Jan 2003
On the issue of Conversion
Here we have the statement issued by the Pope ‘The Coming of the Third Millennium’ as quoted by Dr. David Frawley in his book:
“The Asia Synod will deal with the challenge for evangelization posed by the encounter with ancient religions such as Buddhism and Hinduism. While expressing esteem for the elements of truth in these religions, the Church must make it clear that Christ is the one mediator between God and man and the sole Redeemer of humanity.”
Thus, we see Pope speaking of evangelization, which means convert or seek to convert (someone) to Christianity. He says so with reference to Hinduism and Buddhism, which means conversion of Hindus and Buddhists to Christianity is his focus. He also emphasizes that Christ is the ‘one’ meditator between ‘God’ and ‘man’ and the ‘sole’ Redeemer of the humanity.
It sounds to me as if God had not been granting salvation for thousands of years through which the humanity survived! It seems from what Pope says that God simply started this new practice of granting salvation only after he gave birth to Jesus!
Curiously, he claims so, when the very historicity of Jesus is in question after exposition of Dead Sea Scrolls (Qumran texts), which Vatican tried extremely hard to keep under wraps for 45 years after they had been discovered in 1947, for these scrolls confirmed centuries old statement of Pope Leo X (1513-21):
“It has served us well, this myth of Christ.”
Therefore a few questions arise in my mind as Pope claims that only his product ‘Christianity’ works, none other do as if religion was a product for marketing!
The question that surfaces in light of such a claim: Does Pope has the direct experience of God?
If he does then he would have known the truth better. How then could he have made a public statement of untruth in the name of God?
If he does not have the direct experience of God then he would not have known the truth in any case.
How then could he have made such a categorical statement in the name of God that Christ is the only mediator between God and man, and the sole redeemer of the humanity?
Coercing or tempting others to give up one’s own birth religion is inspired by gross selfishness, which is not a divine characteristic! Hope Pope is aware of this.
There was one person who had the honesty to admit the truth and the courage to speak of it publicly. This was the Archbishop of Hydrabad. His name was Arulappa.
He, at the age of seventy-six, was the senior most Catholic monk in India, educated at Oxford, having much international experience in teaching and preaching.
He made a public statement during the question and answer period, in a public debate on the issue of conversion.
“Conversion has no meaning! Proselytisation has no meaning if you do not convert yourself to God and see what God has to tell you. Follow his will, his plan and that is real religion. So therefore, I personally do not believe at all in Proselytisation. That there is no salvation outside of Christ is not fully true… …Salvation is from God, not from religion.”
Proselytize means convert or attempt to convert (someone) from one religion, belief, or opinion to another, describes the Oxford Dictionary.
I have reproduced the statement of the Archbishop of Hydrabad, as quoted by Dr. David Frawley in his book who adds further:
“Unfortunately, no other Christian leaders in India, much less in the rest of the world echoed such statements, which are not part of Church policy.”
Today, it seems that the world is devoid of people with character who have the courage to speak the truth!
Note 2011 12 18, 06:27 - This R Arulappa character turned out to be a bigger fraud as I found out later. He made that public statement to save his face at that forum and to fool the audience. He had much bigger and cynical plan up his sleeves. Full story has been covered in Christianity Vol. 2 published 2 years later in 2005.
Fund raising techniques for Conversion
As we see that conversion of Hindus into Christianity is the business of church. Christianity is a product to be marketed and pope heads that marketing outfit.
We also see that it is a product that does not have a direct consumer demand and therefore, it becomes necessary to create a demand. And we all know that to create a demand we need money.
It leads to the next question how do we get that money. When we sell a product it generates revenue. Here the style of generating revenue is bit different.
Dr. Rajaram tells us that some European countries, Germany in particular, levy a ‘church tax’ of about two percent on every wage earner and thus, the believers in Christianity are taxed for their faith. He also tells us the real reason as to why Pope Pius XII supported Hitler during Second World War.
“In 1944 alone the Nazi contribution to the Vatican amounted to over $100 million – worth nearly a billion and half in today’s values. The Vatican managed also to get a large share of the Nazi gold looted from the Jews of Europe during the Second World War. This has now become a major scandal in Europe. While Swiss banks are opening up their records, the Vatican has maintained secrecy over its collaboration with the Nazis, including its participation in the looting of the Jews of Europe. Loss of revenue following Europe’s rejection of Christianity has led the Church to resort to extreme measures including collaboration with narcotics traffickers and drug money laundering. The Vatican Bank for years has been acting as a conduit for drug money. Its Chief, Archbishop Marcinkus is wanted by the police, in several countries. He has avoided arrest only by staying within the walls of the Vatican, which enjoys immunity as a sovereign state. Investigations in Britain, Germany, Switzerland and Italy have shown that the Vatican is deeply involved in the international drug trade.
The following recent episode will go to show how deep must be the links between the Vatican and drug traffickers. In May 1993, Cardinal Posadas-Ocampo, the highest-ranking Church official in Mexico was assassinated in the Guadalajara airport. Later investigations showed that the Cardinal had been acting as an agent of the notorious Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar… It is now known that the Cardinal had been trying to arrange safe asylum in Mexico for Escobar. Escobar himself was, later gunned down by the Columbian authorities assisted by the U.S. drug enforcement agents showing that he was badly in need of a safe asylum. …There have been many such scandals, but this is enough to show how far removed the Church is from any spiritual concerns.” [Dr. N. S. Rajaram]
Reading this, a few questions come to my mind: How is it that Vatican Bank’s Chief Archbishop Marcinkus, wanted by the police in several countries, could avoid arrest by staying within the walls of the Vatican? Did this happen with the permission of Pope? Was Vatican Bank’s Chief Archbishop Marcinkus acting with explicit consent of Pope? Why did Pope approve Vatican’s involvement in drug money laundering?
Is it because Vatican needed more money? Why would Vatican need more money? Is it to ‘buy’ more Christians from other religions, something that they name as ‘evangelization’ and ‘Proselytisation’ in modern civilized language?
What would be the effect of Vatican’s involvement into drug money laundering? Would it be converting younger generations into drug addicts? How important is money? Is it so very important?
What would be the purpose of Vatican’s sharing Nazi loot and Nazi gold? What use would it have been put to? Would it have been used for ‘buying’ new Christians?
What kind of moral value will they have whose re-birth into the new religion has been nourished by the blood of innocents who were tortured, burnt, and killed by Nazis or the younger generations who have been turned into drug addicts?
If we nourish the plant with poison, what would the grown up tree yield?
May be some day coming generations will ask these questions to pope?
Very Crude methods some adopt
Now, let us look at some very crude methods of raising funds for converting Hindus in particular. As Dr. David Frawley writes:
“They are very actively asking for donations in order to convert Hindus in India. We see this routinely in the various television channels that they have. Pat Robertson, one of their main leaders, has said that Hinduism is a demonic religion. They show Hindu gods with animal heads and say, “Oh! Look at how primitive these people are.”
They look at the political and social problems of India and say: “These are all owing to Hinduism. Please donate money to our cause so we can go to India and convert these people from this horrible religion that they have.”
Do we Hindus adopt any such cheap techniques to degrade Christianity? Do we say such things about Christians in India? What gives Christians right to treat Hindus as dirt?
- Let us see how many Christians become vocal about such dirty publicity. Let us see how many major publishing houses become vocal about such cheap tactics.
- I remember front page of Times of India 26 December 2002 with a big photo and caption ‘Men of War with Man of Peace’. It reminded readers of Christianity as a religion of Peace.
The day before on 25 December 2002 the very front page of Times of India carried photo and caption ‘Hindutv and Terror planks’. Well they boldly equated on one day Hindutv with Terror and the next day Christianity with Peace. Either they are not aware of Christianity’s history of Crusades and horrors of Inquisition or, they have an agenda to suppress the facts and clothe untruth as truth. It also appears that they are not aware of Hinduism’s history of tolerance towards all other religions or, they have an agenda to keep blackening Hinduism as did those Marxist- Muslim combine of eminent historians by fabricating Hindu persecution of Buddhism, etc.
Unfortunate part is that many Hindus take the bait. Very recently one VV (initials only, name withheld) aged 28, having difficult times for past 10 years, having lost faith in God, wrote one page full to me somewhat similar things about Hinduism.
Coming back to Times of India laboriously projecting Christianity’s image of Peace let us look at what Jesus of the New Testament says and then let us see how well informed these champions of Christianity are:
“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth. I come not to 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 foe shall be they of his own household. And he that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. [Matthew 12.30, 34-37]”
Now this is what the teachings of Jesus are, and we fools in India raise him to the sky, and it is many of we Hindus that do it. We do it because we have been kept in dark. Truth has been hidden from us. Untruth has been laboriously projected before us.
During British days they saw to it that our Hindu education system was replaced by Christian education system. Christian Missionary schools were well funded and patronized by most parents. Today also the same situation continues. So much money flows in to take care of the needs of these missionary schools. So little care was taken of government school funding by Congress Government during the formative years of independent India. As a result poorest of poor attended government schools and all those who could somehow afford or fully afford looked for Christian schools to send their children.
Parents wanted their children to get good education so they could later stand of their own in this predominantly English speaking commercial and administrative world of India. Parents could not be blamed for they sought material prosperity of their children, least realizing that these Christian schools would do their best to remove their children as far away as possible from their Hindu roots. Thought process with which successive generations grew up was either for disrespect or for indifference towards their own culture and Hinduism.
McCauley was a truly foresighted person and he succeeded very well in his designs and plans. He had said:
‘We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and color, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.’
Bureaucrats and political leaders who ran the nation after British left were true to their upbringing as Indians in blood and color, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.
They also saw to it that the same system continued and received all support, and this was the national tragedy. This tragedy most affected Hindus for they formed the largest segment of the Indian population.
These people who write for all major newspapers and magazines have essentially similar breeding and they have been taught from childhood to respect Christianity and disrespect Hinduism.
Through their writings, they reach English educated Hindus of successive generations, and cement these impressions on their psyche. The game goes on in a cyclic process.
On ShivLingam
We have seen what these Christian missionaries propagate for raising funds to ‘buy’ new Christians on India soil. Now let us see what other kind of propaganda we have against Hinduism.
As Dr. David Frawley tells us about New York Times citing AmbarNaath pilgrimage in India as
“Hindus going to worship the sex organs of Shiva, the God of Destruction”.
This speaks a lot about their own character. Societies dominated by the culture of Christianity are somehow obsessed with sex. They seem to see sex in everything. When Hindus look at the same symbol they think of God but when Christians look at the same symbol they see reflection of sex in it.
Thaakur Shri RaamKrishn Paramhans Dev explained it differently:
“Do you know the significance of the Shiv emblem? It is the worship of fatherhood and motherhood. The devotee worshiping the image prays, ‘O Lord, please grant me that I may not be born into this world again; that I may not have to pass again through a mother’s womb.”
In other words, this is about Moksh, which means freedom from cycle of birth and death that is attained by soul’s ultimate dissolution in the Supreme Soul. This is why we Hindus see reflection of God in ShivLingam but those whose level of thinking cannot attain those heights naturally see what is most near and dear to them, sex.
Coming to the portrayal as God of Destruction again it is the same story, those who can think only of getting rich by selling arms and ammunitions to poorer nations at high prices and help them fight, cannot do any better than perceiving him as God of Destruction. Some day when their thinking will graduate to higher levels they will come to understand that Shiv in the role of the annihilator, is the one who paves the way for yet another creation.
In this creation something or other is changing every moment. The creation cannot be static, or else it would stagnate. Creation has noble and evil forces both. When evil propensities accumulate beyond limits, the creation has to cease and make a new beginning. It is like an old dilapidated building pulled down to raise a new one. But these are the philosophies that won’t enter thick skulls of those who cannot see beyond their body and sex.
There is another side to it. I remember of a rare beautiful afternoon that we were lunching at an open restaurant under mild sun in Toronto (Canada) when an US lady PH (initials only, full name withheld) spoke that she recently read an Indian woman who wrote an English novel (I forget the name of that Indian woman) where she described Shiv Ling as penis. I wonder if this Indian woman novelist had any better thoughts than that of a penis, as she could see only a reflection of it in ShivLingam, when millions of other Indian ladies find the image of God in it. The point is that many of our own English educated brass is responsible for this nonsense.
Coming back to New York Times citing AmbarNaath pilgrimage in India as “Hindus going to worship the sex organs of Shiva, the God of Destruction”. Vast Christian population of America is given an exposure to Hinduism in this manner. India has 80% Hindu population. Do Hindus say such lousy things about Christianity? Hinduism teaches tolerance towards other religions. Christianity teaches the opposite.
According to Jesus of the New Testament: "He that is not with me is against me" [Matthew 12.30].
This philosophy of one who is not with me is against me makes Christianity intolerant of any other religion. They did not try to understand Hinduism. They sat on judgment based on what they saw superficially. They still do it not realizing that it only speaks volumes of their ignorance and their lack of spirituality. After all those who can go as low as drug money laundering what more can be expected of them?
Know the unknown Mother Teresa
It is very interesting that there is a common pattern amongst Christian missionaries. One that they manage to keep a beautiful face before masses. Two that they love to get crime money and hold to it for ‘buying’ new Christians. Three hypocricy seems to be in their blood. Let us see another extraordinary example.
We Hindus are rather excessively grateful to those who have been good to us. Bishop Heber wrote: ‘The Hindus are … more easily affected by kindness and attention to their wants and feelings than any people I ever met with.’ Warren Hastings wrote: ‘Hindus … are more susceptible of gratitude for kindness shown to them…’ … in the 16th century, Abul Fazl, the minister of the Emperor Akbar, says in his Ayin Akbari: ‘The Hindus are …grateful and of unbounded fidelity…’ and we have not changed much in that respect.
Interestingly, I was no better. I had learnt of Mother Teresa from her biography written after her death by a woman journalist (I forget the name but one of her chapters were titled as ‘Poor on the Moon’ that I remember vividly). I picked up this book from Flemingdon Park Library in Toronto and I was so impressed by whatever I read that I viewed her as the true KarmYogi of present day, and I also periodically sent money to her organization. In receipt I would receive from her office a small chit neatly typed with a old typewriter with blessings and a message from Mother Teresa. I would perceive, how nice of them to be saving money on even such small things so that they could spend that money for the poor and the needy! Now I feel like such a fool when I learn the inner story as narrated by Dr. Rajaram.
“To get at the truth behind the Teresa myth, we need to go to books written by non-Indians. Indian journalists, true to their character, have studiously avoided reporting the abuses taking place in her institution right under their noses. Fortunately, several Western writers have written honestly about Teresa and her mission. Two that merit notice are The Missionary Position by Christopher Hitchens and Mother Teresa: Beyond the Image by Anne Sebba. In her home for the dying, no medication or painkillers are allowed even to terminally ill patients. Even her childcare institution in Calcutta is a cheerless place where children have neither toys nor playgrounds. They are told only to pray.”
Reading this I have wondered, whom they were supposed to pray? Would that be anyone other than Jesus Christ? In the disguise of prayer, would it be a clever ploy to convert the kids into Christianity from their very childhood? These kids may not even know the difference between two religions!
Dr. Rajaram continues, “Her hospitals are in a highly unhygienic state. This happens to be the opinion not of a hostile reporter, but of Dr. Robin Cox, editor of the prestigious British publication Lancet – the foremost medical journal in the world.
Mary Loudon, another English investigator found patients sleeping on the floor - as many as sixty in a single room. Even rudimentary health procedures were not being followed. Loudon saw un-sterilized needles being used and reused after being simply washed in cold water. Also, patients in need of simple surgery were allowed to die instead of being sent to other hospitals in Calcutta. It was not just patients that were treated under such appalling conditions; even health workers could not escape infections. Anne Sebba has pointed out that several of the nurses caught tuberculosis, and possibly AIDS. In all these, there is a single remedy offered to the inmates regardless their condition – prayer.
This has greatly contributed to the image of Mother Teresa as a woman driven by faith and love for Jesus; it has contributed even more to her bank balance, for prayers costs nothing. But she did not display the same reserve – not to say piety – during her own illnesses. She was always careful to get treated at the best hospitals in the world like the Massachusetts General in Boston. When she was unable to travel, as during her final illness, she was treated by the specialist at the prestigious R. K. Birla Heart Research Center in Calcutta – a Hindu charitable institution. So neither money, nor Christian faith, was allowed to come in the way, when her own health was involved. But for the poor it is different. Prayer is good for them.
From the appalling condition of her institutions, one would be wrong to conclude that the Missionaries of Charity is only doing what its limited resources allow. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is one of the richest Catholic institutions in the world. Recently, a single current account in a bank in the Bronx (New York) showed a deposit of $50 million!
Among her special favorites were Charles Keating – now serving a ten-year sentence in a California prison – and Robert Maxwell who committed suicide when the Scotland Yard got too close to him. Both had swindled hundreds of millions of dollars from their depositors and investors. Paul W. Turley, the California Deputy District Attorney who prosecuted Keating stated that Keating stole more than $900 million! Many individuals lost their life savings. Mr. Turley wrote: ‘the victims of Mr. Keating’s fraud come from a wide spectrum of society. … Most were people of modest means and unfamiliar with high finance.’
Why did Keating give more than a million dollar to mother Teresa? When his case was being tried, she wrote to the trial judge Lance Ito asking him to show clemency towards Keating because ‘He has always been kind and generous to God’s poor.’ In addition, she appealed to the judge to ‘look into his heart and do what Jesus would have done in that circumstances.’ Learning to this appeal, District Attorney Turley wrote back to Mother Teresa: ‘I submit the same challenge to you. Ask yourself what Jesus would have done if he were given the fruits of the crime, …money that had been stolen. …I submit that Jesus would promptly return the money to its rightful owners. …Do not keep the money. Return it to the rightful owners.’ But Mother Teresa ignored his appeal and kept the stolen money. This was not the only such instance.
She helped produce political propaganda films for the notorious dictator Duvalier of Haiti and his wife Michele who stole billions of dollars from their impoverished country before running away to Spain. [Oxford Dictionary, Haiti: From 1957 to 1986 the country was under the oppressive dictatorship of the Duvalier family]. Mother Teresa not only accepted millions from dictator Duvalier (who was guilty of mass executions), but also honors and decorations from his bloody hands.
What is it about Christian missionaries, from Mother Teresa to Pat Robertson, – that draws them to such thieves and mass murderers as Duvalier and Mobutu?
As far as the poor are concerned, Mother Teresa’s successor Sister Nirmala put it in perspective: The poor are God’s gift, to us. Without the poor we would all be without jobs.”
Finally, let us see what personal dairy of Mother Teresa says:
Her letters and dairies present a completely different picture of the nun from her public image as a woman confident of her faith, The Daily Telegraph reported on Friday [Indian Express, 30 November 2002, PTI London 29 November]:
‘…My smile is a great cloak [disguise, pretext] that hides a multitude of pains,’ wrote Mother Teresa… ‘In my own soul, I feel the terrible pain of this loss. I feel that God does not want me, that God is not God and that He does not really exist,’ she wrote.
IL Messeggero said:
‘The real Mother Teresa was one who for one year had visions and who for the next 50 had doubts - up until her death.’
No wonder, Gandhi was another such saint whom we called Mahaatma. He was another, of whom I was a great admirer. Good many accounts of his saintly duplicity, you will find in a full chapter dedicated to him in this book. He too was deeply influenced by Christianity. Many Europeans did call him more Christian than many Christians, and they also called him Christ of our times! If you have read how Gandhi weighed Hindu lives and Muslim lives differently during partition of India and so many other things, you might start wondering if the influence of Christianity and hypocrisy go together hand in hand?
They told the Creator how to manage the Cosmos
I have often heard present day Hindus say that whatever we do, good or bad, we get the result of our actions in this life itself. I have also seen popular TV serials where the writer makes an important character of the play utter such sentiments. Millions of Indian homes view these popular serials and they are further influenced by such philosophy. I have come across English educated Hindus strongly advocating this point of view. I have wondered of its origin. Let us see what Mr. Ram Swarup tells us:
“There was a time that the belief [birth after death], was held by Christianity too but it was given up at an early stage strangely enough first at the wishes of Empress Theodora. It was condemned at the Council of Constantinople (AD 543) as an Origenist error.
“If any one says or thinks that human souls had a previous existence – anathema sit,” the Council declared.
It had to do it. Following Plato, Basilides, Origen and many other early Christian writers believed that souls in their original purity pre-existed, that any punishment of hell was temporary, to be followed by the general restoration of all souls to their former state (apokatastasis). But this belief went completely against some of the most fundamental doctrines of Christianity: the doctrines of one life and one judgment, of pre-election, of some saved but many condemned to suffer eternal punishment in hell. Therefore, reincarnation had to be given up.”
Oxford Dictionary describes, Origen (c.185-c.254) as Christian scholar and theologian, probably born in Alexandria. His most famous work was the Hexapla, an edition of Old Testament with six or more parallel versions. His Neoplatonist theology was ultimately rejected by Church orthodoxy.
What does this say? In effect, an Empress and Council of Humans attempted to direct the Creator of this Universe that the Creator must change His Management of Cosmos, because these handfuls of humans did not like the thought of rebirth! Council also told rest of the humanity that if anybody said or thought of it, such person would be accursed (anathema). Oxford Dictionary describes, Anathema as a formal curse by a pope or by a council of the Church, excommunicating a person or denouncing a doctrine. Many people today do not believe in rebirth. Their disbelieve may have been inspired this. Handful men engineered such thinking centuries ago. Most people today have remained ignorant of this engineered fact. The fact may have remained out of circulation by efforts of those who did not want it known to the masses.
Dead Sea Scrolls/Qumran Texts
Most Indians believe that Jesus was a historical figure, meaning he was a real person, not a creation of fiction. Indian press, particularly the major English media, could not have been unaware of Dead Sea Scrolls but sure they must have been unwilling to give it due coverage. Those interested in greater details may want to read Allegro, John Macro, The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Reappraisal (Second edition), Penguin Books, London, 1990; Eisenman, Robert and Michael Wise, The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered, Penguin Books, New York, 1992; Vermes, Geza, Dead Sea Scrolls: Qumran in Perspective, Revised edition, S. C. M. Press, London, 1994; Rajaram, N. S., The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Crisis of Christianity: An Eastern view of a Western Crisis, Minerva Press, London, 1997. Let us hear the suppressed facts in the words of Dr. NS Rajaram:
“The media in India has been almost totally silent on one of the major international stories of our time – the release, of famous Dead Sea Scrolls by the Huntington Library and the breaking of what is known as the ‘Scrolls monopoly’. One of the most significant archeological finds of this century took place in 1947, at a place not far from Jericho in the Qumran region of Palestine. These are now famous, as Dead Sea Scrolls…The Scrolls are known collectively as ‘Qumran texts’… Most of the Scrolls came to be deposited at the Dominican controlled institution known as the Ecole Biblique – short for Ecole Biblique et Archaeologique Francaise de Jerusalem (French Biblical and Archeological School in Jerusalem). The expectation was that the task of collating, editing, and translating the scrolls would be carried out by the experts of Ecole Biblique assisted by a battery of visiting scholars. Around 1950, when no one had any inkling of what they might contain, a few Qumran texts were released. Biblical scholars soon began to notice that they indicated that…Then Andre Dupont-Sommer, a distinguished Biblical scholar from the Sorbonne in Paris noticed that some of the Scrolls included references to…others, notably John Allegro, agreed with him. In a widely reported radio talk, Allegro went on to observe…this received wide coverage in the press including such important newspapers as The New York Times. [Late John Marco Allegro, probably the foremost Biblical scholar of his time] Unknowingly Dupont-Sommer (and Allegro later) had opened a hornet’s nest. All this was too much for Church authorities. [Allegro had examined the scrolls in original]
They felt deeply threatened by the revelations of the Dead Sea Scrolls that went so far as to question the very existence of Jesus as a historical person. What then happens to Christianity – a creed that owes its legitimacy and authority as the teachings of Jesus Christ said to be God’s only Begotten Son? They felt it would only be a matter of time before the whole foundation of Christianity would collapse– taking the Church with it.
Fortunately for the Church, the Scrolls still remained firmly under its control, in the custody of Ecole Biblique – a Vatican controlled institution… Father de Vaux and other Catholic scholars made sure that no more texts were released. [Ecole Biblique head at that time was Father Ronald de Vaux, a French monk belonging to the Dominican order]
Both the public and the academics were unaware of the fact that the Ecole Biblique, and therefore the Scrolls were under the secret control of the Vatican…this monopoly situation - with no outsider permitted access - prevailed from 1947 until 1991. Then, suddenly, events took a dramatic turn. On 5 September 1991, American newspapers reported that Professor Ben-Zion Wacholder of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati and his doctoral student Martin Abegg had used the secret concordance of Hebrew words prepared by the scholars of the Ecole Biblique (and leaked by someone) to recreate the texts with the help of computer analysis. They claimed 80% accuracy in their reconstruction.
Less than three weeks later, there was a still more dramatic announcement. On 22 September 1991, the Huntington Library in California, which had photographs of all Dead Sea Scrolls, released them to the public.
But the drama was only beginning…to the great surprise of everyone, within weeks of their release to the public by the Huntington Library, Eisenman and J. N. Robinson published, a two-volume edition containing photocopies of all the Scrolls manuscripts under the title A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls. [Robert Eisenman, a well-known Biblical historian from California State University] Soon after, Eisenman and Michael Wise – the later an expert on Semitic languages from Chicago – published also translations of the 50 most important texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls with commentary under the title Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered: The First Complete Translation and Interpretation of 50 Key Documents withheld for over 45 years. Upon learning that Eisenman had contracted with E. J. Brill of Leiden (Holland) to publish his Facsimile Edition, the Vatican used its great influence to have the publisher back out at the last moment.
Later, Biblical Archaeological Society of Washington published the two-volume Facsimile Edition. Less than a year later the Penguin edition of Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered also appeared. What Eisenman, Allegro, and other Biblical scholars found is that the picture of Christianity emerging from the Scrolls is the opposite of what has been presented by the Church. This means that the Church and its priesthood, for two thousand years, have been feeding as ‘TRUTH’ the exact opposite of the real truth. So, the Gospels, far from being a historical account of the life of Jesus, are nothing more than a fiction – even a pious fraud. But the Gospels distorted all this by blaming the Jews for killing their ‘Son of God’! The Jews have been made to pay a terrible price for this fabrication. Its [Christianity’s] scripture and its history owe more to forgery and plagiarism than any divine inspiration. It is the most massive forgery and the greatest deception in all history. [Plagiarism: The practice of taking someone else’s work and passing them off as one’s own]. The Church has known all this, for Pope Leo X (1513-21) admitted centuries ago: ‘It has served us well, this myth of Christ.’ This is what they tried desperately to keep secret by suppressing the Dead Sea Scrolls.”
[Note added on 21 Oct 2011: Readers are requested not to jump to conclusion based on this limited expression of truth. Through the years that passed behind a number of over-enthusiasts have contacted me offering to finish Christianity by conclusively proving to the world that Jesus never existed which, in my opinion, is a myopic view of the situation. Maanoj Rakhit
We see that popes had already known that Jesus was a fabrication not a true historical character the way it is laboriously portrayed. We also see how hard Vatican tried to hide the archeological findings from becoming known to public. For doing that they needed money and we know how money is earned by them through Nazi contributions, gold looted from Jews of Europe and stooping down to the level of drug money laundering. Now let us see what effect these great deeds of Christianity have on those who carry the message of Christianity to the masses, that is, the priests and seminarians.
Western Christian Priests leaving Christianity
Despite considerable efforts by Vatican to keep archeological findings of Dead Sea Scrolls a well-guarded secret, it seems to have taken its toll on those who professed Christianity. Those interested in greater details may want to read Peter De Rosa, Vicars of Christ: The dark side of the Papacy, Corgi Books, London, 1988. For the purpose of our readers it may be sufficient to quote some of it from the works of Dr. Rajaram. Peter de Rosa, a former Catholic priest who had access to official Church documents, cites a secret Vatican study:
“It revealed that from 1963 to 1969 over 8,000 priests had asked to be dispensed from their vows and nearly 3,000 others had left without waiting for permission. The study estimates that over the next five years 20,000 would leave. The estimate proved to be far too conservative. Matters were worst in countries that pontiffs had relied on for providing missionaries. Holland, for example, used to produce over 300 priests a year. Now ordinations are almost as rare as mountains [in Holland]…the average age of those who remain is a startlingly high 54. The future, too, looks bleak. Over the last twenty years, the number of Seminarians in the States [America] has fallen from 50,000 to 12,000.”
Dr Rajaram continues: “A loss of 76% in less than 2 decades! Even this understates the real loss because seminaries that do remain open have fewer students and teachers than they used to. Many of them have been kept alive only through a massive infusion from Third World countries like India and Philippines; even the Untied States Army has been reduced to employing these non-Americans as chaplains. And these men and women have been lured less by faith than by the attractions of a more comfortable life in the West. In this context it is worth noting that Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity is a major source of these priests and nuns, especially the latter, for few are forthcoming from Western countries. The situation has grown steadily worse since that time. When Pope John Paul II visited the United States in October 1995, newspapers reported that the number of Seminarians in the country was only 3,500 in 1993! It is probably less than 3,000 today. It is not easy to see how it can survive without a clergy to lead its communal organizations. Like Islam, it must keep on expanding simply to survive. To this I may add a personal note. During a recent trip to Frankfurt, Germany, I ran into a young Indian Christian from Tamil Nadu. He told me he was on his way to Scotland to lecture to them about the Bible! How many Scots were able to follow his lectures in English delivered with a very pronounced Tamil accent, it would be interesting to learn. It would be no less interesting to learn the size of his audiences, especially after his first lecture. What is true of the losses in priesthood is true also of its age profile: the numbers understate the real loss. [Dr. Koenraad] Elst tells us that the average age of Catholic priests, in the world is 55, whereas in Netherlands (i.e. Holland) it is an astonishingly high 64 and still rising. And those that leave the priestly professions are invariably the younger members. All this is stark testimony to the bankruptcy of the institution. The simple fact is: the Church is imploding. Thus the condition of the Church is of far greater importance to its officials than to its devotees who are deserting it in droves. ...People of the West, now mired in deep spiritual crisis, have recognized that the Church cannot help them cope with problems in this world; it can only promise them salvation in the next while enriching itself. It is hardly surprising that they should be looking East in increasing numbers.”
Missionaries on Hindu Caste system
Very often we Hindus come across uncomfortable references to our caste system. It has been stigmatized to such an extent that I have seen references to caste system as if that is all in Hinduism; as if Hinduism stands for caste system, and caste system stands for Hinduism. Period. I have also seen Hindus feeling helpless to answer the issue of caste system with a feeling that it has been a disease of Hinduism. It is necessary, therefore, that we understand it in proper context. Until we understand when and how this term caste system came about in existence, when and how this concept of caste system was developed, and how and by whom this stigmatic concept has been kept alive, and for what purpose; only when we understand all this, then alone we will be able to stand up and say with conviction, stop this non-sense, get yourself educated and then talk about it. First, how the term caste came about in its existence on Indian scene. It were the Portuguese missionaries who introduced this term in a derogatory sense to describe Hindu society. In doing so, they made one fundamental mistake that they assumed, Braahmans (Brahmins) in Hindu society commanded the same position, as did Christian clergy in Europe, in their own time.
This was a fundamental mistake because Braahmans did not control the economy, nor the army as did Chrisitian clergy, in their times, in Europe. They did not realize, or did not want to realize, that the situation was opposite, Braahmans were economically dependant on other classes of people in the society, and they had no hold whatsoever on the army, which was an exclusive domain of Kshatriya (warrior/military) class.
“The people and the rulers of Europe had to carry on a thousand year struggle to free themselves from the theocratic hold of the Church over non-religious (secular) institutions and activities.”
Oxford Dictionary describes, theocracy as a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god. Braahmans in Hindu society did not enjoy that position. I wish to clarify another thing in the beginning that I am no Braahman by birth and therefore, I have no vested interest in defending the issue. If I have any interest it is to support the truth and make Hindus aware of the big conspiracy that was launched centuries ago by one interest group and is being fully exploited till today by other interest groups. It is important that Hindus recognize these enemies within and take a stand against them, or else they would continue divide the Hindu society for their own ulterior ends.
Coming back to the main topic, Braahmans in Hindu society were entrusted with the responsibility of performing religious ceremonies and teaching children, as they were the most literate class of the society. They had nothing to do with the army, nor management of economy. Therefore, it was absurd for the missionaries to have conceptualized them equivalent of Christian clergy of their own time as in Europe. This showed gross ignorance on their part about the structure of Hindu society. All they did was to impose over us what they understood of their own social structure. Later day missionaries, who may have discovered this folly, had a strong reason for keeping alive the false notion that Braahmans, in their interest, divided the society into factions making caste system. Their reason was very simple. They needed to convert Hindus into Christianity. They knew well that they could only do so with the most illiterate segment of the society in good numbers and with substantial ease. It served their purpose well to convince these people that it were Braahmans who did it all to them, and it is these Braahmans that hold the reign to the Hindu society, and therefore, they had no future in Hindu society; their only recourse was to come to the folds of Christianity, which has no caste system at all. On this ground they sold Christianity to these people and theoretically, they were assured no caste within Christian society. One wonders, why is it now that these very Christian missionaries in India are fanning another kind of agitation asking special government considerations for so-called Dalit Christians? If Christianity is a caste-less society where do these Dalit Christians spring up from?
Well the only answer could be found in classic duplicity of Christianity, of which we will see many examples scattered over here and after. The fundamental hypocricy imbibed in Christianity did not spare the Christ of our times Gandhi. We have seen ample evidence of his saintly duplicity, and we have also seen how close he was to Christian faith and why he was called by Europeans that ‘he is more Christian than many Christians’.
Coming back to missionary conspiracy, it is this utopian theory of Braahmans ruling Hinduism and Hindu society that they sold to likes of Jyotirao Phule and such champions who fanned the idea further and it is now being politically exploited to the full extent by interest groups. Those unaware may want to note that Dr. BR Ambedkar who is supposed to be the anchor of that segment of the society that is termed differently like untouchables, scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, or whatever but generally understood as that of people who are under discussion here. He was a learned person and he says just the opposite:
“There was a continuous feud between the Shudr kings and the Braahmans in which the Braahmans were subjected to many tyrannies and indignities. As a result of the hatred towards the Shudrs generated by their tyrannies and oppressions, the Braahmans refused to perform the Upanayan of the Shudrs.”
As Ambedkar was understood to be a Shudr himself, his comments about Shudr tyrannies cannot be set aside lightly.
Dr. Koenraad Elst writes,
“It is interesting, and embarrassing for contemporary Ambedkarites, that Babasaheb held the Shudrs guilty of their own status; but perhaps they can take some consolation from visualizing how the Braahmans were at one time ‘oppressed’ and ‘subjected to many tyrannies and indignities’.”
The beauty is that these missionaries sell the very opposite idea of Braahmans causing to Shudrs what the most learned man of 20th century amongst the Shudrs community saying that it were Shudrs who did it to Braahmans. So you see how effective money and propaganda can be in creating images far from reality. Whose purpose is served? Those who have to gain something from it. Whose interest suffer the most? Those who take the bait. Politics is such a thing that it has no loyalty to any one except to self interest. Christianity is a politicized religion, not a spiritual religion.
So far about the missionaries, but why the others? Who those others are? One, Marxists academics. Two, McCauleyite elite. Three, politicians targeting vote banks. Thus, we have combined efforts and resources of academics, administration and power camps behind it. Let us look into their respective areas of interest in keeping the myth alive and keep fanning it. Our readers are by now well aware of Marxist interest in subverting Hinduism, as we have dealt with it in great detail in earlier chapters. Therefore, we will avoid its repetition. As for McCauleyite English educated elite, it is the way to remain the super caste where they pull most of the strings from behind the screen and hardly anyone noticing their deeds. Politicians, of course, have no loyalties to the truth; they can only understand the language of votes.
Common people understand none of these except they play as the pawns in their hands that have acquired mastery in the game of chess employing humans as the cast. I can write many more pages on the subject but I shall refrain from it for the time being leaving you with some food for thought. Do think about the following questions.
We have earlier given testimonies of many foreigners who visited India during 2,300 years from 404 BC to 19th century and what they all recorded about Hindu society and its love for truth and justice. Do you think that a society so well acclaimed by all for its justice would be so unjust towards a vast segment of the society as is portrayed by the interest groups and those hostile to Hinduism?
Vast segment because as Dr. Koenraad Elst says,
“Today, the Shudrs form the majority of the Hindu population even in North India, while in South India, they exceed the 90%. Even after subtracting the SC/STs (Schedule castes/Scheduled tribes), they form the bulk of the Hindu population in every part of India.”
Think for a moment, could all those foreign visitors over those 2,300 years have missed such a gross injustice situation to such a vast segment of the Hindu society and spoken so highly for Hindu love of justice and truth? Don’t you think something very significant is being withheld by those who have been all along propagating Braahman injustice towards Shudrs? Go back to the first chapter and read carefully the whole of the account given by Indologist Max Muller. Those few pages were taken from his book of total 269 pages, published by Penguin under the title ‘INDIA What can it teach us?’ He speaks of so many things about Hindu society but not of caste system, which is today portrayed as the biggest disease of Hinduism. Now come to think of it, he delivered these lecture at Cambridge in 1882 to inform Indian Civil Service aspirants about Hindu society but he did not consider caste system worth mentioning though his lectures were not small considering the number of pages in the book now.
So, it was 1882 and after some 25-30 years Gandhi became very active on Indian scene. Nowadays, many interest groups spread the impression that Gandhi worked relentlessly to get Hinduism rid of this disease. Here one wonders, if this were to be true, what then transpired during those 25-30 years that made it such a stigma to Hinduism? Or, was it true at all? Sometimes before I read, when Kanshi Ram said in the Parliament that untouchability was not on the agenda of Gandhi, no one stood up to object this. Why? Was it true? It may be a different thing that Gandhi felt for untouchables, but then it is quite different that he worked relentlessly for getting Hindu society rid of this disease.
You see how things are blown up beyond proportion by media abuse and abuse of power and position by interest groups who have to benefit from it some way or other! But the best part is, many educated people and well-educated people take the bait and believe in it as it is shown to them without bothering to think more about it analytically. This is the awesome power of media in modern times, and its capability as opinion-makers is enormous. It is a different thing whether prominent media understands its responsibility towards the nation, or it simply toes the beaten path.
There is something else that bothers me. I have often heard the generalized impression, probably created by those who had to benefit by it, as if all Shudrs were untouchables. This term untouchable is very significant in this context because the kind of sentiment it generates amongst today’s educated mass is something worth considering. Human untouchability is essentially viewed as a crime against humanity by many. Therefore, here are a few pertinent questions that you might want to brood over. I would not want to give you all the answers at this point. I would prefer you first come to the questioning stage, question all that you have been told so far, question whether they all continue to sound the only truth and the whole truth. We will talk after that, in some other work, about the other side of the truth that has been kept under wraps, on purpose, by those whose interests will be in jeopardy if today’s Hindus were to know and understand the whole of it.
Coming back to untouchables, as if all those were untouchables, let us start with the most startling example of Dr. BR Ambedkar himself who was the first one to lead his numerous followers to Buddhism. It was 2 October 1956 coinciding with Gandhi’s birth date, that this conversion ceremony took place at Nagpur. Dr. Ambedkar repeated on this occasion what he has been saying for years: that only conversion could really change the social status of the lowest class. It is a different thing whether the test of time has proven it to be correct or not. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar was Gandhi’s contemporary and he is said to be one of the victims of this cast system being untouchable in a Hindu society. At least this seems to be the impression amongst those who consider untouchable, scheduled caste, dalit all such terms interchangeable, effectively speaking of same and by and large untouchable among Hindus. Now to the question, if Ambedkar was so-called untouchable, as many seem to believe then, how is it that the untouchable Ambedkar attended schools, colleges and universities in company of other Hindus? How the untouchable Ambedkar acquired his doctorate? How the untouchable became the Law Minister of India? How the untouchable tabled the Constitution of recently independent India, which was predominantly a Hindu nation? We are not talking of today. We are talking of those days when these untouchables were said to be vastly oppressed section of the Hindu society. One needs to think, how much of the issue is politicized to a purpose? Who all were to benefit by such politicized propaganda? Were Christian missionaries one of them whose prime objective was to add to the numbers by converting poor, illiterate Indians into Christianity often by lure of money and with propaganda hostile to Hinduism? Did the McCauleyite English educated elite have any interest in anti-Hindu propaganda? Did the Marxist group of historians and Marxists, in general, have any vested interest in promoting anti-Hindu feelings? Before ending this discussion for the time being, let us see what a French journalist Francois Gautier has to say: “India has had an untouchable President. Has the USA ever had a Black president or vice-president?” Not for US alone to think about, but for all who champion themselves in human rights.
Splitting the Nation into pieces
We Hindus may be vaguely aware that Christian missionaries are active in tribal areas converting adivasis (aboriginals) into Christianity but we may not be aware of the gravity of the situation. Let us walk you through the findings of Niyogi Committee, and its documented facts. Dr. Niyogi, retired Chief Justice of the Nagpur High Court published his findings way back in July 1956,
“The separatist tendency that has gripped the mind of the aboriginals (sic. Van'Vaasis) under the Lutheran and Roman Catholic Missions is entirely due to the consistent policy pursued by the British Government and the Missionaries. The final segregation of the aborigines in the Census of 1931 from the main body of the Hindus considered alongwith the recommendations of the Simon Commission which were incorporated in the Government of India Act, 1935 apparently set the stage for the demand of a separate State of Jharkhand on the lines of Pakistan.”
We know that finally we have a separate State of Jhaarkhand now, and it is an eyeopener that the manipulative process had started long before. Let us see where all this manipulative process had been active and if we know more about the outcome. For quite sometime we had been hearing about Nagas and currently it has become a political major in its own merit. We go back to 1956 report of Chief Justice Dr. Niyogi,
“This attempt of the Adivasis (sic. Van'Vaasis) initiated by the Christian section thereof is a feature which is common to the developments in Burma, Assam and Indo-China among the Karens, Nagas and Amboynes. This is attributed to the spirit of religious nationalism awakened among the converted Christians as among the followers of other religions. But the idea of change of religion as bringing about change of nationality appears to have originated in the Missionary circles...thus, while the Census officer isolates certain sections of the people from the main bodies, the Missionaries by converting them give them a separate nationality so they may demand a separate State for themselves.”
One of the members of the Niyogi Committee was Mr. K.C. George, a Professor in the Commerce College at Wardha, he represented the Christian community. The Committee quoted Christian Postwar World Policy from several Christian sources.
The aim of the Policy in India was threefold:
(1) To resist the progress of national unity...
(2) To emphasize the difference in the attitude towards the principle of co-existence between India and America...
(3) To take advantage of the freedom accorded by the Constitution of India to the propagation of a religion, and to create a Christian party in the Indian democracy on the lines of the Muslim League ultimately to make out a claim for a separate State, or at least to create a ‘militant minority’.”
How wonderful, come to think of it, the Constitution grants them the freedom to propagate their religion, and they make it political ammunition against the nation. In India, by and large, common man is unaware of Christianity’s history in Europe.
“The people and the rulers of Europe had to carry on a thousand year struggle to free themselves from the theocratic hold of the Church over non-religious (secular) institutions and activities.”
Oxford Dictionary describes, theocracy as a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god. Now that the church is more or less out of big business in Europe it is spreading its wings in Asia, and India in particular offers it the most promising ground on account of its unique historical background about which we have discussed earlier. Let us see how church operates its multi-national business and how it does the funding. Niyogi Committee report gave the amount of money that was employed by church in India during 4 years, more precisely, from January 1950 to June 1954. Report gave country-wise contribution totaling to 29 Crores some 50 years ago, which would be equivalent 7,424 Crores (1.5 billion dollars) in today’s values.
Look at the enormity of this amount used for ‘buying’ new Christians and cultivating a religious nationalism in them, which in effect is a separatist move and essentially an anti-national activity. The beauty is that when someone makes a noise about this, it gets branded as Hindu communalism and our major English media gladly obliges them denouncing such Hindu communalism. Report indicated that most of this money was received in India in the name of maintaining educational and medical institutions but in reality spent on proselytisation. Proselytize means convert or attempt to convert (someone) from one religion, belief, or opinion to another, describes the Oxford Dictionary. Naturally, it serves Western media well to promote the poverty stricken image of India ignoring substantial growth it has had in various segments of national development because such image helps them collect more and more resources in the name of helping poor of India medically and educationally but finally using such collections for ulterior purposes, to gradually build a church regime which Europe has now rejected.
Niyogi Committee Report further provided how mission schools were used:
(a) Harijan and Adivasi students were given free hostel facilities, food and books provided, note provide, they attended Christian prayers;
(b) If a student failed to attend the Bible class but attended rest of the classes, s/he would be treated as absent for the whole day;
(c) School celebrations were used for showing the victory of the Cross over all other symbols;
(d) Hospitals were used for putting pressure on poor class patients to embrace Christianity.
On how Mission Orphanages worked, it revealed that during famines and other natural calamities such as flood and earthquakes, orphans were collected to be raised as Christians. On how Roman Catholic missions had specialized in moneylending business was also revealed, poor people often approached the missionaries for loans which were written off if the debtor became a convert; otherwise he had to repay it with interest which was often found difficult. Protestant missionaries and others cited before the Committee instances of how this method worked.
One of the conditions for getting a loan, for instance, was that the recipient agreed to chop off the topknot (choti), the symbol of his being a Hindu. Some of the people who had received loans were minors and casual laborers. When one member of a family had taken a loan, all the other members of that family were entered in the book as potential converts. [Note: Isn’t it big business?] The rate of interest charged was 10% and in a large number of cases examined, one year’s interest was deducted in advance. The Committee questioned many, and on being questioned, the people without any hesitation, said that their only purpose in going to the Mission had been to get money; and all said that without the lure of money none would have sought to become Christian. Looking at these findings of the Niyogi Committee, wouldn’t you agree that it is nothing but ‘buying’ new Christians with their money power? Hope you appreciate why I do not call it conversion but I call it buying. Let us look at other innovative ways that these Missions adopted. The Committee found that new converts were employed as prachaarak and their job would be to sell Christianity to others. This reminds me of an interesting personal episode. During year 2000, I moved to New Mumbai and initially I cooked for myself but due to sickness, employed a Shri Lankan woman Jennifer (earlier Zeenat) to cook for me. One day she brought some Jehovah’s Witness booklet for me, and out of politeness I accepted it. Encouraged by my acceptance of the booklet, another day she suggested that she would bring her superior prachaarak one day to discuss with me. This time I told her, please do not. What amuses me that they stop at nothing, she even tried to convert her employer (me) knowing well that I was a devout Hindu and my house was full of Hindu deities.
The Committee also found that Christians working in various government departments were exhorted and expected to participate in the game. Those who did not help were cursed in missionary publications. Christians placed in higher positions and missionaries who became influential members of the Janpad Sabhaas put pressure on junior officers for influencing people in favor of Christianity. What we see here is that they worked on all fronts possible, they left no stone unturned.
The Committee also found that:
(a) Missionary publications attacked idol worship in rather offensive terms;
(b) Dramas in which idol worship was ridiculed were performed in schools and elsewhere;
(c) Songs to the same effect were composed and sung; But, on the whole, the Committee noted that preference was given to vicious attacks on Hinduism, which was held up as a false religion.
Now let us stop for a moment and think, why did Indian Constitution give the freedom for propagating religion to all? Was it for this purpose? Also, let us ask the Press, those with substantial resources and reach, the bigger ones who play the role of opinion-makers to the nation; what are they doing today? Are they doing any findings on their own? Are they serving the nation well when they have readily cooked material in form of the Niyogi Committee Report? Did they publicize it sufficiently enough to raise public awareness and by developing public opinion did they force the administration to take corrective measure? What is the role of media in a democratic set up like ours? Or, did they find themselves helpless in front of enormous money power of these missions? Or, were they bought over by these missions? Let us see what the Committee reported on mass Conversions.
“Persons of varying ages from 60 years to 1 (one) year are shown as converts and the list includes women and children also. We have met many Uranos in the course of our tours and we were struck very much by their total absence of religious feelings.”
This was with reference to the list of 4,000 converts made within 2 years in Surguja district as shown in Government records. Now let us look at the methodology. A child of 1 year is converted or ‘bought’ as a new Christian. Now this name goes into government records and in later years census details show vast number of Christian population in a district. Then different demands are put up for various kinds of benefits and privileges for that community being a minority community. Over a period of time it becomes a majority community in a particular area. Then the methodology changes; there comes the demand for a separate State for the people of that religion. This all happens within the framework of democratic setup in a Secularist society. Here the meaning of secularism changes depending on the needs. First it is government support for minority religion. Then it is separate state for majority religion within one particular state. None of it is communalism. Communalism is anything that is said against it. And if by mistake something like this is done for Hindus then it is antisecular. The beauty of the whole game plan is that all this happens with support of pseudo-secularist (Marxist and Congress party and academics with those loyalties) and popular media.
The Committee noted that Missions refused to produce Baptism records due to the fear of Truth being out...As a rule, groups have been converted, and we find ‘individual conversion’ has been an exception rather than rule. We have come across cases of individual conversion only of persons who are village leaders and they have invariably been followed by ‘Mass conversions’ of the entire village soon after. Immediate prosperity of these converted village leaders were striking, and explanations were offered that it had nothing to do with the mass conversion of the whole village. Committee noted that they did not find such explanations acceptable. So what we see here is that the village leader is approached and bribed to lead the whole village into mass conversion.
Let us look back at the first chapter where we have given documented records of many foreign visitors who came to India during last 2,300 years and recorded their individual observations about the qualities of Hindu society. And then let us compare it with present scenario. What a downfall. Reason: bad company. Influence of bad cultures that have worked on our society for past thousand years, and gradually eaten it up.
The Niyogi Committee Report expressed the view that conversions led directly to denationalization. Greetings such as ‘Raam Raam’ and ‘Jai Hind’ [Victory to India] were substituted with ‘Jai Yeshu’ [Victory to Jesus].
“The Supremacy of the Christian flag over the National flag of India was also depicted in the drama, which was staged in a school at Jabalpur,” the Committee noted.
When Goa was liberated from Portuguese and merged with India, the Missionary paper Nishkalank [unblemished] strongly propagated against it. They wanted Goa to remain part of Portugal. This is another example of anti-nationalism. The Niyogi Committee found,
“Evangelization in India appears to be part of uniform world policy to revive Christendom for reestablishing Western supremacy and is not prompted by spiritual motives. The objective is to disrupt the solidarity of the non-Christian societies, and the mass conversion of a considerable section of Adivasis with this ulterior motive is fraught with danger to the security of the state. The Christian Missions were making a deliberate and determined attempt to alienate Indian Christian Community from their nation. The Community was most likely to become a victim of foreign manipulations in times of crisis.”
The Report observed:
“The history of the Christian missions provided ample proof that religion had been used for political purposes. Evangelization was not a religious philosophy but a force for politicization. The Church in India was not independent but accountable to those who paid their upkeep. The concept of ‘Partnership in Obedience’ that covered the flow of foreign finances to the Church was of a piece with the strategy of Subsidiary Alliances, which the East India Company had employed earlier for furthering and consolidating its conquests. And conversions were nothing but politics by other means.”
The missions found themselves at loss to challenge the findings and conclusions of the Niyogi Committee Report and therefore, they responded by branding it ‘Hindu communalism’ and they warned against the ‘danger of Hindu Raaj’.
The missions managed to get support from some persons of public standing in India like Dr. Hare Krishn Mahtab, then Governor of Bombay.
Two months later, in September 1956, the Minister of State for Home Affairs, B.N. Datar, came to their defense:
“No steps would be taken to check the work of foreign missionaries,” he declared in Parliament.
Alas! All were sold out?
Years later, when Congress Government was toppled for sometime, Om Prakash Tyagi, a Janata Party Member of Lok Sabha, who was elected in 1977 after the Emergency (1975-77), introduced a Bill in the Parliament on 2 December 1978. Few months later, Janata Party split and Morarji Government had to resign, Congress party came back to power. Tyagi’s Bill could not even be discussed in the Parliament.
50 valuable years have been lost and nothing has been done to take corrective measures. Emboldened by this apathy on the part of our government, media, intelligentia and public, I would not be surprised if Christian missionaries have stepped up their activities very substantially during these 50 years. This is gross abuse of Constitutional freedom in democratic setup. It is not enough to have democracy; it is important that we have the will to enforce it and prevent its abuse. I cannot withold my desire to quote Shri Sita Ram Goel here,
“The first Prime Minister of independent India became the leader of a Muslim-Christian-Communist combine for forcing Hindus and Hinduism first on the defensive and then on a run for shelter. Now on everything which Hindus held sacred could be questioned, ridiculed, despised and insulted. At the same time the darkest dogmas of Islam and Christianity were not only placed beyond the pale of discussion but also invested with divinity so that anyone who asked any inconvenient questions about them invited the attention of laws which were made more and more punitive.”
During 20 years (1951-71) the Christian growth in Nagaland was 252%, how? During the same period in Tripura we had 299% growth in 20 years; magic? North-East had 1% (1901) of the whole; it grew to 8% (1951) and 13% (1971) of the whole; but by 1998 it became 40% of non-southern Christian population.
Shourie tells us, it costs 145 billion dollars to operate global Christianity, records a book on evangelization. The Church commands 4,000,000 full time Christian workers, it runs 13,000 major libraries, it publishes 22,000 periodicals, it operates 1,800 Christian Radio and TV stations. It runs 1,500 universities and 930 research centers. It has 250,000 foreign missionaries and over 400 institutions to train them. These are 1989 numbers. No wonder Church needs Nazi gold looted from Jews of Europe and drug money to support this gigantic multi-national operation.
That all is the story of today but for a change let us see the Christian spirituality some 180 years ago. We refer to a chapter ‘Spiritual Advantages of Famine and Cholera’ in a Catholic publication ‘India and its Missions’ brought out in 1823; the chapter carries a report from the Archbishop of Pondichery to his superiors in Europe which states:
“The famine has wrought miracles. The catechumenates are filling, baptismal water flows in streams, and starving little tots fly in masses to heaven...a hospital is a readymade congregation. There is no need to go into the highways and hedges and ‘compel them to come in’. They send each other.”
What a wonderful expression of spirituality from a high dignitary of Catholic Church. This speaks lot about their character, if they had any.
All that we have seen happening so far, has been constantly and consistently reshaping Hindus and Hinduism. We have seen where we started 2,400 years ago, and where we have ended today; an extraordinary journey indeed, and what a downfall. Hope, we wake up now at least!