connection at Savarkundla in Amreli
district, yesterday, where Mr. Vaidya was authorised to take a lead
in this regard.
Mr. Nayak told UNI at his Swaraj Ashram here that Sardar Patel,
fearing that Christian missionaries would create problems by
launching a conversion drive had despatched him (Mr. Nayak) and his
brother, Mr. Chhotubhai, to start social work in the district in
1948, he said.
In Ahmedabad, Mr. Vaidya said that Dada Dharmadhikari, a prominent
member of the Constituent Assembly, had proposed a legal ban on
conversion, to be incorporated in the constitution. But some other
members opposed it saying that it would make reconversion
difficult. ``It is due to this failure to ban conversion that
reconversion is now taking place in the Dangs district which has
sparked off the recent clashes'', he maintained.
The 82-year-old Gandhian, said some of the Christian missionaries
were using ``unethical means'' to achieve their end. He also cited
the infiltration of a missionary into the Sabarmati Ashram here,
saying the man had carried a book entitled ``Gandhiji's favourite
bhajans.'' However, the book had no Gandhian reference in it,
except on its cover page, and had only Christian Psalms.
According to Mr. Nayak, some missionaries had even tried to induce
him and his associates, to embrace Christianity. ``However, when we
rebuffed their overtures, they tried to evict us from the house
where our office was located in the Missionpada area in Ahwa''.
Mr. Vaidya, a staunch opponent of the RSS, VHP and the BJP, pointed
out that the Sarvodaya leaders condemned all sorts of violence in
the name of religion and expressed serious concern over the
developments in south Gujarat. They favoured a legal ban on
conversion as early as possible, and recalled that Mahatma Gandhi
always opposed conversion.
Quoting from Acharya Vinoba Bhave's book on the subject, he said
the Bhoodan leader had said that a legal ban on conversion would
not affect secularism in any manner.
Until 1950, according to Mr. Nayak, the missionaries could not
succeed in enrolling new recruits to their faith. They then brought
in about 500 Christians from other places in a bid to speed up
their work and create an atmosphere for conversion.
The 75-year-old Gandhian said it was due to these ``unholy''
tactics that he and his associates wrote several letters to the
then Congress(I) Governments warning them of the shape of things to
come and urging them to impose a ban on conversion. ``But no one
listened to our pleas due to vote-bank politics. The missionary
schools punished their students for wearing the Gandhi cap.''
Saying that the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and its affiliates did
not enjoy any significant presence in the district, Mr. Nayak said
the series of incidents since Christmas day last year was not the
beginning of the problem but the end.
While condemning the violence and arson since December 25 last
year. Mr. Nayak charged the Christian missionaries with inciting
the unconverted tribals into this vandalism. ``During the last five
years, nearly two dozen idols of Lord Shiva and Hanuman, reverred
by all tribals, had been desecrated or broken. The ancient beliefs
of the tribals have been mocked at openly and every effort has been
done to browbeat and harass them into submission,'' he stated.
The December incident was rooted in the alleged attempts made by
some missionaries in November 1998 to force a nephew of an ex- Raja
of the Beels, into marrying a Christian girl in an attempt to
evangelise him. When the man refused to oblige, he was publicly
beaten up by the missionaries. The victim filed a report with the
police and I was one of the signatories , said Mr. Nayak.
Mr. Nayak, who was awarded the prestigious ``Gram Sewa Puruskar''
on January 1 by the Gujarat Vidyapeeth, said the tribal reaction
had been simmering for a long time and merely came to a boil on
December 25 when the Christians, who had earlier held a rally on
December 7 protesting against the alleged atrocities against them,
indulging in stoning the rally of the Hindu Jagran Manch.
Regretting what he described as ``telephone journalism'' by a
section of the Press which, he said, carried totally baseless and
one-sided reports, which further aggravated the problem, Mr. Nayak
said the ground reality in the district warranted a immediate ban
on conversion.
Dr. Jai Maharaj
PUTTING AN END TO CONVERSION ACTIVITY
By M. V. Kamath
Editorial Page
The Times of India, via News Plus
http://www.mantra.com/newsplus
Wednesday, October 13, 1999
On the night of January 22/23, Christian missionary
Graham Stewart Staines and his two young sons were burnt
to death in Manoharpur, a remote village in Orissa. On
September 1, another Christian priest, Fr Arun Doss was
killed at Jambani village, also in Orissa. In the past
month, several incidents of burning of churches have been
reported, almost all of them in tribal areas in Orissa
and Gujarat.
Some time ago, church authorities released a long list of
atrocities perpetrated against Christians in different
parts of India and at different times. The cumulative
impression sought to be driven home is that minorities
are no longer safe in India. This is an ominous
development. Orissa's director-general of police Dilip
Mahapatra has been quoted as saying that Fr Doss had
received a ``number of complaints and evidence'' to the
effect that the priest was involved in ``illegal
conversions'' in violation of the Orissa Freedom of
Religions Act, 1967.
Under the Orissa law and a similar law passed in Madhya
Pradesh, missionaries are clearly under an obligation to
inform the authorities of their conversion efforts.
Incidentally, these laws were upheld by a five-judge
Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court in the Rev
Stanilaus vs State of Madhya Pradesh (AIR 1977 SC 908).
The law makes it mandatory for the concerned religious
priest to give a 15-day notice for the "ceremony of
conversion" and intimate the time and place along with
the names and addresses of those intended to be
converted.
Far from Prying Eyes
Christian missionary efforts at conversion under the
guise of social work do not take place in places, say,
like the Brahmin-dominated ward of Mylapore in Chennai.
They are conducted in poor, illiterate and innocent
tribal areas and in remote jungles far from the prying
eyes of authority. Now a reaction seems to have set in.
Writing in The Statesman (March 12, 1999), Mr B P Saha
made the point that ``growing enlightenment has been
provoking them (tribals) to dislike conversion and look
askance at the foreign missionaries, the so-called
benefactors''.
Attempts at conversion should be considered a mortal
assault on local cultures and should be totally banned.
Conversions are forbidden by law in China. Here we take a
lenient view of conversion and Christian bodies have been
taking advantage of the Hindu sense of tolerance.
According to Mr Jon Stock, New Delhi correspondent of the
British paper The Daily Telegraph, ``put simply, the
Indian subcontinent has become the principal target for a
wide range of western Christian missions which are
determined to spread the gospel to India's `unreached'
people before the year 2000''.
Writing in The Spectator, Mr Stock says: ``There is
little doubt that the current communal tension in India
would not be serious if foreign-funded missionaries had
been content with giving Indians the choice of
Christianity and left it at that."
According to Mr Stock, ``hundreds of thousands of dollars
are being channelled into India through well-organised,
America-based evangelical missions'', the meticulously
researched ethnographic data they are compiling on the
region ensuring that funds are being directed ``with
military precision to the right area, even to specific
pin codes in remote tribal districts''.
Mr Stock quoted a statement from a Colorado-based Group
of World- wide Christian Missions calling itself AD 2000
and Beyond as saying: `` `Flashes of light' seen all
around the North India-Hindu belt, particularly among the
tribal groups, are encouraging us to believe that the Sum
of Righteousness is indeed ready to rise upon these
unreached peoples."
Violence Justified
AD 2000 and Beyond described Varanasi, Hinduism's holiest
city as full of temples dedicated to Shiva ``an idol
whose symbol is a phallus'', and as a city whom many (?)
consider the ``very seat of Satan''. One Rev R V Paricha
has been described (Observer, March 24, 1999) as having
authored a plan, on behalf of 94 Christian organisations,
to target Orissa for conversion efforts, on the grounds
that the caste structure of Orissa lacks the polarisation
of the high-and-low caste characteristics of South India.
The Constitution clearly says (Article 25, Freedom of
Conscience etc) that ``all persons are equally entitled
to freedom of conscience and the right freely to profess,
practice and propagate religion'' but what is forgotten
is that this right is ``subject to public order, morality
and health''. If conversions or attempts at conversion
lead to public disorder, the government has a duty
sternly to deal with guilty missionaries. If the
government does not step in on liberal pretenses, then
violence can be predicted even justified by insulted
citizens. It is time that Christian missionaries
understand that India -- and Hinduism -- cannot be taken
for granted.
It is pertinent to record what Christian missionaries did
in Goa during the Inquisition. All the Inquisition's
activities were conducted in strict secrecy, replete with
``impenetrable arcane terminology fiendishly discrepant
logic and autonomous questioning?" Paul William Roberts
in Empire of the Soul, Some Journeys in India (Riverhead
Books, New York) says,``Children were flogged and slowly
dismembered in front of their parents whose eyelids had
been sliced off to make sure they missed nothing.
Extremities were amputated carefully, so that a person
could remain conscious even when all that remained was a
torso and a head...Those subjected to diabolical tortures
could also be counted in the thousands and the
abominations continued until a brief respite in
1774...The evil resumed (four years later) continuing,
almost incredibly, until June 16, 1812. At that point
British pressure put an end to terror, the presence of
British troops stationed in Goa enforcing it''.
Mere Apology
The Church had a special way of dealing with converted
Hindus who were suspected of not observing Christian
rites with appropriate rigour and enthusiasm, or even of
covertly practising their old faith. They were the
revertidos, the alleged backsliders with their cut-out
idols and furtive cremations. According to Roberts
(p.89), ``the culprits would be tracked down and burnt
alive''.
The Church archives should be able to produce instances
of all the ghastly atrocities that missionaries
perpetrated in Goa in the name of Christ. These archives
should be opened for study -- and publication in full. A
mere apology is not enough. The Pope owes it to Goa,
Hindus in general and India in the larger context to give
a full account of what Christianity had perpetrated in
our country. Above all, a total stop must be ordered of
conversion activities.
Paulo Joe Jingy
all proselytising." (Collected Works, Vol 61, page 46-47)
--
Paulo Joe Jingy
Dr. Jai Maharaj
CONVERSION'S SORDID PAST
India's missionaries follow an old pattern
By Dr. David Frawley
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Hinduism Today
June, 1999
The Christian activities in India are not unique. In
fact, they are not unique. In fact, they are in lock step
with, more than 1,500 years Of history, as points out ex-
Catholic and now Hindu and Vedic scholar Vamdeva Shastri.
CHRISTIANITY HAS MAINLY BEEN AN outward-looking religion
seeking to convert the world. It has rarely examined its
own motives or the harm that such missionary activity
has, caused, -even though the history of its missionary
activity has been tairited'-with intolerance, genocide
and the destruction not only of individuals but of entire
cultures. There should be open and friendly discussion
and debate about religion, just as there is about
science. But when one religion creates an agenda of
conversion and mobilizes massive resources to that end,
targeting unsuspecting, poor or disorganized groups, it
is no longer a free discussion. It is an ideological
assault. it is a formpf religious violence and
intolerance.
The missionary business remains one of the largest in the
world, and has enormous funding on many levels. There
are full-staffs and organizations, allocating money,
creating media hype, platting strategies and seekiniz new
ways to promote conversion. The local native religion has
about as much chance against such multinational
incursions as local food seller has if McDonald's moves
into his neighborhood with a slick, well-funded
advertising campaign targeting his customers. Yet while
many developing countries have government policies to
pro-tect local businesses, they usually don' have any
mechanism to protect local religions.
We are talking about a religious effort toward world
conquest that is quite happy to put an end to other
religious traditions that looks to establish one
particular religion for all human beings, in which the
diversity of human religion is discredited and forgotten.
Regions where missionary activit has been successful have
seen their older traditions demoted or destroyed, whether
it is those of the Pagan Europeans, the Native Americans
or the pre-Islamic Arabs. Hinduism would likely fall
along the same wayside should it lose the battle against
missionary religions, just as Hinduism in Islamic
Pakistan has all but disappeared.
Missionary activity and conversion is not about freedom
of religion. The missionary wants to put an end to
pluralism, chocie and freedom of religion. He wants one
religion, his own, for everyone and will sacrifice his
life to that cause.
Organized conversion on a mass scale harly existed
anywhere in the world before the advent of Chrisitianity
some two thousand years ago. It became particularly
strong after the Roman Empire became Chrisitan in the
fourth century. This resulted in a Roman or imperial
church that used the resources of the empire, including
the army, to promote the religion, which was a state
institution.
Church and state became closely tied, and one was sed to
uphold the other. This alliance of church and state"
occurred well into the Middle Ages and into the
nineteenth century throughtout much of Europe.
When Christianity' became the state religion of ihe Poman
belief Empire, because of that it alone as the true
religion, the Empire's former tolerance of' other
religions ended. Pagan temples and schools were closed,
if not replaced by churches or even destroyed, even the
great Platonic academy in Athens was shut down. Paganism
in all of its forms was eventually banned as not only
false, but also as immoral and illegal.
In the colonial period, Christian missionary activity
spread throughout the world and brought with it a great
violence and intolerance that continued the anti-pagan
crusades,as part of colonialism. Missionary efforts in
the colonial period, with some exceptions, contributed to
or even brought about the tremendous genocide of native
populations, not only in America butalso in Africa and
Asia. Native peoples had their religions banned, their
holy places destroyed or taken over by the Christians.
The history of the Spanish in Mexico and Peru in the
sixteenth century is comparable to the Nazis of this
century if not worse pillaging and plundering
a'contirient in the name of and with the blessings of the
church. However, missionary groups have done little to
apologize, much less to atone, for the violence and
hatred this five hundred years of colonialism created,
and which destroyed many traditional religions and
cultures. Tday it is illegal in most countries to
promote racial hatred, to call a person of any race
inferior or the product of the devil. But Hindus can
still be denigrated as polytheists, idolaters and devil-
worshippers. This is tolerated under freedom of
religion, though it obviously breeds distrust, if not
hatred and itself is prejudicial.
Many missiornaries claim today,that they are not seeking
converts but merely doing charity trying to help the
downtrodden in life.
Given the mentality behind conversion efforts and its
history, one can only greet that statement with
skepticism, though in a few isolated instances it may be
true. The very missionaries; that only recently used
colonial governments and armies to their advantage cannot
be regarded as suddenly without any overt conversion
motivations.
End of forwarded message
Dr. Jai Maharaj
VHP 'cautions' Hindus on conversions
By Rathin Das
The Hindustan Times, via News Plus
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Tuesday, October 12, 1999
Gandhinagar, October 11 - Activists Of the Viswa Hindu
Parishad (VHP) and the Bajrang Dal have renewed their
campaign against Christian missionaries in Gujarat.
In Kadi town of north Gujarat, the VHP has distributed
leaflets that "caution" Hindus about "conspiracies" being
hatched by Christians "who are out to convert many
people" on the eighth day of the Navaratri festival (that
began on Sunday). The leaflet, published by the state
unit of the VHP and printed at a press in Ahmedabad, says
that the nine-day prayer meeting organised by Father
Girish in Kadi town is actually a ploy to convert members
of the the Raval community to Christianity.
The leaflets exhort the Raval community not to visit the
religious congregation of Father Girish and, instead,
celebrate Navaratri by "dancing Garba around the deity".
Christian organisations see the leaflets as an attempt to
stall their nine-day festival of Unteshwari church in
Kadi. The festival has been celebrated annually for the
last 29 years.
In Dahod town of Panchmahals district in eastern Gujarat,
local VHP activists not only disrupted a Bible discourse,
they had four pastors arrested on complaints of attempts
to conversion.
The Minister of State for Home, Mr Haren Pandya, has
confirmed both the incidents and said that there is no
cause for tension in the two towns. According to sources,
the pastors were arrested following complaints of one
Hukamchand Biloria under various clauses.
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Paulo Joe Jingy
Yeah--I get your point. You hate Christianity.
You prove nothing by posting half-truths out right lies and speculation
by other people who hate Christianity and agree with your views.
If I wanted to go on a tirade against the injustices of Hindus, I could
up dig shit all day, too. So what?
Even the articles you quote--say that much of the violence is by Hindus
in reaction to conversions to other faiths. (Including--by the way--the
Muslim faith).
--
Paulo Joe Jingy
Dr. Jai Maharaj
> all proselytising." (Collected Works, Vol 61, page 46-47)
Yes, and the Christian missionaries would beceome jobless.
Paulo Joe Jingy
"Dr. Jai Maharaj" wrote:
> Note - Israel has banned missionary activity by Christians.
Yeah--I knew that. Does that somehow justify Hindus doing the same
thing?
--
Paulo Joe Jingy
Paulo Joe Jingy
"Dr. Jai Maharaj" wrote:
> In article <3DB1D454...@yahoo.com>,
> Paulo Joe Jingy <pauloj...@yahoo.com> posted:
> > Gandhi: "If I had the power and could legislate, I should certainly stop
> > all proselytising." (Collected Works, Vol 61, page 46-47)
>
> Yes, and the Christian missionaries would beceome jobless.
Yeah--sort of the same way the Chrstian missionaries became jobless in Rome.
But I take it you defend Gandhi's view on this issue?
In other words, like I said before: "Must be a popular religion if the
Whywar707909928
The caste discrimination is quite active and virulent
to the extent that low caste are ot allowed
to take water, visit temples belonging
to caste Hindus.
This preaching should therefore be directed
towards reforming castes.
This claptrap of class system in UK, US the west
is pure nonsense, as it may have been
there 30 plus yrs ago, it is not there anymore.
Dr. Jai Maharaj
MISSIONARY ACTIVITY
By N. S. Rajaram
The Organiser
Nay 2, 1999
Background
I visited Rajkot, Ahmedabad and Vallabh-Vidyanagar on
February 22 - 25 during which I gave three lectures and
addressed several press conferences relating to
increased conversion activity by missionaries and the
resulting Hindu reaction. I also met with some of the
leading journalists, columnists and opinion leaders
both formally and informally over breakfast and dinner.
My goal in all these was to get across a global and
historical perspective, highlighting the fact that the
tensions in India are a reflection of the problems
faced by Christianity worldwide. As the distinguished
industrialist Shri Pranlal Bhogilal, who presided over
my Ahmedabad programme stressed, the recent
developments in India have left both the majority and
the minority communities unhappy about the whole thing.
The aggressive activities of Christian missionaries
among the tribals has led to a souring of the cordial
relationship that used to prevail between the two
communities.
Politics and economics of conversions
My main goal in these meetings was to provide a
historical background and a rational explanation for
the sudden spurt in missionary activity in India by
examining them in a global context. Christianity is a
global movement that does not recognize national and
political boundaries. Neither should we when we study
it. In my presentations, I highlighted the following
points:
1. The conflicts between the Christian missionary
movement in India and the majority (Hindu) community
reflect the problems of Christianity worldwide and
should not be viewed in isolation. The Indian
intelligentsia and the media have shown insufficient
understanding of the problems plaguing Christianity in
the West, which has caused its missionaries to become
excessively aggressive in India?to compensate for
serious losses at home.
2. There appears also to be an element of millennial
thinking behind the frenzy?like belief in the return of
Jesus in the year 2000 AD. I found even some Hindu
students at Christian institutions expressing
apprehensions about this possibility. This absurd
superstition seems to be behind the sudden spurt in
conversion activities not only in India but also at
places like Indonesia, Thailand and some African
countries. Some missionaries are using this as a poloy
to lure converts.
3. All the material presented in my lectures, books and
articles, are widely available, I have no secret
sources of any kind. All I have tried to do is place
the conflicts in India (and elsewhere) in their
historical context. I am stunned by the extent of
ignorance of Christianity and its history in
India?among Christians and non-Christians alike. Most
Christians in India are abysmally ignorant of the Bible
and what it really says. (This is probaly true of
Christians outside India also)
4. The clashes in India are not between the Hindus and
the Christians, but between the Christian missionary
activists and the Hindus who see it as an assault on
their culture and national identity. This is aggravated
by actions like John Paul II's recent proclamation in
Manila : "A great new harvest of faith will be reaped
in this vast and vital continent"; and by Father
Monanchin's "Christianization of Indian civilization is
to all intents and purposes an historical undertaking
comparable to the Christianization of Greece". Every
educated Indian knows that the Greek Civilization was
destroyed by the rise of Christianity. Many Indians
firmly believe that the Vatican and other international
organizations are on a crusade to destroy the Indian
Civilization?as happened to the Greek 1500 years ago
and to the Americas a thousand years later. In the
circumstances, it is not surprising that some Hindus
should have been provoked, though the reaciton has not
been on the same scale as in Indonesia, which is now in
the grip of a religious war.
5. Unfortunately, many Indian Christians are reacting
emotionally, and instead of denouncing unethical
practices like conversion by fraud and force, they are
trying to defend everything being done in the name of
Christ. Christian leaders have shown themselves to be
lacking in courage and forthrightness in this regard.
It has cost them dearly in both goodwill and
credibility. Even normally sympathetic Hindus now see
them as devious and self-serving?even as a fifth
column.
6. Former British colonial policy and its continuation
by successive Congress governments have also
contributed significantly to the problem. Special
benefits (like tax exemptions) enjoyed by Christian
institutions?most of them controlled from outside the
country?are a continuation of the British colonial
policy. (Hindu institutions on the other hand receive
no such benefits.) It is equivalent to encouraging
foreign manufacturers at the cost of local
industry?which is the quintessence of colonialism.
Christian expansion of course is strictly an offshoot
of European colonial expansion, beginning with
Columbus. It has resulted in the destruction of ancient
cultures and civilizations from Greece to the Americas.
7. There are strong economic reasons behind this sudden
"scramble for India" by Christian organizations
worldwide. First, the collapse of Christianity in the
West has sent many of these 'men of God' looking for
new pastures; they have few opportunities at home. As a
result, unlike twenty or thirty years ago, when there
were a few dedicated missionaries interested in serving
the poor, the present crop of missionaries is made up
mostly of unscrupulous characters seeking their
fortunes in India in the name of God. In addition,
organized Christian institutions like the Catholic and
the Baptist Churches are looking to India to fill their
demand for nuns and other paramedical professionals.
There are none forthcoming in Europe and America.
This last point bears emphasis, for it provides a
rational explanation for the massive resources being
pumped into Christian missionary activity by foreign
organizations. Church related hospitals in America and
Europe are major providers of health care both to
industry and to individuals. Employing nuns, who cost
almost nothing to perform paramedical services in large
hopsitals leads to significant savings. In America,
such professionals (when not nuns) cost about $50,000 a
year per person in salary and benefits. Since health
care is the largest industry in America, it is not hard
to see the enormous pressures on hospitals to cut
costs. The supply of nuns from America and Europe has
dried up. So the focus for recruiting nuns has shifted
to the Third World?India, the Philippines and Africa.
Without inexpensive labour in the form of nuns, many
hospitals, retirement homes and other health facilities
in the West would not be economically viable; at least,
it would drive the cost of health care even higher than
their present stratospheric levels. This is the single
greatest burden on American industry.(This also
explains why some companies have been generous donors
to Christian organizations like Mother Teresa's
Missionaries of Charity. One should never underestimate
Christian institutions' attachment to money or their
ingenuity in acquiring it. Not when the Vatican itself
joined the Nazis in looting gold from the Holocaust
victims.) All this follows a historic pattern :
nineteenth century sugar plantations in the British
colonies were economically viable largely because of
indentured labour from India. Somewhat earlier,
prosperity of the American South with its cotton
plantations rested on slave labour from Africa. Today,
it is the turn of young Indian women to contribute to
the prosperity and wellbeing of the West by becoming
'Brides of Christ'.
The question : is it proper for organizations engaged
in such activity to enjoy special privileges in
taxation and other matters in India as 'minority
institutions'?
Reactions Reactions to these disclosures were of course
surprise and shock. But none was in a position to
challenge my facts or analysis. I feel that Indians are
not used to such hard headed analysis, which may be the
result of my American background. I was struck also by
the naivete of the people including journalists. They
were particularly nonplussed by my framing the question
of subsidies to minority institutions in the format of
being anti-swadeshi.
There were several young Christians in the audience who
were somewhat upset to learn the truth about the
activities of their leaders. Christians in the West,
including former priests, have come to terms with it,
though they must have found the experience no less
unsettling. As Peter de Rosa wrote in his remarkable
book Vicars of Christ : The Dark Side of the Papacy :
"I had been brought up as a Catholic, had gone through
the usual six-year seminary course prior to ordination,
had graduated from a Catholic University, the
Gregorianum in Rome, and had never come across such
ideas [as the terrible record of Christian
imperialism]. This is partly to be explained by the
partisan nature of seminary education and the fact that
in such establishments history is a Cinderella subject.
The misbehaviour of the Popes is lightly dealt with or
even excised... My ignorance must also be set down to
the preference Catholics have for a history of the
papacy that can be read with kid gloves on. It is not
easy to admit that one's leaders were often
barbarians..."
The experience of Indian Christians?even non-Christians
who studied at Christian institutions?cannot be much
different. It pained me to witness their anguish when
faced with the truth about Christianity and its
history. But the conduct of Christian leaders?the
Bishops, the Archbishops, the Reverends, the Most
Reverends and so forth?was reprehensible in the
extreme. Although they had been invited, none showed
up. Instead, they sent their young students and other
wards who simply did not have the strength or the
scholarship to face a detailed and carefully researched
presentation by someone of my experience. And these
young people reacted emotionally though I tried to be
as calm and detached as possible?without resort to
rhetoric or denunciation. I feel that their leaders
have done them a great disservice by giving young
people a fasle picture of history and doctrine. And
then for leaders to turn tail and abandon them at a
critical moment!
-From this I conclude that Christian 'leaders' and
'intellectuals' in India are in no position to engage
in an informed debate about the burning issues of the
day beyond indulging in propaganda and pontification.
Many years of patronage, first by the British and then
by successive Indian Governments has made them soft.
They have lost all self-confidence when it comes to
debate and intellectual analysis.
In all this, I feel the greatest misfortune has fallen
on Indian Christians. They have become pawns to be used
by the Vatican and other international organizations
(and their Indian underlings) in furthering their own
economic and political interests. Their leaders have
failed them. It is now the responsibility of the Hindus
to ensure that their Christian brothers and sisters
will suffer no ill consequences due to the venality and
the rapacity of the Vatican and other international
peddlers of humans in the name of God.
End of report by by N. S. Rajaram
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Baneful Conversions
"As a Christian, I deplore proselytization"
By Christina Shankar
Hinduism Today
June 1999
I recently became very concerned about what I perceived
as Hinduism Today's on-going negative depiction of
Christianity. A very kind and patient Swamiji at the
editorial office asked me to point out specific articles.
So, I spent the following afternoons studying every copy
of Hinduism Today that I had. The majority of the
"problem" articles were about Christian missionaries'
aggressive conversion tactics. I found the articles to be
true, and that I am defensive about a faith I have yet to
come to terms with. What made me so angry was that I feel
genuine shame, sadness and anger that members of my faith
pursue these terrible actions. I was also upset by
articles, often editorials, where authors stated that
Christians have denounced Hindus as idol-worshipers and
worse and have used Christian scriptures to forcibly
colonize foreign lands. When I thought about it with an
open mind, I had to agree that I have met many closed-
minded Christians who actually believe this.
But I, as a Christian, utterly denounce this missionary
activity. As a child, a church I attended sponsored
missions to Africa and brought eager young men to speak
of their work. However, when a pair of converted young
African students attended church one Sunday, no one sat
with them, no one spoke to them, no one made them feel
welcome. I was deeply dismayed.
In my travels in India, I encountered young people who
were converted to Christianity with the promise of food,
shelter and education, but who were despairing over the
loss of family ties. Unfortunately they now make their
way through life alone, without the support of their
parents, aunties and uncles. The missionaries are long
gone. Who will be there for them?
A few years ago I debated the issue with a fundamentalist
Christian co-worker. She firmly believed that all non-
Christians would not be permitted to enter heaven, but
instead will face eternal damnation. She told me in no
uncertain terms that these people must all be saved by
converting to Christianity. When I argued that forced
conversion has destroyed ancient cultures and denied the
validity of religions many centuries older than
Christianity, she actually became angry and said--"Good!
How else will these people know the truth?" There was no
way for her to see any other view but her own. My blood
still boils when I recall this conversation.
The more I learn about Hinduism, the more I respect it.
If I ever decide to leave behind the religion of my
birth, I will be grateful that I am free, and not forced,
to make that choice. Also, I understand the cruel legacy
of British imperialism, and I rejoice in India's efforts
to regain its pride in its traditional arts and sciences,
to which all of humanity is indebted. Hindus deserve to
be proud of their faith and culture.
But Christians deserve this, too. Just as there must be
good and bad Hindus, there are good and bad Christians
and people of all other faiths. I hope that Hinduism
Today and all good Hindus will realize and also portray
that not all Christians are intolerant, seeking to
annihilate all other faiths. The compassionate among us
are deeply hurt by such one-sided portrayals, which can
only lead to further intolerance and hatred. Not all
Christians believe that those of other faiths must be
"saved." We are taught to be kind to all strangers we
meet, because one of them could be the Christ returned to
Earth in disguise. We worship icons in our churches in
much the same way that deities are worshiped in temples.
True, we are taught that there is one God, but is this so
different from the Hindu concept of One Eternal Brahman?
I do not presume that all religions are the same: they
are gloriously different, valid and meaningful. Religion
gives us a way to approach the Eternal One, to find
meaning, and to live in harmony and peace and tolerance
with our neighbors, all of them.
CHRISTINA SHANKAR, 38, wife of Kannappan Shankar, sells
laboratory equipment from her home and studies world
religions
Source - http://www.hinduism-today.com/1999/6/1999-6-06.html
Paulo Joe Jingy
don't want Hindus to convert to Christianity. Fine, you're welcome to
your beliefs.
Are there flakes running around pushing strange versions of
Christianity? Sure.
But, with due respect, there is some really flaky stuff in Hinduism too.
The issue isn't (or wasn't) who has the flakiest religion--the issue is,
should a government interfere with with the attempted conversion of
people from one religion to another?
You apparently think they should. Fine, there's not much I can do about
that, expect to point out that it:
Paulo Joe Jingy
http://indianterrorism.mybravenet.com/violenceagainstdalits.htm
Human Rights Watch press release, April 1999
Violence Against "Untouchables" Growing, Says Report
Indian Government Fails to Prevent Massacres, Rapes, and Exploitation
(London, April 14, 1999) -- The Indian government has failed to prevent
widespread violence and discrimination against more than 160 million
people at the bottom of the Hindu caste system, Human Rights Watch
charged in a report released today. The report, Broken People: Caste
Violence Against India's "Untouchables," calls on the Indian government
to disband private militias and implement national legislation to
prevent and prosecute caste-based attacks.
"Untouchability" was abolished under India's constitution in 1950. Yet
entire villages in many Indian states remain completely segregated by
caste, in what has been called "hidden apartheid." Untouchables, or
Dalits -- the name literally means "broken" people -- may not enter the
higher-caste sections of villages, may not use the same wells, wear
shoes in the presence of upper castes, visit the same temples, drink
from the same cups in tea stalls, or lay claim to land that is legally
theirs. Dalit children are frequently made to sit in the back of
classrooms. Dalit villagers have been the victims of many brutal
massacres in recent years.
"'Untouchability' is not an ancient cultural artifact, it is human
rights abuse on a vast scale," said Smita Narula, researcher for the
Asia division of Human Rights Watch and author of the report. "The tools
for change are in place -- what is lacking is the political will for
their implementation." Human Rights Watch is an international human
rights monitoring organization based in New York.
Since the early 1990s, violence against Dalits has escalated
dramatically in response to growing Dalit rights movements. The release
of the 291-page report today is timed to coincide with the birthday of
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, architect of the Indian constitution and revered
Dalit leader who died in 1956. The National Campaign for Dalit Human
Rights, the first of its kind in history, will be marking the occasion
with rallies in ten states.
The report includes more than forty specific recommendations to the
Indian government at the central and state level, many of them focused
on implementing a 1989 law banning atrocities against Dalits. According
to that law, it is illegal to force Dalits into bonded labor, deny them
access to public places, foul their drinking water, force them to eat
"obnoxious substances," or "parade them naked or with painted face or
body." The recommendations also call for the establishment of special
courts and atrocities units to prosecute crimes against Dalits, and more
women police personnel to register complaints by Dalit women.
"The violence will only grow without these measures," said Narula. "It
is a crisis that calls out for national and international attention."
At the international level, the report calls on India's donors and
trading partners to build anti-discrimination measures into all aid
projects where problems of caste violence are particularly severe. All
of the recommendations were formulated in consultation with Indian
activists involved in the National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights,
founded in 1998.
Upper-caste employers frequently use caste as a cover for exploitative
economic arrangements. With the exception of a minority who have
benefited from India's policy of reservations (affirmative action),
Dalits are relegated to the most menial tasks.
An estimated forty million people in India, among them fifteen million
children, are bonded laborers, working in slave-like conditions in order
to pay off debts. The majority of them are Dalits. At least one million
Dalits work as manual scavengers, clearing feces from latrines and
disposing of dead animals with their bare hands. Dalits also comprise
the majority of agricultural laborers who work for a few kilograms of
rice, or 15-35 rupees (less than US$1) a day. In India's southern
states, thousands of Dalit girls are forced to become prostitutes for
upper-caste patrons and village priests before reaching the age of
puberty. Landlords and the police use sexual abuse and other forms of
violence against women to inflict political "lessons" and crush dissent
within the community. Dalit women have been arrested and tortured in
custody to punish their male relatives who are hiding from the
authorities.
The report documents violence in the eastern state of Bihar and the
southern state of Tamil Nadu. In Bihar, high-caste landlords have
organized private militias, or senas, which have killed Dalit villagers
with impunity. Extremist guerrilla groups have retaliated by killing
high-caste villagers, leading to an escalating cycle of violence. Such
attacks on civilians constitute violations of international humanitarian
law. Human Rights Watch has called for independent investigations into
the killings and for the disarming of the militias.
One of the most prominent militias, the Ranvir Sena, has been
responsible for the massacre of more than 400 Dalit villagers in Bihar
between 1995 and 1999. Within a span of three weeks in January and
February 1999, sena members killed 34 Dalit villagers in two separate
attacks. On March 19, 1999, members of the Maoist Communist Centre, a
guerrilla organization with low-caste supporters, beheaded 33
upper-caste villagers in retaliation for the sena killings. Both sides
have threatened more "revenge killings" in the weeks to come.
The senas, which claim many politicians as members, operate with
impunity. In some cases, police have accompanied them during their
attacks and have stood by as they killed villagers in their homes. In
other cases, police raids have followed attacks by the senas. The
purpose of the raids is often to terrorize Dalits as a group, whether or
not they are members of guerilla organizations. During the raids, the
police have routinely beaten villagers, sexually assaulted women, and
destroyed property. Sena leaders and police officials have never been
prosecuted for such killings and abuses.
Dalits throughout the country also suffer from de facto
disenfranchisement. During elections, Dalits are routinely threatened
and beaten by political party strongmen in order to compel them to vote
for certain candidates. Dalits who run for political office in village
councils and municipalities (through seats that have been
constitutionally "reserved" for them) have been threatened with physical
abuse and even death to get them to withdraw from the campaign.
In the village of Melavalavu, Tamil Nadu, following the election of a
Dalit to the village council presidency, members of a higher-caste group
murdered six Dalits in June 1997, including the elected council
president, whom they beheaded. As of February 1999, the accused
murderers -- who had been voted out of their once-secure elected
positions -- had not been prosecuted.
In cases investigated for this report, with the exception of a few
transfers and suspensions, no action has been taken against police
officers involved in violent raids or summary executions, or against
those accused of colluding with private actors to carry out attacks on
Dalits. In many instances, Dalits have repeatedly called for police
protection and been ignored. Even national government agencies concur
that impunity is rampant.
"Talking about the problem is not enough," said Narula. "The Indian
government must act now to demonstrate its stated commitment to ensuring
equal rights for Dalits."
HRW Letter: Killings of Dalits in Andhra Pradesh (India)
July 28, 1998
R. V. Pillai
Secretary General
National Human Rights Commission
Sardar Patel Bhawan
Samsad Marg
New Delhi 110 001
By Fax: 91-11-3340016
Dear Secretary Pillai:
I am writing to alert you to the killings of at least eight and perhaps
as many as thirty or more low-caste villagers in Vempenta, a village in
Pamulapadu Mandal, Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh. The incident took
place in the early morning hours of July 16, 1998. To our knowledge, no
one has yet been arrested in connection with the massacre.
Several hours before the killings began, a former village official and
member of the high caste community named Sivaiah was murdered in his
home, apparently by members of the People's War Group (PWG), a radical
Marxist-Leninist organization that has advocated the use of violence to
achieve land reform. According to a report prepared by a local human
rights organization that visited the site on July 20, there were
rivalries between the PWG and another leftist organization to which Mr.
Sivaiah belonged, which may have provided the motive for the murder. As
some members of the scheduled caste (Dalit or "untouchable") Madriga
community are believed to be sympathetic to the PWG, the murder
apparently provided the high caste landlord community a pretext for
attacking the Madriga colony in the village. Between 1:30 a.m. and 5:30
a.m. a mob rampaged through the colony hacking to death at least eight
people and throwing their bodies into a house that was then set on fire.
Some reports estimate the number killed to be thirty or more. At least
100 houses were burned to the ground. Most of those killed were
Madrigas, although some also belonged to the Dalit Mala community and
some to a another low caste community known as the Backward caste.
Local police did not appear on the scene for more than ten hours. As all
of the Madriga families had fled out of fear, the police reportedly
spoke only with members of the landlord community. The police have filed
some forty cases against Madrigas suspected in the killing of Mr.
Sivaiah. As of July 20, no charges had been filed against any of the
villagers who participated in the attack on the Madriga colony. Madriga
villagers interviewed by the human rights team stated that many of their
attackers were still present in the village and appeared to have police
protection.
The current tensions between the high-caste land holding villagers and
low caste villagers emerged two years ago when Madrigas staked a claim
to local temple lands that the high caste villagers had arrogated to
themselves and began to cultivate them. Human rights activists who have
investigated the incident believe that the land dispute was the real
reason for the massacre.
As you are aware, attacks of this kind on Dalit communities in India are
frequent and those responsible are seldom prosecuted. We urge you to
send a team to investigate the incident as soon as possible and ensure
that a case is registered under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled
Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and those responsible for the
attack arrested and charged. The affected community should be provided
protection and compensation, as provided under the law. The behavior of
local police should also be investigated, and any found to have
conspired with the attackers or to have failed to intervened promptly
appropriately punished.
We look forward to hearing from you soon.
Sincerely,
Sidney Jones
Asia Director of Human Rights Watch
--
Paulo Joe Jingy
Dr. Jai Maharaj
http://www.caribbeanhindu.com/conversion.htm
RonB
> THE CHRISTIAN CONVERSION MENACE
>
Can't be nearly as bad as the HINDU VEDIC CROSS-POSTING TROLL MENACE.
--
RonB
"there's a story there...somewhere"
Dr. Jai Maharaj
By Shamoli Mitra
The North Eastern States of India, which have been
categorically deprived of significant development during
last few decades of Congress Rule, are now facing a new
kind of danger. Recent upsurge of Islamic and Church-
funded terrorism has given birth to possible havoc in the
North eastern states. Especially Assam and Tripura have
become the main victims of this kind of religious
extremism and widespread terrorism.
Recently PTI published that After its failure in Kargil,
Pakistan is now attempting to separate the entire
northeast from the rest of India by cutting off the
'Chicken's Neck' area between northern Bengal and Assam.
The task of chopping off the Chicken's Neck portion has
been assigned to the Inter Services Intelligence and has
been planned along the lines of the Kargil operation. It
is being fully supported covertly by the Pakistani army.
The Chicken's Neck area, a narrow alley between Srirampur
in Assam and New Jalpaiguri in north Bengal, connects the
northeast with the rest of the country. Pakistan plans to
control the area which would make it easier for them to
cut off the entire northeast and also spread terrorism in
other parts of India. It has been reported that to
execute the operation, about 24 active Islamic
fundamentalist groups have been formed in Bangladesh,
Nepal and India. These groups have been trained on the
pattern of the Lashkar-i-Tayyaba and Taliban militia.
Some of these terrorist groups are known as Muslim United
Liberation Tigers of Assam (MULTA), Muslim United
Liberation Front of Assam (MULFA), People's Liberation
Front (PLF), International Liberation Army (ILA), Muslim
Security Force (MSF), Liberation of Islamic Tiger Force
(LITF), Muslim Security Council of Assam (MSCA), United
Liberation Militia of Assam (ULMA), Minority Peoples
Action Committee (MPAC), Muslim Volunteers Force (MVF),
Mujahid Vahini and Jubo Command. Many of these
organizations have active connection with Kashmiri
Islamic terrorist organizations and enjoy financial and
moral support from International Islamic fanatics like
Osama Bin laden.
Assam has witnessed a sharp increase in Islamic Terrorism
in last two years. On numerous occasions, Muslim
fundamentalist leaders were arrested by Indian Police on
account of promoting active terrorism in the state. On
September 12, 98 a top-ranking leader of the All-India
Muslim liberation Front (AIMLF) was arrested in Assam.
The police apprehended the terrorist, Kamrul Haque
Barbhuyan quite accidentally at the Jorhat railway
station on September 3 for travelling without a ticket. A
through checking of his belongings led to the recovery of
a large number of incriminating documents including
propaganda literature of the AIMLF, following which he
was brought to Guwahati, where he is still under
interrogation. Police reports have even linked Barbhuyan
to the murder of cassette king Gulshan Kumar, as also to
the serial blasts of Mumbai of 1993. The police also said
that the ISI was sending batches of trainers to Assam
through the porous borders to motivate Muslim youths.
Some Muslim youths of Assam have also undergone training
in arms in Manipur, where one or two Islamic militant
groups are active.
Soon after that incident, Union Minister Lal Krishna
Advani released a white paper, which detailed the grand
plan of ISI in Assam. Among other things, it pointed out
that the ISI wanted to use infiltrators from Bangladesh
to destabilize the North East. It also provided sanctuary
to Punjab terrorists in Pakistan to revive militancy
there. In pursuance of its objectives, the ISI wanted to
spread tentacles of terrorism not only in Jammu and
Kashmir but also in Punjab, Assam and Nagaland by
carrying out subversive propaganda on Islamic
fundamentalist and communal lines. Today Government
believes that Assam about 40-lakh illegal Bangladeshi
Muslims are living in Assam alone.
Patterns of Islamic Terrorism and revealed facts about
ISI's plan make it very clear that Pakistan will
concentrate on North Eastern States of India in near
future and will try its best to spread the same kind of
mayhem and destruction that Kashmir has been witnessing
for last two decades. It appears even Chief Minister of
Assam has started to realize it and asked Prime Minister
Atal Bihari Vajpayee to immediately initiate measures to
solve the problem of terrorism in the state. Mahanta
informed the Prime Minister about militant activities and
steps so far taken by the state to curb militancy. The
Prime Minister assured full cooperation to solve problems
of the state.
In a separate incident, outlawed terrorists belonging to
All Tripura Tiger Force in Tripura shot dead 17 people,
including two women, injured 11 and abducted four others
at Panchabati in West Tripura on November 15. The police
said that the terrorists were equipped with sophisticated
weapons. Suddenly the terrorists rained bullets on the
people, killing seven on the spot. Several others
suffered injuries, of which 10 succumbed in two
government hospitals. Eleven people, most of them
critical, were being treated at the G B Hospital.
It was reported that combing operations to nab the
militants had been launched by the Border Security Force,
Central Reserve Police Force, Assam Rifles, Tripura State
Rifles and state police. The BSF had been asked to
tighten vigil along the Indo-Bangla border to prevent the
terrorists from crossing the border. Although Chief
Minister Manik Sarker of Tripura asked the police and
civil officials to make all efforts to nab the militants,
earlier incidents show that the Communist Government of
Tripura and Catholic Church of North East have direct
connection with the terrorists belonging to All Tripura
Tiger Force. The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party
have demanded the resignation of the CPI-M-led Left Front
government for their failure to curb militancy.
Source - http://www.swordoftruth.com/swordoftruth/archives/byauthor/shamolimitra/riactine.html
Jai Maharaj
http://www.mantra.com/jai
Om Shanti
Panchaang for 14 Ashvin 5103, Saturday, October 19, 2002:
Dr. Jai Maharaj
Editorial
Christian Terrorism In Oklahoma City
By Dan Barker
When extremists from predominantly Moslem countries
commit violence, many in the media refer to them as
"Islamic terrorists." Why is no one calling the Oklahoma
City bombing suspects "Christian terrorists"?
The militias being investigated are called simply "right-
wing" and "anti-government," but these hate groups, like
the Ku Klux Klan, all have bible-based agendas. Timothy
McVeigh is a Catholic. The Oklahoma City bomb was
detonated on the anniversary of the raid on David
Koresh's Christian militia in Waco.
Ignoring the obvious religious connections here, everyone
seems eager to turn this tragedy into an opportunity to
acknowledge a deity. Oklahoma City invited Billy Graham
and President Clinton to pray publicly to their god in an
effort to lend some "meaning" to it all. Don't they see
the irrationality of praying to this supposedly
omniscient and omnipotent deity?
If I had known what was about to happen at 9:02 a.m. on
April 19, and if I had had the ability to prevent the
horror, I would have tried. Wouldn't you?
But Billy Graham's all-knowing God (let's pretend he
exists) observed the truck being loaded with explosives.
He sat alongside the driver on the trip from Kansas,
knowing what he had in mind. He noticed the laughing
children entering the day-care center.
Graham's all-powerful "God of love" easily could have
prevented the detonation. Yet he did nothing.
Graham and Clinton should not be asking their God for
comfort. They should be asking him, "Whose side are you
on?"
What would you call someone who could have stopped the
killing, yet sat by and let it happen? I would call him
an accomplice.
Yet FBI Director Louis Freeh, knowing that his main
suspect is Catholic and is associated with Christian
right-wing militia groups, called the Oklahoma bombing a
"godless act."
There is no reason for our government to equate "godless"
with "evil." The facts of history show that most
terrorism and war have some kind of religious motivation.
The recent chemical warfare in Japan waged by the
"Supreme Truth" religious cult is one example. Since
Christianity has a history of bloody persecution,
wouldn't it make more sense for Freeh to identify
religion as the culprit here?
After all, Jesus reportedly said, "I came not to send
peace, but a sword." This sounds like "Christian
terrorism" to me.
Source - http://www.ffrf.org/fttoday/may95/oklahoma.html
Paulo Joe Jingy
-----
http://www.dalitstan.org/books/mohr/mohr9.html
How most `Hindus' oppose being classed as `Hindu', fearing destruction of
their identity
Hindu Opposition to Hinduism
Chapter 9
Myth of One Hindu Religion Exploded
by
Hadwa Dom
9.1 Vaidik Opposition to Hinduism
The Arya Samaj, a revivalist movement seeking to restore the ancient Vedic
Aryan religion in contrast to the predominant Aryan Vaishnavite religion,
consistently opposed usage of the term Hindu. They refused to label
themselves `Hindu', referring to themselves as `Aryan' instead. The main
reason being that the word Hindu does not occur in the Vedas. They have also
launched vigourous campaigns against the usage of the very word Hindu. Their
concerns are valid, for Hinduism is merely a front for the propagation of
Vaishnavism, and Vedism may be submerged into the cess-pit of Vaishnavism.
9.2 Sudric Shaivite Opposition : Dalit Resistence
Ambedkar consistently opposed the fraudulent inclusion of the Untouchables
into the `Hindu' class. He was stopped in this endeavour by Mr. Gandhi, who
sought to preserve the Untouchable status of these people. Dr. B. R.
Ambedkar was the first Law Minister of independent India. He was the head of
the committee that drafted the constitution of India, and is known as the
Father of Indian Constitution. He wrote,
" Hinduism is a veritable chamber of horrors. The sanctity and infallibility
of the Vedas, Smritis and Shastras, the iron law of caste, the heartless law
of karma and the senseless law of status by birth are to the Untouchables
veritable instruments of torture which Hinduism has forged against
untouchables. These very instruments which have mutilated; blasted and
blighted the lives of the Untouchables are to be found intact and
untarnished in the bosom of Gandhism."
-- [ Ambed ] [ cited in Fame ]
Although they are not allowed inside temples, yet they are still classed as
`Hindu' :
" These people are still denied the use of public wells and tanks and at the
same time stigmatized as unclean. They are still kept out of schools and
colleges maintained by public funds and at the same time despised as
ignorant and illiterate. They are still shut out from temples , and branded
as ungodly and unfit to associate with."
-- [ Dalit ] In Vedic and Vaishnava religion, the status of Sudras is indeed
lower than that of animals. It is in fact lower than urine or dung ! This is
evident from the following quote :
'You may breed cows and dogs in your house,' wrote Mr. M.C. Raja. 'You may
drink the urine of cows and swallow cowdung to expiate your sins, but you
shall not approach an Adi Dravida [ `original Dravidians', ie. SC Dravidas ]
-- [ Dalit ] Dr. Ambedkar succintly showed that the Untouchables were not
Hindus :
" The grounds advanced by the Untouchables that they are separate from the
Hindus are not difficult to comprehend. Nor do they require a long and an
elaborate statement. The statement of their case can be fully covered by a
simple question. In what sense are they Hindus? "
-- [ Fold ]
9.3 Sudric Shaivite Opposition : Adivasi Resistance
The Adivasis have also objected to the claim that they are Hindu. In
censuses they refuse to identify themselves as `Hindu' but disclose their
religion as `Santal religion', `Munda religion' or `Gond religion', etc. It
is only the fundamentalist Brahmin tabulators who then stealthily change
their identification from `Adivasi' to `Hindu' ! The noted Sudra leader Ram
Vilas Paswan has written :
" The tribals have their own culture and history. They are born into their
own peculiar religions . Article 25 guaranteeing freedom of conscience does
not exclude the tribals from its purview, and like all other Indians, they
have a right to embrace any religion of their choice. Even the census
reports do not treat the tribal communities as Hindus. Social inequalities
on the basis of caste is the most hateful aspect of Hinduism. In India one
can change his religion but not caste! "
-- [ Paswan ]
9.4 Sudric Shaivite Opposition : Dravidian Resistance
The Dravidians have also restored their traditions, and have now come to
realize that the concept of `Hinduism' was introduced to subjugate their
Dravidian religion to the Aryan yoke. Thus, strong demands are made to
recognize the Dravidian religion (somewhat incorrectly referred to by the
Aryans as Shaivism) as distinct from the Aryan Vaishnavism [ Deva ].
" The Lingayats don't label themselves as Hindu."
-- [ Ling.2 ]
9.5 Sudric Shaivite Opposition : Kolarian Reistance
The Kolarians or Mundari-speaking Aboriginals of East India also oppose
their classification as Hindus. The Jharkhand movement, as well as the
various Santhal liberation organisations, all oppose the classification of
Kols as Hindu, and the day is not far off when Shaivism, or Sudra religion
shall be recognised as a faith in its own right.
Given the level of resistance, it is only a matter of time before the sham
Vaishnava attempt to subvert all Indian religions under astika Brahmanism
falls like a pack of cards. Soon, the concept of `Hinduism' shall be
recognised as a great historic blunder.
-----
"You may breed cows and dogs in your house," wrote Mr. M.C. Raja. 'You may
drink the urine of cows and swallow cowdung to expiate your sins, but you
shall not approach an Adi Dravida"
With that attitude--I can't for the life of me see why the Untouchables
would ever want to leave the Hindu faith--can you?
In fact, after a just a little study, I'm beginning to see that this whole
*conversion* issue is more political than religious. Surprise--surprise.
Apparently--in many cases--the Untouchables threaten to convert to
Christianity or the Moslem fatih, in an attempt to extort better treatment.
--
Paulo Joe Jingy
Dr. Jai Maharaj
invitation of danger to the country."
- Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
"Christian missionaries who enter
our country will divide us."
- Mahatma Gandhi, "Harijan", August 1935
Paulo Joe Jingy
A lot of capital letters. You're getting a little screechy there,
Jay/Jai
--
Paulo Joe Jingy
Paulo Joe Jingy
Capital letters again, eh? My goodness gracious me.
Why don't you have a nice piece of cow pie and a frothy glass of cow
piss and calm down a little.
"Those who live in urine drenched houses, shouldn't cast stones."
--
Paulo Joe Jingy
Paulo Joe Jingy
Paulo Joe Jingy wrote:
> Why don't you have a nice piece of cow pie and a frothy glass of cow
> piss and calm down a little.
Not that I necessarily have anything against someone else eating cow
shit and drinking cow piss. It's not really my thing--but then I'm not
of your faith, am I? And if I was I'd probably be an Untouchable,
anyway. I suppose the Untouchables are unworthy of the *fruits of the
cow*.
--
Paulo Joe Jingy
Hunter
his children to death, gibbering with glee, merely because someone
tries to convince people to believe something other than they
currently do?
For fucks sake, all these people are are salesmen... The people
who killed this person (and his children, what heroes they must've
been) only prove to us that some monkeys should never have left
the trees... They are subhuman.... It'd be nice to think that most
of your country is disgusted by their actions, but people such as
yourself make that a questionable thought.
"Dr. Jai Maharaj" wrote:
> This is an interesting confession by these people.
> Has a movie been made about Staines? If not, one
> needs to be written in order to expose the truth
> about these people.
>
> Jai Maharaj
> http://www.mantra.com/jai
> Om Shanti
>
> [ Subject: Re: Conversion is the birth right of Indian Xians
> [ From: pmo...@aol.com (PMohan)
> [ Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
> [ Message-ID: <20021019014143...@mb-ch.aol.com>
> [ Date: 19 Oct 2002
> [
> [ Well, Well!!
> [
> [ Now the whole truth is coming out for all of us to see!
> [
> [ These Psedo-liars had gone everywhere screaming for last
> [ three years that they do not convert anyone. When Graham
> [ Staines was lynched by some miscreants, they went to town
> [ screaming he was not converting anyone.
> [
> [ If these liars/converters cannot speak truth about their
> [ activities, then there is a natural room for suspicion!
> [
> [ Jai Hind.
>
> The above was in response to:
>
> [ Subject: Conversion is the birth right of Indian Xians
> [ From: aryanviking <aryan...@europe.com>
> [ Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
> [ Message-ID: <3DB0EE4B...@europe.com>
> [ Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002
> [
> [ AP bishops condemn anti-conversion law
> [
> [ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/images/spacer.gif
> [
> [ TIMES NEWS NETWORK
> [ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2002
> [
> [ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/images/spacer.gif
> [
> [ HYDERABAD: The AP Council of Churches and AP Catholic
> [ Bishops Council Commission on Public Affairs held a joint
> [ session on Friday, to discuss the implications of the
> [ anti-conversion ordinance passed by the Tamil Nadu
> [ government.
> [
> [ The commission said churches are against forced
> [ conversions and the 'draconian law' is unwarranted. Joint
> [ commission chairman Jerri A Oliver, in a press release,
> [ has urged the Tamil Nadu government to withdraw the
> [ ordinance.
> [
> [ The Andhra Pradesh Churches will observe October 20, as a
> [ day of prayer in solidarity with the Tamil Nadu
> [ minorities. Meanwhile, the All India Christian Council
> [ has denounced the Tamil Nadu religion conversion
> [ ordinance, terming it, violative of the Constitution.
> [
> [ The anti-conversion laws attack citizen's human rights,
> [ 'demonise' minorities and besmirch India's global
> [ reputation, the council said.
> [
> [ In a press release issued here on Friday, the council
> [ said Tamil Nadu's chief minister J Jayalalithaa's
> [ measures in promulgating the ordinance have provoked
> [ global condemnation. "It is a deliberate, cunning scheme
> [ to terrorise the minorities and to pamper the Sangh
> [ Parivar," it said.
> [
> [ "The church in India rejects conversions by force fraud
> [ and inducement. In fact the term 'forced and fraudulent
> [ conversions' is used for political ends to divert public
> [ attention by right wing vested interests who are in fact
> [ forcing their own brand of 'one nation, one culture and
> [ one faith ideology on the people of India', All India
> [ Christian Council president Joseph D'Souza and secretary
> [ general John Dayal said in the press release. Condemning
> [ the demand made by RSS chief K Sudharshan for a central
> [ act against the conversions, the council called for a
> [ satyagraha by the Dalits and minorities against "the
> [ Hindutva conspiracy".
Hunter
> Christians FORCE conversions -- many countries
> have banned this criminal activity.
How does a Christian FORCE conversion??? Especially in a
predominantly Hindu state? What exactly do you reckon they do
in India??? Voodoo perhaps?
Hunter
> The issue isn't (or wasn't) who has the flakiest religion--the issue is,
> should a government interfere with with the attempted conversion of
> people from one religion to another?
I wouldn't worry about Jai, he's more a parrot than anything else (hence why
he does not discuss this with you but prefers to regurgitate articles
instead), and what he fails to realise is that he is pointing out to the
world what a weak religion Hinduism in India must be when they have to pass
laws to prevent anyone from preaching other religions. If Hinduism can't
stand up on its' own two feet in the face of other religions, what is it
that is missing from that religion?
D C
----------
In article <3DB1D705...@yahoo.com>, Paulo Joe Jingy
<pauloj...@yahoo.com> wrote:
You say it all Paulo . . I agree 300 per cvent
Paulo Joe Jingy
http://hinduwebsite.com/history/caste.htm
"If hindus do not shed the caste system in its present form, they
cannot blame others for the disunity and disharmony of their society and
for the increasing popularity of other faiths among the less privileged
castes. They cannot blame foreign hands, charitable institutions and
Christian missionaries, for the alienation of these people. Every hindu
ought to remember that if there is one force that can destroy Hindu
society either in part or in full or reduce them to a simple minority in
their own country, it is neither nuclear weapons nor the foreign hands,
but the stench of casteism."
By V.Jayaram
--
Paulo Joe Jingy
Dr. Jai Maharaj
CHRISTIAN UNHOLY DEEDS – BLATANT VANDALISM BY CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES
Location - Seetanagaram
Krishna River bank, Vijayawada
Andhra Pradesh, India
On the banks of Krishna River, during the Holy season of
Pushkara, Christian Pastors from the local church
resorted to vandalism on Hinduism. The Christian Pastors
encouraged the local and newly converted Hindus to spit
on the photographs of several Hindu gods. They further
stamped on the idols, photographs of Hindu deities and
threw them in Krishna River. The police was a mute
spectator for this entire drama, which took few hours.
As reported by Jagruti, on December 5th 2001, 20 women
and 10 men came to Pushkarghat, of Krishna River by
autos. Along with them they brought Hindu idols and
photographs, which were concealed by a cloth. The local
vendors initially mistook them for vendors like them and
asked them to show what was in the concealed bags as they
were afraid that they would lose their market to new
comers. To the repeated questioning of the local vendors
– P.Govindamma, Anumula Akkamma, Pothabathuni
Venkateshwaramma who insisted on knowing the nature of
the business, the women and men replied saying that they
have brought these items to throw away in the River and
are waiting for the pastors. All the thirty dragged idols
which probably weighing around 100 kilograms. After half
an hour Four Pastors joined the thirty and all-together,
started stamping, spitting and breaking the idols.
Throwing stones at them forcibly broke idols that
resisted. A pastor by the name Andela Shyam took several
photographs of the entire episode. The locals immediately
complained to local police station that did nothing to
prevent. The report reached the Daily Vartha, which was a
Kilometer away. Then a representative from Undavalli
Center of Local Telugu Daily "Vartha" and few others
rushed to the spot to check the vandalism. All the while
the 30 just converted and 4 pastors were continuing the
ugly deeds. When protested and were tried to physically
stop this vandalism, the pastors added that "go and
complain to anyone you know, non-can stop us". This
commotion attracted attention few more, the people who
came to the spot curiously were shocked to see such
blatant display of hatred. Seeing the increasing number
of people who gathered, the 30 members and 4 pastors
started running away. People chased them and caught hold
of 5 who later were released unquestioned. Police reached
the spot only after entire drama was over and said
nothing can be done now.
Few swimmers got down into the river and brought back few
idols that were thrown away. The idols belonged to Lord
Venkateshwara, Lord Krishna, Lord Rama, Siva Lingas,
Kanaka Durga, Shiridi Saibaba and so on. RSS and VHP
immediately requested and reminded Police that inaction
by Police was responsible for such actions even in 1997
in the same location. Under the name of secularism,
minority the rules are being bent to resort to such
vandalism by Christian Missionaries many a time. Hindus
often feel helpless as the system is against them and
supports covertly the Christian Missionaries. The
Christian missionaries are coming wherever they please;
more specifically they are locating themselves very close
to the Hindu temples and shrines. They harass and rag
Hindus who visit, afraid of such ragging, and lack of
protection, the visitors to these temples and shrines is
reducing visibly.
End of forwarded message
Jai Maharaj
http://www.mantra.com/jai
Om Shanti
Panchaang for 14 Ashvin 5103, Saturday, October 19, 2002:
Dr. Jai Maharaj
Christians follow it literally:
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth:
I came not so send peace, but a sword.
"For I am come to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother, and the
daughter in law against her mother in law.
"And a man's foes shall be they of his own
household.
- Matthew 10:34-36.
Dr. Jai Maharaj
"Supreme4007" <user...@att.net> posted:
>
> From his writing, Mark Twain seemed extremely impressed with India and its
> people.
>
> He uses superlatives to explain his joy in visiting India.
>
> I have never seen another author from the West write in such unqualified
> appreciation and admiration.
"In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous
and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in
comparison with which our modern world and its literature
seems puny.
"What extracts from the Vedas I have read fall on me
like the light of a higher and purer luminary, which
describes a loftier course through purer stratum. It
rises on me like the full moon after the stars have come
out, wading through some far stratum in the sky.
"In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no
touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climes and
nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of
the Great Knowledge."
- Henry David Thoreau
" I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-Gita. It was
as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy,
but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old
intelligence which in another age and climate had
pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which
exercise us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Indian teaching, through its clouds of legends, has
yet a simple and grand religion, like a queenly
countenance seen through a rich veil. It teaches to speak
truth, love others, and to dispose trifles. The East is
grant -- and makes Europe appear the land of trifles.
.all is soul and the soul is Vishnu ...cheerful and
noble is the genius of this cosmogony. Hari is always
gentle and serene - he translates to heaven the hunter
who has accidentally shot him in his human form, he
pursues his sport with boors and milkmaids at the cow
pens; all his games are benevolent and he enters into
flesh to relieve the burdens of the world."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a
Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if
it is not to end in self-destruction of the human race.
At this supremely dangerous moment in human history , the
only way of salvation is the ancient Hindu way. Here we
have the attitude and spirit that can make it possible
for the human race to grow together in to a single
family."
- Arnold Joseph Toynbee
"After a study of some forty years and more of the great
religions of the world, I find none so perfect ,none so
scientific, none so philosophical and no so spiritual
that the great religion known by the name of Hinduism.
Make no mistake, without Hinduism, India has no future.
Hinduism is the soil in to which India's roots are stuck
and torn out of that she will inevitably wither as a tree
torn out from its place. And if Hindus do not maintain
Hinduism who shall save it? If India's own children do
not cling to her faith who shall guard it. India alone
can save India and India and Hinduism are one."
- Annie Wood Besant
"Perhaps in return for conquest, arrogance and
spoliation, India will teach us the tolerance and
gentleness of the mature mind, the quiet content of the
unacquisitive soul, the calm of the understanding spirit,
and a unifying, a pacifying love for all living things.
"India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit
the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of
our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our
mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals
embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village
community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India
is in many ways the mother of us all." Nothing should
more deeply shame the modern student than the recency and
inadequacy of his acquaintance with India....This is the
India that patient scholarship is now opening up like a
new intellectual continent to that Western mind which
only yesterday thought civilization an exclusive Western
thing."
- Will Durant
"Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle
the Hindu brown for the Christian riles and the Hindu
smiles and weareth the Christian down ; and the end of
the fight is a tombstone while with the name of the late
deceased and the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here who
tried to hustle the east".
- Rudyard Kipling
Dr. Jai Maharaj
Introduction
A History of India and Hindu Dharma
Much of what India and Hinduism are today can be understood by examining
their origins and history. Here is a humble chronology that tells the story
of the sages, kings, outside invaders and inside reformers who contributed
to the world's oldest living civilization and largest modern-day democracy.
Remarkably, Hindu India has been home to one-fourth of the human race since
the dawn of recorded time. Its story, summarized here, is crucial to human
history.
The emphasis on spirituality in India's thought and history is unparalleled
in human experience. The king in his court, the sage on his hill and the
farmer in one of Bharat's 700,000 villages each pursues his dharma with a
common ultimate purpose: spiritual enlightenment. This perspective is the
source of Hinduism's resilience in the face of competing faiths and
conquering armies. No other nation has faced so many invaders and endured.
These invasions have brought the races of the world to a subcontinent
one-third the size of the United States. There are many feats of which the
ancient Hindus could be proud, such as the invention of the decimal system
of numbers, philosophy, linguistics, surgery, city planning and statecraft.
And most useful to us in this particular timeline: their skill in
astronomy.
Dates in Hindu history after Buddha are subject to little dispute, while
dates before Buddha have been decided as much by current opinion and
politics as by scientific evidence. An overwhelming tendency of Western
scholarship has been to deny the great antiquity of Hinduism.
Indian scholar S.B. Roy points out that the commonly accepted chronology of
German linguist Max Muller (1823-1900) is based solely "on the ghost story
of Kathasaritasagara." Historian Klaus K. Klostermaier agrees: "The
chronology provided by Max Muller and accepted uncritically by most Western
scholars is based on very shaky ground indeed." While making crucial
historical contributions in bringing India's wisdom to the West, Muller
admitted his covert intention to undermine Hinduism. In a letter to his
wife in 1886 he wrote: "The translation of the Veda will hereafter tell to
a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of millions of souls
in that country. It is the root of their religion, and to show them what
the root is, I feel sure, is the only way of uprooting all that has sprung
from it during the last 3,000 years.''
Contemporary researchers, such as Dr. B.G. Siddharth of B.M. Birla Science
Centre, Dr. S.B. Roy, Professor Subhash Kak, Dr. N.R. Waradpande, Bhagwan
Singh and Dr. David Frawley, Vedacharya, have developed a more accurate
picture of ancient India, assembling new chronologies based on a highly
reliable method: dating scriptural references by their relationship to the
known precession of the equinoxes. Earth's axis of rotation "wobbles,"
causing constellations, as viewed from Earth, to drift at a constant rate
and along a predictable course over a 25,000-year cycle. For example, a Rig
Vedic verse observing winter solstice at Aries can be correlated to around
6500 bce. Frawley states, "Precessional changes are the hallmark of Hindu
astronomy. We cannot ignore them in ancient texts just because they give us
dates too early for our conventional view of human history." Besides
astronomical references from scripture, there is much to support their
dates, such as carbon-14 dating, the discovery of Indus-Sarasvati Valley
cities and the recent locating of the Sarasvati River, a prominent landmark
of Vedic writings.
Much of the dating in this timeline prior to 600 bce derives from the work
of Dr. S.B. Roy (Chronological Framework of Indian Protohistory-The Lower
Limit, published in The Journal of the Baroda Oriental Institute,
March-June 1983) and that of David Frawley Ph.D. (Gods, Sages and Kings).
For technical enhancements to the timeline we depended on Prof. Shiva G.
Bajpai PhD., Director of Asian Studies at California State University, who
co-authored "A Historical Atlas of South Asia" with Prof. Joseph E.
Schwartzberg and Dr. Raj B. Mathur.
Max Muller is the primary evangelist of another, more invidious, dogma
imposed on Hindu history: the "Aryan invasion" theory. Originally a Vedic
term meaning "noble," then applied to the parent-language of Greek,
Sanskrit, Latin and German, the term Aryan soon referred to those who spoke
it, a supposed race of light-skinned Aryans. The idea of a parent race
caught the imagination of 18th and 19th century European Christian
scholars, who hypothesized elaborate Aryan migrations from Central Asia,
west to Europe, south to India (ca 1500 bce) and east to China-conquering
local primitive peoples and founding the world's great civilizations. This
theory states that the Vedas, the heart and core of Sanatana Dharma, were
brought to India by these outsiders and not composed in India.
Although lacking supporting scientific evidence, this theory, and the
alleged Aryan-Dravidian racial split, was accepted and promulgated as fact
for three main reasons. It provided a convenient precedent for Christian
British subjugation of India. It reconciled ancient Indian civilization and
religious scripture with the 4000 bce Biblical date of Creation. It created
division and conflict between the peoples of India, making them vulnerable
to conversion by Christian missionaries.
Scholars today of both East and West believe the Rig Veda people who called
themselves Aryan were indigenous to India, and there never was an Aryan
invasion. The languages of India have been shown to share common ancestry
in ancient Sanskrit and Tamil. Even these two apparently unrelated
languages, according to current "super-family" research, have a common
origin: an ancient language dubbed Nostratic.
Sidebar: Rewriting History
Still confused? Here's a guide to competing theories of Indian history
TAKING SIDES:
The Old Model
Credits India's culture to foreign invaders. Hypothesis, first proposed by
German Max Muller (1823-1900), is still accepted in most historical
textbooks. Supporters: Sir William Jones, Thomas Young, Joseph de Goubinau,
Dwight Witney, Sir Mortimer Wheeler, A.L. Basham.
The New Model
Offers astrological and archeological evidence to discredit invasion
theory, pushes Indian history back several thousand years. Supporters: B.G.
Tilak, P.C. Sengupta, S.B. Roy, Pargiter, Jagat Pati Joshi, Dikshit, K.N.
Shastri, Sri Aurobindo, Hermann Jacobi, S.R. Rao, Dayananda Saraswati,
Subash Kak, David Frawley, B.G. Sidharth, and others.
WHAT IS CLAIMED?
The Old Model
Conquering legions of blue-eyed, white "Aryans" from Eastern Russia invaded
North India on horseback around 1500bce and ultimately displaced most of
India's unsophisticated Dravidian tribals. They brought civilization and
the refined Sanskrit language into India, built the expansive Indus Valley
complex, wrote the Vedas and other sacred texts. The Sarasvati River,
prominent in the Vedas, is mythical, or lies outside of India somewhere.
Claims no astronomical references are found in the Rig Veda.
The New Model
There was no invasion at all. India's native peoples founded the
Indus/Sarasvati River civilization, developed Sanskrit and wrote all her
ancient texts. uropean ates are all wrong. Rig Veda verses belie the old
chronology (VI.51.14-15 mentions the winter solstice occurs when the sun
rises in Revati nakshatra, only possible at 6,000bce, long before the
alleged invasion.) Carbon dating confirms horses in Gujarat at 2,400bce,
contradicting old model claim Aryans must have brought them. NASA satellite
photos prove Sarasvati River basin is real, not a myth. Fire altars
excavated at Kali Bangan in Rajasthan support existence of Rig Veda culture
at 2,700 bce. Kunal, a new site in Haryana, shows use of writing and silver
craft in pre-Harappan India, 6-7,000bce.
WHAT IT MEANS?
The Old Model
India's native peoples were primitive and her foundational culture and
religion were imported. All the good stuff came from Eastern Europe, of
course, and the rest is a vestige of conquered dark-skinned aboriginals.
The Vedas are, at most, 3,500 years old.
The New Model
India's history goes back much farther than anyone knew, perhaps 10,000
years. India need not be indebted to others for her rich and ancient
traditions. The Vedic texts, thought to be part mythology, are being
vindicated by scientific evidence to be the world's oldest factual account
of human experience.
Hindu Timeline Article
It's About Time!
New Finds and Intriguing Theories Conspire with Scholars To Rewrite India's
History-Plus HT's 7-Page Timeline
When you learned Indian history, a startling amount of myth may have
inadvertently been mixed in the masala with fact. The "official" history of
India and Hinduism was set down by Western scholars more than a hundred
years ago, a history based on the now-disputed principle that an outside
group of "Aryans," not her indigenous peoples, were responsible for most of
India's civilization. Subsequent discoveries, research and analysis have
unearthed major flaws in that history. Still, to this day, virtually every
textbook and encyclopedia in the world contains the same century-old
conjectures.
"Early Indian history is on the brink of a change," says Professor Shiva G.
Bajpai, co-author of the monumental work A Historical Atlas of South Asia.
He told Hinduism Today that "Archaeological explorations taking place in
the recent decade have changed many of the views we used to hold as being
very historical. Many do not even know what they have excavated so far."
Revising India's history is practically a cottage industry today.
Archaeologists and historians are forming strategic partnerships, even
teaming up with astronomers who turn Rig Veda observations of the stars
into firm dates for recorded events. Two conferences were held already this
year-January in Hyderabad and April in Sringeri. A third, the World
Archaeology Congress, is scheduled in New Delhi on December 4-11, where the
latest, most significant findings will be revealed. Author and Vedic
scholar, David Frawley, reports, "The conferences featured S.R. Rao, Subash
Kak, Rajaram and others working in this field. Nobody was really upholding
the old model. The issue wasn't so much whether the old model is working,
but how the new model is going to be formed. It's no longer just Hindus
claiming their faith in what their holy books say. All the archaeological
and scientific evidence is pretty much in agreement with them."
The "Aryan invasion" of India is taught as fact everywhere, but many modern
researchers don't support it. Establishment historians aren't ready to
accept any wholesale revision, and are slow to explore discoveries which
necessitate such a revision. Nor is Indian history the only one undergoing
rethinking. Just a few years ago the Egyptian sphinx was suddenly dated
thousands of years earlier by new technology, turning Egyptian history on
its head.
Hinduism Today has been following the dramatic events among historians, and
our staff has assembled a new Timeline of Hinduism, a chronology that
incorporates recent findings and tempers the anti-Hindu bias undergirding
previous histories of India. Beginning on page four, we present 600,000
years in 585 entries.
Our seven-page timeline is generous toward Hinduism, listing the earliest
possible dates for events and scriptures. Bajpai does not mind, "The
Hinduism Today Timeline is extremely important because it highlights the
Hindu heritage. This is both its greatest strength and, others might say,
its weakness. No timeline can be wholly satisfactory for everyone, as is
the case with any encyclopedia."
Hindu Timeline #1
-2.5 m to -1000
How to Read the Timeline
The thick line represents the flow of time from the date on the top to
dates on the bottom. The thinner lines to the left indicate the duration of
major ruling dynasties. Not all are included, for at times India was
divided into dozens of small independent kingdoms. Approximate dates are
preceded by the letter "ca," an abbreviation of the word "circa," which
denotes "about," "around" or "in approximately." all dates prior to Buddha
(624 bce) are considered estimates.
bce: Abbreviation for "before common era," referring to dating prior to the
year zero in the Western, or Gregorian calendar, system.
ce: Abbreviation for "common era." Equivalent to the abbreviation ad.
Following a date, it indicates that the year in question comes after the
year zero in the Western, or Gregorian calendar, system.
-2.5 m: Genus Homo originates in Africa, cradle of humanity.
-2 m: Stone artifacts are made and used by hominids in North India, an area
rich in animal species, including the elephant.
-500,000: Stone hand axes and other tools are used in N. India.
-470,000: India's hominids are active in Tamil Nadu and Punjab.
-400,000: Soan culture in India is using primitive chopping tools.
-360,000: Fire is first controlled by homo erectus in China.
-300,000: Homo sapiens roams the earth, from Africa to Asia.
-100,000: Homo sapiens sapiens (humans) with 20th-century man's brain size
(1,450 cc) live in East Africa. Populations separate. Migrations proceed to
Asia via the Isthmus of Suez.
-75,000: Last ice age begins. Human population is 1.7 million.
-45,000: After mastery of marine navigation, migrations from Southeast Asia
settle Australia and the Pacific islands.
-40,000: Groups of hunter-gatherers in Central India are living in painted
rock shelters. Similar groups in Northern Punjab work at open sites
protected by windbreaks.
-35,000: Migrations of separated Asian populations settle Europe.
-30,000: American Indians spread throughout the Americas.
-10,000: Last ice age ends after 65,000 years; earliest signs of
agriculture. World population 4 million; India is 100,000.
-10,000: Taittiriya Brahmana 3.1.2 refers to Purvabhadrapada nakshatra's
rising due east, a phenomenon occurring at this date (Dr. B.G. Siddharth of
Birla Science Institute), indicating the earliest known dating of the
sacred Veda.
-10,000: Vedic culture, the essence of humanity's eternal wisdom, Sanatana
Dharma, lives in the Himalayas at end of Ice Age.
-9000: Old Europe, Anatolia and Minoan Crete display a Goddess-centered
culture reflecting a matriarchial order.
-8500: Taittiriya Samhita 6.5.3 places Pleiades asterism at winter
solstice, suggesting the antiquity of this Veda.
-7500: Excavations at Neveli Cori in Turkey reveal advanced civilization
with meticulous architecture and planning. Dr. Sri B.G. Siddharth believes
this was a Vedic culture.
-7000: Proto-Vedic period ends. Early Vedic period begins.
-7000: Time of Manu Vaivasvata, "father of mankind," of
Sarasvati-Drishadvati area (also said to be a South Indian Maharaja who
sailed to the Himalayas during a great flood).
-7000: Early evidence of horses in the Ganga region (Frawley).
-7000: Indus-Sarasvati area residents of Mehrgarh grow barley, raise sheep
and goats. They store grain, entomb their dead and construct buildings of
sun-baked mud bricks.
-6776: Start of Hindu lists of kings according to ancient Greek references
that give Hindus 150 kings and a history of 6,400 years before 300bce;
agrees with next entry.
-6500: Rig Veda verses (e.g., 1.117.22, 1.116.12, 1.84.13.5) say winter
solstice begins in Aries (according to Dr. D. Frawley), indicating the
antiquity of this section of the Vedas.
-6000: Early sites on the Sarasvati River, then India's largest, flowing
west of Delhi into the Rann of Kutch; Rajasthan is a fertile region with
much grassland, as described in the Rig Veda. The culture, based upon
barley (yava), copper (ayas) and cattle, also reflects that of the Rig
Veda.
-5500: Mehrgarh villagers are making baked pottery and thousands of small,
clay of female figurines (interpreted to be earliest signs of Shakti
worship), and are involved in long-distance trade in precious stones and
sea shells.
-5500: Date of astrological observations associated with ancient events
later mentioned in the Puranas (Alain Danielou).
-5000: World population, 5 million, doubles every 1,000 years.
-5000: Beginnings of Indus-Sarasvati civilizations of Harappa and
Mohenjo-daro. Date derived by considering archeological sites, reached
after excavating 45 feet. Brick fire altars exist in many houses,
suggesting Vedic fire rites, yajna. Earliest signs of worship of Lord Siva.
This mature culture will last 3,000 years, ending around -1700.
-5000: Rice is harvested in China, with grains found in baked bricks. But
its cultivation originated in Eastern India.
-4300: Traditional dating for Lord Rama's time.
-4000: Excavations from this period at Sumerian sites of Kish and Susa
reveal existence of Indian trade products.
-4000: India's population is 1 million.
-4000: Date of world's creation (Christian genealogies).
-3928: July 25th, the earliest eclipse mentioned in the Rig Veda (according
to Indian researcher Dr. Shri P.C. Sengupta).
-3200: Hindu astronomers called nakshatra darshas record in Vedic texts
their observations of full moon and new moon at the winter and summer
solstices and spring and fall equinoxes with reference to 27 fixed stars
(nakshatras) spaced nearly equally on the moon's ecliptic or apparent path
across the sky. The precession of the equinoxes (caused by the wobbling of
the Earth's axis of rotation) causes the nakshatras to appear to drift at a
constant rate along a predictable course over a 25,000-year cycle. From
these observations historians are able to calculate backwards and determine
the date when the indicated position of moon, sun and nakshatra occurred.
-3102: Kali Era Hindu calendar starts. Kali Yuga begins.
-3100: Reference to vernal equinox in Rohini (middle of Taurus) from some
Brahmanas, as noted by B.G. Tilak, Indian scholar and patriot. Traditional
date of the Mahabharata war and lifetime of Lord Krishna.
-3100: Early Vedic period ends, late Vedic period begins.
-3100: India includes Afghanistan and parts of Central Asia.
-3100: Aryan people inhabit Iran, Iraq and Western Indus-Sarasvati Valley
frontier. Frawley describes Aryans as "a culture of spiritual knowledge."
He and others believe 1) the Land of Seven Rivers (Sapta Sindhu) mentioned
in the Rig Veda refers to India only, 2) that the people of Indus-Sarasvati
Valleys and those of Rig Veda are the same, and 3) there was no Aryan
invasion. This view is now prevailing over the West's historical concept of
the Aryans as a separate ethnic or linguistic group. Still others claim the
Indus-Sarasvati people were Dravidians who moved out or were displaced by
incoming Aryans.
-3000: Weaving in Europe, Near East and Indus-Sarasvati Valley is primarily
coiled basketry, either spiraled or sewn.
-3000: Evidence of horses in South India.
-3000: People of Tehuacan, Mexico, are cultivating corn.
-3000: Saiva Agamas are recorded in the time of the earliest Tamil Sangam.
(A traditional date.)
-2700: Seals of Indus-Sarasvati Valley indicate Siva worship, in depictions
of Siva as Pashupati, Lord of Animals.
-2600: Indus-Sarasvati civilization reaches a height it sustains until 1700
be. Spreading from Pakistan to Gujarat, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, it is the
largest of the world's three oldest civilizations with links to Mesopotamia
(possibly Crete), Afghanisthan, Central Asia and Karnataka. Harappa and
Mohenjo-daro have populations of 100,000.
-2600: Major portions of the Veda hymns are composed during the reign of
Vishvamitra I (Dating by Dr. S.B. Roy).
-2600: Drying up of Drishadvati River of Vedic fame, along with possible
shifting of the Yamuna to flow into the Ganga.
-2600: First Egyptian pyramid is under construction.
-2500: Main period of Indus-Sarasvati cities. Culture relies heavily on
rice and cotton, as mentioned in Atharva Veda, which were first developed
in India. Ninety percent of sites are along the Sarasvati, the region's
agricultural bread basket. Mohenjo-daro is a large peripheral trading
center. Rakhigari and Ganweriwala (not yet excavated in 1994) on the
Sarasvati are as big as Mohenjo-daro. So is Dholarvira in Kutch.
Indus-Sarasvati sites have been found as far south as Karnataka's Godavari
River and north into Afghanistan on the Amu Darya River.
-2500: Reference to vernal equinox in Krittika (Pleiades or early Taurus)
from Yajur and Atharva Veda hymns and Brahmanas. This corresponds to
Harappan seals that show seven women (the Krittikas) tending a fire.
-2300: Sargon founds Mesopotamian kingdom of Akkad, trades with
Indus-Sarasvati Valley cities.
-2300: Indo-Europeans in Russia's Ural steppelands develop efficient
spoked-wheel chariot technology, using 1,000-year-old horse husbandry and
freight-cart technology.
-2050: Vedic people are living in Persia and Afghanistan.
-2051: Divodasa reigns to -1961, has contact with Babylon's King Indatu
(Babylonian chronology). Dating by S.B. Roy.
ca -2040: Prince Rama is born at Ayodhya, site of future Rama temple. (This
and next two datings by S.B. Roy.)
-2033: Reign of Dasharatha, father of Lord Rama. King Ravana, villain of
the Ramayana, reigns in Sri Lanka.
-2000: Indo-Europeans (Celts, Slavs, Lithuanians, Ukranians) follow
cosmology, theology, astronomy, ritual, society and marriage that parallel
early Vedic patterns.
-2000: Probable date of first written Saiva Agamas.
-2000: World population: 27 million. India: 5 million or 22%. India has
roughly G of human race throughout history.
-1915: All Madurai Tamil Sangam is held at Thiruparankundram (according to
traditional Tamil chronology).
-1900: Late Vedic period ends, post Vedic period begins.
-1900: Drying up of Sarasvati River, end of Indus-Sarasvati culture, end of
the Vedic age. After this, the center of civilization in ancient India
relocates from the Sarasvati to the Ganga, along with possible migration of
Vedic peoples out of India to the Near East (perhaps giving rise to the
Mittani and Kassites, who worship Vedic Gods). The redirection of the
Sutlej into the Indus causes the Indus area to flood. Climate changes make
the Sarasvati region too dry for habitation. (Thought lost, its river bed
is finally photographed from satellite in the 1990s.)
-1500: Egyptians bury their royalty in the Valley of the Kings.
-1500: Polynesians migrate throughout Pacific islands.
-1500: Submergence of the stone port city of Dwarka near Gujarat, where
early Brahmi script, India's ancient alphabet, is used. Recent excavation
by Dr. S.R. Rao. Larger than Mohenjo-daro, many identify it with the Dwarka
of Krishna. Possible date of Lord Krishna. Indicates second urbanization
phase of India between Indus-Sarasvati sites like Harappa and later cities
on the Ganga.
-1500: Indigenous iron technology in Dwarka and Kashmir.
-1500: Cinnamon is exported from Kerala to Middle East.
-1472: Reign of Dhritarashtra, father of the Kauravas. Reign of
Yudhisthira, king of the Pandavas. Life of Sage Yajnavalkya. Date based on
Mahabharata's citation of winter solstice at Dhanishtha, which occurs
around this time.
-1450: End of Rig Veda Samhita narration.
-1450: Early Upanishads are composed during the next few hundred years,
also Vedangas and Sutra literature.
-1424: Bharata battle is fought, as related in the Mahabharata. (Professor
Subash Kak places the battle at -2449. Other authors give lower dates, up
to 9th century bce)
-1424: Birth of Parikshit, grandson of Arjuna, and next king.
-1350: At Boghaz Koi in Turkey, stone inscription of the Mitanni treaty
lists as divine witnesses the Vedic Deities Mitra, Varuna, Indra and the
Nasatyas (Ashvins).
-1316: Mahabharata epic poem is composed by Sage Vyasa.
-1300: Panini composes Ashtadhyayi, systematizing Sanskrit grammar in 4,000
terse rules. (Date according to Roy.)
-1300: Changes are made in the Mahabharata and Ramayana through 200 bce.
Puranas are edited up until 400 ce. Early smriti literature is composed
over next 400 years.
-1255: King Shuchi of Magadha writes Jyotisha Vedanga, including
astronomical observations which date this scripture-that summer solstice
occurs in Ashlesha Nakshatra.
-1250: Moses leads 600,000 Jews out of Egypt.
-1200: Probable time of the legendary Greek Trojan War celebrated in
Homer's epic poems, Iliad and Odyssey (ca -750).
-1124: Elamite Dynasty of Nebuchadnezzar (-1124-1103) moves capital to
Babylon, world's largest city, covering 10,000 hectares, slightly larger
than present-day San Francisco.
-1000: Late Vedic period ends. Post-Vedic period begins.
Hindu Timeline #2
-1000 to 1000
-1000: World population is 50 million, doubling every 500 years.
-975: King Hiram of Phoenicia, for the sake of King Solomon of Israel,
trades with the port of Ophir (Sanskrit: Supara) near modern Bombay,
showing the trade between Israel and India. Same trade goes back to
Harappan era.
-950: Jewish people arrive in India in King Solomon's merchant fleet. Later
Jewish colonies find India a tolerant home.
-950: Gradual breakdown of Sanskrit as a spoken language occurs over the
next 200 years.
-925: Jewish King David forms an empire in what is present-day Israel and
Lebanon.
-900: Iron Age in India. Early use dates to at least -1500.
ca -900: Earliest records of the holy city of Varanasi (one of the world's
oldest living cities) on the sacred river Ganga.
-900: Use of iron supplements bronze in Greece.
-850: The Chinese are using the 28-nakshatra zodiac called Shiu, adapted
from the Hindu jyotisha system.
ca -800: Later Upanishads are recorded.
-800: Later smriti, secondary Hindu scripture, is composed, elaborated and
developed during next 1,000 years.
-776: First Olympic Games are held in Greece.
-750: Prakrits, vernacular or "natural" languages, develop among India's
common peoples. Already flourishing in 500 bce , Pali and other Prakrits
are chiefly known from Buddhist and Jain works composed at this time.
-750: Priestly Sanskrit is gradually refined over next 500 years, taking on
its classical form.
-700: Life of Zoroaster of Persia, founder of Zoroastrianism. His holy
book, Zend Avesta, contains many verses from the Rig and Atharva Veda. His
strong distinctions between good and evil set the dualistic tone of God and
devil which distinguishes all later Western religions.
-700: Early Smartism emerges from the syncretic Vedic brahminical (priestly
caste) tradition. It flourishes today as a liberal sect alongside Saiva,
Vaishnava and Shakta sects.
-623-543: Life of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, born in Uttar Pradesh in
a princely Shakya Saivite family. (Date by Sri Lankan Buddhists. Indian
scholars say -563-483. Mahayanists of China and Japan prefer -566-486 or
later.)
ca 600: Life of Sushruta, of Varanasi, the father of surgery. His ayurvedic
treatises cover pulse diagnosis, hernia, cataract, cosmetic surgery,
medical ethics, 121 surgical implements, antiseptics, use of drugs to
control bleeding, toxicology, psychiatry, classification of burns,
midwifery, surgical anesthesia and therapeutics of garlic.
ca -600: The Ajivika sect, an ascetic, atheistic group of naked sadhus
reputated for fierce curses, is at its height, continuing in Mysore until
the 14th century. Adversaries of both Buddha and Mahavira, their philosophy
is deterministic, holding that everything is inevitable.
ca -600: Lifetime of Lao-tzu, founder of Taoism in China, author of Tao-te
Ching. Its esoteric teachings of simplicity and selflessness shape Chinese
life for 2,000 years and permeate the religions of Vietnam, Japan and
Korea.
-599-527: Lifetime of Mahavira Vardhamana, 24th Tirthankara and revered
renaissance Jain master. His teachings stress strict codes of
vegetarianism, asceticism and nonviolence. (Some date his life 40 years
later. )
-560: In Greece, Pythagoras teaches math, music, vegetarianism and
yoga-drawing from India's wisdom ways.
-551-478: Lifetime of Confucius, founder of Confucianist faith. His
teachings on social ethics are the basis of Chinese education, ruling-class
ideology and religion.
-518: Darius I of Persia (present Iran) invades Indus Valley. This
Zoroastrian king shows tolerance for local religions.
ca -500: Lifetime of Kapila, founder of Sankhya Darshana, one of six
classical systems of Hindu philosophy.
ca -500: Dams to store water are constructed in India.
-500: World population is 100 million. India population is 25 million (15
million of whom live in the Ganga basin).
ca -500: Over the next 300 years (according to the later dating of Muller)
numerous secondary Hindu scriptures (smriti) are composed: Shrauta Sutras,
Grihya Sutras, Dharma Sutras, Mahabharata, Ramayana and Puranas, etc.
ca -500: Tamil Sangam age (500 bce-500 ce) begins. Sage Agastya writes
Agattiyam, first known Tamil grammar. Tolkappiyar writes Tolkappiyam
Purananuru, also on grammar, stating that he is recording thoughts on
poetry, rhetoric, etc., of earlier grammarians, pointing to high
development of Tamil language prior to his day. He gives rules for
absorbing Sanskrit words into Tamil. Other famous works from the Sangam age
are the poetical collections Paripadal, Pattuppattu, Ettuthokai Purananuru,
Akananuru, Aingurunuru, Padinenkilkanakku. Some refer to worship of Vishnu,
Indra, Murugan and Supreme Siva.
ca -486: Ajatashatru (reign -486-458) ascends Magadha throne.
-480: Ajita, a nastika (atheist) who teaches a purely material explanation
of life and that death is final, dies.
-478: Prince Vijaya, exiled by his father, King Sinhabahu, sails from
Gujarat with 700 followers. Founds Singhalese kingdom in Sri Lanka.
(Mahavamsa chronicle, ca 500.)
-450: Athenian philosopher Socrates flourishes (ca -470-400).
-428-348: Lifetime of Plato, Athenian disciple of Socrates. This great
philosopher founds Athens Academy in -387.
ca -400: Panini composes his Sanskrit grammar, the Ashtadhyayi. (Date
accepted among most Western scholars.)
ca -400: Lifetime of Hippocrates, Greek physician and "father of medicine,"
formulates Hippocratic oath, code of medical ethics still pledged by
present-day Western doctors.
ca -350: Rainfall is measured by Indian scientists.
-326: Alexander the Great of Greece invades, but fails to conquer, Northern
India. His soldiers mutiny. He leaves India the same year. Greeks who
remain in India intermarry with Indians. Interchanges of philosophy
influence both civilizations. Greek sculpture impacts Hindu styles. Bactria
kingdoms later enhance Greek influence.
30: Chandragupta Maurya, founder of first pan-Indian empire (-324-184),
defeats Greek garrisons of Seleucus, founder of Seleucan Empire in Persia
and Syria. At its height under Emperor Ashoka (reign -273-232), the Mauryan
Empire includes all India except the far South.
ca -302: Kautilya (Chanakya), minister to Chandragupta Maurya, writes
Arthashastra, a compendium of laws, administrative procedures and political
advice for running a kingdom.
-302: In Indica, Megasthenes, envoy to King Seleucus, reveals to Europe in
colorful detail the wonders of Mauryan India: an opulent society with
abundant agriculture, engineered irrigation and 7 castes: philosophers,
farmers, soldiers, herdsmen, artisans, magistrates and counselors.
ca -300: Chinese discover cast iron, known in Europe by 1300 ce.
ca -300: Pancharatra Vaishnava sect is prominent. All later Vaishnava sects
are based on the Pancharatra beliefs (formalized by Shandilya around 100
ce).
ca -300: Pandya kingdom (-300-1700 ce) of S. India is founded, constructs
magnificent Minakshi temple at its capital, Madurai. Builds temples of
Shrirangam and Rameshvaram, with its thousand-pillared hall (ca 1600 ce).
-297: Emperor Chandragupta abdicates to become a Jain monk.
-273: Ashoka (-273-232 reign), greatest Mauryan Emperor, grandson of
Chandragupta, is coronated. Repudiating conquest throgh violence after his
brutal invasion of Kalinga, 260 bce, he converts to Buddhism. Excels at
public works and sends diplomatic peace missions to Persia, Syria, Egypt,
North Africa and Crete, and Buddhist missions to Sri Lanka, China and other
Southeast Asian countries. Under his influence, Buddhism becomes a world
power. His work and teachings are preserved in Rock and Pillar Edicts
(e.g., lion capital of the pillar at Sarnath, present-day India's national
emblem).
-251: Emperor Ashoka sends his son Mahendra (-270-204) to spread Buddhism
in Sri Lanka, where he is to this day revered as the national faith's
founding missionary.
ca -250: Lifetime of Maharishi Nandinatha, first known satguru in the
Kailasa Parampara of the Nandinatha Sampradaya. His eight disciples are
Sanatkumar, Shanakar, Sanadanar, Sananthanar, Sivayogamuni, Patanjali,
Vyaghrapada and Tirumular (Sundaranatha).
ca -221: Great Wall of China is built, ultimately 2,600 miles long, the
only man-made object visible from the moon.
ca -200: Lifetime of Rishi Tirumular, shishya of Maharishi Nandinatha and
author of the 3,047-verse Tirumantiram, a summation of Saiva Agamas and
Vedas, and concise articulation of the Nandinatha Sampradaya teachings,
founding South India's monistic Saiva Siddhanta school.
ca -200: Lifetime of Patanjali, shishya of Nandinatha and gurubhai (brother
monk) of Rishi Tirumular. He writes the Yoga Sutras at Chidambaram, in
South India.
ca -200: Lifetime of Bhogar Rishi, one of eighteen Tamil siddhas. This
mystic shapes from nine poisons the Palaniswami murti enshrined in
present-day Palani Hills temple in South India. Bhogar is either from China
or visits there.
ca -200: Lifetime of Saint Tiruvalluvar, poet-weaver who lived near
present-day Madras, author of Tirukural, "Holy Couplets," the classic Tamil
work on ethics and statecraft (sworn on in today's South Indian law
courts).
ca -200: Jaimini writes the Mimamsa Sutras.
ca -150: Ajanta Buddhist Caves are begun near present-day Hyderabad.
Construction of the 29 monasteries and galleries continues until
approximately 650 ce. The famous murals are painted between 600 bce and 650
ce.
-145: Chola Empire (-145-1300 ce) of Tamil Nadu is founded, rising from
modest beginnings to a height of government organization and artistic
accomplishment, including the development of enormous irrigation works.
-140: Emperor Wu begins three-year reign of China; worship of
the Mother Goddess, Earth, attains importance.
-130: Reign ends of Menander (Milinda), Indo-Greek king who converts to
Buddhism.
-58: Vikrama Samvat Era Hindu calendar begins.
-50: Kushana Empire begins (-50-220 ce). This Mongolian Buddhist dynasty
rules most of the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan and parts of Central
Asia.
ca -10: Ilangovadikal, son of King Cheralathan of the Tamil Sangam age,
writes the outstanding epic Silappathikaram, classical Tamil treatise on
music and dance.
Western Calendar Begins. C.E. - Common Era
-4: Jesus of Nazareth (-4-30 ce), founder of Christianity, is born in
Bethlehem (current Biblical scholarship).
10: World population is 170 million. India population is 35 million: 20.5%
of world.
ca 50: South Indians occupy Funan, Indochina. Kaundinya, an Indian brahmin,
is first king. Shaivism is the state religion.
53: Legend records Saint Thomas' death in Madras, one of the twelve
Apostles of Christ and founder of the Church of the Syrian Malabar
Christians (Syrian Rite) in Goa.
ca 60: Buddhism is introduced in China by Emperor Ming Di (reign: 58-76)
after he converts to the faith. Brings two monks from India who erect
temple at modern Honan.
ca 75: A Gujarat prince named Ajishaka invades Java.
78: Shaka Hindu calendar begins.
ca 80: Jains divide, on points of rules for monks, into the Shvetambara,
"white-clad," and the Digambara, "sky-clad."
ca 80-180: Lifetime of Charaka. Court physician of the Kushan king, he
formulates a code of conduct for doctors of ayurveda and writes Charaka
Samhita, a manual of medicine.
ca 100: Lifetime of Shandilya, first systematic promulgator of the ancient
Pancharatra doctrines, whose Bhakti Sutras, devotional aphorisms on Vishnu,
inspire a Vaishnava renaissance. The Samhita of Shandilya and his
followers, the Pancharatra Agama, embody the chief doctrines of present-day
Vaishnavas. By the 10th century the popular sect leaves permanent mark on
many Hindu schools.
100: Zhang Qian of China establishes trade routes to India and as far west
as Rome, later known as the "Silk Roads."
105: Paper is invented in China.
117: The Roman Empire reaches its greatest extent.
125: Shatakarni (ca 106-130 reign) of Andhra's Satavahana
(-70-225) dynasty destroys Shaka kingdom of Gujarat.
ca 175: Greek astronomer Ptolemy, known as Asura Maya in India, explains
solar astronomy, Surya Siddhanta, to Indian students of the science of the
stars.
180: Mexican city of Teotihuacan has 100,000 population and covers 11
square miles. Grows to 250,000 by 500 ce.
ca 200: Lifetime of Lakulisha, famed guru who leads a reformist movement
within Pashupata Saivism.
ca 200: Hindu kingdoms established in Cambodia and Malaysia.
205-270: Lifetime of Plotinus, Egyptian-born monistic Greek philosopher and
religious genius who transforms a revival of Platonism in the Roman Empire
into what present-day scholars call Neoplatonism, which greatly influences
Islamic and European thought. He teaches ahimsa, vegetarianism, karma,
reincarnation and belief in a Supreme Being, both immanent and
transcendent.
ca 250: Pallava dynasty (ca 250-885) is established in Tamil Nadu,
responsible for building Kailasa Kamakshi Temple complex at their capital
of Kanchi and the great 7th-century stone monuments at Mahabalipuram.
ca 275: Buddhist moastery Mahavihara is founded in Anuradhapura, capital of
Sri Lanka.
350: Imperial Gupta dynasty (320-540) flourishes. During this "Classical
Age" norms of literature, art, architecture and philosophy are established.
This North Indian empire promotes Vaishnavism and Saivism and,at its
height, rules or receives tribute from nearly all India. Buddhism also
thrives under tolerant Gupta rule.
ca 350: Lifetime of Kalidasa, the great Sanskrit poet and dramatist, author
of Shakuntala and Meghaduta. (The traditional date, offered by Prof. Subash
Kak, is 50 bce.)
ca 350: Licchavi dynasty (ca 350-900) establishes Hindu rule in Nepal.
Small kingdom becomes the major intellectual and commercial center between
South and Central Asia
358: Huns, excellent archers and horsemen possibly of Turkish origin,
invade Europe from the East.
375: Maharaja Chandragupta II Vikramaditya, greatest Hindu monarch, reigns
to 413, expanding the prosperous Gupta empire northward beyond the Indus
River.
391: Roman Emperor Theodosius destroys Greek Hellenistic temples in favor
of Christianity.
ca 400: Laws of Manu (Manu Dharma Shastras) written. Its 2,685 verses
codify cosmogony, four ashramas, government, domestic affairs, caste and
morality (others date at -600).
ca 400: Polynesians sailing in open outrigger canoes reach as far as Hawaii
and Easter Island.
ca 400: Shaturanga, Indian forerunner of chess, has evolved from Ashtapada,
a board-based race game, into a four-handed war game played with a die.
Later, in deference to the Laws of Manu, which forbid gambling, players
discard the die and create Shatranj, a two-sided strategy game.
ca 400: Vatsyayana writes Kamasutra, famous text on erotics.
419: Moche people of Peru build a Sun temple 150 feet high using 50 million
bricks.
438-45: Council of Ferrara-Florence, Italy, strengthens Roman Catholic
stance against doctrine of reincarnation.
ca 440: Ajanta cave frescoes (long before Islam) depict Buddha as Prince
Siddhartha, wearing "chudidara pyjama" and a prototype of the present-day
"Nehru shirt."
450-535: Life of Bodhidharma of South India, 28th patriarch of India's
Dhyana Buddhist sect, founder of Ch'an Buddhism in China (520), known as
Zen in Japan.
ca 450: Hephtalite invasions (ca 450-565) take a great toll in North India.
These "white Huns" (or Hunas) from China are probably not related to
Europe's Hun invaders.
ca 450: As the Gupta Empire declines, Indian sculptural style evolves and
continues until the 16th century. The trend is away from the swelling
modeled forms of the Gupta period toward increasing flatness and linearity.
453: Attila the Hun dies after lifetime of plundering Europe.
499: Aryabhata I (476-ca 550), Indian astronomer and mathematician, using
Hindu (aka Arabic) numerals accurately calculates pi () to 3.1416, and the
solar year to 365.3586805 days. A thousand years before Copernicus,
Aryabhata propounds a heliocentric universe with elliptically orbiting
planets and a spherical Earth spinning on its axis, explaining the apparent
rotation of the heavens. Writes Aryabhatiya, history's first exposition on
plane and spherical trigonometry, algebra and arithmetic.
ca 500: Mahavamsa, chronicling Sri Lankan history from -500 is written in
Pali, probably by Buddhist monk Mahanama. A sequel, Chulavamsha, continues
the history to 1500.
ca 500: Sectarian folk traditions are revised, elaborated and reduced to
writing as the Puranas, Hinduism's encyclopedic compendium of culture and
mythology.
500: World population is 190 million. India population is 50 million: 26.3%
of world.
510: Hephtalite Mihirakula from beyond Oxus River crushes imperial Gupta
power. Soon controls much of N.C. India.
ca 533: Yashovarman of Malva and Ishanavarman of Kanauj defeat and expel
the Hephtalites from North India.
ca 543: Pulakeshin I founds Chalukya Dynasty (ca 543-757; 975-1189) in
Gujarat and later in larger areas of West India.
548: Emperor Kimmei officially recognizes Buddhism in Japan by accepting a
gift image of Buddha from Korea.
553: Council of Constantinople II denies doctrine of soul's existence
before conception, implying reincarnation is incompatible with Christian
belief.
565: The Turks and Persians defeat the Hephtalites.
570-632: Lifetime of Mohammed, preacher of the Quraysh Bedoin tribe,
founder of Islam. Begins to preach in Mecca, calling for an end to the
"demons and idols" of Arab religion and conversion to the ways of the one
God, Allah.
ca 590-671: Lifetime of Saiva saint Nayanar Tirunavukkarasu, born into a
farmer family at Amur, now in South Arcot, Tamil Nadu. He writes 312 songs,
totalling 3,066 Tirumurai verses. Cleaning the grounds of every temple he
visits, he exemplifies truly humble service to Lord Siva. His contemporary,
the child-saint Nayanar Sambandar, addresses him affectionately as Appar,
"father."
ca 598-665: Lifetime of Brahmagupta, preeminent Indian astronomer, who
writes on gravity and sets forth the Hindu astronomical system in his
Brahma Sphuta Siddhanta. Two of 25 chapters are on sophisticated
mathematics.
ca 600: Religiously tolerant Pallava King Narasinhavarman builds China
Pagoda, a Buddhist temple, at the Nagapatam port for Chinese merchants and
visiting monks.
ca 610: Muhammed begins prophecies, flees to Mecca in 622.
ca 600-900: Twelve Vaishnava Alvar saints of Tamil Nadu flourish, writing
4,000 songs and poems (assembled in their cannon Nalayira Divya Prabandham)
praising Narayana, Rama and narrating the love of Krishna and the gopis.
ca 600: Life of Banabhatta, Shakta master of Sanskrit prose, author of
Harshacharita (story of Harsha) and Kadambari.
606: Buddhist Harshavardhana, reigning 606-644, establishes first great
kingdom after the Hephtalite invasions, eventually ruling all India to the
Narmada River in the South.
ca 630: Vagbhata writes Ashtanga Sangraha on ayurveda.
630-34: Chalukya Pulakeshin II becomes Lord of South India by defeating
Harshavardhana, Lord of the North.
630-44: Chinese pilgrim Hiuen-Tsang (Huan Zang) travels in India, recording
voluminous observations. Population of Varanasi is 10,000, mostly Saiva.
Nalanda Buddhist university (his biographer writes) has 10,000 residents,
including 1,510 teachers, and thousands of manuscripts.
641-45: Arab Muslims conquer Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia.
ca 650: Lifetime of Nayanar Saiva saint irujnana Sambandar. Born a brahmin
in Tanjavur, he writes 384 songs totalling 4,158 verses that make up the
first three books of Tirumurai. At 16, he disappears into the sanctum of
Nallur temple, near Tiruchi, Tamil Nadu.
ca 650: More than 60 Chinese monks have traveled to India and her colonies.
Four hundred Sanskrit works have been translated into Chinese, 380 survive
to the present day.
686-705: Reign of Pallava King Rajasinha. He inherits the stone-carving
legacy of Emperor Mahendra and his son, Narasinha, who began the extensive
sculptural art in the thriving sea-port of Mahabalipuram.
ca 700: Over the next 100 years the Indonesian island of Bali receives
Hinduism from its neighbor, Java.
712: Muslims conquer Sind region (Pakistan), providing base for pillaging
expeditions that drain North India's wealth.
732: French prevent Muslim conquest of Europe, stopping Arabs at Poitiers,
France, the NW limit of Arab penetration.
739: Chalukya armies beat back Arab Muslim invasions at Navasari in modern
Maharashtra.
ca750-1159: Pala dynasty arises in Bihar and Bengal, last royal patrons of
Buddhism, which they help establish in Tibet.
ca 750: Kailasa temple is carved out of a hill of rock at Ellora.
ca 750: Hindu astronomer and mathematician travels to Baghdad, with
Brahmagupta's Brahma Siddhanta (treatise on astronomy) which he translates
into Arabic, bestowing decimal notation and use of zero on Arab world.
ca 750: Lifetime of Bhavabhuti, Sanskrit dramatist, second only to
Kalidasa. Writes Malati Madhava, a Shakta work.
ca 750: Valmiki writes 29,000-verse Yoga Vasishtha.
ca 750: A necklace timepiece, kadikaram in Tamil, is worn by an Emperor
(according to scholar M. Arunachalam).
788: Adi Shankara (788-820) is born in Malabar, famous monk philosopher of
Smarta tradition who writes mystic poems and scriptural commentaries
including Viveka Chudamani, and regularizes ten monastic orders called
Dashanami. Preaches Mayavada Advaita, emphasizing the world as illusion and
God as the sole Reality.
ca 800: Bhakti revival curtails Buddhism in South India. In the North,
Buddha is revered as Vishnu's 9th incarnation.
ca 800: Life of Nammalvar, greatest of Alvar saints. His poems shape the
beliefs of Southern Vaishnavas to the present day.
ca 800: Lifetime of Vasugupta, modern founder of Kashmir Saivism, a
monistic, meditative school.
ca 800: Lifetime of Auvaiyar, woman saint of Tamil Nadu, great devotee of
Lord Ganesha and author of Auvai Kural. She is associated with the Lambika
kundalini school. (A second date for Auvaiyar of 200 bce is from a story
about Auvaiyar and Saint Tiruvalluvar as siblings. A third Auvaiyar
reference is dated at approximately 1000. (Auvaiyar is a Tamil word meaning
"old, learned woman;" some believe it may refer to three different
persons.)
ca 800: Lifetime of Karaikkal Ammaiyar, one of the 63 Saiva saints of Tamil
Nadu. Her mystical and yogic hymns, preserved in the Tirumurai, remain
popular to the present day.
ca 825: Nayanar Tamil saint Sundarar is born into a family of Adishaiva
temple priests in Tirunavalur in present-day South Arcot. His 100 songs in
praise of Siva (the only ones surviving of his 38,000 songs) make up
Tirumurai book 7. His Tiru Tondattohai poem, naming the Saiva saints, is
the basis for Saint Sekkilar's Periyapuranam.
ca 800: Lifetime of Andal, woman saint of Tamil Nadu. Writes devotional
poetry to Lord Krishna, disappears at age 16.
ca 825: Vasugupta discovers the rock-carved Siva Sutras.
846: Vijayalaya reestablishes his Chola dynasty, which over the next 100
years grows and strengthens into one of the greatest South Indian Empires
ever known.
ca 850: Shri Vaishnava sect established in Tamil Nadu by Acharya Nathamuni,
forerunner of great theologian Ramanuja.
ca 850: Life of Manikkavasagar, Saiva Samayacharya saint, born in
Tiruvadavur, near Madurai, into a Tamil brahmin family. Writes famed
Tiruvasagam, 51 poems of 656 verses in 3,394 lines, chronicling the soul's
evolution to God Siva. Tirupalli-eluchi and Tiruvembavai are classic
examples of his innovative style of devotional songs.
875: Muslim conquests extend from Spain to Indus Valley.
885: Cholas kill Aparajita, king of the Pallavas, in battle.
ca 900: Lifetime of Matsyendranatha, exponent of the Natha sect emphasizing
kundalini yoga practices.
ca 900: Under the Hindu Malla dynasty (ca 900-1700) of Nepal, legal and
social codes influenced by Hinduism are introduced. Nepal is broken into
several principalities.
ca 900-1001: Lifetime of Sembiyan Ma Devi, queen of Maharaja Gandaraditta
Chola from 950-957 and loyal patron of Saivism, builds ten temples and
inspires and molds her grand-nephew prince, son of Sundara Chola, into the
great temple-builder, Emperor Rajaraja I.
900: Mataramas dynasty in Indonesia reverts to Saivism after a century of
Buddhism, building 150 Saiva temples.
ca 950: Lifetime of Gorakshanatha, Natha yogi who founds the order of
Kanphatha Yogis and Gorakshanatha Saivism, the philosophical school called
Siddha Siddhanta.
ca 950-1015: Lifetime of Kashmir Saiva guru Abhinavagupta.
960: Chola King Vira, after having a vision of Siva Nataraja dancing,
commences enlargement of the Siva temple at Chidambaram, including the
construction of the gold-roofed shrine. The enlargement is completed in
1250 ce.
985: Rajaraja I (reign 985-1014) ascends the South Indian Chola throne and
ushers in a new age of temple architecture exemplified at Tanjavur,
Darasuram, Tirubhuvanam and Chidambaram. Pallava architectural influences
(dominant vimanas, inconspicuous gopuras) fade.
ca 1000: Gorakshanatha writes Siddha Siddhanta Paddhati, "Tracks on the
Doctrines of the Adepts." The nature of God and universe, structure of
chakras, kundalini force and methods for realization are explained in 353
verses.
Hindu Timeline #3
1000ce to 1500
1000: World population is 265 million. India population is 79 million,
29.8% of world.
ca 1000: A few Hindu communities from Rajasthan, Sindh and other areas, the
ancestors of present-day Romani, or Gypsies, gradually move to Persia and
on to Europe.
ca 1000: Vikings reach North America, landing in Nova Scotia.
ca 1000: Polynesians arrive in New Zealand, last stage in the greatest
migration and navigational feat in history, making them the most
widely-spread race on Earth.
1001: Turkish Muslims sweep through the Northwest under Mahmud of Ghazni,
defeating Jayapala of Hindu Shahi Dynasty of S. Afghanisthan and Punjab at
Peshawar. This is the first major Muslim conquest in India.
ca 1010: Tirumurai, Tamil devotional hymns of Saiva saints, is collected as
an anthology by Nambiandar Nambi.
1017: Mahmud of Ghazni sacks Mathura, birthplace of Lord Krishna, and
establishes a mosque on the site during one of his 17 Indian invasions for
holy war and plunder.
1017-1137: Life of Ramanuja of Kanchipuram, Tamil philosopher-saint of Shri
Vaishnava sect that continues bhakti tradition of S. Indian Alvar saints.
His strongly theistic nondual Vishishtadvaita Vedanta philosophy restates
Pancharatra tradition. Foremost opponent of Shankara's system, he dies at
age 120 while head of Shrirangam monastery.
1018-1060: Lifetime of Bhojadeva Paramara, Gujarati king, poet, artist and
monistic Saiva Siddhanta theologian.
1024: Mahmud of Ghazni plunders Somanath Siva temple, destroying the Linga
and killing 50,000 Hindu defenders. He later builds a mosque on the
remaining walls.
1025: Chola ruler Maharaja Rajendra I sends victorious naval expeditions to
Burma, Malaysia and Indonesia, initiating decline of Mahayana Buddhist
empire of Shrivijaya.
ca 1040: Chinese invent the compass and moveable type and perfect the use
of gunpowder, first invented and used in India as an explosive mixture of
saltpetre, sulfur and charcoal to power guns, cannons and artillery.
ca 1050: Lifetime of Shrikantha, promulgator of Siva Advaita, a major
philosophical school of Saivism.
ca 1130-1200: Lifetime of Nimbarka, Telegu founder of the Vaishnava Nimandi
sect holding the philosophy of dvaitadvaita, dual-nondualism. He introduces
the worship of Krishna together with consort Radha. (Present-day Nimavats
revere Vishnu Himself, in the form of the Hamsa Avatara, as the originator
of their sect.)
ca 1130: Lifetime of Sekkilar, Tamil chief minister under Chola Emperor
Kulottunga II (reign 1133-1150) and author of Periyapuranam, 4,286-verse
epic biography (hagiography) of the 63 Saiva saints and 12th book of
Tirumurai.
ca 1150: Life of Basavanna, renaissance guru of the Vira Saiva sect,
stressing free will, equality, service to humanity and worship of the
Sivalinga worn around the neck.
ca 1150: Khmer ruler Suryavarman II completes Angkor Wat temple (in
present-day Cambodia), where his body is later entombed and worshiped as an
embodiment of Vishnu. This largest Hindu temple in Asia is 12 miles in
circumference, with a 200-foot high central tower.
ca 1162: Mahadevi is born, female Saiva ascetic saint of Karnataka, writes
350 majestic and mystical poems.
1175: Toltec Empire of Mexico crumbles.
1185: Mohammed of Ghur conquers Punjab and Lahore.
1191: Eisai founds Rinzai Zen sect in Japan after study in China.
1193: Qutb ud-Din Aybak founds first Muslim Sultanate of Delhi,
establishing the Mamluk Dynasty (1193-1290).
1197: Great Buddhist university of Nalanda is destroyed by Muslim Ikhtiyar
ud-din.
1200: All of North India is under Muslim domination.
1200: India population reaches 80 million.
ca 1200: An unknown author writes Yoga Yajnavalkya.
1215: King John is forced to sign the Magna Carta, giving greater rights to
citizens in England.
1227: Mongolian Emperor Genghis Khan, conqueror of a vast area from
Beijing, China, to Iran and north of Tibet, the largest empire the world
has yet seen, dies.
1230-60: Surya temple at Konarak, Orissa, India, is constructed.
1238-1317: Lifetime of Ananda Tirtha, Madhva, venerable Vaishnava dualist
and opponent of Shankara's mayavadin advaita philosophy. He composes 37
works and founds Dvaita Vedanta school, the Brahma Vaishnava Sampradaya and
its eight monasteries, ashtamatha, in Udupi.
ca 1250: Lifetime of Meykandar, Saiva saint who founds the Meykandar school
of pluralistic Saiva Siddhanta, of which his 12-sutra Sivajnanabodham
becomes its core scripture.
1260: Meister Eckhart, the German mystic, is born.
1268-1369: Lifetime of Vedanta Deshikar, gifted Tamil scholar and poet who
founds sect of Vaishnavism called Vadakalai, headquartered at Kanchipuram.
1270-1350: Lifetime of Namadeva, foremost poet saint of Maharashtra's
Varkari ("pilgrim") Vaishnava school, disciple of Jnanadeva. He and his
family compose a million verses in praise of Lord Vithoba (Vishnu).
1272: Marco Polo visits India en route to China.
1274: Council of Lyons II declares that souls go immediately to heaven,
purgatory or hell; interpreted by Catholic fathers as condemning the
doctrine of reincarnation.
1275-96: Lifetime of Jnanadeva, Natha-trained Vaishnava saint, founder of
the Varkari school, who writes Jnaneshvari, a Marathi verse commentary on
Bhagavad Gita, which becomes Maharashtra's most popular book.
1279: Muktabai is born, Maharashtrian Varkari saint and Natha yogini,
writes 100 sacred verses.
1280: Mongol (Yuen) dynasty (1280-1368) begins in China, under which occurs
the last of much translation work into Chinese from Sanskrit.
1296: Ala-ud-din, second king of Khalji dynasty, rules most of India after
his General Kafur conquers the South, extending Muslim dominion to
Rameshwaram.
ca 1300: Lifetime of Janabai, Maharashtrian Varkari Vaishnava woman saint
who writes a portion of Namadeva's million verses to Vithoba (Vishnu).
ca 1300: The Ananda Samucchaya is written, 277 stanzas on hatha yoga, with
discussion of the chakras and the nadis.
1300: Muslim conquerors reach Cape Comorin at the southernmost tip of India
and build a mosque there.
1317-72: Life of Lalla of Kashmir. Saiva renunciate, mystic poetess
contributes significantly to the Kashmiri language.
1336: Vijayanagara Empire (1336-1565-1646) of South India is founded.
European visitors are overwhelmed by the wealth and advancement of its
17-square-mile capital.
1345: Aztecs establish great civilization in Mexico.
1346-90: Life of Krittivasa, translator of Ramayana into Bengali.
1347: Plague called the Black Death spreads rapidly, killing 75 million
worldwide before it recedes in 1351.
ca 1350: Svatmarama writes Hatha Yoga Pradipika.
ca 1350: Lifetime of Appaya Dikshita, South Indian philosoper saint whose
writings reconcile Vaishnavism and Saivism. He advances Siva Advaita and
other Saiva schools and compiles a temple priests' manual still used today.
1398: Tamerlane (Timur) invades India with 90,000 cavalry and sacks Delhi
because its Muslim Sultanate is too tolerant of Hindu idolatry. A Mongolian
follower of Sufism, he is one of the most ruthless of all conquerors.
1399: Hardwar, Ganga pilgrimage town, is sacked by Timur.
ca 1400: Goraksha Upanishad is written.
1414: Hindu prince Parameshvara of Malaysia converts to Islam.
1414-80: Life of Gujarati Vaishnava poet-saint Narasinha Mehta.
1415: Bengali poet-singer Baru Chandidas writes Shrikrishnakirtana, a
collection of exquisite songs praising Krishna.
1429: Joan of Arc, age 17, leads the French to victory over the English.
ca 1433: China cloisters itself from outside world by banning further
voyages to the West. (First bamboo curtain.)
1440-1518: Lifetime of Kabir, Vaishnava reformer with who has both Muslim
and Hindu followers. (His Hindi songs remain immensely popular to the
present day.)
ca 1440: Johannes Gutenberg (ca 1400-1468) invents the West's first
moveable-type printing press in Germany.
1450?-1547: Lifetime of Mirabai, Vaishnava Rajput princess saint who,
married at an early age to the Rana of Udaipur, devotes herself to Krishna
and later renounces worldly life to wander India singing to Him beautiful
mystic compositions that are sung to the present day.
1469-1538: Lifetime of Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism, originally a
reformist Hindu sect stressing devotion, faith in the guru, repetition of
God's name and rejection of renunciation and caste. (Most Sikhs in the
present day consider themselves members of a separate religion.)
1478: Spanish Inquisition begins. Over the next 20 years, Christians burn
several thousand persons at the stake.
1479-1531: Lifetime of Vallabhacharya, a married Telegu brahmin saint who
teaches pushtimarga, "path of love," and a lofty nondual philosophy,
Shuddhadvaita Vedanta, in which souls are eternally one with Brahman.
Vallabhacharya's Vaishnavism worships Krishna in the form of Shri Nathji.
1483-1563: Lifetime of Surdas, sightless Hindi bard of Agra, whose hymns to
Krishna are compiled in the Sursagar.
1486-143: Life of Chaitanya, Bengali founder of popular Vaishnava sect
which proclaims Krishna Supreme God and emphasizes sankirtan, group
chanting and dancing.
1492: Looking for India, Christopher Columbus lands on San Salvador island
in the Caribbean, thus "discovering" the Americas and proving that the
earth is round, not flat.
1498: Portugal's Vasco da Gama sails around Cape of Good Hope to Calicut,
Kerala, first European to find sea route to India.
ca 1500: Life of Arunagirinathar, Tamil saint, author of Tiruppugal hymns;
emphasizes feeding the hungry during a timeof Muslim oppression and
disrupted family life.
ca 1500: Buddhist and Saiva Hindu princes are forced off Java by invading
Muslims. They resettle on neighboring Bali, with their overlapping
priesthoods and vast royal courts: poets, dancers, musicians and artisans.
Within 100 years they construct what many call a fairytale kingdom.
Hindu Timeline #4
1500 to 1800ce
1500: World population 425 million; 105 million live in India.
1503-1566: Lifetime of Nostradamus, French physician and astrologer who
wrote Centuries (1555), a book of prophecies.
1509-1529: Reign of Maharaja Krishnadevaraya of the Vijayanagara Empire in
Andhra Pradesh.
1510: Portuguese Catholics conquer Goa to serve as capital of their Asian
maritime empire, beginning conquest and exploitation of India by Europeans.
1517: Luther begins Protestant reformation in Europe.
ca 1520: Poet-saint Purandardas (1480-1564) of the Vijayanagara court
systematizes Karnatak music.
1526: Mughal conqueror Babur (1483-1530) defeats the Sultan of Delhi and
captures the Koh-i-noor diamond. Occupying Delhi, by 1529 he founds the
Indian Mughal Empire (1526-1761), consolidated by his grandson Akbar.
1528: Emperor Babur destroys temple at Lord Rama's birthplace in Ayodhya,
erects Muslim masjid, or monument.
1532-1623: Life of Monk-poet Tulasidasa. Writes Ramacharitamanasa
(1574-77), greatest medieval Hindi literature (based on Ramayana). It
advances Rama worship in the North.
1542: Portuguese Jesuit priest Francis Xavier (1506-1552), most successful
Catholic missionary, lands in Goa. First to train and employ native clergy
in conversion efforts, he brings Christianity to India, Malay Archipelago
and Japan.
1544-1603: Life of Dadu, ascetic saint of Gujarat, founder of Dadupantha,
which is guided by his Bani poems in Hindi.
1556: Akbar (1542-1605), grandson of Babur, becomes third Mughal Emperor at
age 13. Disestablishes Islam as state religion and declares himself
impartial ruler of Hindus and Muslims; encourages art, culture, religious
tolerance.
1565: Muslim forces defeat and completely destroy the city of Vijayanagara.
Empire's final collapse comes in 1646.
1565: Polish astronomer Copernicus' (1473-1543) Heliocentric system, in
which the Earth orbits the sun, gains popularity in Europe among
astronomers and mathematicians.
1569: Akbar captures fortress of Ranthambor, ending Rajput independence.
Soon controls nearly all of Rajasthan.
ca 1570: Ekanatha (1533-99), Varkari Vaishnava saint and mystic composer,
edits Jnanadeva's Jnaneshvari and translates Bhagavata Purana, advancing
Marathi language.
1588: British ships defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Calais,
France, to become rulers of the high seas.
1589: Akbar rules half of India, shows tolerance for all faiths.
1595: Construction is begun on Chidambaram Temple's Hall of a
Thousand Pillars in South India, completed in 1685.
ca 1600: "Persian wheel" to lift water by oxen is adopted, one of few
farming innovations since Indus Valley civilization.
1600: Royal Charter forms the East India Company, setting in motion a
process that ultimately results in the subjugation of India under British
rule.
1603-4: Guru Arjun compiles Adi Granth, Sikh scripture.
1605: Akbar the Great dies at age 63. His son Jahangir succeeds him as
fourth Mughal Emperor.
1605: Sikh Golden Temple (Harimandir) at Amritsar, Punjab, is finished,
completely covered with gold leaf.
1608-49: Lifetime of Tukaram, beloved Varkari sant famed for his abhangas,
"unbroken hymns," to Krishna. Considered greatest Marathi spiritual
composer.
1608-81: Lifetime of Ramdas, mystic poet, Sivaji's guru, Marathi saint, who
gives Hindus the dhvaja, saffron flag.
1610: Galileo of Italy (1564-1642) perfects the telescope, with which he
confirms the Copernican theory. Condemned a heretic by the Catholic
Inquisition for his discoveries.
1613-14: British East India Company sets up trading post at Surat.
1615-18: Mughals grant Britain right to trade and establish factories in
exchange for English navy's protection of the Mughal Empire, which faces
Portuguese sea power.
1619: Jaffna kingdom is annexed and Sri Lanka's ruling dynasty deposed by
Portuguese Catholics who, between 1505 and 1658, destroy most of the
island's Hindu temples.
1619: First black slaves from Africa are sold in the USA.
1620: European pilgrims land and settle at Plymouth Rock, US.
1627-80: Life of Sivaji, valiant general and tolerant founder of Hindu
Maratha Empire (1674-1818). Emancipates large areas confiscated by Muslims,
returning them to Hindu control. First Indian ruler to build a major naval
force.
ca 1628-88: Lifetime of Kumaraguruparar, prolific poet-saint of Tamil Nadu
who founds monastery in Varanasi to propound Saiva Siddhanta philosophy.
1630: Over the next two years, millions starve to death as Shah Jahan
(1592-1666), fifth Mughal Emperor, empties the royal treasury to buy jewels
for his "Peacock Throne."
1647: Shah Jahan completes Taj Mahal in Agra beside Yamuna River. Its
construction has taken 20,000 laborers 15 years, at a total cost
equivalence of US$25 million.
1649: Red Fort is completed in Delhi by Shah Jahan.
ca 1650: Dharmapuram Aadheenam, Saiva monastery, founded near Mayuram,
South India, by Guru Jnanasambandar.
ca 1650: Robert de Nobili (1577-1656), Portuguese Jesuit missionary noted
for fervor and intolerance, arrives in Madurai, declares himself a brahmin,
dresses like a Hindu monk and composes Veda-like scripture extolling Jesus.
ca 1650: Two yoga classics, Siva Samhita and Gheranda Samhita, are written.
1654: A Tamil karttanam is written and sung to celebrate recovery
installation of Tiruchendur's Murugan murti.
1658: Zealous Muslim Aurangzeb (1618-1707) becomes Mughal Emperor. His
discriminatory policies toward Hindus, Marathas and the Deccan kingdoms
contribute to the dissolution of the Mughal Empire by 1750.
1660: Frenchman Francois Bernier reports India's peasantry is living in
misery under Mughal rule.
1664: Great Plague of London kills 70,000, 15% of the population.
1675: Aurangzeb executes Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur, beginning the Sikh-Muslim
feud that continues to this day.
1679: Aurangzeb levies Jizya tax on non-believers, Hindus.
1688: Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb demolishes all temples in Mathura, said to
number 1,000. (During their reign, Muslim rulers destroy roughly 60,000
Hindu temples throughout India, constructing mosques on 3,000 sites.)
1700: World population is 610 million. India population is 165 million: 27%
of world.
1705-42: Lifetime of Tayumanavar, Tamil Saiva poet saint and devotional
yogic philosopher of Tiruchirappalli.
1708: Govind Singh, tenth and last Sikh guru, is assassinated.
1708-37: Jai Singh II builds astronomical observatories in Delhi, Jaipur,
Ujjain, Benares and Mathura.
1718-75: Lifetime of Ramprasad, Bengali Shakta poet-saint.
1722: Peter the Great rules in Russia.
ca 1725: Jesuit Father Hanxleden compiles first Sanskrit grammar in a
European language.
ca 1750: Shakta songs of Bengali poets Ramprasad Sen and Kamalakanta
Bhattacharya glorify Her as loving Mother and Daughter and stimulate a rise
in devotional Shaktism.
1751: Robert Clive, age 26, seizes Arcot in modern Tamil Nadu as French and
British fight for control of South India.
1760: Saiva sannyasis fight Vaishnava vairagis in tragic battle at Hardwar
Kumbha Mela; 18,000 monks are killed.
1760: Eliezer (Besht), liberal founder of Hasidic Judaism, dies.
1761: Afghan army of Ahmad Shah Durrani routs Hindu Maratha forces at
Panipat, ending Maratha hegemony in North India. As many as 200,000 Hindus
are said to have died in the strategic eight-hour battle.
1764: British defeat the weak Mughal Emperor to become rulers of Bengal,
richest province of India.
1769: Prithivi Narayan Shah, ruler of Gorkha principality, conquers Nepal
Valley; moves capital to Kathmandu, establishing present-day Hindu nation
of Nepal.
ca 1770-1840: Life of Rishi from the Himalayas, guru of Kadaitswami and
first historically known satguru of the Nandinatha Sampradaya's Kailasa
Parampara since Tirumular.
1773: British East India Company obtains monopoly on the production and
sale of opium in Bengal.
ca 1780-1830: Golden era of Karnatik music. Composers include Tyagaraja,
Dikshitar and Shastri.
1781: George Washington defeats British at Yorktown, US.
1781-1830: Lifetime of Sahajanandaswami, Gujarati founder of the
Swaminarayan sect (with 1.5 million followers today).
1784: Judge and linguist Sir William Jones founds Calcutta's Royal Asiatic
Society. First such scholastic institution.
1786: Sir William Jones uses the Rig Veda term Aryan ("noble") to name the
parent language (now termed Indo-European) of Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and
Germanic tongues.
1787-95: British Parliament impeaches Warren Hastings, Governor General of
Bengal (1774-85) for misconduct.
1787: British Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade is formed,
marking the beginning of the end of slavery.
1789: French revolution begins with storming of the Bastille.
1792: Britain's Cornwallis defeats Tipu Sahib, Sultan of Mysore and most
powerful ruler in South India, main bulwark of resistance to British
expansion in India.
1793: Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin in the US, greatly affecting the
institution of slavery.
1796: Over two million worshipers compete for sacred Ganga bath at Kumbha
Mela in Hardwar. Five thousand Saiva ascetics are killed in tragic clash
with Sikh ascetics.
1799: Sultan Tipu is killed in battle against 5,000 British soldiers who
storm and raze his capital, Srirangapattinam.
Hindu Timeline #5
1800ce to the Present and Beyond!
1803: Second Anglo-Maratha war results in British Christian capture of
Delhi and control of large parts of Indi.
1803: India's population is 200 million.
1803-82: Lifetime of Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet who helps
popularize Bhagavad Gita and Upanishads in US.
1807: Importation of slaves is banned in the US through an act of Congress
motivated by Thomas Jefferson.
1809: British strike a bargain with Ranjit Singh for exclusive areas of
influence.
ca 1810-75: Lifetime of renaissance guru Kadaitswami, born near Bangalore,
sent to Sri Lanka by Rishi from the Himalayas to strengthen Saivism against
Catholic incursion.
1812: Napoleon's army retreats from Moscow. Only 20,000 soldiers survive
out of a 500,000-man invasion force.
1814: First practical steam locomotive is built.
1817-92: Lifetime of Bahaullah, Mirza Husayn 'Ali, founder of Baha'i faith
(1863), a major off-shoot religion of Islam.
1818-78: Lifetime of Sivadayal, renaissance founder of the esoteric
reformist Radhasoami Vaishnava sect in Agra.
1820: First Indian immigrants arrive in the US.
1822-79: Life of Arumuga Navalar of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, renaissance activist
who propounds Advaita Siddhanta, writes first Hindu catechism and
translates Bible into Tamil so it can be compared faithfully to the Vedas
and Agamas.
1823-74: Life of Ramalingaswami, Tamil saint, renaissance founder of
Vadalur's "Hall of Wisdom for Universal Worship."
1824-83: Lifetime of Swami Dayananda Sarasvati, renaissance founder of Arya
Samaj (1875), Hindu reformist movement stressing a return to the values and
practices of the Vedas. Author of Satya Prakash, "Light on Truth."
1825: First massive immigration of Indian workers from Madras is to Reunion
and Mauritius. This immigrant Hindu community builds their first temple in
1854.
1828: Ram Mohan Roy (1772-1833) founds Adi Brahmo Samaj in Calcutta, first
movement to initiate religio-social reform. Influenced by Islam and
Christianity, he denounces polytheism, idol worship; repudiates the Vedas,
avataras, karma and reincarnation, caste and more.
1831-91: Lifetime of Russian mystic Madame H.P. Blavatsky, founder of
Theosophical Society in 1875, bringing aspects of psychism, Buddhism and
Hinduism to the West.
1831: British Christians defeat Ranjit Singh's forces at Balakot, in Sikh
attempt to establish a homeland in N.W. India.
1833: Slavery is abolished in British Commonwealth countries, giving
impetus to abolitionists in United States.
1835: Civil service jobs in India are opened to Indians.
1835: Macaulay's Minute furthers Western education in India. English is
made official government and court language.
1835: Mauritius receives 19,000 immigrant indentured laborers from India.
Last ship carrying workers arrives in 1922.
1836-86: Lifetime of Shri Ramakrishna, God-intoxicated Bengali hakta saint,
guru of Swami Vivekananda. He exemplifies the bhakti dimension of Shakta
Universalism.
1837: Britain formalizes emigration of Indian indentured laborers to supply
cheap labor under a system more morally acceptable to British Christian
society than slavery, illegal in the British Empire since 1833.
1837: Kali-worshiping Thugees are suppressed by British.
1838: British Guyana receives its first 250 Indian laborers.
1838-84: Lifetime of Keshab Chandra Sen, Hindu reformer who founds Brahma
Samaj of India, a radical offshoot of the Adi Brahmo Samaj of Ram Mohan
Roy.
1840-1915: Lifetime of Satguru Chellappaswami of Jaffna, Sri Lanka,
initiated at age 19 by Siddha Kadaitswami as next satguru in the Nandinatha
Sampradaya's Kailasa Parampara.
1840: Joseph de Goubineau (1816-1882), French scholar, writes The
Inequality of Human Races. Proclaims the "Aryan race" superior to other
great strains and lays down the aristocratic class-doctrine of Aryanism
that later provides the basis for Adolf Hitler's Aryan racism.
1842-1901: Life of Eknath Ranade, founder of Prarthana Samaj. His
social-reform thinking inspires Gokhale and Gandhi.
1843: British conquer the Sind region (present-day Pakistan).
1845: Trinidad receives its first 197 Indian immigrant laborers.
1846: British forcibly separate Kashmir from the Sikhs and sell it to the
Maharaja of Jammu for pounds1,000,000.
1849: Sikh army is defeated by the British at Amritsar.
1850: First English translation of the Rig Veda by H.H. Wilson, first
holder of Oxford's Boden Chair, founded "to promote the translation of the
Scriptures into English, so as to enable his countrymen to proceed in the
conversion of the natives of India to the Christian religion."
1851: Sir M. Monier-Williams (1819-99) publishes English-Sanskrit
Dictionary. His completed Sanskrit-English Dictionary is released in 1899
after three decades of work.
1853-1920: Lifetime of Shri Sharada Devi, wife of Shri Ramakrishna.
1853: Max Muller (1823-1900), German Christian philologist and Orientalist,
advocates the term Aryan to name a hypothetical primitive people of Central
Asia, the common ancestors of Hindus, Persians and Greeks. Muller
speculates that this "Aryan race" divided and marched west to Europe and
east to India and China around 1500 bce. Their language, Muller contends,
developed into Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, German, etc., and all ancient
civilizations descended from this Aryan race.
1856: Catholic missionary Bishop Caldwell coins the term Dravidian to refer
to South Indian Caucasian peoples.
1857: First Indian Revolution, called the Sepoy Mutiny, ends in a few
months with the fall of Delhi and Lucknow.
1858: India has 200 miles of railroad track. By 1869 5,000 miles of steel
track have been completed by British railroad companies. In 1900, total
track is 25,000 miles, and by World War I, 35,000 miles. By 1970, at 62,136
miles, it has become the world's greatest train system. Unfortunately, this
development depletes India's forest lands.
1859: Charles Darwin, releases controversial book, The Origin of Species,
propounding his "natural selection" theory of evolution, laying the
foundations of modern biology.
1860: S.S. Truro and S.S. Belvedere dock in Durban, S. Africa, carrying
first indentured servants (from Madras and Calcutta) to work sugar
plantations. With contracts of five years and up, thousands emigrate over
next 51 years.
1861: American Civil War begins in Charleston, S. Carolina.
1861-1941: Lifetime of Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, awarded the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1913.
1863-1902: Life of Swami Vivekananda, dynamic renaissance missionary to
West and catalyst of Hindu revival in India.
1869-1948: Lifetime of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian nationalist and
Hindu political activist who develops the strategy of nonviolent
disobedience that forces Christian Great Britain to grant independence to
India (1947).
1870: Papal doctrine of infallibility is asserted by the Vatican.
1872-1964: Lifetime of Satguru Yogaswami, Natha renaissance sage of Sri
Lanka, Chellappaswami's successor in the Kailasa Parampara of the
Nandinatha Sampradaya.
1872-1950: Life of Shri Aurobindo Ghosh, Bengali Indian nationalist and
renaissance yoga philosopher. His 30-volume work discusses the "superman,"
the Divinely transformed individual soul. Withdraws from the world in 1910
and founds international ashram in Pondicherry.
1873-1906: Lifetime of Swami Rama Tirtha, who lectures throughout Japan and
America spreading "practical Vedanta."
1875: Madame Blavatsky founds Theosophical Society in New York, later
headquartered at Adyar, Madras, where Annie Besant, president (1907-1933),
helps revitalize Hinduism with metaphysical defense of its principles.
1876: British Queen Victoria (1819-1901), head of Church of England, is
proclaimed Empress of India (1876-1901).
1876: Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
1876-1990: Max Muller, pioneer of comparative religion as a scholarly
discipline, publishes 50-volume Sacred Books of the East, English
translations of Indian-Oriental scriptures.
1877-1947: Lifetime of Sri Lanka's Ananda Coomaraswamy, foremost
interpreter of Indian art and culture to the West.
1879: Incandescent lamp is invented by Thomas Edison (1847-1931) The
american inventor patents more than a thousand inventions, among them the
microphone (1877) and the phonograph (1878). In New York (1881-82) he
installs the world's first central electric power plant.
1879: The "Leonidas," first emigrant ship to Fiji, adds 498 Indian
indentured laborers to the nearly 340,000 already working in other British
Empire colonies.
1879-1966: Lifetime of Sadhu T.L. Vaswani, altruistic Sindhi poet and
servant of God, founds several Hindu missions in India and seven Mira
Educational Institutions.
1879-1950: Lifetime of Shri Ramana Maharshi, Hindu Advaita renunciate
renaissance saint of Tiruvannamalai, South India.
1882-1927: Lifetime of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Indian-born Muslim mystic,
instrumental in bringing Sufism to the West.
1884-1963: Lifetime of Swami Ramdas, known as "Papa," Indian saint and
devotee of Lord Rama.
1885: A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British,
found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the
British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party.
1885: First automobile powered by an internal combustion engine is produced
by Karl Benz in Mannheim, Germany. Henry Ford makes his first car in 1893
in the US and later invents assembly line production.
1886: Rene Guenon is born, first European philosopher to become a Vedantin,
says biographer Robin Waterfield.
1887-1963: Life of Swami Sivananda, Hindu universalist renaissance guru,
author of 200 books, founder of Divine Life Society, with 400 branches
worldwide in present day.
1888: Max Muller, revising his stance, writes, "Aryan, in scientific
language, is utterly inapplicable to race. If I say Aryas, I mean neither
blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I mean simply those who spoke the
Aryan language."
1888-1975: Lifetime of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, renowned Tamil
panentheist, renaissance philosopher, eminent writer; free India's first
vice-president and second president.
1891: Maha Bodhi Society, an organization to encourage Buddhist studies in
India and abroad, is founded in Sri Lanka by Buddhist monk Anagarika
Dharmapala.
1893: Swami Vivekananda represents Hinduism at Chicago's Parliament of the
World's Religions, first ever interfaith gathering, dramatically
enlightening Western opinion as to the profundity of Hindu philosophy and
culture.
1893-1952: Life of Paramahamsa Yogananda, universalist Hindu, renaissance
founder of Self Realization Fellowship (1925) in US, author of famed
Autobiography of a Yogi (1946), popular book globalizing India's spiritual
traditions.
1894: Gandhi drafts first petition protesting the indentured servant
system. Less than six months later, British announce the halt of indentured
emigration from India.
1894-1994: Lifetime of Swami Chandrashekarendra, venerated Shankaracharya
saint of Kanchi monastery in South India.
1894-1969: Life of Meher Baba of Poona, silent sage whose mystical
teachings stress love, self-inquiry and God consciousness.
1896-1982: Lifetime of Anandamayi Ma, God-intoxicated yogini and mystic
Bengali saint. Her spirit lives on in devotees.
1896: Nationalist leader, Marathi scholar Bal Bangadhar Tilak (1857-1920)
initiates Ganesha Visarjana and Sivaji festivals to fan Indian nationalism.
He is first to demand complete independence, Purna Svaraj, from Britain.
1896-1977: Lifetime of Vaishnava Hindu renaissance activist Bhaktivedanta
Swami Pradhupada. Founds Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in US in 1966. Dies
11 years later.
1896: American humorist Mark Twain writes Following the Equator, describing
his three-month stay in India, during voyage to Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand,
Australia, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, South Africa and England. According to him
and his critics, it is one of his finest works.
1897: Swami Vivekananda founds Ramakrishna Mission.
1898-1907: Cholera epidemic claims 370,000 lives in India.
1900: World population is 1.6 billion. India population is 290 million:
17.8% of world.
1900: India's tea exports to Britain reach 137 million pounds.
1900-77: Uday Shankar of Udaipur, dancer and choreographer, adapts Western
theatrical techniques to Hindu dance, popularizing his ballet in India,
Europe and the US.
1905: Lord Curzon, arrogant British Viceroy of India, resigns.
1905: Sage Yogaswami, age 33, is initiated by Chellappaswami at Nallur, Sri
Lanka; later becomes the next preceptor in the Nandinatha Sampradaya's
Kailasa Parampara.
1906: Muslim League political party is formed in India.
1906: Dutch Christians overtake Bali after Puputan massacres in which Hindu
Balinese royal families are murdered.
1908-82: Lifetime of Swami Muktananda, global Kashmir Saiva renaissance
satguru and founder of Siddha Yoga Dham.
1909-69: Lifetime of Dada Lekhraj (1909-1969), Hindu renaissance founder of
Brahma Kumaris, Saivite social reform movement stressing meditation and
world peace.
1909: Gandhi and assistant Maganlal agitate for better working conditions
and abolition of indentured servitude in S. Africa. Maganlal continues
Gandhi's work in Fiji.
1912: Anti-Indian racial riots on the US West Coast expel large Hindu
immigrant population.
1913: New law prohibits Indian immigration to S. Africa, primarily in
answer to white colonists' alarm at competition of Indian merchants and
expired labor contracts.
1914: US government excludes Indian citizens from immigration. Restriction
stands until 1965.
1914: Austria's Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated by Christian Serb
nationalists. Chain reaction leads to W.W. I.
1914: Swami Satchidananda is born, founder of Integral Yoga Institute and
Light of Truth Universal Shrine in the US.
1917: Communists under Lenin seize power in Russia, 1/6th of the Earth's
land mass, following the Bolshevik Revolution.
1917: Last Hindu Indian indentured laborers are brought to British
Christian colonies of Fiji and Trinidad.
1917-93: Life of Swami Chinmayananda, Vedantist writer, lecturer, Hindu
renaissance founder of Chinmaya Mission and a co-founder of the Vishva
Hindu Parishad.
1918: World War I ends. Death toll is estimated at ten million.
1918: Spanish Influenza epidemic kills 12.5 million in India, 21.6 million
worldwide.
1918: Shirdi Sai Baba, saint to both Hindus and Muslims, dies at
approximately age 70.
1919: Brigadier Dyer orders Gurkha troops to shoot unarmed demonstrators in
Amritsar, killing 379. Massacre convinces Gandhi that India must demand
full independence from oppressive British Christian rule.
1920: Gandhi formulates the satyagraha, "firmness in truth," strategy of
noncooperation and nonviolence against India's Christian British rulers.
Later resolves to wear only dothi to preserve homespun cotton and
simplicity.
1920: System of indentured servitude is abolished by India, following
grassroots agitation by Mahatma Gandhi.
1920: Ravi Shankar is born in Varanasi, sitar master, composer and founder
of National Orchestra of India, he inspires Western appreciation of Indian
music.
1922: Pramukh Swami is born, renaissance traditionalist Hindu, head of
Bochasanwasi Swaminarayan Sanstha Sangh.
1922: Tagore's school at Shantineketan (founded 1901) is made into Vishva
Bharati Univ. Becomes national Univ., 1951.
1923: US law excludes citizens of India from naturalization.
1924: Sir John Marshall (1876-1958) discovers relics of the Indus Valley
Hindu civilization. Begins large-scale excavations.
1925: K.V. Hedgewar (1890-1949) founds Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a
Hindu nationalist movement.
1926: Satya Sai Baba is born, Hindu universalist renaissance charismatic
guru, educationalist, worker of miracles.
1927: Sivaya Subramuniyaswami is born, present-day satguru in the
Nandinatha Sampradaya's Kailasa Parampara.
1927: Maharashtra bars tradition of dedicating girls to temples as
Devadasis, ritual dancers. Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa soon follow
suit; 20 years later, Tamil Nadu bans devotional dancing and singing by
women in its thousands of temples and in all Hindu ceremonies.
1927 & 34: Indians permitted to sit as jurors and court magistrates.
1928: Hindu leader Jawaharlal Nehru drafts plan for a free India; becomes
president of Congress Party in 1929.
1929: Chellachiamman, woman saint of Sri Lanka, dies. She was mentor to
Sage Yogaswami and Kandiah Chettiar.
1931: Shri Chinmoy is born in Bengal, yogi, artist, self-transcendence
master and United Nations peace ambassador.
1931: 2.5 million Indians reside overseas; largest communities are in Sri
Lanka, Malaya, Mauritius and S. Africa.
1931: Dr. Karan Singh is born, son and heir apparent of Kashmir's last
Maharaja; becomes parliamentarian, Indian ambassador to the US and global
Hindu spokesman.
1934: Paul Brunton's instantly popular A Search in Secret India makes known
to the West such illumined holy men as Shri Chandrashekharendra and Ramana
Maharshi.
1936-1991: Lifetime of Shrimati Rukmini Devi, founder of Kalakshetra-a
school of Hindu classical music, dance, theatrical arts, painting and
handicrafts-in Madras.
1938: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan is founded in Bombay by K.M. Munshi to
conserve, develop and diffuse Indian culture.
1939: Adolph Hitler's Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"), manifesto of Nazism,
published 1925, sells 5 million copies in 11 languages. It reveals his
racist Aryan, anti-Semitic ideology, strategy of revenge and Socialist rise
to power.
1939: World War II begins September 3, as France and Britain declare war on
Germany after Germany invades Poland.
1939: Maria Montessori (1870-1952), first Italian female physician and
"discoverer of the child," spends nine years in India teaching her
kindergarten method and studying Hinduism through the Theosophical Society
in Adyar.
1939: Mohammed Ali Jinnah calls for a separate Muslim state.
1941: First US chair of Sanskrit and Indology established at Yale Univ.;
American Oriental Society founded in 1942.
1942: At sites along the lost Sarasvati River in Rajasthan, archeologist
Sir Aurel Stein finds shards with incised characters identical to those on
Indus Valley seals.
1945: Germany surrenders to Allied forces. Ghastly concentration camps that
killed 6 million Jews are discovered.
1945: US drops atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan, ending World
War II. Total war dead is 60 million.
1945: United Nations founded by 4 Allied nations and China to "save
succeeding generations from the scourge of war."
1947: India gains independence from Britain August 15. Pakistan emerges as
a separate Islamic nation, and 600,000 die in clashes during subsequent
population exchange of 14 million people between the two new countries.
1948: Britain grants colony of Sri Lanka Dominion status and
self-government under Commonwealth jurisdiction.
1948: Establishment of Sarva Seva Sangh, Gandhian movement for new social
order (Sarvodaya).
1948: Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated January 30th by Nathuram Godse, 35,
editor-publisher of a Hindu Mahasabha weekly in Poona, in retaliation for
Gandhi's concessions to Muslim demands and agreeing to partition 27% of
India to create the new Islamic nation of Pakistan.
1949: Sri Lanka's Sage Yogaswami initiates Sivaya Subramuniyaswami as his
successor in Nandinatha Sampradaya's Kailasa Parampara. Subramuniyaswami
founds Saiva Siddhanta Church and Yoga Order the same year.
1949: India's new constitution, authored chiefly by B.R. Ambedkar, declares
there shall be no "discrimination" against any citizen on the grounds of
caste, jati, and that the practice of "untouchability" is abolished.
1950: Wartime jobs in West, taking women out of home, have led to weakened
family, delinquency, cultural breakdown.
1950: India is declared a secular republic. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru
(1947-1964) is determined to abolish casteism and industrialize the nation.
Constitution makes Hindi official national language; English to continue
for 15 years; 14 major state languages are recognized.
1951: India's Bharatiya Janata Sangh (BJP) party is founded.
1955-6: Indian government enacts social reforms on Hindu marriage,
succession, guardianship, adoption, etc.
1950-60s Tours of Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan lead to worldwide
popularization of Indian music.
1955: Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German physicist formulator of the
relativity theory dies. He declared Lord Siva Nataraja best metaphor for
the workings of the universe.
1956: Indian government reorganizes states according to linguistic
principles and inaugurates second Five-Year Plan.
1956: Swami Satchidananda makes first visit to America.
1957: Sivaya Subramuniyaswami founds Himalayan Academy and opens US's first
Hindu temple, in San Francisco.
1959: Dalai Lama flees Tibet and finds refuge in North India as China
invades his Buddhist nation.
1959: The transistor makes computers smaller and faster than prototypes
like the 51-foot-long, 8-foot high Mark I, containing I-million parts and
500 miles of wire, invented for the US Navy in 1944 by IBM's Howard Aiken.
From the 1960s onward, integrated circuitry and microprocessors will take
computers-descendants of the 5,000-year-old Oriental abacus-to unimaginable
levels to revolutionize Earth's technology and society.
1960: Since 1930, 5% of immigrants to US have been Asians, while European
immigrants have constituted 58%.
1960: Border war with China shakes India's nonaligned policy.
1961: India forcibly reclaims Goa, Damao and Diu from the Portuguese. Goa
became a state of India in 1987.
1963: US President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
1963: Hallucinogenic drug culture arises in US. Hindu gurus decry the false
promise and predict "a chemical chaos."
1964: India's Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), a Hindu religious nationalist
movement, is founded to counter secularism.
1964: Rock group, the Beatles, practice Transcendental Meditation (TM),
bringing fame to Maharshi Mahesh Yogi.
1965: US immigration cancels racial qualifications and restores
naturalization rights. Welcomes 170,000 Asians yearly.
1966: J. Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, becomes Prime Minister of India,
world's largest democracy, succeeding L. B. Shastri who took office after
Nehru's death in 1964.
1968: US Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King is assassinated.
1969: US astronaut Neil Armstrong sets foot on the moon.
1970: Kauai Aadheenam, Hindu monastery, site of Kadavul Hindu Temple, Saiva
Siddhanta Church headquarters, San Marga Sanctuary and editorial offices of
Hinduism Today is founded February 5 on Hawaii's Garden Island.
1971: Rebellion in East Pakistan (formerly Bengal). Ten million Bengalis,
mainly Hindus, flee to India. Indo-Pak border clashes escalate to war.
India defeats West Pakistan. E. Pakistan becomes independent Bangladesh.
1972: A Historical Atlas of South Asia is produced by Joseph E.
Schwartzberg, Siva G. Bajpai, Raj B. Mathur, et al.
1972: Muslim dictator Idi Amin expels Indians from Uganda.
1973: Neem Karoli Baba, Hindu mystic and siddha, dies.
1974: India detonates a "nuclear device."
1974: Watergate scandal. US President Nixon resigns.
1975: Netherlands gives independence to Dutch Guyana, which becomes
Suriname; one third of Hindus (descendants of Indian plantation workers)
emigrate to Netherlands for better social and economic conditions.
1977: One hundred thousand Tamil Hindu tea-pickers expatriated from Sri
Lanka are shipped to Madras, South India.
1979: Sivaya Subramuniyaswami founds Hinduism Today international newspaper
to promote Hindu solidarity.
1980: Grand South Indian counterpart to Kumbha Mela of Prayag, the
Mahamagham festival, held every 12 years in Kumbhakonam, on the river
Kaveri, two million attend.
1981: India has one-half world's cattle: 8 cows for every 10 Indians.
1981: Deadly AIDS disease is conclusively identified.
1981: First bharata natyam dance in a temple since 1947 Christian-British
ban on Devadasis is arranged by Sivaya Subramuniyaswami at Chidambaram;
100,000 attend.
1983: Violence between Hindu Tamils and Buddhist Singhalese in Sri Lanka
marks beginning of Tamil rebellion by Tiger freedom fighters demanding an
independent nation called Eelam. Prolonged civil war results.
1984: Balasarasvati, eminent classical Karnatic singer and bharata natyam
dancer of worldwide acclaim, dies.
1984: Since 1980, Asians have made up 48% of immigrants to the US, with the
European portion shrinking to 12%.
1984: Indian soldiers under orders from Prime Minister Indira Gandhi storm
Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar to crush rebellion. She is assassinated this
year by her Sikh bodyguards in retaliation. Her son Rajiv takes office.
1986: Swami Satchidananda dedicates Light of Truth Universal Shrine (LOTUS)
at Yogaville in Virginia, USA.
1986: Jiddha Krishnamurti, anti-guru guru, semi-existentialist
philosophical Indian lecturer and author, dies.
1986: World Religious Parliament in New Delhi bestows the title
Jagadacharya, "world teacher," on five spiritual leaders outside India:
Swami Chinmayananda of Chinmaya Mission (Bombay, India); Satguru Sivaya
Subramuniyaswami of Saiva Siddhanta Church and Himalayan Academy
(Hawaii-California, USA); Yogiraj Amrit Desai of Kripalu Yoga Center (New
York, USA); Pandit Tej Ramji Sharma of Nepali Baba (Kathmandu, Nepal);
Swami Jagpurnadas Maharaj (Port Louis, Mauritius).
1987: Colonel S. Rabuka, a Methodist, leads coup deposing Fiji's
Indian-dominated government and instituting military rule. July, 1990,
constitution guarantees political majority to ethnic (mostly Christian)
Fijians.
1988: General Ershad declares Islam state religion of Bangladesh, outraging
12-million (11%) Hindu population.
1988: US allows annual influx of 270,000 Asian immigrants.
1988: First Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders on Human
Survival is held at Oxford University, England. Hindus discuss
international cooperation with 100 religious leaders and 100
parliamentarians.
1989: Christian missionaries are spending US%165 million per year to
convert Hindus.
1990: The Berlin Wall is taken down February 12. Germany is reunited over
the next year. Warsaw Pact is dissolved.
1990: Under its new democratic constitution, Nepal remains the world's only
Hindu country.
1990: Hindus flee Muslim persecution in Kashmir Valley.
1990: Foundation stones are laid in Ayodhya for new temple at the
birthplace of Lord Rama, as Hindu nationalism rises.
1990: Vatcan condemns Eastern mysticism as false doctrine in letter by
Cardinal Ratzinger approved by Pope Paul II, to purge Catholic monasteries,
convents and clergy of involvement in Eastern meditation, yoga and Zen.
1990: Second Global Forum of Spiritual Leaders and Parliamentarians for
Human Survival, in Moscow, cosponsored by Supreme Soviet, gives stage for
Hindu thinking. Shringeri sannyasin Swami Paramananda Bharati concludes
Forum with Vedic peace prayer in Kremlin Hall, leading 2,500 world leaders
in chanting Aum three times.
1990: Communist leadership of USSR collapses, to be replaced by 12
independent democratic nations.
1991: Hindu Renaissance Award is founded by Hinduism Today and declares
Swami Paamananda Bharati of Shingeri Matha "1990 Hidu of the Year."
1991: Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated in Tamil Nadu in May.
India blames Sri Lankan Tamil separatists.
1991: Indian tribals, adivasis, are 45 million strong.
1991: In Bangalore, India, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami authorizes
renowned architect V. Ganapati Sthapati to begin carving the Chola-style,
white-granite, moksha Iraivan Temple in a project guided by Shri Shri
Trichy Swami, Shri Shri Balagangadaranathaswami and Shri Sivapuriswami.
Shipped to Hawaii's Garden Island of Kauai and erected on San Marga,
Iraivan will be the Western Hemisphere's first all-stone Agamic temple.The
world's largest single-pointed, six-sided crystal (700 lbs.), known as the
Earthkeeper, will be enshrined as its Sivalinga.
1992: Swami Chidananda Saraswati, spiritual head of Parmarth Niketan Trust,
with 26 ashramas, is named Hinduism Today's 1991 Hindu of the Year for
founding historic Encyclopedia of Hinduism Indian Heritage project.
1992: World population is 5.2 billion; 17% or 895 million, live in India.
Of these, 85%, or 760 million, are Hindu.
1992: Third Global Forum of Spiritual Leaders and Parliamentarians for
Human Survival meets in Rio de Janeiro in conjunction with Earth Summit
(UNCED). Hindu views of nature, environment and traditional values help
inform the 70,000 delegates planning global future.
1992: Hindu radicals demolish Babri Masjid built in 1548 on Rama's
birthplace in Ayodhya by Muslim conqueror Babar after he destroyed a Hindu
temple marking the site. The monument was a central icon of Hindu
resentment toward Muslim destruction of 60,000 temples.
1993: Fourth Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders on Human
Survival meets in Kyoto, Japan. Green Cross is founded for environmental
protection.
1993: Swami Chinmayananda is named 1992 Hindu of the Year, for lifetime of
dynamic service to Sanatana Dharma worldwide-attains mahasamadhi July 26,
at age 77.
1993: Swami Brahmananda Sarasvati, renowned yoga scholar, and Swami
Vishnu-devananda, author of world's most popular manual on hatha yoga,
reach parinirvana.
1993: Chicago's historic centenary Parliament of the World's Religions
convenes in September. Presidents' Assembly, a core group of 25 men and
women representing the world's faiths, is formed to perpetuate Parliament
goals.
1994: Harvard University research identifies over 800 Hindu temples open
for worship in the United States.
1994: Mata Amritanandamayi (1953-) charismatic woman saint of Kerala, is
named 1993 Hindu of the Year.
1994: All India pays homage to Kanchi's beloved peripatetic tapasvin sage,
Shri la Shri Shankaracharya Chandrashekharendra, who passes away January 7,
during his 100th year.
1994: Hindu Heritage Endowment, first Hindu international trust, founded by
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami.
2000: World population is 6.2 billion. India population is 1.2 billion: 20%
of world (projection by World Watch).
2050: British historian Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975) predicted that at the
close of the 20th century the world would still be dominated by the West,
but during the 21st century India will conquer her conquerors, preempting
the place formerly held by technology. Religion worldwide will be restored
to its earlier importance, and the center of world happenings will wander
back from the shores of the Atlantic to the East where civilization
originated.
2094: Bharat (formerly India) is world's most populous nation. Sanatana
Dharma, finding new expressions through interactive electronic tools,
guides humankind's future. Time flows on. Live long and prosper.
Aum. Shanti, Shanti, Shanti. Aum.
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BBC
Friday, April 26, 2002
[Caption] An alleged victim says he was abused for years
A Boston priest at the heart of a sex abuse scandal that
has rocked the Roman Catholic Church taught children how
to inject drugs, his diary has revealed.
"My God, I've even taught kids how to shoot up properly"
- Reverend Paul Shanley's diary
Reverend Paul Shanley, who was involved with the North
American Man Boy Love Association which promotes sex
between men and children, also suffered from sexually
transmitted diseases, he wrote.
Personal papers and other documents relating to Mr
Shanley have been discovered by the Boston archdiocese
and handed to lawyers suing the Church on behalf of an
alleged victim of molestation.
Revelations about Mr Shanley's activities, sex abuse by
another local priest and the fact that the archbishop
appeared to cover up what he knew have sent shockwaves
around the US and the world.
[Caption] Mr Shanley recorded his life as a priest
ministering to those on the street
The discovery of Mr Shanley's diary coincided with the
summoning of US cardinals to the Vatican to brief the
Pope on what had happened and discuss how to tackle the
scandal.
The papers were handed under a court order to lawyers
acting for Gregory Ford, who says he was sexually abused
by Mr Shanley.
One of the lawyers, Roderick MacLeish, said the documents
included a frank diary from 1972 of Mr Shanley's role as
a "street priest" ministering to drug addicts, runaways
and homosexuals.
He read an excerpt written by Mr Shanley: "Imagine much
of my life these last few years has been choosing not to
pick between good and evil, but the lesser of two evils.
"What we have are Paul Shanley's own perverted ramblings
about his conduct
- Lawyer Roderick MacLeish
"My God, I've even taught kids how to shoot up properly."
Mr MacLeish said: "What we have are Paul Shanley's own
perverted ramblings about his conduct."
Letters to Vatican
The lawyer received 800 documents from the archdiocese
which may include duplicates of about 800 papers he has
already been given. He said the diary showed Mr Shanley
sought regular treatment for venereal disease.
Records handed over from the Church showed officials had
been told of allegations of abuse against Mr Shanley as
early as 1967.
[Caption] Cardinal Bernard Law reassigned priests accused
of paedophilia
Also included were articles showing the archdiocese knew
Mr Shanley, 71, had been a vocal proponent of sex between
men and boys, as well as correspondence between the
archdiocese and the Vatican on Mr Shanley's views about
sex.
Mr Shanley, who is now retired and believed to be living
in San Diego, California, has never been charged with
abuse and has not spoken publicly since the case began.
A spokesman for the Boston archdiocese, Reverend
Christopher Coyne, said the late discovery of the
documents was "terribly embarrassing".
The alleged abuse victim Mr Ford, now 24, and his parents
are suing Cardinal Bernard Law and the archdiocese for
allegedly failing to protect him from being abused by Mr
Shanley between the ages of six and 11.
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Whywar707909928
the globe do not rise and critise
this malignancy, this abcess,
this putrefaction, this sore,
this festering wound of casteism
that ails this faith, Hinduism will die
slow but inevitable death.,
and all your thousands of posts
are in vain.
Dont forget thinking high caste
people find it as revolting and
unpalatable as enlightened low
csates.
Paulo Joe Jingy
"Dr. Jai Maharaj" wrote:
> Here is the mission of Jesus stated in the Bible and many
> Christians follow it literally:
>
> "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth:
> I came not so send peace, but a sword.
> "For I am come to set a man at variance against his
> father, and the daughter against her mother, and the
> daughter in law against her mother in law.
> "And a man's foes shall be they of his own
> household.
> - Matthew 10:34-36.
Are you upset because He didn't say that the Untouchables were lower
than cow shit and piss?
As I said before: "Those that live in urine drenched houses, shouldn't
Whywar707909928
Ramanujan, Madhaacharya, Chiatanya Mahaprabhu,Nanak
Narsim Bhagat, Kabir, Vithal, Govinda,Vivekananda, Dayanada,
Ramakrisna Parmahansma, and counless personalities, more knowledgeable and
immersed in Hindu/Indian ethos
than individual below have preached against
casteism.
Paulo Joe Jingy
By Tahir Mahmoud
Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's one day fast of penitence
on January 30 is reflective of the widespread hyprocrisy in the ranks of
the Indian ruling elite. The fast, coinciding with the fiftieth
anniversary of Karamchand Gandhi's assassination, was meant to expiate
for the horrible death of an Australian Christian missionary and his two
young sons in Orissa on January 23.
Graham Staines, 58, and his sons, Philip, 10 and Timothy, 8, were burnt
alive when Hindu fascists doused their jeep in which they were sleeping
with kerosene and set it ablaze. When the three terrified occupants
tried to break out of the vehicle, the Hindu mob pushed them back into
the burning inferno.
Staines's 'crime' was that he had devoted 34 years of his life to
serving lepers in India. A week prior to Christmas, Hindu terrorists had
attacked and burnt churches in Gujarat's Dangs district but no one was
killed there.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) whose allies perpetrated the
Orissa horror, immediately pronounced the attack as 'an isolated
incident.' How isolated was the attack? There have been 108 attacks
against Christians in India over the past year. On February 3, a nun was
gangraped in the same locality where Staines and his children were burnt
alive and on February 6, a Christian boy and his sister were murdered.
The number of anti-Muslim attacks is more than three times higher. These
are euphemistically dismissed as 'communal riots.'
Vajpayee's fast of penitence must be viewed against the backdrop of his
statements. When he visited Dangs district on January 10, he called for
a 'national debate to re-examine the freedom of religious
conversations,' as reported by the Times of India on January 11, 1999.
Vajpayee went further. He said 'religious conversion by Christian
missionaries was at the root of all the trouble in the district,'
(Hindu, January 11, 1999).
Many observers saw this as a green light to his Hindu terrorist allies
to continue with their anti-Christian crusade which resulted in the
tragic deaths of Staines and his two children. On January 29, some 3,000
Muslims and Christians, perhaps for the first time, took out a joint
procession in Delhi denouncing the government's failure to curb attacks
on minorities. Even as Christians were being targeted, Muslims were
being killed by the Hindu terrorists as was witnessed in Surathkal,
Karnataka (see Crescent International, January 16-31, 1999).
Vajpayee's assertion that 'religious conversion by Christian
missionaries was at the root of all the trouble' was dismissed by
Delhi's Archbishop Alan de Lastic. He said that had Christians being
involved in conversions, there would be 350 million, not a merely 23
million Christians in India.
The role of Christian missionaries in India also needs a closer look.
The best known missionary, of course, was Mother Teresa, who died in
August 1997. She had devoted her entire life to looking after destitute
children in the slums of Calcutta. In a letter to Dalit Voice (February
1-15, 1999), Ebe Sunder Raj of India Missions Association, gave some
statistics pertaining to the work of Christian missionaries. He wrote:
'The 2.3 percent Christians in the Indian population cater to 20 percent
of all primary education in India, 10 percent of all the literacy and
community healthcare, 25 percent of all existing care of destitutes and
orphans, 30 percent of all the handicapped, lepers and AIDS patients
etc.'
These are very impressive figures. So why are the Hindu terrorists
targeting the very people who are helping the most deprived of the
Indian society? The answer is that the Hindu terrorists belong to the
upper caste. The oppressed and downtrodden in India belong to the lower
castes. The upper caste Hindus do not wish to see members of the lower
castes getting educated otherwise they will begin to demand their fair
share as well as question why they are being deprived of their basic
rights.
According to the Indian constitution, discrimination on the basis of
caste is forbidden. The reality is otherwise. Prejudice cannot be erased
from people's minds simply by legislation. It requires the full force of
the law to punish those who violate these rules. Since power has resided
in the hands of the Brahmins - the tiny class of parasites sitting at
the apex of the caste pyramid - they have made sure that the lower
castes continue to suffer the indignity and humiliation they have
endured for millennia.
Despite much talk about Indian secularism, freedom and equality, the
upper castes do not marry from the lower castes, nor allow their
daughters to be married by members of the lower caste. Caste
discrimination--religiously-sanctioned apartheid--is a permanent feature
of life in India, and is widespread.
Not only is such discrimination tolerated in India, even the west
remains silent about it. One can imagine the rucous that would have
erupted had a Christian missionary being killed in Pakistan or some
other Muslim country. The US has in fact passed a bill into law under
which it will impose sanctions on any country where Christians are
persecuted. There is little chance of this law being applied to India.
In fact, at the time when Christians in India were protesting against
their persecution at the hands of Hindu terrorists, the US was busy
huddling with Indian officials offering them partnership in trade,
commerce and technology. Like the Christian Palestinians suffering at
the hands of the zionist occupiers, the Christians of India, too, can
forget about any help from the west. The west's concern about Christians
is aroused only if it undermines Muslims.
--
Paulo Joe Jingy
He's back--so it's back!
http://harb.reallysucks.com
Paulo Joe Jingy
Alexander James
Dear Concerned,
The past few weeks have seen Gujarat inundated with a fresh flood of
hate literature by Hindu terrorists, urging Hindus to think of nothing
but murder and mayhem, to instigate Hindus to violence against India’s
Christians and Muslems. We reproduce some excerpts of Hindu hate
literature below. The Indian government is collaborating with these
Hindu hate-mongers in planning a genocide of non-Hindus (translated from
the original Gujarati into English).
We remember the dehumanising actions of the armed militias of the Sangh
Parivar, as we remember both Naroda Patiya and Bhavnagar. It is time
that the Gujarat Government and Prime Minister of India, Atal Behari
Vajpayee face up squarely to the kind of company they keep.
See Below the translated items disclosed
Hate Pamphlet Sample 1 (translated into English):
We do not want to leave a single Muslim alive in Gujarat. The people of
villages as well as cities have now woken up and they are ready to take
an eye for an eye {respond to stones with bricks}. To avenge murder
{revenge for blood with blood} we will kill Muslims wherever we see
them. Annihilate Muslims from Bharat. And this will continue to happen
till Muslims are not exterminated. Therefore, it is necessary for our
Hindu brethren to come forward. Muslims should realise that only 10 per
cent of Hindus have called for their annihilation.
If the remaining 90 per cent also call for their annihilation then the
name Muslim will not survive in Gujarat and the time has come to call
for the annihilation of all Muslims. In many villages this has already
been done. Now the Hindus of the villages should join the Hindus of the
cities and complete the work of annihilation of Muslims.
If Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had been the Prime Minister of India then
not a single Muslim would have been in India. So, let all Hindu brethren
know that the time has come to eradicate the Muslim word from Gujarat.
All Hindu brethren are requested to be ready to destroy Muslims without
being afraid of any politician. People of villages and cities get ready
and celebrate next Holi with the corpses of Muslims. Long live Hindu
nation!
* Hindu Sevak
Come! Let us resolve:
(1) I will not buy any thing from any Muslim shopkeeper.
(2) I will not sell my goods to these elements.
(3) Neither use these traitors’ hotels or their garages.
(4) I will give my car to Hindus’ garages only. From a needle to gold,
do not buy anything made by a Muslim nor sell anything made by us to
them.
(5) Boycott movies casting Muslim heroes-heroines.
Banish films of traitorous producers.
(6) Never work in Muslims’ offices and do not employ Muslims.
Such a stringent economic boycott will suffocate those elements and
break their backs. Then it will be difficult for them to live in any
corner of the country. Friends, start this boycott from today so that no
Muslim will have the guts to lift his head before us and live. Have you
read this newsletter? Then make 10 copies and distribute it amongst our
brethren. He who does not follow this newsletter and does not distribute
it to others-may he be cursed by Hanuman and Ramchandra. Jai Shree Ram!
* A true Hindu patriot Pamphlet Sample 3:
Wake up.... Get up.... Be united.....
The Muslims should be ashamed that even after 50 years of independence
they have not become Hindustanis, but they have no idea of the strength
of the majority community. Muslims are traitors as compared to Hindus.
Now the Muslims cannot be protected from the Hindus by either the police
or the army - or the vote-seekers or the political parties who pamper
them. Police and army you also beware, you are also Hindus. You can also
be attacked. You should also support Hindus. We Hindus support the
police and the army fully.
My Hindu brethren, unite and form a Free Indian Army just like the one
during the struggle for independence. Annihilate the enemy and lighten
the burden of sin, which the country is carrying.
>From Vatva to Naroda, Bapunagar to Kalupur,
On 29th March there will be a call, take Ram’s name and attack, We will
kill Muslims the way we destroyed Babri, We will burn Jamalpur and empty
Dariyapur, Whether it is an old chawl or miyas (Muslim), we will not
leave you,
We Hindustanis swear we will seek you out and kill you, This is the
tradition of Raghukul and we never foreswear,
Let Sonia have dogs like Farroukh Shaikh or Haji Bilal, We will treat
them like Aisan Jaffery, Muslims have darkened the skies with the smoke
from burned (muslim) shops, We will cut them and their blood will flow
like rivers.
Free Indian Army is the union of Hinduism. Thousands of our brethren
have joined it. You also join and give your support to save Hindustan.
Thanks to Narendra Modi. We salute you! After Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel,
a hero is born!
Gujarat is proud and the glory of India is in your hands.
Every Hindu is requested not to stone the police or army. They are our
brothers.
* An Indian
(Received by CC on March 28, 2002)
_____
Pamphlet Sample 4:
Let Bajrang Dal ready its crossbow
War is the only Salvation
On the ostentatious stage of democracy, in films and in TV serials,
Hindu philosophy and Hindu gods and goddesses are continuously being
insulted.
At present Hindustan is caught....
* 1 lakh Christian missionaries bring in crores of rupees from
abroad and carry out conversions.
* The forefathers of 95% Christians and 90% Muslims were Hindus...
because of conversions the Hindus are decreasing in number.
* Instead of 3,000 there are 35,000 slaughter houses in India. More
than 50,000 cattle are being slaughtered every day.
* From the country of Buddha and Mahavir, flesh is being exported
instead of non-violence.
All over the country, you see anarchy and aimlessness because Hindu,
Hindu culture, Hinduism and Hindu religion are being continuously
eroded.Every young man must join Bajrang Dal today because....
* In Hindu Hindustan the largest group of Hindu youth with lakhs of
members is Bajrang Dal.
* It is Bajrang Dal’s aim that Hinduism, Hindu religion and
Hindustan can be victorious in protecting itself by fighting till mother
Bharat is pleased.
* Bajrang Dal is the strength of the Hindus today.
*
Since 1984, Bajrang Dal has been fighting on various fronts.
* Bajrang Dal saved more than one and a half lakh cows from the
slaughter houses by celebrating cow protection year.
* Over the short period of eight months, Bajrang Dal has
courageously saved more than 100 Hindu girls from the irreligious.
* In Gujarat’s 3321 villages, Bajrang Dal is busily carrying on the
good work of service, protection and unity.
* Make an army of 20 young persons in every village.
Pamphlet Sample 5:
(We sincerely apologise to all Muslims, and to every one of our readers
for reproducing the leaflet below. We do so with pain. We are however
concerned that the mindset that can produce filth such as this must be
brought into public view - Editors).
The people of Baroda and Ahmedabad have gone berserk. Narendra Modi you
have f__ed the mother of miyas. The volcano which was inactive for years
has erupted. It has burnt the arse of miyas and made them dance nude. We
have untied the penises which were tied till now. Without castor oil in
the arse we have made them cry Those who call religious war, violence,
are all f__ers.
We have widened the tight vaginas of the "bibis". Now even the adivasis
have realised what Hinduism is. They have shot their arrow in the arse
of mullahs. Wake up Hindus there are still miyas left alive around you
Learn from Panvad village where their mother was f__ed. She was f__ed
standing while she kept shouting. She enjoyed the uncircumcised (Hindu)
…..(word left out ). With a Hindu government the Hindus have the power
to annihilate miyas Kick them in the arse to drive them out of not only
villages and cities but also the country Let the f__ers know that The
f__ing of f__ers will not work.
Pamphlet Sample 6:
INSTRUCTIONS FROM LOCAL LEADERS TO RSS MEMBERS
(1) Go to the temple twice a day in the morning and evening
(2) Keep yourself ready to respond to your leader when he needs your
help
(3) When the army marches past set off fire crackers
(4) Dress in khaki pant white shirt and cap and tie a string on your
hand (wrist?)
(5) During meetings and various assemblies move around to help each
other
(6) If they dare get ready and shout
(7) After every meeting shout shlokas at least three times
(8) Hold one meeting per week
(9) When fighting the Muslims change the appearance of your
neighbourhood so you are not recognised
(10) Don’t mount a frontal attack-attack from the back
(11) Fight more at night-time
(12) Try to live close to Muslims
(13) Don’t give the police a chance to catch you with weapons
(14) When you work for the Muslims don’t accept labour compensation
(15) If it is time for wages then collect people around you on the
pretext of searching
(16) If you purchase anything from a Muslim shop pay only the cost
price, not the profit
(17) Don’t give correct testimony to the police
(18) Guard your temple
(19) If you get any information let your leader know in writing
immediately
(20) Every member should be trained to fight against ten people at a
time
(21) During a battle use any weapon to fight
(22) When you do - (?) in Muslim houses have irregular relations with
Muslim women so that you have the opportunity to increase Hindu
population
(23) Deform new-born babies of Muslims
They escape from our control and the poor innocent is sacrificed If the
Hindu youth is angered there will be a rain of shoes on their heads
Hindu wake up now and chase away the Muslims
Do you know that...................?
* Most of the politicians in the country are not concerned with the
welfare of the Hindus. They are only interested in corruption and
robbing the nation to fill their pockets; and play the politics of vote
banks by favouring Muslims at the expense of Hindus
The best solution to the burning questions above is this.
* Attack the Dar-ul-ulum madrassa in Akwada and destroy it.
* Deal only with Hindus whether it is a little cheaper or more
expensive. Support only the Hindus in business and boycott the Muslims
economically
* Tell the children about the great people of our culture and create
in them a sense of courage, heroism and enthusiasm; teach him to be a
fanatical Hindu from childhood.
Ask all politicians only what they are doing for Hindus. If he
associates with Muslims boycott him and teach him a lesson. Explain
calmly to those Hindu traders who maintain close relationships with
Muslims in the hope of cheap goods that this is wrong-then
warn them and if they still don’t listen, cause them as much economic
damage as possible
Pamphlet Sample last:
(Reproduced below is the English translation of one of the VHP
pamphlets)
Lord Shree Krishna told Arjun: ‘Lift your weapons and kill the
non-religious.’
There are rifle-training camps and the Bajrang Dal workers are given
trishuls and taught to use them.
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad is protecting and uniting the Hindus in an
untiring effort to make the country strong and safe. We expect a lot of
monetary support. It is not enough just to show lip sympathy - you will
have to come forward to support them and do our duty otherwise our
(yours and mine) conscience will not forgive us, nor will society.
Become a member of Vishwa Hindu Parishad and donate. Otherwise for a
small section of society, the people will be tired of making sacrifices.
We require strong support from you. Write a check in the name of Vishwa
Hindu Parishad Gujarat right now, otherwise it might be too late. The
Parishad is registered with income tax and charity commissioners so you
can get 50% deduction under 80G. Vishwa Hindu Parishad is the group of
crores of Hindu families.
It is the security force for our safety, protection and tradition. Only
a united Hindu society can bring peace to the nation and the world.
Vishwa Hindu Parishad state leader
Vishwa Hindu Parishad Office
End of translated items
--
Paulo Joe Jingy
Paulo Joe Jingy
ISLAMABAD : Having suffered the worst ever atrocities at the hands of
the Hindu terrorists, the Muslim community in India has started looking
for the international community, Muslim Ummah and the champions of the
Human rights to come to their succor.
Out of sheer desperation following the failure of the Indian authorities
to check the ongoing spate of violence against his fellow beings, an
Indian Muslim has written a letter to a Pakistan-based human rights
organization, Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International.
The letter was written from the town of Himmatnagar, 80 kms north of the
city of Ahmedabad in which the attention of international community has
been drawn to the sufferings and afflictions of the Muslims following
attacks by Hindu terrorists. These attacks have endangered the lives,
properties, relgiious places and the very existence of the Muslims.
"For the past few days we have been completely under siege and have seen
all our properties, worth billions of rupees, systematically destroyed,
razed to the ground by marauding Hindus. In smaller surrounding
villages, Muslims had their property looted and they were hunted down
like dogs. To date, we have been able to do nothing, as there is no
police force, or any other law enforcement agency in sight, or anybody
with authority who will listen to our pleas for help. At present the
situation is tense and an uneasy calm prevails. Those of us who've
escaped with our lives now worry about what will happen next," the
letter reads.
"Just two days ago, we were surrounded by Hindu mobs armed with pipes,
machetes, and swords. When the Hindus attacked, the police pointed guns
only at Muslims. We put out a frantic SOS for help and I believe the
uneasy calm that now prevails is due mainly to international pressure.
But still no media have come to cover the plight of Muslims here".
"In the town of Atarsumba, two Muslim brothers of our community were
dragged to their shop, locked in, and then burnt alive. We were not near
enough to hear their dying screams but we did get to see the charred
remains of their decomposing bodies more than 30 hours later.
Yesterday, for the first time in four days, we obtained milk and water.
We are lucky, for in this community of 20,000 (of which half are men,
the rest women and children) there is still food to eat.
Others have been less fortunate, like the smaller groups and individuals
who have phoned for help. But we could do almost nothing in a situation
where we had no choice between defending families or going on certain
suicide missions to rescue others. In our area alone, an estimated
300-400 were killed during five days of Hindu violence.
The situation has been no different in big cities like Ahmedabad and
Surat Baroda -- parts of Gujarat still burn as I write to you. Yet
India's political leaders insist there is no law and order problem.
Today, the curfew (imposed on Muslims only) has been relaxed slightly,
but if things don't change soon, we can't imagine the horrible
consequences of this ongoing situation where the threat of Hindu attack
is constant.
Today each city and each town is divided into Muslim and Hindu sections
and this will eventually tear away the fabric of Indian society. Even
former Hindu and Muslim friends have sowed the seeds of hatred in one
another's hearts," the letter said.
"We strongly condemn what happened to the Hindus in Godhra as a result
of Muslim violence, but that tragic event does not justify the state-
sanctioned massacre now being carried out by Hindu terrorists in the
name of retaliation. India's government has so far been unsuccessful in
controlling Hindu fanaticism that has resulted in such widespread
terrorism, arson, and murder, to say nothing of the wholesale violation
of Muslim human rights," it added.
"Thus we turn to the worldwide Muslim community, Ansar Burney Welfare
Trust International, Amnesty International and other International Human
Rights Groups for assistance for the plight of human beings and humanity
in Gujarat and our town of Himmatnagar in India," the author of the
letter said.
--
Paulo Joe Jingy
Paulo Joe Jingy
L. K. Advani’s grudging condemnation of Babri destruction little use to
Muslims
By M S Ahmed
One of three Indian-government ministers, who face charges over the
destruction of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya in 1992, has finally given in
to judicial pressure to appear before an enquiry into an outrage that
refuses to go away, thanks to the courage and steadfastness of Indian
Muslims. But the nearest thing to an apology L. K. Advani would allow
himself to give was to say that those who destroyed the mosque "took a
wrongful course". Clearly a member of the Hindu fundamentalist Bharatiya
Janata party (BJP) and of the government of the world’s ‘largest
democracy’ and regional superpower cannot be expected to apologise to
Muslims. Similarly George Bush, the president of the "only superpower in
the world", could not bring himself to apologise to China over the
incident in which a Chinese pilot was killed after his plane collided
with a US spy-plane in China’s airspace. All he could say was that he
was sorry the Chinese pilot had died.
Advani, along with two other ministers in the government of Atal Behari
Vajpayee, faces charges after India’s Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI) named all three as part of a criminal conspiracy to raze the Babri
Masjid. But although the demolition of the mosque has poisoned India’s
social, political and economic life and resulted in the deaths of
thousands of people (most of them Muslim) and the destruction of Muslim
properties and businesses, the CBI’s case against the three ministers
has been stuck in the courts since October 1993. The government, far
from speeding up the resolution of the problem, has been obstructing it.
Only last December Vajpayee caused the issue to flare up again when he
said that building a Hindu temple on the site of the Babri ruins would
be a response to "national sentiment" and part of the "unfinished
agenda" of his government.
It is because of this Hindu jingoism in the Indian judicial,
governmental and legislative sectors that Advani has been able to avoid
appearing before the Liberhan commission of enquiry, set up eight years
ago, simply by saying that he was too busy to do so. When he finally did
appear before the commission on April 10, it was only because the judges
had felt too embarrassed to continue to accept such a ridiculous excuse,
forcing him to attend. But his appearance must surely have come as a
great anti-climax. Having first said that those who had destroyed the
mosque "took a wrongful course", he added that the incident "was one of
the most depressing days of my life" and that he regarded "what happened
as unfortunate and painful".
Advani was head of the BJP, which was instrumental in the demolition of
the Babri Masjid. The only reason for it to be "unfortunate" and
"painful" to him was that he later lost the leadership of his party to
Vajpayee because of the upheaval following the destruction of the
mosque. Both men have since repeatedly claimed that they and their
supporters were not involved, and that Hindu zealots acting
spontaneously were alone responsible. But these claims are clearly
contradicted by evidence gathered by the CBI as well as by testimony
given to previous enquiries. It is also at variance with the accounts of
Hindu terrorists who took part in the mosque’s destruction, whose
testimonies have been published as interviews by Hindu fascist groups.
All three types of evidence indicate that the destruction was planned
meticulously. But in addition the accounts also show that three
terrorist groups allied to the BJP were being trained as ‘demolition
squads’ just outside Ayodhya.
Clearly neither Advani nor Vajpayee is going to apologise for the
vandalism. Far from doing so, indeed, they continue to encourage
violence against Muslims by Hindu terrorists linked to their party. The
burning of copies of the Qur’an in Delhi is one of the most recent
outrages directed against Muslims by Hindu fundamentalists. The
disturbances in Kanpur on Friday March 9, which erupted as a result of
anti-government demonstrations organised by the Congress party, served
as an excuse for Hindu terrorists to attack Muslims, who happened to
join the demonstration Friday prayer. And with the police and
paramilitary forces siding with the terrorists, the attacks led to the
murders of at least 35 Muslims in different areas of India; five mosques
were also destroyed. Ever B. Pathak, the magistrate who ordered the
police to arrest the terrorists, was set upon and killed by BJP thugs.
Meanwhile, the US president, who has not been long enough in his job yet
to order similar mayhem, is showing an equal degree of arrogance by
refusing to apologise to the Chinese. Not only did he refuse offers of
mediation, but he also insisted that it was the Chinese who had been
responsible for the collision. And although Bush has not yet found the
time to order new massacres of Muslims like those committed by the BJP
government, the arrogance he is showing already indicates that he is
capable of doing so. After all, he is guilty of keeping in place the
sanctions initiated by his father against Iraq, which have been
responsible for the deaths of more than a million Iraqi civilians so
far. Surely it is not a coincidence that the arrogance of the ‘only
superpower’ and of the ‘only regional superpower’ has claimed mostly
Muslim lives.
--
Paulo Joe Jingy
Paulo Joe Jingy
India's 944 580 000 inhabitants live in an area of 3 287 590 km². Almost
a quarter of this total are under eighteen years of age. 25% of the
population live in urban areas and this is estimated to be growing
annually at just over 1%. Over population and lack of education in
nutrition and health contribute to the deaths of around 11 000 children
each day. In 1951, 164 million Indians were living in poverty compared
to 312 million in 1993-94.
70 000 to 100 000 children are estimated to work as prostitutes in
India. Recent reports estimate that the number of children involved in
prostitution is increasing at 8 to10% per annum.
About 15% of the prostitutes in Mumbai (Bombay), Delhi, Madras,
Calcutta, Hyderabad and Bangalore are children. It is estimated that 30%
of the prostitutes in these six cities are under 20 years of age. Nearly
half of them became commercial sex workers when they were minors.
Conservative estimates state that around 300 000 children in India are
suffering commercial sexual abuse, which includes working in
pornography.
Here is another source of valid, scientific proof, a scientific study of
child abuse in all the countries of the world, including India.
J. Warburton and M. T. Camacho de la Cruz state in their long report
that India's prostitution trade willfully and knowingly engage children
in prostitution. The Naz numbers are vindicated by this scientific
report.
"Nepal, (1996) 100,000 - 200,00 girls trafficked, CWIN, Nepal"
"India, 25% of the estimated 2 million prostitutes thought to be minors
- Government statistic."
Both Nepal and India are Hindu majority countries.
Hindu hoodlums, against this massive evidence are doing what about this
carcinogenic problem?
Nothing, period.
Hunter
> CHILD PROSTITUTION IN INDIA (February 1999)
Highest in the world apparently... I pointed this out to Doc Jai a while
back.
Dr. Jai Maharaj
BBC
Sunday, March 12 , 2000, 1141 hours UTC
[Caption]
The Pope blesses his bishops at the Vatican
The Pope has publicly asked for forgiveness for the sins
of the Roman Catholic Church throughout the ages.
The unprecedented gesture by the spiritual leader of the
world's one billion Catholics is one of the first major
events of the Vatican's year-long celebrations marking
the beginning of the new Christian millennium.
[Sidebar]
"We are asking pardon ... for the use of violence
committed in the service of truth."
- Pope John Paul II
"We are asking pardon for the divisions among Christians,
for the use of violence that some have committed in the
service of truth, and for attitudes of mistrust and
hostility assumed toward followers of other religions,"
said Pope John Paul II, dressed in the purple robes of
Lent.
The phrase "violence in the service of truth" was an
often-used reference to the treatment of heretics during
the Inquisition, the Crusades, and forced conversions of
native peoples.
The Pope said he was seeking pardon for sins committed
against Catholics, describing his action as an attempt to
"purify the memory" from a sad history of hate and
rivalry.
Sweeping forgiveness
The Pope's homily at The Day of Pardon Mass in St Peter's
Basilica in the Vatican did not mention specific groups.
[Sidebar]
"Christians will acknowledge the sins committed by a not
a few of their number against the people of the
Covenant."
- Cardinal Edward Cassidy
But confessions of sin made by five Vatican cardinals and
two bishops, each with a response from the Pope, did ask
for forgiveness for named wrongs.
Cardinal Edward Cassidy, raising the issue of the
treatment of Jews, said: "Christians will acknowledge the
sins committed by a not a few of their number against the
people of the Covenant."
"We are deeply saddened by the behaviour of those who in
the course of history have caused these children of yours
to suffer, and asking your forgiveness we wish to commit
ourselves to genuine brotherhood," the Pope responded.
Unrealistic
[Caption]
Jerusalem is preparing for the Pope's visit
The Holocaust was not directly mentioned, despite a call
last week by Italian Jews for the Pope to be as specific
as possible about the Nazi killing of 6m Jews in World
War Two.
But Rabbi David Rosen, head of the Jerusalem office of
the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, said
expectations that the Pope would say more were perhaps "a
little unrealistic".
Rabbi Rosen, a prominent figure in Catholic-Jewish
relations, said the inclusion of a request for
forgiveness from Jews was in itself "a significant step".
The Pope is going on pilgrimage to Israel later this
month - the first papal visit for more than 30 years.
Other confessions touched on treatment of racial and
ethnic groups and "contempt for their cultures and
religious traditions" and towards women "who are all too
often humiliated" and marginalised.
Source -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_674000/674246.stm
Sunday, March 12, 2000
Click on the BBC link at News Plus:
http://www.mantra.com/newsplus
Jai Maharaj
http://www.mantra.com/jai
Om Shanti
Panchaang for 14 Ashvin 5103, Saturday, October 19, 2002:
Dr. Jai Maharaj
April 8, 1998 - The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Transcript PBS
Excerpt - "It's more than an apology. We feel that we need to repent,
not only for what we may have done individually,but also for those
members of our Church who failed in this regard."
- Cardinal Edward Casidy
Source - http://www1.pbs.org/newshour/bb/religion/vatican_4-8a.htm
POPE APOLOGIZES FOR NAZI HOLOCAUST
Excerpt - "Vatican City, March 16, 1998 (CNN) -- The Vatican on
Monday made a landmark and long-awaited declaration on the Holocaust,
urging Roman Catholics to repent for past errors but absolving wartime
Pope Pius XII of charges that he turned a blind eye to the Nazis'
attempt to exterminate the Jews."
- CNN
Source - http://www.reformation.org/israel.html
POPE: CHRISTIANS FAILED JEWS DURING WWII
Excerpt - "Saturday, November 1, 1997, Rome - Pope John Paul II
yesterday condemned the actions of many Christians before and during
the Holocaust, telling a Vatican conference yesterday that the Christian
world contributed to the rise of anti-Semitism and then failed to fight
it as Jews were being slaughtered during World War II.
- Washington Post quoted by The Seattle Times
Source - http://www.seattletimes.com/extra/browse/html97/pope_110197.html
Dr. Jai Maharaj
Editorial
The Times of India
Pope John Paul II created history last Sunday when he
apologised for ``the use of violence in the name of
truth, and for the diffidence and hostility engaged
against followers of other religions''.
Just as post-apartheid South Africa added truth and
reconciliation to our ethical vocabulary, the Latin
Church has now introduced the concept of recollection and
reconciliation. This act of seeking forgiveness will go a
long way in correcting past misdemeanours and instances
of hurt felt by those who came in close proximity to the
Roman Church. The church made a special mention of its
role during the Nazi period in condoning, and at time
aiding, the injustice meted out to the Jewish community.
This act of repentance might, however, dismay those who
do not adhere to extremist ideologies of one kind or the
other. There are legitimate fears that apology-mongering
may become yet another national pastime for the more
volatile elements within our society. If an act of
apology does not come from within, it is rendered
meaningless. Remorse has to be heartfelt and not forced.
Indian civilisation has absorbed religions, cultures and
ideas over thousands of years. In a plural society like
ours, where diversity is the norm, people are bound to
rub against one another. This consanguinity is for the
most a creative process, but could also lead to
antagonisms. To force apologies out of each other, then,
could be a way of destroying the very basis of a plural
society. A shared past implicates us all; it makes no
distinction between the pure and the tainted.
Looking closer still, the Pope's apology helps us infer
another lesson. The sins for which the Pontiff has asked
for forgiveness are those that arose out of the mixture
of religion and politics. Hence the story is one of
religiosity getting out of hand and contaminating society
as a consequence. According to St Augustine the human
condition was one of an essential tension between the two
mystical cities -- the city of God and the city of earth,
which could only be resolved through peace and harmony.
Politics, on the other hand, is founded in coercion and
touches only the external side of human beings. It
ignores the inner journey which is guided by the `eye of
faith'. Having deviated from this path, there is no way
to set the errors of the past right. Georges Bernanos in
The Diary of a Country Priest gives the instance of a nun
who spent all her life and waking hours cleaning and
scrubbing every inch of her parish. In the end she died
of rheumatic fever. ``The mistake she made'', says
Bernanos, ``wasn't to fight dirt, sure enough, but to try
and do away with it altogether.'' In other words, the
world we live in is bound to be imperfect. The important
thing is to keep it clean as soundly and sensibly as we
can. Not like the nun in this story, but like a sound
housewife. The world is our home; it is not a shrine. If
only the dust and grime of politics is to be kept out of
it, it would be a much better place. Perhaps, the Holy
Father might want to carry Bernanos's classic as part of
his holiday reading next summer.
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The Cross and the Genocide
The involvement of Christian societies in the Rwandan genocide
By Rainer Chr. Hennig
afrol News, 2001
afrol News background - The 1994 Rwandan genocide,
killing an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus,
is made even more incomprehensible by the documented
participation of many representatives of Rwandan church
societies. How could God fearing nuns, and even a bishop,
take part in the most cruel crimes against humanity
committed on African soil? Even worse, several church
societies allegedly were co-responsible for the growing
hatred that led to the genocide. It remains an enormous
contradiction to the Christian Message of Love.
Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and
he who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does
not love does not know God; for God is love. In this the
love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent His
only Son into the world, so that we might live through
Him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that He
loved us and sent His Son to be the expiation for our
sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love
one another. (1 John 4:7).
On 7 May 1994 soldiers and militias arrived at Shyogwe
Diocese aboard a red pick-up vehicle to transport
civilian Tutsi refugees to the killing sites. "On that
day Bishop Samuel Musabyimana was present and, addressing
the soldiers and militias, publicly stated that he did
not oppose the killing of Tutsis, but that he did not
want killings at the Diocese and that the Tutsis should
be taken to Kabgayi to be killed." (Indictment by the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda against former
Anglican Bishop Samuel Musabyimana).
"Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?" And
He said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with
all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your
mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a
second is like it, you shall love your neighbour as
yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law
and the Prophets." (Matthew 22:34-40).
On 22 April 1994, Séraphine Mukamana had hidden herself
in a garage when militias attacked a convent in Sovu in
southern Rwanda. "We sought refugee in the garage and
closed and barricaded the doors. Outside a bloodbath is
going on. Suddenly an orphan begins to weep as it gets to
hot in the garage. At once, the killers approach the
garage." As the refugees refuse to come out, the militia
leader Emmanuel Rekeraho decides to burn them alive in
the garage. "'The nuns are coming to help us. They are
bringing gasoline,' I heard [Rekeraho] say. Looking
through a hole that the militiamen meanwhile had made in
the wall, I indeed saw Sister Gertrude and Sister Kisito.
The latter was carrying a petrol can. Shortly upon that,
the garage is set on fire." Testimony against two
Catholic nuns, Sisters Gertrude and Maria Kisito in a
Brussels court, May 2001.
Creating a Hutu identity
In 1957, the Hutu catechist Gregoire Kayibanda, under the
ideological patronage of J.P. Harroy, the Belgian
Governor of Rwanda and Mgr. Perraudin, head of the Roman
Catholic Church in Rwanda, publishes the 'Hutu Manifesto'
demanding the political authority be granted to the Hutu
majority. According to the present Rwandan government, in
that year "the Catholic Church encourages Gregoire
Kayibanda and his associates to form political parties
. to champion 'Bahutu interests'".
In 1959 "PARMEHUTU (Le Parti du Mouvement de
l'emancipation Hutu) is established under the guidance of
the Catholic church by the proponents of delayed
independence. PARMEHUTU was also openly sectarian and
anti-Batutsi," again according to the Rwandan government.
The same year, the first massacres of thousands of Tutsi
is organised by radicalised Hutus, "under Belgian
supervision".
In contemporary Rwanda, politically dominated by Tutsis
and moderate Hutus, questions about the Catholic Church's
role in the polarisation of Rwandans, in its extreme
leading towards the 1994 genocide, are openly debated. In
Rwanda, before the genocide called "Africa's most
Christian country," over 50 percent of the population is
Roman Catholic. Some 12 percent belong to other Christian
societies.
As in most African ex-colonies, the missionaries in
Rwanda also embarked on a policy of divide and rule, in
close cooperation with the colonial administration. In
the Belgian Trust Territories of Rwanda and Burundi this
meant creating the ethnicities of Hutu and Tutsi and
promoting the Hutu majority against the ruling Tutsi.
The Catholic Church, effectively supporting the creation
of a Hutu identity and nationalism, thus became part of
the Hutu movement. The mission was rewarded by mass
conversions of Rwandan Hutus, making Catholicism the
dominant religion in Rwanda. As the radical Hutus gained
power in Rwanda at independence in 1962, Catholic and
other clergymen found themselves with personal friends in
all levels of governance and with good access to the
centres of power.
Unlike most African countries, however, the succeeding
Hutu-dominated governments of Rwanda were gradually
radicalised. The government institutionalised
discrimination against the Tutsi and periodically used
massacres against this targeted population as a means of
maintaining the status quo. Resistance was organised by
the growing number of Tutsi refugees, mostly hiding in
Uganda, and grew strong through the 1980s and early
1990s.
The Killing Fields
As it became obvious that the radical government was on
the defensive in the early 1990s, it embarked on a
Hitlerist plan to find a "permanent solution" to the
"Tutsi problem". A genocide, that was to kill between
750,000 and one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus, was
carefully planned and implemented. Hate propaganda was
spread throughout the country and local representatives
got their orders on whom to kill and whom to involve in
the killings. Surprisingly many took part in the
killings, and even more incomprehensible, also many
members of the clergy were involved in the genocide in
some degree.
[Sidebar] "The nuns are coming to help us. They are
bringing gasoline."
- Testimony against two Catholic nuns
The extreme cases include the Anglican bishop Samuel
Musabyimana, who allegedly "was responsible for killing
or causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of
the Tutsi population with intent to destroy, in whole or
in part, a racial or ethnic group". Another extreme is
the sentence against two Catholic nuns, Sisters Gertrude
Mukangango and Julienne Kisito, for their involvement in
the slaughter of at least 5,000 civilians that had sought
refuge in their monastery at Sovu.
Archbishop Augustin Nshamihigo and the coadjutor Bishop
of Kigali, Jonathan Ruhumuliza, were seen describing the
government responsible for orchestrating the genocide as
"peace-loving" at a Nairobi press conference in early
June 1994. The accusations against clergy of the Free
Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist and Seventh-Day
Adventist Churches are equally shocking. According to
survivors, Bishop Aaron Ruhumuliza, head of the Free
Methodist Church in Gikondo, Kigali, helped the militia
carry out a massacre in his own church on 9 April 1994.
Michel Twagirayesu, the President of the Presbyterian
Church of Rwanda and a former vice-president of the World
Council of Churches, is alleged to have worked closely
with the killers in the Presbyterian stronghold of
Kirinda, Kibuye, betraying parishioners and fellow-clergy
alike, according to a report by African Rights.
How could they? A better question may be, "how could
anybody participate in this"? Historians still are
puzzled by the largest genocide in world history, Nazi
Germany's systematic killing of an estimated six million
people, most of them Jews. Although the Nazi's Holocaust
remains mostly incomprehensible, one sees clear parallels
in the systematic tactics behind the organisation of the
two genocides. First, the future victims were stripped
off their human dignity, official propaganda labelling
them "pigs" (Nazi Germany) or "cockroaches" (Rwanda),
creatures without a right to live. Hate is systematically
spread, the "unworthy" being responsible for all the ills
of society. Radicals and hardliners are carefully picked
to organise the killings. Others are given tasks slowly
making them more and more involved in the actions to
come. Suddenly, there exists a nation of perpetuators.
Like the Catholics, many within the hierarchy of the
Protestant churches had had close links with the Hutu
regimes since independence. These links continued when
the government was radicalised step by step. The profound
links were clearly demonstrated when most of the Rwandan
church leaders fled the country following the military
defeat of the government responsible for the genocide.
This did not mean that the church hierarchies were
systematically involved in the planning of the genocide,
but it indicated that the churches as organisations had
not taken the responsibilities they were supposed to, due
to their too close links to the government.
Not only were Christian members of the congregations of
every single denomination in Rwanda responsible for the
most appalling atrocities, but many massacres took place
in the parishes where the targets of the genocide had
sought sanctuary. Many church leaders have since
acknowledged that the Church in Rwanda failed as an
institution, although individual clergy showed immense
courage, risking their lives to save those of others.
Living with the shame
While members of all Christian congregations plaid a part
in the atrocities, what most differentiates the Rwandan
churches is how they have chosen to live with the shame
some members had brought over them. While some have asked
Rwandans for forgiveness, other churches still carefully
avoid the issue of guilt.
After years of accepting privileges from the Habyarimana
regime and overlooking its injustices, the Church leaders
maintained their silence in the face of genocide, a
report by the organisation African Rights concludes. "It
was five weeks after the killings began, by which time
hundreds of thousands of Tutsis were dead, that the
Protestant and Catholic leaders jointly issued a belated
and feeble plea for peace, signed by some of the bishops
who stand accused of involvement in the genocide."
It seemed all a repetition of the Churches' role in the
Nazi Holocaust. All congregations had their perpetuators,
but also their heroes hiding Jews from the Nazi killing
machinery. Protestant congregations however showed
genuine remorse and shame over their failures during the
Nazi dictatorship. The Vatican - the Pope at that time
still being suspected of cooperating with the Fascists
and Nazis - on the other hand still finds it difficult to
admit guilt. It is symptomatic that the parts of the
Vatican archives that could cast light on the Pope's
involvement with Nazi Germany still remain closed to
historians.
The genocide shook all the Christian churches, and
provoked reactions of confessing guilt by most of them.
Protestant congregations mostly asked Rwandans pardon for
the atrocities committed by their members and
excommunicated members suspected of forming part of the
genocide. Anglican Bishop Samuel Musabyimana immediately
was excommunicated as the charges against him were known.
Begging pardon however seems a more complicated issue for
the Catholic Church. Pope John Paul in May 1996 however
told the Rwandan people, "The Church ... cannot be held
responsible for the guilt of its members that have acted
against the evangelic law; they will be called to render
account of their own actions. All Church members that
have sinned during the genocide must have the courage to
assume the consequences of their deeds they have done
against God and fellow men."
[Sidebar] "It remains suspicious that the accusers and
witnesses always are the same, that is to say Tutsis."
- Missionary journal "Mundo Negro"
A statement regarding the guilt of the Churches as
institutions is however missed. "They have been less
willing to comment upon the specific accusations against
certain clergymen," according to African Rights. This has
proven especially true regarding the Catholic Church,
which in June 2001 stated its "surprise" over a Belgian
court convicting two Rwandan nuns for aiding in the
slaughter of at least 5,000 civilians. The Vatican
spokesman could not understand why the court picked on
the two nuns "seeing the grave responsibility of so many
[other] people and groups involved." The Vatican has
taken no steps towards excommunicating the nuns from the
Church.
"Kagame responsible for the genocide?"
The majority of church societies thus have preferred to
keep a low profile on the Rwandan genocide, while some
openly confess their sins. There are however groups
within the Catholic Church that have turned surprisingly
offensive against the victims of genocide.
The Spanish journal "Mundo Negro" ("Black World"), organ
of the Catholic Comboni missionaries, for example
featured a front-page story titled "[Present Rwanda
President Paul] Kagame responsible for the genocide?" in
its April 2001 edition. The article, leaning on
"anonymous sources", is one in a series of allegations
against the present Rwandan President, thus chief of the
Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) that toppled the government
responsible of the genocide in 1994.
President Kagame, who allegedly has been connected to the
shooting down of an airplane killing Rwandan President
Juvénal Habyalimana and Burundian President Cyprien
Ntaryamira on 6 April 1994 thus "was the main responsible
of ... the Rwandan genocide," the article maintains. The
genocide had been part of Kagame's plan to achieve power.
While the UN reports on positive trends in the human
rights situation and democratisation process of Rwanda,
the missionary journal maintains, "all power in Rwanda is
in the hands of the Army."
The same journal, on its editorial space commenting on
the Brussels case against the two Catholic nuns
commented: "It remains suspicious that the accusers and
witnesses always are the same, that is to say Tutsis,
while nobody has put on trial the ones who murdered four
Rwandan bishops - Hutus - and 248 priests, male and
female clergies, including the Spanish missionary P.
Joaquin Vallmajó. Almost all these - with certainty the
bishops and the Spanish missionary - were assassinated by
Tutsis."
While the Spanish Comboni Missionaries remain confused
differentiating crimes against humanity and crimes
against individual Church members, the Church in Rwanda
has understood that it must seek reconciliation. Catholic
and Protestant congregations actively work to achieve
reconciliation, unity and peace in this country, where
the majority still suffer strong traumas inflicted by the
genocide.
In April 2001, for example, the Roman Catholic Diocese of
Kabgayi concluded a two-year synod of seven hundred
representatives of the clergy and laity, with a
resolution to work towards building unity among Rwandans.
Leaders of the Catholic and Protestant Churches for
several years have joined hands with Kagame's "Government
of National Unity" preaching and fostering unity among
the Rwandan people.
Hatred propaganda against Tutsis, Hutus or the
government, such as propagated by the Comboni
Missionaries, meets general disgust among the awakened
Rwandan clergy of today. Although the churches remain in
a complex relation to their own past, the local clergy
certainly has learned that the unity of the Rwandan
peoples is a precious gift not to jeopardised by
promoting one group at the cost of another.
Related items
News articles
o 25.11.2001 - International conference of genocide
survivors in Rwanda
o 23.08.2001 - "The US let the Rwandan genocide
happen"
o 10.06.2001 - Vatican puzzled by verdict against
Rwandan nuns
o 08.06.2001 - Rwanda genocide tribunal aquits major
suspect
o 17.05.2001 - Racism controversy at UN Rwanda
Tribunal
o 03.05.2001 - Rwandan bishop pleads 'not guilty' to
genocide
o 27.04.2001 - Rwandan bishop charged with genocide
o 20.10.2000 - Former Rwandan Prime Minister convicted
for genocide
o 29.06.2000 - Four senior military officers to be
tried together
o 28.06.2000 - Former Prime Minister appears before
appeals chamber
o 08.06.2000 - Document on the the plane crash killing
Rwanda's and Burundi's presidents in 1994 released
Background
o Rwanda: The Cross and the Genocide
o Rwandan diplomacy in winds of change
Source - http://www.afrol.com/Countries/Rwanda/backgr_cross_genocide.htm
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Dr David Frawley, director of the American
Institute of Vedic Studies, believes Christians
should accept and understand religious pluralism.
The former Catholic maintains he has nothing against
Christ or Christians, but agrees with the VHP's
demand for an apology from the Pope over the historical
excesses against Hindus. In an e-mailed interview, the
Vedic scholar spoke his mind to Archana Masih.
Q
Could you explain your stance on Pope John Paul II's
visit to India? Since there is a convergence many a time
on his role as the religious head of the Catholic Church
and the symbolic leader of the Vatican, in your view, in
what capacity is he really coming to India?
A
China, Taiwan and Sri Lanka refused the Pope's request to
visit and launch his new activities that aim at the
evangelisation of Asia. Hindu majority India, though not
a Christian country, has allowed him to do so. Therefore
the Pope should feel grateful to the tolerant people of
India. Clearly no Western country would give a state
welcome to a Hindu religious leader seeking to promote
Hindu conversion activities in the West.
India is one of the few countries that recognises the
Pope as a head of state. The United States and most
Western countries recognise the Pope only as a religious
leader. Clearly the Pope is not coming to India as the
political leader of a secular state but as a religious
leader. He is conducting a religious mass in Delhi, not
organising a trade mission.
The Catholic Church has a long and self-proclaimed policy
of evangelisation or conversion and a special Asia synod
to convert Asia. The Pope is coming to India to promote
the cause of Catholicism, which means the conversion of
Hindus. Naturally he will be friendly in this capacity,
but his purpose has an obvious ulterior motive. He is not
coming here because he wants to make a pilgrimage to
honour the great Yogis and swamis of India or to visit
her great temples and tirthas.
Today the Catholic Church is losing power in the West.
Most Catholics are only nominal in their beliefs. For
example, most American Catholics practise birth control
that the Church does not approve of and don't attend
church on a regular basis. The average age of priests and
nuns is nearing the age of sixty and few younger people
are coming in. The Church can still get a fair amount of
money from rich Western economies but is clearly an
institution in decline. Without replenishing its
population base it is facing a severe crisis. India
offers perhaps the best possibility for doing this with a
large population with a history of religious devotion and
monastic activity that could readily become priests and
nuns.
Q
Why do you believe it is important for him to apologise
to the Hindus for the forced conversions in India?
A
The bloody history of the Church in America, Africa and
Asia is an open book and well known. The Native Americans
where I live in the United States still tell stories
about how the feet of their people were cut off for
refusing to walk to church or their tongues cut off for
refusing to recite prayers. The church has claimed that
its intolerance is a thing of the past. Yet even if one
accepts that it has stopped today, which is debatable, it
certainly went on well into this century. That the church
was prominent in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, and
never really opposed Hitler or Mussolini, should not be
forgotten.
The point is that if you don't apologise how can other
groups believe that you have really given up the
attitudes that caused such behaviour? Such conversion
efforts are hurtful to the communities they target, even
if no overt violence is involved. The Church has harmed
many Hindu families and communities and is still willing
to do so, by turning people against their native beliefs
and customs.
Christians have made some apologies to the Native
Americans and the black Africans for their oppression of
them. Why don't Hindus count in this? Aren't they also
human beings?
Q
There have been many deeds in history and at present that
have gone by without apologies and accountability. Is it
worthwhile to resurrect such issues in the present
context? What purpose does this serve?
A
The problem is that the same attitudes and behaviour that
resulted in such violence in the past still go on today.
The official policy of the Catholic Church today is still
that Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and other
Indian religions are not valid or true. This promotes
division, misunderstanding and can still lead to
violence.
Today we have given up the doctrine of racial superiority
that the White Europeans used to justify their colonial
rule. But the attitude of religious superiority -- that
only Christianity is true and the other religions are
false -- still goes on. Such religious exclusivism like
racism is backward and prejudicial. If I believe, as the
Church teaches, that my non-Catholic neighbours will go
to hell, it doesn't do much for communal harmony. And new
converts take these beliefs much more seriously.
Q
What are the atrocities perpetrated against Hindus by the
Christians that you would like to see the Pope apologise
about? Can you name some of these crimes?
A
The Goa Inquisition was probably the worst and involved
torture and murder of thousands of Hindus and the
destruction of many Hindu temples over a period of
several decades. It was done by the same groups that
promoted the genocide of Native Americans. But Church
policy all along has been that Hinduism is bad and unless
Hindus convert they cannot be saved. This easily gives
rise to excesses. After all if I believe that if you
don't join my religion you will suffer in eternal hell,
for your benefit I must do everything possible, which
easily leads to excesses.
Q
What are the reasons for the sudden anger against the
Christians?
A
The anger is not so much sudden as that today we have a
more aware Hindu populace and a larger media forum for
airing such grievances. Oppressed religious and social
groups of all types are now making such protests.
Christians will more quickly protest against Hindus if
they feel that Hindus are not treating them fairly.
Hindus have actually protested a lot less than other
groups, though they have more commonly been the target of
denigration. Such a Hindu awakening was inevitable. The
real question is why it took so long.
Another issue is that the Hindu reconversion movement has
started, which Christians find threatening and which
highlights this issue.
Q
Why have Christians replaced Muslims as the hate objects
for Hindus? Is it true that the VHP's campaign is driven
because Sonia Gandhi is a Christian?
A
I don't think that Hindus hate Christians. They are not
targeting Christians for conversion or calling them devil
worshippers as the Southern Baptists, the largest
Protestant sect in America to which both Bill Clinton and
Al Gore belong, are calling Hindus. Rather Hindus are
challenging Christian prejudices against Hindus that
cause mistrust and hatred of Hindus by Christians. You
will find a picture of Christ in many Hindu homes, but
you won't find any picture of Krishna in any Christian
homes.
Nor do Hindus hate Muslims. It is the general Muslim view
that Hindus are idolators, polytheists and kafirs and
doomed in the eyes of Allah. Hindus have no such
doctrines about Islam. Hindu dislike of Christianity and
Islam is largely a backlash against the centuries long
efforts to convert them which are still going on.
I don't think the VHP campaign would stop if Sonia Gandhi
left politics either. That Sonia Gandhi is a Christian
may be a matter of concern for Hindus because of the
Christian seeking to convert Hindus. Clearly most
Christians in America would not be happy if a Hindu
became the head of a major American political party,
particularly if Hindus were actively trying to convert
Christians in America.
The greater issue is caused by the increasing Christian
evangelisation activities in India. Look throughout the
country, particularly in the South and you will find them
expanding almost everywhere.
Why should there be an evangelisation of Asia at all?
Don't we live in a global society in which we must
recognise pluralism in religion just as we do in culture
or language? Are not the great religions of Asia good
enough and a great legacy for the entire world? Why do
Westerners come to India? It is mainly to find spiritual
teachings that they didn't find in their own Western
Christian backgrounds.
Others argue that since only about three per cent of
India has become Christian why should one care? But the
areas that have become Christian, like the northeast, are
getting progressively alienated from the rest of India
and seeking to secede from the country. And the
possibility of dramatically more conversions in the
future cannot be ruled out. That someone has fired a gun
against you and missed is no reason not to take it
seriously, particularly if he is loading a better gun for
further shots. The point is that it is unkind to begin
with.
Q
As a former Catholic, why are you suspicious of the
Pope's campaign? What is it about Pope John Paul II that
makes you suspicious of him?
A
As a former Catholic, I am well aware that most Catholics
have no real respect for Hinduism. My uncle became a
missionary to convert Native Americans and save them from
hell, and Hindus are placed in the same category. The
current Pope is a well-known conservative promoting
evangelical activity throughout the world, but he covers
his actions with a veneer of social liberalism.
Today no major Catholic leaders in the West are saying
that Hinduism is a great and spiritual religion that is
worthy of respect like Christianity. Should they succeed
in converting Hindu India to Catholicism they would
happily put an end to the great Yogic and Vedantic
traditions that are perhaps the soul of this country,
which would be a great loss to humanity. We have enough
Christian countries in the world today, but there is only
one India and it is not Christianity which has made the
civilisation of India unique and great.
Catholicism has a long history of co-opting other
beliefs. It is willing to give an apparent honour and
regard to something, as long as it is placed under the
supremacy of Christianity. For example, the church
subordinated the old pagan Greek philosophies of
Aristotle and Plato, which it made the basis of Christian
theology. It hopes to do the same thing with Hindu and
Buddhist philosophies, which it hopes to fashion as a
prelude to the message of Christ.
In South India Catholic priests dress up like Hindu
swamis and call their organisations ashrams but are still
actively engaged in conversion. Their Hindu dress is not
don to honour Hindu traditions but to make Christianity
more acceptable to the local population, like McDonalds
offering vegetarian burgers in India for Hindus who won't
eat the usual hamburger.
Similarly, the Pope will probably speak of the greatness
of India and the need for brotherhood and human rights
but he will certainly not say that Hindus don't need to
convert to Christianity. He will portray Christianity as
a religion of compassion, equality and democracy to
appeal to the poor in India, though historically
Christianity has commonly been aligned with monarchies,
colonial armies, fascist states and ruling juntas.
Hindus may confuse such statements of general human
regard with real religious tolerance or even with an
acceptance of Hinduism. They may confuse a co-opting of
their religion with a real regard for it. The new
Catholic strategy is that Hinduism is all right as far as
it goes but will only reach its real fulfilment when it
accepts Christ. This is the same old conversion ploy,
only done in a more covert way. The American Protestants,
who still portray Hinduism as a religion of the devil,
are at least more honest about their views and their
intentions.
Q
The Pope is a State guest, invited by the Government of
India, so won't the stance of the VHP undermine India's
secular tradition and embarrass A B Vajpayee -- even his
alliance partners do not agree with such protests.
A
Not at all. In America visits of foreign heads of states
are often marked by protests. When the Chinese president
was here recently many Americans mainly of Chinese
ancestry protested the visit, including some who were
Democrats. Such protests are part of democracy. Islamic
groups in America have protested the visit of Israeli
leaders as well. The Pope cannot be made immune to such
protests. They are part of secular traditions which don't
require the people in any country to bow down to a
foreign leader, whether he is a religious figure or not.
Q
If in spite of the pressure applied for the apology, and
the Pope does not apologise, will it be a loss of face
for the VHP and other organisations demanding for the
same?
A
I don't think anyone expects the current Pope to make
such an apology, though a future Pope might do so. But
the case has to be brought out anyway for the sake of
truth and for posterity. The fact that it is coming out
is beneficial for Hindus. Hindus have long been too quiet
about the attacks against them. Hindus tend to bow down
to any religious leader as a holy man, even one who does
not respect their traditions or honour their gods and
sages. It is actually more important that Hindus change
than that the pope changes.
The Pope doesn't want to apologise to Hindus because he
doesn't want to recognise Hinduism as a valid religion.
He won't even mention the word Hinduism. He will call
Diwali an Indian cultural festival, not a Hindu religious
event.
Q
What impact do you think the Pope's visit is going to
have on the socio-religious culture of India?
A
Hopefully it will make Hindus more savvy about what is
going on in the world. Current missionary plans to
convert India, both by Catholics and Protestants, are the
greatest in history in terms of financial backing, media
manipulation and manpower support. An entire new attack
is being launched. China is also emerging as a new
target. Religious tolerance is not a one way street. We
cannot ask Hindus to honour Christianity when Christians,
starting with the pope, don't honour Hinduism, however
much they may talk of God, humanity or peace.
Why can't the Pope say that Christianity is not the only
way and that Hinduism by itself can be enough? That would
be an expression of tolerance and open-mindedness. Why
are Hindus who accept the validity of many paths called
"hardliners" while a Pope who refuses to do so is
honoured as a holy man? Is not pluralism a sign of
tolerance and exclusivism the hallmark of intolerance?
Catholicism today is not a pluralistic tradition
honouring different religious and spiritual paths as
valid. It is an exclusivist tradition dominated by a
leader who will not accept a Buddha, Krishna, Rama or
Guru Nanak as a Son of God but only Jesus. What does that
say about how he views India and the kinds of plans he
intends to promote here?
Hopefully the Pope's visit will get people to really
think about these matters.
Dr. Jai Maharaj
"Australia
"British settlement began in 1788, with the landing
party of transported convicts. Australia remained a
penal colony. during the first half of the 19th
century,during which time the continent was explored
and separate colonies were established in the various
states. Aboriginal populations were displaced and
decimated' in some areas (e.g., Tasmania), they
were totally exterminated...."
- The Universal Almanac; Andrews and McMeel; ISBN: 0-8362-7977-8.
Dr. Jai Maharaj
By C. G. Wallace, Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press
Sunday, April 7, 2002
Salt Lake City (AP) - As sexual abuse allegations surface
against Roman Catholic priests nationwide, the head of
the Mormon church acknowledged child sexual abuse within
his own church and condemned "the sordid and evil abuse."
"It is a most despicable and tragic and terrible thing,"
Gordon B. Hinckley said Saturday night at the faith's
172nd semiannual General Conference.
"I regret to say that there has been some very limited
expression of this monstrous evil among us," he said. "It
is something that cannot be countenanced or tolerated."
His sharply worded address came during a closed, men-only
Priesthood Meeting. He condemned "the sordid and evil
abuse of children by adults, usually men," according to a
transcript released by the church.
Hinckley, 91, is considered a living prophet by the 11
million members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
day Saints worldwide.
The Mormon church faces several lawsuits involving
allegations of abuse by church elders or abuse not
reported by those in positions of authority. Last year,
the church agreed to pay $3 million to an Oregon man who
claims the church covered up for a pedophile who sexually
abused him as a child.
Since January, dozens of Roman Catholic priests out of
more than 47,000 nationwide have been suspended or forced
to resign on suspicion of child molestation, in a scandal
that began surfacing in Boston.
On Sunday, while speaking to the entire congregation,
Hinckley talked about the power of faith.
"We take one step at a time. In doing so we reach toward
the unknown, but faith lights the way. If we will
cultivate that faith, we shall never walk in darkness,"
Hinckley said.
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Om Shanti
Panchaang for 14 Ashvin 5103, Saturday, October 19, 2002:
Dr. Jai Maharaj
By Rick Linsk, and Stephen Scott
The Pioneer Press
Monday, July 15, 2002
At first, Mary Dunford's story sounds all too familiar: a
life shattered by pain and confusion after being sexually
abused by a trusted church figure decades ago.
But Dunford, 63, of Oakdale says it was a nun, not a
priest, who abused her while she attended a Roman
Catholic boarding school as a teen-ager. Years after she
brought the abuse to the attention of the order that ran
the school, she is clear about her agenda.
Dunford wants help for any victim of sexual abuse in the
church, not just victims of priests.
The clergy abuse scandals that have erupted this year
around the United States have almost exclusively involved
allegations against priests. However, scattered claims of
misconduct by some nuns have emerged.
"It is important to say that nuns have abused children,
too,'' Dunford said.
The recent spate of publicity about priests is
encouraging victims to come forward about nuns, said
Ashley Hill, author of "Habits of Sin," a book published
two years ago about the sexual abuse of women and
children by nuns.
Hill says that while she was in the second grade, a nun
sexually abused her. While researching the book a few
years ago, the New Hampshire writer placed advertisements
in women-oriented publications to find victims, and heard
back from people in 23 states and Ireland. The priest
scandal has prompted a new round of contacts. Lately,
Hill says, she has been getting an e-mail a week from
people who say they were sexually abused by nuns decades
ago.
Hill says her book is not a condemnation of all nuns, but
a reminder that "predators can and do come from all walks
of life." Still, reaction has been fierce, she said.
"People are not ready to hear about women who are
predators," she said. "They just don't want to hear it."
That's reminiscent of the earliest reports of abuses by
priests, said Gary Schoener, a Minneapolis psychologist
and widely quoted expert on sexual abuse by clergy.
Schoener, executive director of the Walk-In Counseling
Center on Chicago Avenue, said the center, in the past 20
years, has consulted in about 20 cases across the nation
involving nuns who molested young girls. That's compared
with a few hundred involving priests, and more than 3,000
cases of sexual misconduct involving counseling
professionals, Schoener said.
"To say men are the bigger part of the problem ? that we
all agree with," Schoener remarked. "To say they're the
only problem is bull."
Schoener said the remote subculture of religious orders
can foster misconduct.
"The nun in a convent or brother in a monastery, dealing
with young people, has a lot of power. Lots of weird
things can happen," Schoener said.
A policy on clergy sexual misconduct enacted last month
by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is not binding
on men or women in religious orders, because they report
not to diocesan bishops but to leaders of their orders,
who in turn are accountable to Rome. But some orders,
including at least one in Minnesota, are changing their
policies.
Still, Sister Katherine DuVal, provincial leader of the
Mankato, Minn.-based School Sisters of Notre Dame, is not
expecting a spate of scandals about nuns. Several years
ago, DuVal's order settled a lawsuit over alleged abuses
by a nun at a Mankato grade school during the 1970s.
"I just don't think sisters were in positions to be
abusers," DuVal said. "There was so much in our community
? we were together all the time. To be alone with one kid
would not have been an easy structure to find ourselves
in."
'SOMETHING HAPPENED'
Mary Dunford says she was sexually abused by the floor
monitor, or "mother,'' at Villa Maria Academy in
Frontenac, Minn., from 1954 to 1956. The nun she accused
died a few years ago, in her 80s. Villa Maria is now a
Catholic retreat center.
The nun, Dunford said, would enter her room at night and
"spend the next one to three hours with me.''
After reading news reports over the years, Dunford says
she came to realize in her 50s that she was a victim of
sexual abuse.
In 1990, she brought the allegations to the Ursuline
Provincialate in Crystal City, Mo., which operated Villa
Maria.
"I think we have agreed something happened and it was
wrong,'' said Sister Peggy Moore, head of the order of
Ursuline Nuns in Missouri.
"We agreed that Mary deserved attention; she deserved
justice,'' said Moore, who was not in charge of the order
when the allegations arose. "But we can't substantiate
the facts of it at all.''
No other allegations were brought against the nun, Moore
said.
"The memory of the one party was very different from the
memory of the other party as to what happened,'' she
said.
The order paid for counseling for Dunford and her
husband, and paid for her to attend a support group and
an alcohol and chemical abuse treatment program. Dunford
made other demands she says were unmet, but the case
never went to court.
"As with so many other abuse-victim survivors,'' Dunford
said, "I have had many effects from the abuse: difficulty
in forming and maintaining healthy relationships, alcohol
and chemical abuse, food addiction, chronic depression,
thoughts of suicide, self-destructive behaviors, serious
and chronic health problems and a huge burden of shame
and self-hatred.
"The impact on me, my children and my grandchildren is
constant.''
Moore said a "member misconduct policy'' is now in place.
It calls for prompt investigations of all allegations;
meeting all requirements of the law, including the
reporting of suspected criminal conduct; and concern for
the person making the allegation and the accused.
"Yes, it would be different today, if allegations came
today,'' Moore said.
'NOT SEXUALLY MOTIVATED'
If the abuses are rare, even rarer still are the cases
that are made public.
St. Paul lawyer Jeffrey Anderson, who has sued hundreds
of priests over sexual abuse, has sued two nuns in
Minnesota. The cases were settled for undisclosed
amounts.
The first lawsuit was filed in 1989 on behalf of a woman
who said she was molested by Sister Georgene Stuppy while
in the seventh and eighth grades at Queen of Angels
parish school in Austin. The lawsuit said the abuse began
in 1978, when the girl was 13 years old and the nun was
in her late 40s.
The plaintiff, identified in the court case as Jane C.
Doe, was a student in Stuppy's religion classes and a
parishioner at the Queen of Angels church. She had turned
to the nun for counseling because of family and personal
problems. A few months later, Stuppy engaged her in
"unpermitted, harmful and offensive" sexual contact at
the school and in the nun's room, according to her
lawyers.
The woman said she didn't realize the contact was abusive
until the spring of 1985, after therapy.
Stuppy did not deny having physical contact with the
student but said it was one part of an intense
friendship. "Sister Stuppy asserts that she never thought
of it as sexual, that her actions were not sexually
motivated, and she received no sexual stimulation from
any contact," the nun's lawyers said in her answer to the
lawsuit.
Stuppy, who resigned from the school when the allegations
were made, did not return a phone call. The lawsuit was
settled in 1993 for an undisclosed amount.
MEMORIES CAME BACK
In the second case Anderson filed, a "John Doe" said his
first-grade teacher, Sister Marcene Schlosser, abused him
two to three times a week at St. Michael's Catholic
School in Wright County from the fall of 1978 until the
end of the school year in 1979. The man said he repressed
memories of the abuse until having dreams, nightmares and
flashbacks about it in 1996.
Schlosser "adamantly and vehemently" denied the
allegations, and there were no other claims against her,
according to court documents. The case was settled in
October 2000.
Sister Katherine DuVal, head of Schlosser's order, said
an internal investigation found no evidence that the nun
had abused the student. Officials chose to "pay a small
settlement that takes care of everything and finishes
this off," she said.
DuVal said the lawsuit and current controversies prompted
the order to change its approach to abuse complaints.
Instead of the Notre Dame sisters investigating, now
complaints are referred outside to diocesan officials,
she said.
Two recent complaints allege abuse in the 1940s, one of
which was said to have happened in Minnesota, DuVal said.
"I always say to people that I'm sad and sorry that
they've been living with this all these years," DuVal
said. "If we are at fault, I will make sure we respond in
appropriate ways." But she added she also has a
responsibility to defend the order against unfounded
allegations.
What's appropriate, says Mary Dunford, is that victims be
the focus. She says they should receive money and therapy
based on the extent of their injuries, therapy for loved
ones affected and after-care from the offending order or
diocese.
And, she said, they should also get "the greatest gift
that can be given to victims: persons who believe and
accept them."
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(651) 228-5371.
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Dr. Jai Maharaj
In article <6trmqu$rgl$1...@winter.news.erols.com> ,
imagi...@hotmail.com wrote:
> In the Name of Religion what Christian Missionaries
> did in Goa.
> Paul Williams Robert says in his book "Empire of the Soul":
>
> The Spread of Christianity in Goa:
>
> "In the wake of the warriors came the priests.
>
> First, the Franciscans, then the Jesuits, then the Dominicans, and
> lastly the Augustinians. It must have made their holy blood boil to
> find their old foes, the Muslims and Jews openly and brazenly
> practicing their religions.
>
> The men of God set about clearing what the Dominican termed
> this "jungle of unbelief" with the ardor of Amazon lumber barons.
>
> Just like the mullahs who had marched into Goa two hundred years
> before with the Bahamani sultans, these Catholic clergy were prepared
> to go to any lenghts to spread their faiths. Initially they pestered
> the Portugese king for special powers, then they pestered the Pope to
> pester the king on their behalf.
>
> The first of these special powers arrived in 1540 when the viceroy
> received authority to "destroy all Hindu temples, not leaving a single
> one in any islands, and to confiscate the estates of these temples for
> the maintenance of the churches which are to be erected in their
> places. Five years later, the Italian cleric Father Nicolau Lancilotto
> reported that "not a single temple to be seen on the island."
>
> The island in question was Teeswadi, the main field of operations for
> the two priestly orders then on the scene. A glance at the absurd
> profusion of churches standing cheek by jowl in Old Goa still conveys
> some idea of the spiritiual excesses indulged in by these competing
> orders of the day.
>
> This Olympiad of Christianization scared the hell out of the locals, and
> thousands of family fled across the river. To them, the harshness of the
> Moghuls still governing the adjacent territories must have been preferable
> to the rabid monomania of papist clerics.
>
> A saying still exist in Konkani, the language of Goa:
>
> "Hanv polthandi vaitam" ( I'm leaving for the other bank ), one half
> of its double meaning implying to this day that a person is rejecting
> Christianity.
>
> Although their temples had been razed.
>
> The Hindus who remained continued to practice their religion in secret.
> More extreme methods were therefore instituted to bring the heathen into
> the church's loving embrace. Hindu festivities were forbidden; Hindu
> priests were forbidden from entering Goa; makers of idols were severely
> punished; public jobs were given only to Christians.
>
> Soon it was announced that anyone practicising in private was declared a
> crime. The penalty was confiscation of property. Also Hindus, dying
> without a male heir could pass thier estates only to relative who had
> embraced Christianity.
>
> Death was no easier than life for Hindus in mid-sixteenth-century Goa.
> To them, the cruelest piece of legislation passed by the Portugese
> prohibited cremation of the dead - an inviolably sacred part of Hindu
> faith. As a result, death had to be kept a secret; the wailing grief of
> the women had to be smothered; family members had to go about their
> business as if nothing had happened; children were sent out to play,
> washing was done, work was performed - all as usual.
>
> In the dead of the night, a boat would be loaded with firewood down
> on the riverbank, then the dead body would be placed on it, covered by
> more wood.
>
> The pyre would be set alight and the boat pushed out to drift on the
> river's currents as the funeral party ran back into the safety of
> shadows.
>
> The missionaries simply could not grasp that another people's faith
> could be as dearly cherished as deeply embedded as their own.
>
> The missionaries obviously had no idea how resilient Hinduism could
> be, and indeed is. It had survived Islam's scimtar, and it would
> survive the sword that so much resembled the cross in whose service
> it was now employed.
>
> Total of 200 temples had been demolished.
>
> * * *
>
> Says Andre Corsalli to Giuliano de Medici Jan 6, 1516
>
> " In a small island near this, called Divari, the Portuguese,
> in order to build the city, have destroyed an ancient temple ...
> which was built with marvelous art and with ancient figures wrought
> to the greatest perfection, in a certain black stone, some of which
> remain standing, ruined and shattered , because these Portuguese care
> nothing about them. If I can come by one of these shattered images,
> I will send it to your Lordship, that you may perceive how much in
> old times sculpture was esteemed in every part of the world."
>
> Source: Empire of the Soul
> By Paul William Roberts
> Riverhead Books.
> 1994.
> pages 80-84
Well, Jesus says in the Christian Bible:
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came
not so send peace, but a sword.
"For I am come to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter
in law against her mother in law.
"And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
- Matthew 10:34-36.
Jai Maharaj
http://www.mantra.com/jai
Om Shanti
Severn
<j...@mantra.com> "Dr." Jai Maharaj wrote:
> Mormon Leader Denounces Sexual Abuse Committed by Members of His Faith
>
> By C. G. Wallace, Associated Press Writer
> The Associated Press
> Sunday, April 7, 2002
>
> Salt Lake City (AP) - As sexual abuse allegations surface
> against Roman Catholic priests nationwide, the head of
> the Mormon church acknowledged child sexual abuse within
> his own church and condemned "the sordid and evil abuse."
> "It is a most despicable and tragic and terrible thing,"
> Gordon B. Hinckley said Saturday night at the faith's
> 172nd semiannual General Conference.
It takes courage to admit, apologize and take action on sexual abuse by
religious figures. Now, have the leaders of _your_ religion taken such
steps, or do they continue to deny the existence of sexual abuse in
their ranks(as the catholic church and others _used_ to do)? Do
astrologers such as yourself acknowledge the lives they have ruined with
the claptrap you have peddled as "science"?
Top Scientists Must Fight Astrology Or All Of Us Will Face The Consequences
http://www.the-scientist.com/yr1989/mar/opin2_890306.html
Karthik
other and something sounds hollow, it does not have to be the book always.
Jesus was a great man. A great soul. May his blessings be on all of us.
I am a Hindu BTW.
Regards
Karthik
Ketut Royson
> Hindu Terrorists Planning Genocide of non-Hindus
been like this. We are planning a major ceremony in relation to the
bombings which have killed so many Balinese people and guests of teh
Balinese people.
Severn
<j...@mantra.com> "Dr." Jai Maharaj wrote:
> Rwanda
>
> The Cross and the Genocide
>
> The involvement of Christian societies in the Rwandan genocide
>
> By Rainer Chr. Hennig
> afrol News, 2001
>
>
> [..........]
>
> Hate propaganda was
> spread throughout the country and local representatives
> got their orders on whom to kill and whom to involve in
> the killings.
>
> [snip]
>
> Hate is systematically
> spread, the "unworthy" being responsible for all the ills
> of society. Radicals and hardliners are carefully picked
> to organise the killings. Others are given tasks slowly
> making them more and more involved in the actions to
> come. Suddenly, there exists a nation of perpetuators.
Sounds like the same game plan being followed by Hindu extremists in
India, eh, Johnny boy?
Severn
<j...@mantra.com> "Dr." Jai Maharaj wrote:
> Sins of the Father
>
> Editorial
> The Times of India
>
> Pope John Paul II created history last Sunday when he
> apologised for ``the use of violence in the name of
> truth, and for the diffidence and hostility engaged
> against followers of other religions''.
Now if only certain people claiming to be "guardians of Hinduism" would
also apologize in the same words. Right, Johnny boy?
Severn
<j...@mantra.com> "Dr." Jai Maharaj wrote:
> 'The Church has harmed many Hindu families
> and communities and is still willing to do so'
>
> The Rediff Interview - Dr. David Frawley
>
> "The Church has harmed
> many Hindu families and communities and is still willing
> to do so, by turning people against their native beliefs
> and customs.
>
> Christians have made some apologies to the Native
> Americans and the black Africans for their oppression of
> them."
"Dr." David Frawley, like "Dr." Jai/Johnny Maharaj, displays enormous
ignorance when he says that "Christians" have made apologies. Like other
master propagandists, he knows how to interchange "Christian" and
"White", and when the occasion calls for it, how to ignore one in favor
of the other simply because it serves his scheme.
If "Dr." Frawley believes his own hype that "turning people against
their native beliefs and customs" is harmful to those people, why does
he preach(for profit) to Americans beliefs and customs that are not
native to them? The sum and substance of Frawley's frequent tirades
against the west is ignorance, hypocrisy and vengefulness.
Dr. Jai Maharaj
By Oliver Burkeman, in New York
The Guardian, UK
Thursday, October 17, 2002
Roman Catholic church leaders in New York covered up for
13 paedophile priests in scores of instances of child
abuse spanning three decades, and set up a secret bank
account to be used to buy victims' silence, according to
a lawsuit filed this week.
Thomas Daily, the Bishop of Brooklyn, is the most senior
official named in the $300m (£190m) suit, which accuses
diocesan leaders of shuffling priests from parish to
parish without informing their new congregations of the
allegations against them.
The amount of money demanded makes it the second-largest
lawsuit filed in the child abuse scandal engulfing the
Catholic church throughout the US, exceeded only by a
legal action in Boston, the centre of the crisis.
The latest lawsuit details allegations from 43 children -
all now adults, one of whom has died. The abuse allegedly
took place between 1960 and 1984 in Brooklyn, home to
1.8m Catholics.
One priest, James Smith, is accused of 26 incidents of
molestation in church buildings, a church school and
during a baseball game.
"This kind of abuse would have been impossible without
the knowing silence of people high in authority," Michael
Dowd, the lawyer leading the case, said. "They allowed
other children to be raped and sodomised over decades."
Mr Dowd alleged that the diocese established a secret
bank account, the Good Shepherd Fund, for paying victims
to avoid further controversy. But it was not clear if the
account was used.
He said Bishop Daily's predecessor, the late Francis
Mugavero, failed to take action against the accused
priests because he was gay and feared that his
relationships with adult males might be exposed.
Yesterday the Brooklyn diocese seemed more eager to
address the claim that Bishop Mugavero had been gay than
to respond to the allegations of abuse. "I'm sure it's
not true," a spokesman, Frank de Rosa, was quoted as
saying of the homosexuality claim.
But in a statement he said details of Mr Dowd's lawsuit
had not yet been received. "The diocese follows its
policy of cooperating with civil authorities, and has
turned over complaints of abuse to the district attorneys
.. for allegations going back 20 years," Mr De Rosa
said.
It is not the first time that Bishop Daily has been
implicated in the escalating abuse crisis. Before coming
to Brooklyn, he worked as a deputy to Cardinal Bernard
Law in Boston, where, according to court documents filed
there, he allegedly covered the tracks of the priest who
sparked the current crisis, John Geoghan.
Geoghan - now accused of abusing at least 150 children -
was sentenced earlier this year to nine to 10 years in
jail on one specimen charge. He and the archdiocese of
Boston face numerous other proceedings.
In a deposition connected with the Geoghan case, Bishop
Daily said: "I'm not a policeman. I am a shepherd. I am a
pastor who has to go after the Lord's sheep and bring
them back to the fold, and give them the kind of
guidance, and discipline them in such a way that they
come back." But, in hindsight, "I profoundly regret
certain decisions".
Source - http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,813264,00.html
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Stunning.. And the vatican thinks they are too firm in
their policy of dealing with these perverts.
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There apparently is no end in sight on this thing. The
roman catholic in the US and probably abroad also is
nothing more than a privileged sanctuary for pervs of
every persuasion and particularly sodomizers of little
boys. The pervs are too far up the chain of command for
the church to reform itself.
Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2002 by kimosabe31
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-To: scripter
Q: How do you get a nun pregnant?
A: Dress her up as an alter boy!
Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2002 by Pern
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Thanks for the post.
I have been for the Catholic Church and its lay people
working this out.
However, if they don't work it out, the trial lawyers
will own every thing the Catholic Church owns before this
decade is over.
Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2002 by Grampa Dave
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I don't see this problem being dealt with properly. The
church is going to have to face the fact that the charges
are true and the hierarchy still doesn't get it. They
can't have priests preying on little kids, and their
superiors cover for them, and then pass them off to
another community so they can molest and rape a whole new
bunch of victims.
Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2002 by RJayneJ
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As an Episcopalian, I can tell you that a few big
lawsuits got the attention of our Bishops on this issue.
Those Bishops know that they could lose everything they
own as well as the church losing. We are approaching a
zero tolerance with any accused sexual predator in our
church. A couple of big civil law suits, including a
couple in California got their attention and changes have
been made.
Civil law suits in America are the great leveling ground
for the common person against big money and situations
like this. Remember even the killer OJ got whacked in
Civil Court.
Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2002 by Grampa Dave
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Thanks for the ping! I weep for the Catholics. Their
Church has been corrupted by a minority of perverts, but
then again, this is just what God told us that the enemy
would do. Fortunately most Catholics recognize this as
well. While I'm not one, I stand by them and continue to
pray and hope that we'll be able to find our victory
together over the enemy.
Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2002 by Yakboy
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Well, I can't see how you can sue for more money, on the
grounds that you already received money.
Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2002 by sobieski
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End of forwarded messages
Jai Maharaj
http://www.mantra.com/jai
Om Shanti
Panchaang for 14 Ashvin 5103, Saturday, October 19, 2002:
Dr. Jai Maharaj
Karthik <no...@nowhere.com> posted:
> I am a Hindu BTW. Regards Karthik
Yeah right, you anonymous coward Muslim!
Facts about terrorist Islam and Muslims:
http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate
Jai Maharaj
http://www.mantra.com/jai
Om Shanti
Severn
hundred generations, genes that entered India when
conquering hordes swooped down from the north
thousands of years ago are still there, and remain
entrenched at the top of the caste system, scientists
report. Analyses of the male Y chromosome, plus
genes hidden in small cellular bodies called
mitochondria, show that today's genetic patterns
agree with accounts of ancient Indo-European
warriors' conquering the Indian subcontinent.
The invaders apparently shoved the local men aside,
took their women and set up the rigid caste system
that exists today. Their descendants are still the
elite within Hindu society.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/05/26/MN84858.DTL
But so far, ``the tribal populations are more similar to
the lower castes than to anyone else, similar to the
original residents of India,'' he said.
Severn
<j...@mantra.com> "Dr." Jai Maharaj wrote:
> Pope apologises for church sins
>
> BBC
> Sunday, March 12 , 2000, 1141 hours UTC
>
> [Caption]
> The Pope blesses his bishops at the Vatican
>
> The Pope has publicly asked for forgiveness for the sins
> of the Roman Catholic Church throughout the ages.
Johnny boy, true to form, you have wormed your way into another unwary
newsgroup(mws this time), waited a little while and then unleashed your
savagery on them.
Perhaps you may recall Bon Giovanni writing this about you:
"if you had initiated copyright protection for your private bbs and
listserver, men like Jai would not be able to smile their way into your
good graces, only to Judas you online over and over and over."
That's a good alias for you, Johnny boy: Judas Maharaj!
Dr. Jai Maharaj
[Caption] The Pope blocked the US bishops' plan
BBC
Friday, October 18, 2002
Victims of sexual abuse at the hands of US Roman Catholic
priests have condemned the Vatican after it opposed
American bishops' plans to deal with paedophile clerics.
The Vatican said the proposals from the US - which
included sacking priests after just one "credible" report
of sexually abusing a child - were vague and could be
confusing.
"Let's look at the rights of victims here - the ones who
have suffered the most"
- Sue Archibald,
Victims' advocate
Supporters of the Vatican said the Holy See was simply
trying to develop a policy that protected children while
also preserving the rights of accused priests.
But correspondents say the ruling from Rome is a huge
setback to the US Church and its bishops, who drew up the
plans amid a growing scandal fuelled by many claims of
priests abusing children.
Mark Serrano, a national board member of the Survivors
Network of those Abused by Priests, called the Vatican
response "a victory for Vatican bureaucrats and
recalcitrant bishops".
'Ignoring' problems
Church leaders in areas such as Boston have been accused
of ignoring allegations of abuse from priests and, in
some cases, moving known offenders from parish to parish
rather than make them face justice.
[Caption] Bishop Gregory said there was little time to
decide a new policy
Sue Archibald, a spokeswoman for victims' advocacy group
The Linkup, said the Vatican's ruling would allow bishops
opposed to the new policy to ignore it.
"It brings us back to the same situation we've been in
for the last several years," she told the Associated
Press news agency.
"Let's look at the rights of victims here - the ones who
have suffered the most."
Clergy 'targeted'
But there have been complaints on the other side that
some clergy have been targeted to placate victims.
The policy effectively ruled out rehabilitation for any
offending priests and the Pope has said he was worried
that punishing clergy before wrongdoing was proved would
lead to "summary trials".
"We are not stepping back from our compassion for those
who've been harmed, nor in our determination to put into
place policies that will protect children"
- Wilton Gregory, Leading US bishop
The Reverend Robert Bullock, an organiser of the Boston
Priests Forum, an advocacy group of more than 100
priests, said he hoped church leaders would respond to
the Vatican statement by working to heal rifts between
bishops and diocesan clergy.
The US policy - developed in June - "did all the things
necessary for victims, but the question is what does it
do to due process for priests," he said.
A joint commission of Vatican officials and US bishops
will now try to resolve the situation.
The Vatican said there were conflicts between the policy
and church law, and expressed concern that some language
in the plan was imprecise and difficult to interpret.
'Great understanding'
The head of the American Bishop's Conference, Bishop
Wilton Gregory, told a news conference that Vatican
officials had shown great understanding.
He said the rebuff did not mean a reversal in the US
Church's goal of protecting victims.
"We are not stepping back from our compassion for those
who've been harmed, nor in our determination to put into
place policies that will protect children," said Bishop
Gregory, who met the Pope to discuss the matter on
Thursday.
He said the US proposals were still on the table but
there was little time to agree new guidelines before the
next US bishops' conference scheduled for November.
It is unclear how US Church officials will now proceed,
as most dioceses have already begun putting the policy
into practice.
US Church sex abuse scandal
o Four bishops resigned
o Nearly 250 priests resigned or suspended
o At least 300 cases filed
o Two priests committed suicide after being accused
o One priest shot and wounded by alleged victim
Read the complete news at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2339749.stm
News Plus
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Jai Maharaj
http://www.mantra.com/jai
Om Shanti
Panchaang for 14 Ashvin 5103, Saturday, October 19, 2002:
Chitrabhanu Nama Samvatsare Dakshinaya Jeevana Ritau
Tula Mase Shukla Pakshe Manta Vasara Yuktayam
Uttaraprostapada-Revati Nakshatra Vyaghat Yoga
Vanija Karana Chaturdashi Yam Tithau
Hindu Holocaust Museum
http://www.mantra.com/holocaust
Hindu life, principles, spirituality and philosophy
http://www.hindu.org
http://www.hindunet.org
The truth about Islam and Muslims
http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate
Not for commercial use. Solely to be fairly used for the educational
Severn
to him for counseling was found guilty by a Queens, New York, jury on
Thursday.
Mokesh Narine Prashad, 35, was convicted of two counts of sexual abuse
in the first degree and one count of second-degree harassment -- all
which could add up to a 14-year prison term and possible deportment to
Guyana.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/mar/31us.htm
Whilst still at the ashram, the worst thing for me - as a mother of sons
- occurred when a young man, a college
student, came to our room, to plead with David. ‘Please Sir, do
something to stop him sexually abusing
us’ (!). These sons of devotees, unable to bear their untenable position
of being unwilling participants in a
paedophile situation any longer, yet unable to share this with their
parents because they would be disbelieved,
placed their trust in David; a trust which had built over his five years
as a visiting professor of music to the Sai
college.
http://www.npi-news.dk/page152.htm
BANGALORE: Alarmed over the increasing number of female foeticide
cases, the Karnataka government has written to all manufacturers of
ultra-sonograph equipment to furnish a list of their clients.
Misuse of ultra-sonography by hundreds of unlicensed clinics has led
to female foeticide being rampant in several districts in the state.
The female sex-ratio had also declined in many districts due to this
dangerous practice, official sources told The Times of India.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3bcbb56c.12250725%40news&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain
MUZAFFARNAGAR/LUCKNOW, AUGUST 7: A 20-year-old youth and
his 18-year-old beloved, belonging to different
castes, were hanged
to death by their family members at Alinagar ka majra village in
Muzaffarnagar district in Uttar Pradesh, police said today.
District police chief B S Moriya said apparently annoyed with their
affair, family members took the two lovers — Vishal and Sonu — to
the roof of a house and hanged one after the other last night. The
girl’s parents and the boy’s elder brother and sister-in-law were
witnesses to the hanging, he said.
According to Moriya, Sonu and Vishal were warned earlier by their
families that they would punished if they did not stop meeting each
other. Sonu was a Jat while Vishal a Brahmin, the district police chief
said adding the entire village was opposed to the affair.
http://www.indianexpress.com/ie20010808/top7.html
The family of a priestess, in a village near Karimnagar in
Andhra Pradesh, has been subjected to social boycott
for allegedly indulging in child sacrifice.
Gandham Pochamma, main accused in the case, has
been arrested, and a case has been filed against her
under Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (concealing
evidence) of the Indian Penal Code.
As per police soures, the child, Naveen -- only child of village tailor
Sonakala
Sudhakar and his wife Vanita -- went missing around 3.30 PM on May 24,
which happened to be an amavasya day. The family rents a portion of
Pochamma's house.
The body of the child was found, after much searching, late that same
night in
the septic tank of the house.
It is claimed that Pochamma invited 10 families of her community to a feast,
that she kidnapped the baby, that a garland of neem leaves was put
around its
neck and that after the feast, a special puja was offered and the child
sacrificed to propitiate the village deity for attaining "spiritual
powers" and
recovering a hidden treasure.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/may/26child.htm
http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/may/31ap.htm
Benny
country. He ought to go back to his Hindu India
and fight it out.
Perhaps he don't like the smells and sounds of Hindu India
and rather prefer the beef eating Christians in USA.
Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote in message ...
Paulo Joe Jingy
You're an embarrassment to the human race.
--
Paulo Joe Jingy
Karthik
Just take a look at my past posts before making such an accusation.
It is not my argument that missionaries have helped India. They are
despicable/cowards/liars/frauds etc.
But calling Christ a terrorist is stretching things too far. He did not
write the parts you posted.
Severn
Anti-Christian Violence in India
Vinay Lal
It is reasonable to argue that the ascendancy of the Bharatiya Janata
Party [hereafter BJP] to relative supremacy in Indian politics over the
course of the last few years bears a direct relationship to the
considerable, even dramatic,increase in violence against Christians and
other minorities in India. In this short paper, I shall be furnishing a
brief chronicle of the recent violence, besides foraying, again briefly,
into such questions as the politics of conversion, the inaccuracy of
claims regarding the alleged growth of the Christian population in
India, and so on.
Christians in Modern India: A Brief Political and Social Survey
The history of Christianity in India goes back to a few decades after
the birth of Christ, and there is evidence of Syrian Christians having
established themselves in Kerala before 100 AD. India’s contacts with
Christianity were renewed with the coming of the Portuguese in 1498:
this was wholly inauspicious for the modern beginning of Christianity in
India, since the conduct of the Portugese is without exaggeration
described as barbaric. The Christian presence became more marked in some
respects in the nineteenth century after British rule had been
consolidated in India, though here again the pretense was often
maintained that British rule had no association with Christianity. The
sleight of hand is witnessed, for example, in James Mill’s fatal
characterization of Indian history into three periods: Hindu; Muslim;
and British.
Some of the anti-Christian sentiments harbored by contemporary Hindu
extremists dwell on the time when India was under British colonial rule,
and when a substantial number of Christian missionaries openly voiced
crude anti-Hindu sentiments. There is also the widespread belief among
advocates of a more militant Hinduism that the colonial state encouraged
conversions of lower-caste Hindus and otherwise promoted Christianity as
a state religion, but on the whole there is little to substantiate this
view, though doubtless Christians were looked upon more sympathetically
than they had been in India under Muslim or Hindu rulers. It is a
remarkable fact that in 200 years when India was under British rule, the
Christian population of India never exceeded 3% of the population.
Though the sentiments of Hindus were often flagrantly wounded by
Christian missionaries, whose insensitivity and arrogance come across in
countless number of texts, missionaries today are nonetheless more often
remembered for performing social work in both metropolitan centers and
more remote parts of the country, and for establishing schools where the
bulk of the Indian elites still receive their schooling (see Bhavana
Pankaj, "India’s Christians Protest Persecution", Asian Week [7 January
1999]).
The reality faced by Christians in modern India is that they are a small
minority and not noticeably present in public life. They are dwarfed by
the Hindus (nearly 78% of the population) and Muslims (around 14% of the
population). The much smaller Parsi population has had a far more
tangible and far-reaching impact on Indian civilization as well as what
is called "nation-building". The militant Hindus have spread a canard
that the Christian population is increasing rapidly in India, and they
have attempted to create the widespread impression that lower-caste
Hindus are being forcibly converted in large numbers to Christianity.
For instance, on the very day that Pope John Paul II arrived in India in
late 1999, an advertisement in the form of an open letter addressed to
the Pope was placed in Indian newspapers by the Citizens Committee of
the Dharma Raksha Sammelan [Association for Protection of the Hindu
Faith] in Chennai [Madras], which stated that "the Christian missionary
activity in our nation is tearing apart families and communities in
every strata of our society." The letter states that "religious
conversion, which seems to be synonymous with papal work, is violence
pure and simple." Purporting to speak on behalf of the nation, the
letter concluded thus: "We Indians are deeply hurt by the spurt in the
aggressive campaigning of the Church to convert the people of India by
all available means" (see V. Sridhar, "A Numbers Game", Frontline
[Madras], Vol. 16, no. 25 (27 November 1999). In fact, there have been
many other similar calls for an end to conversion (for example, M. V.
Kamath, "Mission Impossible: Putting an End to Conversion Activity",
Times of India 13 October 1999), all implicitly based on one of more of
the following assumptions, all patently false: (1) Christian missionary
activity is illegal; (2) the Christian population is increasing
dramatically; (3) and that conversions take place forcibly, or are
otherwise inauthentic because the converts are seduced with offers of
money or other forms of patronage.
The evidence to the contrary is ample. The Constitution of India (1950)
recognizes the right to freedom of religious worship, and the
Constituent Assembly, which drafted the Indian Constitution, recognized
further that people have the right to "propagate religion". More
importantly, the Census of India, which remains the most authoritative
source for population statistics, clearly shows that the Christian
community has stagnated and even registered a small decline in recent
years. In an article published by Rajendra K. Chaddha in the magazine
Organiser (31 October 1999), which is the mouthpiece for the BJP, the
Hindu nationalist party that has been governing India since March 1998,
it was claimed that the Christian population had grown from 2.53% of the
total population of India in 1981 to 2.61% of the total population.
However, the Census of India tells a different, and obviously more
reliable, story. While the rate of growth of the Christian population
was higher than that of the population as a whole between 1921 and 1971,
the gap narrowed and was eventually reversed. Thus, between 1981 and
1991, Christians declined from 2.45% to 2.32% of the entire population.
Moreover, while the population of India increased by 23.79% between 1981
and 1991, the Christian population grew by only 16.89% in the same
period. . The Justice Wadhava Commission of Inquiry appointed by the
Government of India came to the same conclusion, and it adds the
interesting fact that between 1991 and 1998 the Hindu population
increased by 2.5%, while the Christian population increased by .008%
(see V. Sridhar’s article in Frontline [above]; Rajeev Dhavan,
"Christians in India", The Hindu (5 November 1999); and P. R. Ram, "To
Be or Not To Be: The Conversion Debate", available through South Asia
Citizens Wire).
In short, the most common rationale offered for violence against
Christians in India, namely that the community is growing at an alarming
rate through forced conversions, is absurd and has been decisively
rejected by the print media and the world of scholarship. Even if the
allegations made by Hindu extremists were true, they cannot be offered
as an excuse for violence against another religious community. It is
also the case, though the scholarly and popular literature on this
question leaves much to be deisred, that recent converts to Christianity
fare much worse than those Indian Christians who have been members of
that faith for one or more generations. Recent converts are seen as
traitors to Hinduism, as people who are against the tide of history and
fail to recognize that India is -- as the Hindu militants would like to
think -- a Hindu nation, and as people who are determined to weaken
India in the face of opposition from hostile countries, including
Pakistan. There may also be some resentment against the generally
improved lifestyle of Christians: rates of literacy among both Christian
men and women are higher than among Hindu men and women, and in the
various indices that are used internationally to determine social and
economic development, such as infant mortality rate, maternal mortality
rate, and death rate, Christians score better.
The Hindutva literature on conversion, finally, has entirely failed to
enter into an engagement on the complex philosophical, political, and
ethical questions surrounding conversion. Some of the Hindutva
advocates, whose contempt for Gandhi is barely disguised, have brazenly
furnished Gandhi’s views as justification for their opposition to
conversion. Gandhi was not keen on conversion, partly because he held to
the view that the convert had an inadquate understanding of his or her
own faith; and Gandhi did not think that any one religion was superior
to another. But absolutely nothing in Gandhi’s life, teachings, or
writings can even remotely be summoned in support of the view that
Gnadhi would have opposed a person’s right and desire to convert, and it
is unthinkable that he would have countenanced the use of violence to
prevent conversion. In this matter as in many others, the militant
Hindus have shown themselves extraordinarily adept in abusing and
manipulating Gandhi.
Anti-Christian Violence in India, 1997-2000
The media first actively began to report incidents of violence against
Christians in 1997. As I have argued earlier, the increase of violence
against Christians must be viewed in the context of the rise of Hindu
nationalism and the ascendancy of the BJP to political power at the
center of the nation. From 1964 to 1996, only 38 incidents of violence
against Christians were registered in the country, though doubtless many
incidents were not recorded at all; in 1997 alone, 24 incidents were
noted by the United Christian Forum for Human Rights, and in 1998, the
number had gone up to 90, though some Christian spokespersons have
claimed that the true figure is several times higher. Hindu militants,
one can safely conclude, see the rise of the BJP and other like-minded
parties as an invitation to commit violence against Christians and other
minorities with impunity.
Though incidents of violence against Christians have occurred in nearly
all parts of India, the violence has been largely confined to north,
central, and western India, to the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttar
Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and the capital area of New Delhi -- not
coincidentally, most of these areas have been under BJP rule in recent
years. Some of the more gruesome incidents took place in eastern India,
in the state of Orissa. Intimidation of Christians has extended to such
acts as arson (the fire-bombing of Churches), the distribution of
threatening literature, the forcible reconversion of recent converts
back to Hinduism, the burning of Bibles; there have also been incidents,
though much fewer in number, involving the rape of nuns and the murder
of both Christian priests and missionaries. Cases of physical assault
have also been recorded from various parts of the country: on 5 November
1999, 26 students -- not all Christians -- of St. Joseph’s Evening
College, Bangalore, were attacked by 40 VHP activists for allegedly
converting lower-caste Hindus (the Dalits) to Christianity (Walter
Fernandes, "Caste as vested interest", The Hindu [4 January 2000]). In
Gujarat alone, where the BJP grip over power is very strong, 22 churches
were burnt or destroyed, and another 16 damaged, in 1997. In the
following year, 1998, according to the United Christian Forum for Human
Rights, 5 nuns were raped, 9 killed, and 25 subjected to physical abuse
(see Ravi Arvind Palat, "Violence against Christians in India", New
Zealand Herald [26 January 1999]; also V. Venkatesan, "A pattern of
persecution", Frontline 15, no. 26 [19 December 1998]). In mid-June
2000, four churches in different parts of India were bombed, while in
the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, church graves were desecrated. In
the same month, a church in Maharashtra was ransacked, and an evangelist
working for the India Campus Crusade for Christ was found stabbed to
death at his home (see Robert Marquand, "In India, a Pattern of Attacks
on Christians", Christian Science Monitor ([29 June 2000]).
There have also been at least five widely known cases involving the
murder of Christian clergymen, though perhaps as many as 20 priests and
pastors may have been killed. Two might be mentioned by way of
illustration. The entire country was shocked in January 1999 when an
Australian Baptist missionary, Graham Staines, was murdered along with
his two sons by being burnt alive inside a locked car. Staines had lived
in India for the greater part of his life, and was working among lepers
in Orissa, one of India’s most deprived regions (see the Human Rights
Report and State Department Report, as cited below). His assailant, a
Hindu militant by the name of Dara Singh, went around boasting about his
deed, and even gave television interviews, while the police claimed that
he could not be found. On 7 June 2000, the Catholic priest, George
Kuzhikandam, was murdered in his sleep in a church in Mathura in Uttar
Pradesh. The church cook, Vijay Ekka, who slept near the murdered
clergyman and first reported the murder, was taken away by the police
for interrogation, and himself died in police custody. Though the police
claimed he had committed suicide, the autopsy indicated that he had been
strangled. It is widely believed that the cook was silenced.
Anti-Christian violence in India has been widely noted, and in April
1999 Human Rights Watch visited the Dangs district in southeastern
Gujarat, where over a period of 10 days, from 25 December 1998 to 3
January 1999, there were numerous violent and clearly premeditated
attacks on Christians and their institutions. Their 1999 report on the
violence perpretrated against Christians furnishes a detailed record of
what they saw and heard, and provides the testimony of those victimized
(it can be accessed at
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/indiachr/christians). A chronological
record, as well as the historical background to the present spate of
violence, can also be found in the U.S. State Department’s Annual Report
on International Religious Freedom for 1999: India (released by the
Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, Washington, DC, 9
September 1999). Shortly before dying in a car crash in Poland in the
summer of 2000, Archbishop Alan de Lastic of New Delhi addressed a
letter to Prime Minister Vajpayee, drawing his attention to the attacks
upon Christians in all parts of the country, and stating that the thugs
engaged in violent activity and attacks upon Christians "know no action
will be taken [against them], and they can get away with any kind of
violence" (Seema Mustafa, "Archbishop to PM: Your Silence Kills", The
Asian Age (14 May 2000). The Archbishop noted that the Christian
community was threatened with its worst crisis since India acquired
independence in 1947 (see Pamela Constable, ‘The Burden of the Cross in
India", Washington Post [3 July 2000]).
The evidence for violence against Christians in India is consequently
incontrovertible. There are numerous compilations of atrocities
perpetrated upon Christians, and they suggest an alarming pattern of
violence: the intimidation of priests; threats placed against Christian
schools; false allegations against Christian priests; the destruction of
Christian institutions, such as the Damian Leprosy Hospital complex run
by Catholic nuns for 31 years; attacks upon churches; assault upon
Christian nuns and pastors, such as in the city of Jhansi on 2 May 2000;
the distribution of scurrilous literature; and murder of Christians.
Severn
Hunter wrote:
> Errrrr, so you think it's ok to burn someone to death, and burn
> his children to death, gibbering with glee, merely because someone
> tries to convince people to believe something other than they
> currently do?
>
> For fucks sake, all these people are are salesmen... The people
> who killed this person (and his children, what heroes they must've
> been) only prove to us that some monkeys should never have left
> the trees... They are subhuman.... It'd be nice to think that most
> of your country is disgusted by their actions, but people such as
> yourself make that a questionable thought.
What's interesting is that Johnny/Jai and PMohan both are implying the
conclusion that some sort of admission was made wrt Graham Staines'
activities, when the article quoted supports no such conclusion. Sheds a
bit of light on the workings of their dim minds, doesn't it?
> "Dr. Jai Maharaj" wrote:
>
>
>>This is an interesting confession by these people.
>>Has a movie been made about Staines? If not, one
>>needs to be written in order to expose the truth
>>about these people.
Indeed! The VHP and it's henchmen must be exposed!
And astrologers must be forced to seek honest employment in other trades!
Severn
Paulo Joe Jingy wrote:
> A lot of capital letters. You're getting a little screechy there,
> Jay/Jai
His legal first name is Johnny.
Dr. Jai Maharaj
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[ > news:7haukt$7o2$1...@nnrp1.deja.com...
[ >
[ > Blaming the caste system or the country or the
[ > parents or all other things around you, except yourself
[ > for not able to come up in life is really funny. IF you
[ > work hard and try your best in all you do then there is a
[ > good chance of coming up in life whatever caste you are.
[ > There is opportunity for everyone in this free world.
[ > Whatever caste you are, you have to be proud of your
[ > caste and be proud of who you are and what you are. No
[ > need to feel high and low. There is no high or low caste,
[ > its all depends on the peoples mind. If each person is
[ > proud of who he is then there is no need to feel low or
[ > high comparing with others.
[ >
[ > More funny is the excuse of caste system given by the
[ > the missionaries to convert people. If they are
[ > converting only in India then we could have believed
[ > their reasoning. But they are all over the world trying
[ > to brainwash innocent victims by insulting other
[ > religions, cultures and traditions and encouraging to go
[ > against their parents and society and instilling hatred
[ > towards society. Ok in india the excuse is caste system.
[ > What are the excuses in other parts of Asia and the
[ > world.? Maybe the excuse is , these missionaries are
[ > saving the people from sin and devil. Or is it that these
[ > people are non-believers and wants to make them
[ > believers? Since they don't practice christianity, they
[ > are non-beleivers and they follow devils. am i right?
[ >
[ > Missionaries main aim is to convert the whole world
[ > into christianity by any means and not social work and
[ > saving the dalits or any other excuses they give. At each
[ > country and society they will try to divide the society
[ > and instil hatred so that they will be free to do their
[ > job of conversion.
[ >
[ > Why can't all the poeple in the world be like Hindus
[ > that is tolarent, open minded, respect all cultures and
[ > traditions and accept different opinions. I am not saying
[ > that other religions are bad. All religions are the same
[ > ( there are good and bad things ) and GOD is one for all
[ > but its the people who make these division and bring bad
[ > name to God and Religion.
[ >
[ > from kavalan
[
[
[ Kavalan,
[
[ Your thoughts on Caste system are great.
[
[ Western Chrisitan missionaries have used/misused it as a
[ tool to "whip" up hate against the Hindus.
[
[ By slandering Hinduism, they hope to increase their
[ harvest of converts.
[
[ They will stoop to the lowest depth to acheive this. For
[ them any method will do as long as they reach their goal.
[ - A Christian India by AD 2000.
[
[ While they themselves practise "Rampant Racism" back home
[ in their own countries, they are quick to highlight the
[ excesses of caste system.
[
[ The caste system provides security and a community for
[ millions of Indians. It gives them an identity that
[ neither Western Science nor Western thought has yet
[ provided, because caste is not just a matter of being a
[ Brahmin or a Harijan: it is also a kinship system. The
[ system provides a wider support group than a family: a
[ group which has a social life in which all its members
[ participate.
[
[ The alienation of many young people in the West and the
[ loneliness of the old show the suffering that
[ egalitarianism inflicts.
[
[ The rise in crime, school shooting, the overflowing
[ prisons, high divorce rates, unstable family life ... are
[ all signs of this alienation in the West.
[
[ I am posting this article that I found recently at
[ spiritweb.org
[
[ regards,
[ satya
[
[
[ Caste System in India by Prof Koenraad Elst
[
[ http://www.eu.spiritweb.org/HinduismToday/94-09-Caste.html
[
[ Verdict from Belgium
[
[ Last month, two ardent Hindus battled out the
[ controversial pros and cons of caste. This month's
[ assessment, from Europe, focuses on history and how jati
[ and varn have, for the most part, helped rather than
[ hurt Hinduism.
[
[ By Prof. Koenraad Elst
[
[ In an inter-faith debate, most Hindus can easily be put
[ on the defensive with a single word-caste. Any anti-Hindu
[ polemist can be counted on to allege that "the typically
[ Hindu caste system is the most cruel apartheid, imposed
[ by the barbaric white Aryan invaders on the gentle dark-
[ skinned natives." Here's a more balanced and historical
[ account of this controversial institution.
[
[ Merits of the Caste System
[
[ The caste system is often portrayed as the ultimate
[ horror. Inborn inequality is indeed unacceptable to us
[ moderns, but this does not preclude that the system has
[ also had its merits.
[
[ Caste is perceived as an "exclusion-from," but first of
[ all it is a form of "belonging-to," a natural structure
[ of solidarity. For this reason, Christian and Muslim
[ missionaries found it very difficult to lure Hindus away
[ from their communities. Sometimes castes were
[ collectively converted to Islam, and Pope Gregory XV
[ (1621-23) decreed that the missionaries could tolerate
[ caste distinction among Christian converts; but by and
[ large, caste remained an effective hurdle to the
[ destruction of Hinduism through conversion. That is why
[ the missionaries started attacking the institution of
[ caste and in particular the brahmin caste. This
[ propaganda has bloomed into a full-fledged anti-
[ brahminism, the Indian equivalent of anti-Semitism. Every
[ caste had a large measure of autonomy, with its own
[ judiciary, duties and privileges, and often its own
[ temples. Inter-caste affairs were settled at the village
[ council by consensus; even the lowest caste had veto
[ power. This autonomy of intermediate levels of society is
[ the antithesis of the totalitarian society in which the
[ individual stands helpless before the all-powerful state.
[ This decentralized structure of civil society and of the
[ Hindu religious commonwealth has been crucial to the
[ survival of Hinduism under Muslim rule. Whereas Buddhism
[ was swept away as soon as its monasteries were destroyed,
[ Hinduism retreated into its caste structure and weathered
[ the storm.
[
[ Caste also provided a framework for integrating immigrant
[ communities: Jews, Zoroastrians and Syrian Christians.
[ They were not only tolerated, but assisted in efforts to
[ preserve their distinctive traditions.
[
[ Typically Hindu?
[
[ It is routinely claimed that caste is a uniquely Hindu
[ institution. Yet, counter examples are not hard to come
[ by. In Europe and elsewhere, there was (or still is) a
[ hierarchical distinction between noblemen and commoners,
[ with nobility only marrying nobility. Many tribal
[ societies punished the breach of endogamy rules with
[ death.
[
[ Coming to the Indian tribes, we find Christian
[ missionaries claiming that "tribals are not Hindus
[ because they do not observe caste." In reality,
[ missionary literature itself is rife with testimonies of
[ caste practices among tribals. A spectacular example is
[ what the missions call "the Mistake:" the attempt, in
[ 1891, to make tribal converts in Chhotanagpur inter-dine
[ with converts from other tribes. It was a disaster for
[ the mission. Most tribals renounced Christianity because
[ they chose to preserve the taboo on inter-dining. As
[ strongly as the haughtiest brahmin, they refused to mix
[ what God hath separated.
[
[ Endogamy and exogamy are observed by tribal societies the
[ world over. The question is therefore not why Hindu
[ society invented this system, but how it could preserve
[ these tribal identities even after outgrowing the tribal
[ stage of civilization. The answer lies largely in the
[ expanding Vedic culture's intrinsically respectful and
[ conservative spirit, which ensured that each tribe could
[ preserve its customs and traditions, including its
[ defining custom of tribal endogamy.
[
[ Description and History
[
[ The Portuguese colonizers applied the term caste,
[ "lineage, breed," to two different Hindu institutions:
[ jati and varna. The effective unit of the caste system is
[ the jati, birth-unit, an endogamous group into which you
[ are born, and within which you marry. In principle, you
[ can only dine with fellow members, but the pressures of
[ modern life have eroded this rule. The several thousands
[ of jatis are subdivided in exogamous clans, gotra. This
[ double division dates back to tribal society.
[
[ By contrast, varn is the typical functional division of
[ an advanced society-the Indus/Saraswati civilization, 3rd
[ millennium, bce. The youngest part of the Rg-Veda
[ describes four classes: learned brahmins born from
[ Brahma's mouth, martial kshatriya-born from his arms;
[ vaishya entrepreneurs born from His hips and shudra
[ workers born from His feet. Everyone is a shudra by
[ birth. Boys become dwija, twice-born, or member of one of
[ the three upper varnas upon receiving the sacred thread
[ in the upanayana ceremony.
[
[ The varn system expanded from the Saraswati-Yamuna area
[ and got firmly established in the whole of Aryavarta
[ (Kashmir to Vidarbha, Sindh to Bihar). It counted as a
[ sign of superior culture setting the arya, civilized,
[ heartland apart from the surrounding mleccha, barbaric,
[ lands. In Bengal and the South, the system was reduced to
[ a distinction between brahmins and shudras. varn is a
[ ritual category and does not fully correspond to
[ effective social or economic status. Thus, half of the
[ princely rulers in British India were shudras and a few
[ were brahmins, though it is the kshatriya function par
[ excellence. Many shudras are rich, many brahmins
[ impoverished.
[
[ The Mahabharat defines the varn qualities thus: "He in
[ whom you find truthfulness, generosity, absence of
[ hatred, modesty, goodness and self-restraint, is a
[ brahmana. He who fulfills the duties of a knight, studies
[ the scriptures, concentrates on acquisition and
[ distribution of riches, is a kshatriya. He who loves
[ cattle-breeding, agriculture and money, is honest and
[ well-versed in scripture, is a vaishya. He who eats
[ anything, practises any profession, ignores purity rules,
[ and takes no interest in scriptures and rules of life, is
[ a shudra." The higher the varna, the more rules of self-
[ discipline are to be observed. Hence, a jati could
[ collectively improve its status by adopting more
[ demanding rules of conduct, e.g. vegetarianism. A
[ person's second name usually indicates his jati or gotra.
[ Further, one can use the following varn titles: Sharma
[ (shelter, or joy) indicates the brahmin, Varma (armour)
[ the kshatriya, Gupta (protected) the vaishya and Das
[ (servant) the shudra. In a single family, one person may
[ call himself Gupta (varna), another Agrawal (jati), yet
[ another Garg (gotra). A monk, upon renouncing the world,
[ sheds his name along with his caste identity.
[
[ Untouchability
[
[ Below the caste hierarchy are the untouchables, or
[ harijan (literally "God's people"), dalits ("oppressed"),
[ paraiah (one such caste in South India), or scheduled
[ castes. They make up about 16% of the Indian population,
[ as many as the upper castes combined.
[
[ Untouchability originates in the belief that evil spirits
[ surround dead and dying substances. People who work with
[ corpses, body excretions or animal skins had an aura of
[ danger and impurity, so they were kept away from
[ mainstream society and from sacred learning and ritual.
[ This often took grotesque forms: thus, an untouchable had
[ to announce his polluting proximity with a rattle, like a
[ leper.
[
[ Untouchability is unknown in the Vedas, and therefore
[ repudiated by neo-Vedic reformers like Dayanand
[ Saraswati, Narayan Guru, Gandhiji and Savarkar. In 1967,
[ Dr. Ambedkar, a dalit by birth and fierce critic of
[ social injustice in Hinduism and Islam, led a mass
[ conversion to Buddhism, partly on the (unhistorical)
[ assumption that Buddhism had been an anti-caste movement.
[ The 1950 constitution outlawed untouchability and
[ sanctioned positive discrimination programs for the
[ Scheduled Castes and Tribes. Lately, the Vishva Hindu
[ Parishad has managed to get even the most traditionalist
[ religious leaders on the anti-untouchability platform, so
[ that they invite harijans to Vedic schools and train them
[ as priests. In the villages, however, pestering of dalits
[ is still a regular phenomenon, occasioned less by ritual
[ purity issues than by land and labor disputes. However,
[ the dalits' increasing political clout is accelerating
[ the elimination of untouchability.
[
[ Caste Conversion
[
[ In the Mahabharat, Yuddhishthira affirms that varn is
[ defined by the qualities of head and heart, not by one's
[ birth. Krishna teaches that varna is defined by one's
[ activity (karm) and quality (guna). Till today, it is an
[ unfinished debate to what extent one's "quality" is
[ determined by heredity or by environmental influence. And
[ so, while the hereditary view has been predominant for
[ long, the non-hereditary conception of varn has always
[ been around as well, as is clear from the practice of
[ varna conversion. The most famous example is the 17th-
[ century freedom fighter Shivaji, a shudra who was
[ accorded kshatriya status to match his military
[ achievements. The geographical spread of Vedic tradition
[ was achieved through large-scale initiation of local
[ elites into the varn order. From 1875 onwards, the Arya
[ Samaj has systematically administered the "purification
[ ritual" (shuddhi) to Muslim and Christian converts and to
[ low-caste Hindus, making the dwija. Conversely, the
[ present policy of positive discrimination has made upper-
[ caste people seek acceptance into the favored Scheduled
[ Castes.
[
[ Veer Savarkar, the ideologue of Hindu nationalism,
[ advocated intermarriage to unify the Hindu nation even at
[ the biological level. Most contemporary Hindus, though
[ now generally opposed to caste inequality, continue to
[ marry within their respective jati because they see no
[ reason for their dissolution.
[
[ Racial Theory of Caste
[
[ Nineteenth-century Westerners projected the colonial
[ situation and the newest race theories on the caste
[ system: the upper castes were white invaders lording it
[ over the black natives. This outdated view is still
[ repeated ad-nauseam by anti-Hindu authors: now that
[ "idolatry" has lost its force as a term of abuse,
[ "racism" is a welcome innovation to demonize Hinduism. In
[ reality, India is the region where all skin color types
[ met and mingled, and you will find many brahmins as black
[ as Nelson Mandela. Ancient "Aryan" heroes like Rama,
[ Krishna, Draupadi, Ravana (a brahmin) and a number of
[ Vedic seers were explicitly described as being dark-
[ skinned.
[
[ But doesn't varn mean "skin color?" The effective meaning
[ of varn is "splendor, color," and hence "distinctive
[ quality" or "one segment in a spectrum." The four
[ functional classes constitute the "colors" in the
[ spectrum of society. Symbolic colors are allotted to the
[ varn on the basis of the cosmological scheme of "three
[ qualities" (triguna): white is sattva (truthful), the
[ quality typifying the brahmin; red is rajas (energetic),
[ for the kshatriya; black is tamas (inert, solid), for the
[ shudra; yellow is allotted to the vaishya, who is defined
[ by a mixture of qualities. Finally, caste society has
[ been the most stable society in history. Indian
[ communists used to sneer that "India has never even had a
[ revolution." Actually, that is no mean achievement.
[
[ Address: Professor Koenraad Elst, PO box 103, 2000 Leuven
[ 3, Belgium. Dr. Elst is a Belgian scholar who has
[ extensively studied the current socio-political situation
[ in India. Keenly interested in Asian philosophies and
[ traditions from his early years, he has studied yoga,
[ aikido and other oriental disciplines. Between 1988 and
[ 1993 he spent much of his time in India doing research at
[ the prestigious Banaras Hindu University.
End of forwarded article
Severn
<j...@mantra.com> "Dr." Jai Maharaj wrote:
> Report on recent visit to Gujarat
>
> MISSIONARY ACTIVITY
>
> By N. S. Rajaram
> The Organiser
The Organiser is the mouthpiece of the BJP. Quoting an article from that
rag is like quoting from the KKK website as reference.
Severn
<j...@mantra.com> "Dr." Jai Maharaj wrote:
> MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
> PUTTING AN END TO CONVERSION ACTIVITY
>
> By M. V. Kamath
Wasn't M. V. Kamath the commie stoolpigeon editor of "Blaze" who had to
make a midlife career change when the dole from Moscow began drying up?
Yup, money _can_ make the leopard change it's spots!
Advance Australia Dear
>The Organiser is the mouthpiece of the BJP.
So tell us, why are Cretin missionaries bothering the people there ?
Advance Australia Dear
>The Organiser is the mouthpiece of the BJP.
So tell us, why are Cretin missionaries bothering the people there ?
Advance Australia Dear
>
>> MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
>> PUTTING AN END TO CONVERSION ACTIVITY
Time to ban these Missionaries.
Advance Australia Dear
>
>> MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
>> PUTTING AN END TO CONVERSION ACTIVITY
DU
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 08:54:48 GMT, Severn <ser...@se.net> wrote:
>
>
><j...@mantra.com> "Dr." Jai Maharaj wrote:
>
>> Report on recent visit to Gujarat
>>
>> MISSIONARY ACTIVITY
>>
>> By N. S. Rajaram
>> The Organiser
>
>
>The Organiser is the mouthpiece of the BJP. Quoting an article from that
>rag is like quoting from the KKK website as reference.
ad Hominem.
Mr Severed head Christian Missionary, if you have any intelligence and honesty,
please tell us why anyone should tolerate the missionary tactics discussed in the
article.
singh
> stand up on its' own two feet in the face of other religions, what is it
> that is missing from that religion?
MONEY is the thing that's missing! Thanks to colonialism, India has lost
billions of dollars making Hindus poor while bastard Christians after raping
and destroying other cultures have gotten wealthy by stealing and now are
using that money to destroy more cultures...
HINDUISM didn't need to lie about itself unlike the Christians ...
-Hindus know you barbarians drink blood on Sunday and practice ritual
cannibalism,
-Christ also didn't want to teach non-Jews so non_jews are nothing more
than pathetic for continuing to worship Christ...
-YAHWEH was nothing more than a war God of the Bedoiuns no different than
Jupiter
-Moses created the Jewish caste system,
- New Testament states slaves should worship their masters as God....
-and of course YOUR PRIESTS LOVE LITTLE BOYS...
CHRISTIANS HAVE NO MORAL / RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY TO CRITICIZE ANY RELIGION!
"Hunter" <hun...@vianet.net.au> wrote in message
news:3DB1F3A0...@vianet.net.au...
> Paulo Joe Jingy wrote:
>
> > The issue isn't (or wasn't) who has the flakiest religion--the issue is,
> > should a government interfere with with the attempted conversion of
> > people from one religion to another?
>
> I wouldn't worry about Jai, he's more a parrot than anything else (hence
why
> he does not discuss this with you but prefers to regurgitate articles
> instead), and what he fails to realise is that he is pointing out to the
> world what a weak religion Hinduism in India must be when they have to
pass
> laws to prevent anyone from preaching other religions. >
>
>
singh
descendants of kshatriyas and brahmins ... untouchables were OUT CASTES,
people who were kicked out of their castes and made into pariahs...this
existed in EVERY ANCIENT society...
Aryas actually had the losest definitions...in Judaism you CANNOT become a
priest unless you are a Levite or from the blood line of the brother of
Moses, Aron...MOSES and their bedouin war god Yahweh sabboath started the
Jewish caste system ...
Of course it doesn't work in modern society and dalits should be
reintroduced to their culture and civilization...
"Paulo Joe Jingy" <pauloj...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3DB1EE95...@yahoo.com...
> Weird stuff, Jay/Jai
> -----
>
> http://www.dalitstan.org/books/mohr/mohr9.html
>
> How most `Hindus' oppose being classed as `Hindu', fearing destruction of
> their identity
>
> Hindu Opposition to Hinduism
> Chapter 9
> Myth of One Hindu Religion Exploded
> by
> Hadwa Dom
>
> 9.1 Vaidik Opposition to Hinduism
>
> The Arya Samaj, a revivalist movement seeking to restore the ancient Vedic
> Aryan religion in contrast to the predominant Aryan Vaishnavite religion,
> consistently opposed usage of the term Hindu. They refused to label
> themselves `Hindu', referring to themselves as `Aryan' instead. The main
> reason being that the word Hindu does not occur in the Vedas. They have
also
> launched vigourous campaigns against the usage of the very word Hindu.
Their
> concerns are valid, for Hinduism is merely a front for the propagation of
> Vaishnavism, and Vedism may be submerged into the cess-pit of Vaishnavism.
>
> 9.2 Sudric Shaivite Opposition : Dalit Resistence
>
> Ambedkar consistently opposed the fraudulent inclusion of the Untouchables
> into the `Hindu' class. He was stopped in this endeavour by Mr. Gandhi,
who
> sought to preserve the Untouchable status of these people. Dr. B. R.
> Ambedkar was the first Law Minister of independent India. He was the head
of
> the committee that drafted the constitution of India, and is known as the
> Father of Indian Constitution. He wrote,
>
> " Hinduism is a veritable chamber of horrors. The sanctity and
infallibility
> of the Vedas, Smritis and Shastras, the iron law of caste, the heartless
law
> of karma and the senseless law of status by birth are to the Untouchables
> veritable instruments of torture which Hinduism has forged against
> untouchables. These very instruments which have mutilated; blasted and
> blighted the lives of the Untouchables are to be found intact and
> untarnished in the bosom of Gandhism."
> -- [ Ambed ] [ cited in Fame ]
>
> Although they are not allowed inside temples, yet they are still classed
as
> `Hindu' :
>
> " These people are still denied the use of public wells and tanks and at
the
> same time stigmatized as unclean. They are still kept out of schools and
> colleges maintained by public funds and at the same time despised as
> ignorant and illiterate. They are still shut out from temples , and
branded
> as ungodly and unfit to associate with."
>
> -- [ Dalit ] In Vedic and Vaishnava religion, the status of Sudras is
indeed
> lower than that of animals. It is in fact lower than urine or dung ! This
is
> evident from the following quote :
>
> 'You may breed cows and dogs in your house,' wrote Mr. M.C. Raja. 'You may
> drink the urine of cows and swallow cowdung to expiate your sins, but you
> shall not approach an Adi Dravida [ `original Dravidians', ie. SC
Dravidas ]
>
> -- [ Dalit ] Dr. Ambedkar succintly showed that the Untouchables were not
> Hindus :
>
> " The grounds advanced by the Untouchables that they are separate from the
> Hindus are not difficult to comprehend. Nor do they require a long and an
> elaborate statement. The statement of their case can be fully covered by a
> simple question. In what sense are they Hindus? "
> -- [ Fold ]
>
> 9.3 Sudric Shaivite Opposition : Adivasi Resistance
>
> The Adivasis have also objected to the claim that they are Hindu. In
> censuses they refuse to identify themselves as `Hindu' but disclose their
> religion as `Santal religion', `Munda religion' or `Gond religion', etc.
It
> is only the fundamentalist Brahmin tabulators who then stealthily change
> their identification from `Adivasi' to `Hindu' ! The noted Sudra leader
Ram
> Vilas Paswan has written :
>
> " The tribals have their own culture and history. They are born into their
> own peculiar religions . Article 25 guaranteeing freedom of conscience
does
> not exclude the tribals from its purview, and like all other Indians, they
> have a right to embrace any religion of their choice. Even the census
> reports do not treat the tribal communities as Hindus. Social inequalities
> on the basis of caste is the most hateful aspect of Hinduism. In India one
> can change his religion but not caste! "
> -- [ Paswan ]
>
> 9.4 Sudric Shaivite Opposition : Dravidian Resistance
>
> The Dravidians have also restored their traditions, and have now come to
> realize that the concept of `Hinduism' was introduced to subjugate their
> Dravidian religion to the Aryan yoke. Thus, strong demands are made to
> recognize the Dravidian religion (somewhat incorrectly referred to by the
> Aryans as Shaivism) as distinct from the Aryan Vaishnavism [ Deva ].
>
> " The Lingayats don't label themselves as Hindu."
> -- [ Ling.2 ]
>
> 9.5 Sudric Shaivite Opposition : Kolarian Reistance
>
> The Kolarians or Mundari-speaking Aboriginals of East India also oppose
> their classification as Hindus. The Jharkhand movement, as well as the
> various Santhal liberation organisations, all oppose the classification of
> Kols as Hindu, and the day is not far off when Shaivism, or Sudra religion
> shall be recognised as a faith in its own right.
>
> Given the level of resistance, it is only a matter of time before the sham
> Vaishnava attempt to subvert all Indian religions under astika Brahmanism
> falls like a pack of cards. Soon, the concept of `Hinduism' shall be
> recognised as a great historic blunder.
> -----
>
> "You may breed cows and dogs in your house," wrote Mr. M.C. Raja. 'You may
> drink the urine of cows and swallow cowdung to expiate your sins, but you
> shall not approach an Adi Dravida"
>
> With that attitude--I can't for the life of me see why the Untouchables
> would ever want to leave the Hindu faith--can you?
>
> In fact, after a just a little study, I'm beginning to see that this whole
> *conversion* issue is more political than religious. Surprise--surprise.
>
> Apparently--in many cases--the Untouchables threaten to convert to
> Christianity or the Moslem fatih, in an attempt to extort better
treatment.
>
> --
> Paulo Joe Jingy
>
>
>
>
singh
>
> http://hinduwebsite.com/history/caste.htm
>
> "If hindus do not shed the caste system in its present form, they
> cannot blame others for the disunity and disharmony of their society and
> for the increasing popularity of other faiths among the less privileged
> castes. They cannot blame foreign hands, charitable institutions and
> Christian missionaries, for the alienation of these people. Every hindu
> ought to remember that if there is one force that can destroy Hindu
> society either in part or in full or reduce them to a simple minority in
> their own country, it is neither nuclear weapons nor the foreign hands,
> but the stench of casteism."
>
> By V.Jayaram
>
> --
> Paulo Joe Jingy
>
>
>
singh
system compared to the Hindus...
Shudras were the commoners , out castes or untouchables were people who were
kicked out of their castes...there are several stories that state many
brahmins/kshatriyas who were outcasted due to going against societal rules
and norms...IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE!
"Severn" <ser...@se.net> wrote in message news:3DB2579...@se.net...
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>
>Anti-Christian Violence in India
>
>Vinay Lal
.
>Anti-Christian Violence in India, 1997-2000
>
>From 1964 to 1996, only 38 incidents of violence
>against Christians were registered in the country, though doubtless many
>incidents were not recorded at all; in 1997 alone, 24 incidents were
>noted by the United Christian Forum for Human Rights, and in 1998, the
>number had gone up to 90,
The writer is obviously an idiot. The data he presents
are totally insignificant. It can readily be assumed that in a country the size
of India the intra-Hindu, or just about any other intra-ethnic statistics would be
many times larger.
Though it is absolutely not clear, nor can it ever be condoned in any way, why a
Christian Missionary would want to go to Hindus and engage in blatantly anti-Hindu
activities.
DU
>Forwarded message
>
>CHRISTIAN UNHOLY DEEDS – BLATANT VANDALISM BY CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES
>
>Location - Seetanagaram
>Krishna River bank, Vijayawada
>Andhra Pradesh, India
>
>On the banks of Krishna River, during the Holy season of
>Pushkara, Christian Pastors from the local church
>resorted to vandalism on Hinduism. The Christian Pastors
>encouraged the local and newly converted Hindus to spit
>on the photographs of several Hindu gods. They further
>stamped on the idols, photographs of Hindu deities and
>threw them in Krishna River. The police was a mute
>spectator for this entire drama, which took few hours.
From the colonial times such behavior of the Christian Missionaries is well
known.
Will the Christian Missionaries please explain to me why I should be tolerant
of these barbaric Christian Missionaries described above ??????
Tsorovan
> Here is the mission of Jesus stated in the Bible and many
> Christians follow it literally:
>
> "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth:
> I came not so send peace, but a sword.
> "For I am come to set a man at variance against his
> father, and the daughter against her mother, and the
> daughter in law against her mother in law.
> "And a man's foes shall be they of his own
> household.
> - Matthew 10:34-36.
>
Want another Bible quote? How about, "Thou shall not covet thy
neighbour's...ass"
- Exodus 20:17
Quoting out of context from any document, holy or otherwise, can
produce ridiculous results. Why do you search for reasons to hate?
Tsorovan
> Freethought Today, May 1995
>
> Editorial
>
> Christian Terrorism In Oklahoma City
>
> By Dan Barker
>
> When extremists from predominantly Moslem countries
> commit violence, many in the media refer to them as
> "Islamic terrorists." Why is no one calling the Oklahoma
> City bombing suspects "Christian terrorists"?
>
> The militias being investigated are called simply "right-
> wing" and "anti-government," but these hate groups, like
> the Ku Klux Klan, all have bible-based agendas. Timothy
> McVeigh is a Catholic. The Oklahoma City bomb was
> detonated on the anniversary of the raid on David
> Koresh's Christian militia in Waco.
>
> Ignoring the obvious religious connections here, everyone
> seems eager to turn this tragedy into an opportunity to
> acknowledge a deity. Oklahoma City invited Billy Graham
> and President Clinton to pray publicly to their god in an
> effort to lend some "meaning" to it all. Don't they see
> the irrationality of praying to this supposedly
> omniscient and omnipotent deity?
>
> If I had known what was about to happen at 9:02 a.m. on
> April 19, and if I had had the ability to prevent the
> horror, I would have tried. Wouldn't you?
>
> But Billy Graham's all-knowing God (let's pretend he
> exists) observed the truck being loaded with explosives.
> He sat alongside the driver on the trip from Kansas,
> knowing what he had in mind. He noticed the laughing
> children entering the day-care center.
>
> Graham's all-powerful "God of love" easily could have
> prevented the detonation. Yet he did nothing.
>
> Graham and Clinton should not be asking their God for
> comfort. They should be asking him, "Whose side are you
> on?"
>
> What would you call someone who could have stopped the
> killing, yet sat by and let it happen? I would call him
> an accomplice.
>
> Yet FBI Director Louis Freeh, knowing that his main
> suspect is Catholic and is associated with Christian
> right-wing militia groups, called the Oklahoma bombing a
> "godless act."
>
> There is no reason for our government to equate "godless"
> with "evil." The facts of history show that most
> terrorism and war have some kind of religious motivation.
> The recent chemical warfare in Japan waged by the
> "Supreme Truth" religious cult is one example. Since
> Christianity has a history of bloody persecution,
> wouldn't it make more sense for Freeh to identify
> religion as the culprit here?
>
> After all, Jesus reportedly said, "I came not to send
> peace, but a sword." This sounds like "Christian
> terrorism" to me.
>
I wonder, what religion/philosophy do you follow?
Tsorovan
> MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
> PUTTING AN END TO CONVERSION ACTIVITY
>
> Editorial Page
> The Times of India, via News Plus
> http://www.mantra.com/newsplus
>
> Wednesday, October 13, 1999
>
> On the night of January 22/23, Christian missionary
> Graham Stewart Staines and his two young sons were burnt
> to death in Manoharpur, a remote village in Orissa. On
> September 1, another Christian priest, Fr Arun Doss was
> killed at Jambani village, also in Orissa. In the past
> month, several incidents of burning of churches have been
> reported, almost all of them in tribal areas in Orissa
> and Gujarat.
>
> Some time ago, church authorities released a long list of
> atrocities perpetrated against Christians in different
> parts of India and at different times. The cumulative
> impression sought to be driven home is that minorities
> are no longer safe in India. This is an ominous
> development. Orissa's director-general of police Dilip
> Mahapatra has been quoted as saying that Fr Doss had
> received a ``number of complaints and evidence'' to the
> effect that the priest was involved in ``illegal
> conversions'' in violation of the Orissa Freedom of
> Religions Act, 1967.
>
> Under the Orissa law and a similar law passed in Madhya
> Pradesh, missionaries are clearly under an obligation to
> inform the authorities of their conversion efforts.
> Incidentally, these laws were upheld by a five-judge
> Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court in the Rev
> Stanilaus vs State of Madhya Pradesh (AIR 1977 SC 908).
> The law makes it mandatory for the concerned religious
> priest to give a 15-day notice for the "ceremony of
> conversion" and intimate the time and place along with
> the names and addresses of those intended to be
> converted.
>
> Far from Prying Eyes
>
> Christian missionary efforts at conversion under the
> guise of social work do not take place in places, say,
> like the Brahmin-dominated ward of Mylapore in Chennai.
> They are conducted in poor, illiterate and innocent
> tribal areas and in remote jungles far from the prying
> eyes of authority. Now a reaction seems to have set in.
> Writing in The Statesman (March 12, 1999), Mr B P Saha
> made the point that ``growing enlightenment has been
> provoking them (tribals) to dislike conversion and look
> askance at the foreign missionaries, the so-called
> benefactors''.
>
> Attempts at conversion should be considered a mortal
> assault on local cultures and should be totally banned.
> Conversions are forbidden by law in China. Here we take a
> lenient view of conversion and Christian bodies have been
> taking advantage of the Hindu sense of tolerance.
> According to Mr Jon Stock, New Delhi correspondent of the
> British paper The Daily Telegraph, ``put simply, the
> Indian subcontinent has become the principal target for a
> wide range of western Christian missions which are
> determined to spread the gospel to India's `unreached'
> people before the year 2000''.
>
> Writing in The Spectator, Mr Stock says: ``There is
> little doubt that the current communal tension in India
> would not be serious if foreign-funded missionaries had
> been content with giving Indians the choice of
> Christianity and left it at that."
>
> According to Mr Stock, ``hundreds of thousands of dollars
> are being channelled into India through well-organised,
> America-based evangelical missions'', the meticulously
> researched ethnographic data they are compiling on the
> region ensuring that funds are being directed ``with
> military precision to the right area, even to specific
> pin codes in remote tribal districts''.
>
> Mr Stock quoted a statement from a Colorado-based Group
> of World- wide Christian Missions calling itself AD 2000
> and Beyond as saying: `` `Flashes of light' seen all
> around the North India-Hindu belt, particularly among the
> tribal groups, are encouraging us to believe that the Sum
> of Righteousness is indeed ready to rise upon these
> unreached peoples."
>
> Violence Justified
>
> AD 2000 and Beyond described Varanasi, Hinduism's holiest
> city as full of temples dedicated to Shiva ``an idol
> whose symbol is a phallus'', and as a city whom many (?)
> consider the ``very seat of Satan''. One Rev R V Paricha
> has been described (Observer, March 24, 1999) as having
> authored a plan, on behalf of 94 Christian organisations,
> to target Orissa for conversion efforts, on the grounds
> that the caste structure of Orissa lacks the polarisation
> of the high-and-low caste characteristics of South India.
>
> The Constitution clearly says (Article 25, Freedom of
> Conscience etc) that ``all persons are equally entitled
> to freedom of conscience and the right freely to profess,
> practice and propagate religion'' but what is forgotten
> is that this right is ``subject to public order, morality
> and health''. If conversions or attempts at conversion
> lead to public disorder, the government has a duty
> sternly to deal with guilty missionaries. If the
> government does not step in on liberal pretenses, then
> violence can be predicted even justified by insulted
> citizens. It is time that Christian missionaries
> understand that India -- and Hinduism -- cannot be taken
> for granted.
>
> It is pertinent to record what Christian missionaries did
> in Goa during the Inquisition. All the Inquisition's
> activities were conducted in strict secrecy, replete with
> ``impenetrable arcane terminology fiendishly discrepant
> logic and autonomous questioning?" Paul William Roberts
> in Empire of the Soul, Some Journeys in India (Riverhead
> Books, New York) says,``Children were flogged and slowly
> dismembered in front of their parents whose eyelids had
> been sliced off to make sure they missed nothing.
> Extremities were amputated carefully, so that a person
> could remain conscious even when all that remained was a
> torso and a head...Those subjected to diabolical tortures
> could also be counted in the thousands and the
> abominations continued until a brief respite in
> 1774...The evil resumed (four years later) continuing,
> almost incredibly, until June 16, 1812. At that point
> British pressure put an end to terror, the presence of
> British troops stationed in Goa enforcing it''.
>
> Mere Apology
>
> The Church had a special way of dealing with converted
> Hindus who were suspected of not observing Christian
> rites with appropriate rigour and enthusiasm, or even of
> covertly practising their old faith. They were the
> revertidos, the alleged backsliders with their cut-out
> idols and furtive cremations. According to Roberts
> (p.89), ``the culprits would be tracked down and burnt
> alive''.
>
> The Church archives should be able to produce instances
> of all the ghastly atrocities that missionaries
> perpetrated in Goa in the name of Christ. These archives
> should be opened for study -- and publication in full. A
> mere apology is not enough. The Pope owes it to Goa,
> Hindus in general and India in the larger context to give
> a full account of what Christianity had perpetrated in
> our country. Above all, a total stop must be ordered of
> conversion activities.
> Not for commercial use. Solely to be fairly used for the
> educational purposes of research and open discussion.
>
Aside from being three years old, this article is just as biased as
any Christian publication. What gives Indians the right to burn
Christians alive. According to this article which you posted,
Christians don't have the right to burn Indians. Why? Why? Why is your
soul so filled with hate? Why can't you see that these people are all
human and we are all misguided and we all have misconceptions and we
all think we are doing what is best? You are like the man who wakes in
the night to find another man in his room at night and strikes at him
with his sword, cleaving away flesh and not realizing that he strikes
his own brother who has come to wake him. Why can't you see that the
intolerance, hate and fanaticism, which you continually accuse groups
of millions of people of based on the actions of a few,are reflected
in your own words?
singh
"Paulo Joe Jingy" <pauloj...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> CHILD PROSTITUTION IN INDIA (February 1999)
>
> India's 944 580 000 inhabitants live in an area of 3 287 590 km². Almost
> a quarter of this total are under eighteen years of age. 25% of the
> population live in urban areas and this is estimated to be growing
> annually at just over 1%. Over population and lack of education in
> nutrition and health contribute to the deaths of around 11 000 children
> each day. In 1951, 164 million Indians were living in poverty compared
> to 312 million in 1993-94.
>
> 70 000 to 100 000 children are estimated to work as prostitutes in
> India. Recent reports estimate that the number of children involved in
> prostitution is increasing at 8 to10% per annum.
>
> About 15% of the prostitutes in Mumbai (Bombay), Delhi, Madras,
> Calcutta, Hyderabad and Bangalore are children. It is estimated that 30%
> of the prostitutes in these six cities are under 20 years of age. Nearly
> half of them became commercial sex workers when they were minors.
> Conservative estimates state that around 300 000 children in India are
> suffering commercial sexual abuse, which includes working in
> pornography.
>
> Here is another source of valid, scientific proof, a scientific study of
> child abuse in all the countries of the world, including India.
>
> J. Warburton and M. T. Camacho de la Cruz state in their long report
> that India's prostitution trade willfully and knowingly engage children
> in prostitution. The Naz numbers are vindicated by this scientific
> report.
>
> "Nepal, (1996) 100,000 - 200,00 girls trafficked, CWIN, Nepal"
>
> "India, 25% of the estimated 2 million prostitutes thought to be minors
> - Government statistic."
>
> Both Nepal and India are Hindu majority countries.
>
> Hindu hoodlums, against this massive evidence are doing what about this
> carcinogenic problem?
>
> Nothing, period.
>
> --
> Paulo Joe Jingy
>
> He's back--so it's back!
> http://harb.reallysucks.com
>
>
Deb Shanker
the trade of pedophile images. There was a recent news from Tamilnadu, where
a catholic priests was caught redhanded having sex with young boys. But,
then if these pedophiles can become pope like the current one, what do you
expect from such a cult???
Thanks everyone.
Deb
"singh" <poo...@acedsl.com> wrote in message
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Dharma
YES I DEMAND TO KNOW:
"all the ghastly atrocities that missionaries
perpetrated in Goa in the name of Christ." ??????
YES I WANT TO KNOW:
why does "AD 2000 and Beyond describe Varanasi, Hinduism's holiest
city as full of temples dedicated to Shiva ``an idol
whose symbol is a phallus'', and as a city whom many (?)
consider the ``very seat of Satan''. ???????????
YES I WANT TO KNOW:
Why should I welcome such missionaries ??????????