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Preface SECTION I THE ASHRAM MOVEMENT IN THE CHRISTIAN MISSION 1. New Labels for Old Me rchandise2. Indigenisation: A Predatory Enterprise3. The Patron Saint of Indigen isation4. Mission's Volte-Face vis-a-vis Hindu Culture5. The Ashram Movement in the Mission6. The Trinity from Tannirpalli 7. An Imperialist Hangover SECTION I I MISSION STRAEGY EXPOSED BY HINDUISM TODAY 8. Catholic Ashrams : Adopting and Adapting Hindu Dharma9. The J.R. Ewing Syndrome10. Interview with Father Bruno B arnhardt : Emmaculate Heart Hermitage11. Returning to the Hindu Fold: A Primer APPENDIX 1 : Malaysia Hindus Protest Christian "Sadhu" APPENDIX 2 : Missionary's Dirty Tricks SECTION III THE DIALOGUES 12. The First Dialogue 13. The Second Dialogue14. The Third Dialogue SECTION IV THE MISSIONARY MIND15. Bede Griffiths Drops the Mask APPENDIX 1 : Different Paths Meeting in God APPE NDIX 2 : "Liberal" Christianity APPENDIX 3 : The Great Command and a Cosmic Audi ting SECTION V : APPENDICES THE ORGANISATIONAL WEAPON I. Christian Ashrams in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka II. A Glimpse of Mission Finance III. Thy Kingdom is the Third World IV. Christianity Mainly for Export: God's LegionariesV. Prosely tisation as it is Practised Bibliography Preface It was early in 1987 that Hinduism Today 1 sent to me reprints of four articles that had been published in its issue of Nov ember/ December, 1986. 2 Based on extensiveresearch, the articles told the story of some Catholic mission aries establishing"ashrams" in different parts of India and doing many other thi ngs in order to look likeHindu sannyasins. They also pointed out some glaring co ntradictions between Hinduspiritual perceptions on the one hand and the basic Ch ristian beliefs on the other. Oneof the articles quoted from Vatican sources to show how Church proclamationsdisagreed with the professions of Christian "sannya sins". Another asked theChristians as to how they would look at a Muslim mission ary appearing in their midstin the dress of a Christian priest and adopting Chri stian rituals in a Church-likemosque, but teaching the Quran instead of the Bibl e. 3 I wrote to Hinduism Today thatVoice of India would like to publish the articles in the form of a booklet f or theeducation of Hindus, many of whom had been hoodwinked by this form of miss ionstrategy. The permission was readily granted.While these articles were gettin g printed, a friend in Madras informed me that adialogue on the subject of Chris tian ashrams had developed through correspondence between Swami Devananda Saraswati and Father Bede Griffiths. He sent to me anar

ticle and some letters to the editor which had appeared in the Indian Express of Madras in March and April 1987, and triggered the dialogue. The article, An Apostleof Peace , was the summary of a talk which Dr. Robert Wayne Teasdale, a Catholictheologia n from Canada, had delivered in Madras on March 12, 1987. Fr. BedeGriffiths had been presented by him as "Britain's appropriate gift to India". 4 Theletters to the editor were reactions from readers of the Indian Express. I wrote to Swami Devananda and obtained from him copies of the letters exchanged .He also supplied a letter from Dr. Teasdale that had appeared in the Indian Exp ress of June 1, 1987 and was a defence of Teasdale's earlier presentation. I fou nd the materialilluminating and immediately relevant to the subject I was planni ng to present for public discussion. Swami Devananda had no objection to Voice of India publishingthe correspondence provided Fr. Bede Griffiths also gave his permission. He wrote toFr. Bede who agreed readily and with grace. Swami Devanan da then sent us copies of the last letters exchanged in October, 1987.As I devel oped the Preface to the first edition and surveyed the mission strategies inthe history of Christianity in this country, I realized that I was dealing with not onlyCatholic Ashrams but, in fact, with a whole movement known as the ChristianA shram Movement in the Christian Mission. Various Protestant missions were also p ractising the same fraud. But it was too late to change the title of the book be causeits main body had been already printed. I have retained the old title in th is edition also because it has become well-known under this name not only in thi s country but alsoabroad, particularly in circles that control the Christian mis sions in this country. But Ihave made the subtitle more apt.In this second editi on, while all the old material has been retained, a lot more has beenadded. The earlier Preface has been expanded and rearranged into chapters withsuitable head ings. It now forms Section I of the book. In Section II which carries theearlier articles from Hinduism Today , two more articles from the same monthly have been added as appendices. In the earlier edition, there was only one dialogue, that between Swami Devananda and F r. Bede. Now there are three dialogues, two morehaving been put together by Swam i Devananda and brought to my attention. Thedialogues form Section III of the pr esent edition. Another valuable addition is SectionIV which comprises letters ex changed between Fr. Bede and Shri Ram Swarup inearly 1990. Three articles writte n by Ram Swarup in different papers and referred to by him in his letters to Fr. Bede have been reproduced as appendices to this section.Section V of this editi on is more or less the same as Section III of the old one exceptfor some changes in the numbering of the appendices and addition of a new appendix.The informati on which this section had carried earlier about Robert De Nobili has been transf erred to the appropriate chapter under Section I. The other new features inthe p resent edition are Bibliography and Index. II The first edition of Catholic Ashrams drew two sharp but opposite reactions fromHindu and Christian quarters. of 160 Leave a Comment Submit Characters: 400 Catholic Ashrams Download or Print 360 Reads

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