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Bishop based in Bhubaneswar,
the capital of Orissa state, refers to the case of Madhusudan Das, one
of Orissa's first barristers. Sometime around 1866, "Das wanted to
continue his education abroad. He thought missionary support would
help. So he converted to Christianity," says Dandia.
Das is a notable figure in the history of Orissa. He
changed his mind about Christianity after he returned from England
during the time of the British Raj. Das began to oppose conversion to
Christianity and said he was doing so to protect the Jagannath Temple,
Orissa's most sacred Hindu institution. When Das died in 1934, Hindus
and Christians fought for his body.
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Dear readers:
You might have heard about the Sanskrit shloka : "Shathe Shathyem Samacharet" : i.e. Cunningness to be dealt with a befitting cunning reply.
Here is an interesting practical example
Please feel free to take a side.
Sitalsasti & Jesus - By Manoj Padhi & Dr. John Dayal
The Befitting reply causing RSS-Phobeia
http://groups.google.com/group/oikosyouthexplode/browse_thread/thread/3c9a405cefb30c32?pli=1
sits mending flat tires of bicycles and two-wheelers near the
thoroughfare in Kasinipada, a village in the district of India that saw
the most anti-Christian violence this fall. Digal says he was a
Christian until September, when a local head of the radical Hindu group
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) came to him twice.
"He told me to become a Hindu. He said if I did not, I
would lose my home. He said I couldn't live in the village as a
Christian. I did not want problems. So I accepted," Digal says.
Now a Hindu, Digal says he will get a government certificate stating that he is a Dalit.
Such a certificate will make Digal eligible for other affirmative
action benefits, such as government jobs reserved for Dalits.
The RSS has been reconverting people like Digal to
Hinduism — usually from Christianity — for over a decade. Their
reconversion campaign is called "homecoming." It is well organized and
has cadres assigned to it almost across the whole of India.
The RSS has groups that use propaganda and groups that
use violence. The groups entrusted with the task of getting the message
out in words conduct meetings where they denounce the church as evil.
They follow that up with warnings that Christians must reconvert to
Hinduism or die. The RSS arm entrusted with enforcement follows with
attacks.
A 1967 law in Orissa bars religious conversion by use
of force and by means of inducement or allurement. The law says that
the head of the district administration must permit every conversion.
The RSS says that despite the law, few converts to Christianity in
Orissa have obtained legal sanction, though the number of Christians in
the state is rising fast.
On September 25, 2008 Vidyaram Pandey, the head of an
RSS branch in Uttar Pradesh, made the claim that the RSS had
reconverted 50,000 Christians so far in the state, India's largest. He
added that the RSS would drive all pastors out of Uttar Pradesh in five
years.
Pandey's statement offers insight into the timeframe
that the RSS has set for its drive against Christians in India. The
organization was founded in 1925 and now has about 30 different
branches, including the Bharatiya Janata Party, India's principal
right-wing political party.
Organizations like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the
Bajrang Dal, a collection of young, armed radical Hindus, have targeted
Christians in the states of Orissa, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Delhi,
Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan. The Bajrang Dal
rarely targets the rich converts. The poorer Christians are warned to
reconvert or lose lives and property. To survive, they reconvert.
The RSS may host a reconversion ceremony up to every
fortnight. A typical reconversion ceremony would take about an hour or
so. Christians are asked to burn their Bibles first in a bonfire. They
then sit in a circle, light incense sticks, and tie red threads to
their wrists. The person in charge of the reconversion ceremony,
usually a Brahmin, says a short Hindu prayer.
Then, the Christians rise by turn and take a pledge
that they have become Hindu, and that their dynasties will perish if
they become Christian again. Each of the Christians-turned-Hindus
breaks a coconut, and Hindus apply vermilion to the reconverts'
foreheads.
The leader chants Hindu mantras and the participants
repeat. In the end, they all kneel and place their foreheads on the
ground. Weeks later, the reconverts will attend a yagya, a Hindu ritual
where they will wear saffron clothes and a sacred thread on their
torsos. They will get their heads shaved, and drink cow urine and the
water of tulsi (holy basil).
In their new life, the reconverts will nurture a tulsi
plant in their homes, have pictures of Hindu gods on their walls, and
celebrate Hindu festivals. They are supposed to pray only to Hindu gods.
Hrudayabasi Dandia, 55, a Bishop based in Bhubaneswar,
the capital of Orissa state, refers to the case of Madhusudan Das, one
of Orissa's first barristers. Sometime around 1866, "Das wanted to
continue his education abroad. He thought missionary support would
help. So he converted to Christianity," says Dandia.
Das is a notable figure in the history of Orissa. He
changed his mind about Christianity after he returned from England
during the time of the British Raj. Das began to oppose conversion to
Christianity and said he was doing so to protect the Jagannath Temple,
Orissa's most sacred Hindu institution. When Das died in 1934, Hindus
and Christians fought for his body.
The "homecoming" campaign has taken an urgent and
violent turn recently, especially in the Kandhamal district of Orissa,
which has seen a spate of anti-Christian violence. Almost a quarter of
Kandhamal's population is Christian, according to the district
magistrate. This is nearly three times the percentage of Christians
across Orissa. The RSS sees this surge as evidence of a hostile
campaign by the church to convert Hindus to Christianity and often
attributes conversions to Christianity to bids for prosperity.
RSS chief KS Sudarshan used his Vijaya Dashami address
on October 5, 2008, to lay down the path. The Vijaya Dashami address by
the RSS chief is an annual event, and the most important policy
guideline in the rightwing fraternity of India.
"The time has come for the awakened Hindu society to
shed its image of being docile and always prone to be bullied and
attacked by others. … Those who say that "Only our way is the true one
and all others are false" cannot be a part of Hindu society. Those who
indulge in proselytization by force, allurements and inducements have
no place in this nation's life," said Sudarshan.
The RSS also takes exception to Christian teachings.
Forgiveness through Jesus Christ is an appealing prospect for the many
Dalits who grew up hearing tales of Hindu gods' revenge.
The RSS believes that Christian groups in India receive
huge amounts of foreign money which they use to convert Hindus to
Christianity. This, Sudarshan said, was a strategy to "disintegrate"
India. The RSS says that since British rule, American funding and
political support has nurtured Christian missionaries in India. To
them, the church is a reincarnation of the East India Company. These
accusations are accepted as truth by followers of the RSS.
The RSS also teaches that non-rightwing political
parties in India follow a policy of appeasement towards Christians and
that they blame the Hindu community—not the Christian community—for
communal tension.
The campaign to reconvert Christians to Hinduism is
part of the overall RSS strategy to convert India, a secular nation,
into a Hindu nation. The events in Orissa are only the beginning.
Vijay Simha is Senior Editor with Tehelka, India's
leading investigative magazine. He is based in New Delhi and reports on
politics, religion, and policy issues that affect life in India.
Copyright © 2008 Christianity Today.
--
Manoj Padhi
Bishop based in Bhubaneswar,
the capital of Orissa state, refers to the case of Madhusudan Das, one
of Orissa's first barristers. Sometime around 1866, "Das wanted to
continue his education abroad. He thought missionary support would
help. So he converted to Christianity," says Dandia.
Das is a notable figure in the history of Orissa. He
changed his mind about Christianity after he returned from England
during the time of the British Raj. Das began to oppose conversion to
Christianity and said he was doing so to protect the Jagannath Temple,
Orissa's most sacred Hindu institution. When Das died in 1934, Hindus
and Christians fought for his body.
Full mail
------------
Dear readers:
You might have heard about the Sanskrit shloka : "Shathe Shathyem Samacharet" : i.e. Cunningness to be dealt with a befitting cunning reply.
Here is an interesting practical example
Please feel free to take a side.
Sitalsasti & Jesus - By Manoj Padhi & Dr. John Dayal
The Befitting reply causing RSS-Phobeia
http://groups.google.com/group/oikosyouthexplode/browse_thread/thread/3c9a405cefb30c32?pli=1
November 10, 2008
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sits mending flat tires of bicycles and two-wheelers near the
thoroughfare in Kasinipada, a village in the district of India that saw
the most anti-Christian violence this fall. Digal says he was a
Christian until September, when a local head of the radical Hindu group
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) came to him twice.
"He told me to become a Hindu. He said if I did not, I
would lose my home. He said I couldn't live in the village as a
Christian. I did not want problems. So I accepted," Digal says.
Now a Hindu, Digal says he will get a government certificate stating that he is a Dalit.
Such a certificate will make Digal eligible for other affirmative
action benefits, such as government jobs reserved for Dalits.
The RSS has been reconverting people like Digal to
Hinduism — usually from Christianity — for over a decade. Their
reconversion campaign is called "homecoming." It is well organized and
has cadres assigned to it almost across the whole of India.
The RSS has groups that use propaganda and groups that
use violence. The groups entrusted with the task of getting the message
out in words conduct meetings where they denounce the church as evil.
They follow that up with warnings that Christians must reconvert to
Hinduism or die. The RSS arm entrusted with enforcement follows with
attacks.
A 1967 law in Orissa bars religious conversion by use
of force and by means of inducement or allurement. The law says that
the head of the district administration must permit every conversion.
The RSS says that despite the law, few converts to Christianity in
Orissa have obtained legal sanction, though the number of Christians in
the state is rising fast.
On September 25, 2008 Vidyaram Pandey, the head of an
RSS branch in Uttar Pradesh, made the claim that the RSS had
reconverted 50,000 Christians so far in the state, India's largest. He
added that the RSS would drive all pastors out of Uttar Pradesh in five
years.
Pandey's statement offers insight into the timeframe
that the RSS has set for its drive against Christians in India. The
organization was founded in 1925 and now has about 30 different
branches, including the Bharatiya Janata Party, India's principal
right-wing political party.
Organizations like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the
Bajrang Dal, a collection of young, armed radical Hindus, have targeted
Christians in the states of Orissa, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Delhi,
Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan. The Bajrang Dal
rarely targets the rich converts. The poorer Christians are warned to
reconvert or lose lives and property. To survive, they reconvert.
The RSS may host a reconversion ceremony up to every
fortnight. A typical reconversion ceremony would take about an hour or
so. Christians are asked to burn their Bibles first in a bonfire. They
then sit in a circle, light incense sticks, and tie red threads to
their wrists. The person in charge of the reconversion ceremony,
usually a Brahmin, says a short Hindu prayer.
Then, the Christians rise by turn and take a pledge
that they have become Hindu, and that their dynasties will perish if
they become Christian again. Each of the Christians-turned-Hindus
breaks a coconut, and Hindus apply vermilion to the reconverts'
foreheads.
The leader chants Hindu mantras and the participants
repeat. In the end, they all kneel and place their foreheads on the
ground. Weeks later, the reconverts will attend a yagya, a Hindu ritual
where they will wear saffron clothes and a sacred thread on their
torsos. They will get their heads shaved, and drink cow urine and the
water of tulsi (holy basil).
In their new life, the reconverts will nurture a tulsi
plant in their homes, have pictures of Hindu gods on their walls, and
celebrate Hindu festivals. They are supposed to pray only to Hindu gods.
Hrudayabasi Dandia, 55, a Bishop based in Bhubaneswar,
the capital of Orissa state, refers to the case of Madhusudan Das, one
of Orissa's first barristers. Sometime around 1866, "Das wanted to
continue his education abroad. He thought missionary support would
help. So he converted to Christianity," says Dandia.
Das is a notable figure in the history of Orissa. He
changed his mind about Christianity after he returned from England
during the time of the British Raj. Das began to oppose conversion to
Christianity and said he was doing so to protect the Jagannath Temple,
Orissa's most sacred Hindu institution. When Das died in 1934, Hindus
and Christians fought for his body.
The "homecoming" campaign has taken an urgent and
violent turn recently, especially in the Kandhamal district of Orissa,
which has seen a spate of anti-Christian violence. Almost a quarter of
Kandhamal's population is Christian, according to the district
magistrate. This is nearly three times the percentage of Christians
across Orissa. The RSS sees this surge as evidence of a hostile
campaign by the church to convert Hindus to Christianity and often
attributes conversions to Christianity to bids for prosperity.
RSS chief KS Sudarshan used his Vijaya Dashami address
on October 5, 2008, to lay down the path. The Vijaya Dashami address by
the RSS chief is an annual event, and the most important policy
guideline in the rightwing fraternity of India.
"The time has come for the awakened Hindu society to
shed its image of being docile and always prone to be bullied and
attacked by others. … Those who say that "Only our way is the true one
and all others are false" cannot be a part of Hindu society. Those who
indulge in proselytization by force, allurements and inducements have
no place in this nation's life," said Sudarshan.
The RSS also takes exception to Christian teachings.
Forgiveness through Jesus Christ is an appealing prospect for the many
Dalits who grew up hearing tales of Hindu gods' revenge.
The RSS believes that Christian groups in India receive
huge amounts of foreign money which they use to convert Hindus to
Christianity. This, Sudarshan said, was a strategy to "disintegrate"
India. The RSS says that since British rule, American funding and
political support has nurtured Christian missionaries in India. To
them, the church is a reincarnation of the East India Company. These
accusations are accepted as truth by followers of the RSS.
The RSS also teaches that non-rightwing political
parties in India follow a policy of appeasement towards Christians and
that they blame the Hindu community—not the Christian community—for
communal tension.
The campaign to reconvert Christians to Hinduism is
part of the overall RSS strategy to convert India, a secular nation,
into a Hindu nation. The events in Orissa are only the beginning.
Vijay Simha is Senior Editor with Tehelka, India's
leading investigative magazine. He is based in New Delhi and reports on
politics, religion, and policy issues that affect life in India.
Copyright © 2008 Christianity Today.
--
Manoj Padhi
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