Sunday, March 22, 2009

Resurrecting Dharma....Change is what we need.

Most of the hindus who are concerned over this grave issue like to discuss how the missionaries are cheating poor and badmouth about the missionaries. Internet has many forums and articles discussing and reporting malicious activities of christian missionaries in India. But these forums and discussions hardly get out of the net and get converted into action.
Instead of discussing ways to defeat missionaries we need to think how can we revive or resurrect the all powerful and the oldest religion on earth, Santana Dharma. No faith,cult or religion has the smallest ability to stand before this giant 10,000 year old philosophy.
We need to understand that the missionaries are so successful in winning souls simply because they give the converts what they need. Roti, Kapda aur Makan (Food,Clothing and Shelter) is the primary concern for every human being and rest all are secondary, including religion. There may be thousands of christian missions working in India but their sole aim is 'Selling Jesus'. Thus when so many people working with one simple aim, the hit ratio becomes quite high. There are many Hindu organisations and Gurus throughout the world but they dont work towards a common cause. Most of the hindus agree that casteism is the biggest cancer for hinduism, but this belief is just in the hearts with no one ready to take lead to promote caste eradication.
Many gurus like Sri Ravi Shankar, Morari Bapu, Sathya Sai,Asaram Bapu etc have a large number of followers through out the world and are the only proponents of Hinduism. The first and formeost thing that needs to be done is to bring all these gurus on a common platform and convice them to talk about conversions and protecting dharma to their followers. This is because there are still a large number of hindus who are ignorant what happens in the slums and the remote rural areas. Many hindu organisations work for social cause and spend a lot in social services. All these organisations need to be brought under one umbrella with one agenda - SERVING HINDUS. We need to learn from missionaries the art of marketing social work. Helping people because 'they are hindus' must be the working motto of all hindu social organisations. So the first step must be clear - Come together and pool your resources.
Many fail to understand that christian missions have grown so strong only because of the power of church in the christian world. The second thing we can learn from christianty is that the temples have to become an integral part of hindu life. Temples need to go to the people rather than other way round. The power of prayer that missionaries emphasize on cannot be ignored. Hinduism has given mankind the best practices of praying and meditation through yoga. There are lakhs of temples in India, in every corner of every village. Most of them remain deserted for most days of the year. Temples need to become praying and community help centers.
Service to fellow beings is service to God.
Donating huge amounts of money,gold,silver etc to temples is a selfish act and needs to be changed. The time demands the hindus who have everything to help their hindu brethren who are have nots. The money donated to temples must be utilized in building schools which which preach sanatana faith along with studies. Building medical care centres for poor hindus must also be priority.This can be achieved only if all the cash rich temples are brought on a common platform and forced to act by devotees.

Change is what we need.

Conversion Flowchart

Friday, March 20, 2009

Why Conversions?



In the last 25 years Asia has seen accelerated growth of christianity except the Islamic countries. India and China , the next economic giants are on the top of the agenda of all christian missions in the world. Christianity is fighting for its survival in the first world countries.It has completely lost in helping the spiritual growth of its followers and many of them openly claiming to be aethists. The common belief in the non christian world that the Christian world owes its economic prowess and technological advances to Christianity (even missionaries like to tell poor villagers in India that USA is superpower because Jesus has blessed it) is the biggest lie in history of mankind. On the contrary to this argument, Church has always been a thorn in the path to development for the first world. Church opposed the scientists and philosophers in the rennaisance period and even prosecuted many of these. The church even disagreed to accept the earth is spehrical for a long time.
Church has always had a strong hold on the political establishments in the christian world. Right from its birth, church has been used by power hungry zealots to breed a following group that would blindly believe what the church leaders say. But now the good word not attracting the young generation and the "Jesus is the only saviour" shit being rejected by the largely aethist west what should the cash rich Church do?
The answer is simple - win new band of blind followers to whom you can sell anything,whose souls and votes you can control to make your businesses flourish and your zealous policies passed by the regional governments.
America, the biggest exporter of christian missionaries and christian zealots has started foreseeing the growth of Asia to prominence. China and India are the next economic powers and no one can deny that. Now the best way to have a stonghold in these developing regions is by controlling the huge poor populations these regions have. And here lies the reason behind the tremendous growth of christianity in China and India in the last 10 years.Hence it is very important to understand that the growth of christianity in asia is not a spiritual upheavel but rather a sinister political agenda that the west, particularly USA is pursuing under guise of religion and faith.

True Experience in Andhra Pradesh


This is a true account of my visit to Andhra Pradesh this week. On 7th jan I took off to Mantralayam a famous pilgrimage centre in AP. Mantralayam is in Adoni district and is surrounded by poor villages.It is the holy place where the great saint Sri Raghvendra swami entered jeevanta (alive) Samadhi after performing 12 years of penance. A large number of devotees from various parts of the country visit this sacred place every year.

I reached Mantralayam on 8th afternoon. I visited the temple premises and then rented a room in the temple. Then I took of to the sacred place Panchamukhi where Swami performed .penance for 12 years and were blessed with the darshan of Lord Hanuman.

Mantralayam is a well connected town with good mobile network and transport facilities. I hired a Rickshaw to Panchamukhi. A small village at 21 Km from Mantralayam.

As we reached the outskirts of Mantralayam I saw a hamlet full of Christian houses and a small church freshly painted in white. All houses were distinctly marked with huge Crosses on doors and an image of Christ on every house. I dismissed it as the local Christian population. Then as we moved some 5 Km I saw another huge church with many Christian houses surrounding it. Now I grew curious and started closely observing all the houses aside the road. Majority of the houses were freshly decorated with colorful frills and Happy Christmas Slogans, a remainder of the Christmas celebratioins. Now we were at the entrance of Panchamukhi village with a huge Gopuram greeting us. But I grew nervous at the site of a huge Church under construction here with a big Red Cross hung atop.

I looked inside the autorickshaw and saw a photo of Lord Krishna pasted on the top. I found hope and asked the driver in hindi why were so many churches being built in this area. He replied in typical Andhra tone addressing me as “Sir”, he said “Sir every village in this district has more then one church. Some villages have 100% Christian population. Foreign se bahut paisa aata hai( Lot of money flows from foreign). They (missionaries) build new houses for poor and give them vehicles like jeeps and rickshas for a living. Sir this region is very poor and farmers have gone bankrupt due to scant rains”. He became quiet and I felt frustrated and the silence continued. I visited the Panchmukhi temple , a peaceful and serene place. While returning by the same road I again came across the Christian areas. The houses of the converts were newly and well built. The church was abuzz with activity with a huge crowd gathered in the compound. A old temple , few yards away was in a shabby and locked state.

The same night I took a train for Tirupati , the abode of Lord Venkateshwara. On Mantralayam station i saw a huge photo of Christ alongside that of hindu Gods in the employee room. I intended to get down at Renigunta Junction ,10 Km away from Tirupati. As My train neared the Renigunta station I was greeted by the glimpse of a huge Red colored Cross atop a newly built church. I reached Tirumala by Bus and completed the darshan by evening. Then I returned to Tirupati and visited Padmavati temple. Since I had few hours still left for my train back to Mumbai, I visited the still being built, magnificent Krishna temple of ISKCON. While returning from the interiors of the Tirupati town by auto rickshaw I was shocked to see a huge Church named JAGANMATHA CHURCH, the same one which we saw in the conversion video posted on google.

I am sure that Andhra Pradesh has atleast 40% Christians in the interior remote areas.
I prayed to Lord Venkateshwara to help us stop this menace which is destroying sanatana dharma and sanatana culture.