Conversion-Reconversion, Christian Conspiracy and Swami Vivekananda.
Posted by hinduexistence on January 27, 2015
Ghar Wapsi (Reconversion) trail; the view of Swami Vivekananda for
Conversion and his staunch words to the Christian Missionaries.
~ Upananda Brahmachari.
Swami Vivekananda not only initiated her most devout disciple Nivedita
in Vedanta doctrine, he converted Margaret from Christianity to Hinduism
also.
Swami Vivekananda not only initiated her most devout disciple
Nivedita in Vedanta doctrine, he converted Margaret from Christianity
to Hinduism also.
The reconversion issue in India made a hue and cry
not only in this land, but it ranted the major portions of the world as
engineered by the media. The dangerous secular force and the communal
Christian missionaries are lauded over the issue for their gain.
On the contrary, the rightist Hindu organisations go forward to their
aim to crush down the culpable Semitic conspiracy to convert Hindu
populace with the help of huge foreign money.
Dr Pravin
Togadia, the International President of VHP clearly opines that if
conversion is not stopped by making sufficient strong law, the
reconversion process will also continue with greater endeavour.
But, when RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat or Dr Togadia say something favorably
or reconversion, instantly those are branded as communal by the
secular. Even sometimes BJP is also expresses its view unfavorably
against reconversion under the halt of situation. But, ‘suddhi’
(purification) or ‘gharwapsi’ (home coming), in a word- reconversion,
was not introduced by any of RSS, VHP or BJP.
First Gharwapi
(home coming) was done by Jagadguru Ramanandacharya before 700 years and
25,000 Muslims were reconverted to Hindu at Ayodhya when there was no
RSS and VHP. Another mass home coming of 3 lakh Hindus was done by Swami
Shraddhanand in 1920 under Arya Samaj’s Suddhi movement for that he was
killed by a Muslim goon came from Lahore. History said that Vidyaranya
Swami reconverted Harihar and Bukku who made a mighty Vijaynagar Empire.
Sri Chaitanyadev also reconverted many Muslims in his Bhakti movement
including Rupa, Sanatana and Haridas Goswami.
After Swami
Dayananda Saraswati (1824 – 1883), the founder of Arya Samaj, Swami
Vivekananda (1863 – 1902) also unequivocally granted the vision of
reconversion as an important measure to protect the numerical strength
of Hindus including the emancipation for Human kind in the right path
of Sanatana Vedic Hindu Dharma.
Sister Nivedita was the most
eminent disciple converted by Swami Vivekananda himself and Swamiji had a
great concern about the loosing numbers of Hindus under Islamic
brutality and Christian conversion conspiracy.
In the very
‘Rules and Regulations of the Ramakrishna Math Belur, 1898’, Swami
Vivekanada wrote, “When the Muslims first came to India, there were
according their historical records, sixty crores of Hindus in India.
This calculation suffers rather form underestimation than exaggeration;
or lots o perished solely through the persecution of Muslims. Therefore,
it is obvious that the number o Hindus was even more than sixty crores –
on no account less than that. But today the same Hindus have dwindled
into 20 crores. Over and above that, with the ascendancy o the Christian
powers, about two crores of people have become Christians and more that
one lakh of people are becoming Christians every year. It is specially
or the preservation o Hindu race and religion that Bhagavan Sri
Ramakrishna, the embodiment of mercy, has incarnated himself.” (Para 1
of the Part – PLAN OF WORK FOR INDIA in the Belur Math or RK Mission
Constitution written by Swami Vivekananda himself.)
Not only
that much, Swamiji directly instructed to convert the followers of other
religions into Hindu Dharma by saying ”Great efforts should be made to
bring even Muslims and Christians into the Hindu fold.” (Para 20 ibid).
As a matter of fact Swami Vivekananda challenged the menaces of crooked
Christian missionaries in their land in the very World Religion
Conference in Chicago in 1893.
In his lecture delivered on 20
September 1893 on the topic ‘Religion Not the Crying Need of India’,
Swamiji cleared his vision towards Christian Missionaries without any
ambiguity.
“Christianity must always be ready for good
criticism, and I think that you will hardly mind if I make a little
criticism. Christian brethren of America, you are so fond of sending out
missionaries to save the souls of heathens. I ask you: what have you
done and are doing to save their bodies from starvation? In India, there
are 300 million men and women living on an average of a little more
than 50 cents a month. I have seen them living for years upon wild
flowers. During the terrible famines, thousands died from hunger but the
missionaries did nothing. They come and offer life but only on
condition that the Hindus become Christians, abandoning the faith of
their fathers and forefathers. Is it right? There are hundreds of
asylums, but if the Muslims or the Hindus go there, they are kicked out.
There are thousands of asylums erected by Hindus where anybody is
received. There are hundreds of churches that have been erected with the
assistance of the Hindus, but no Hindu temples for which a Christian
has given a penny.
Brethren of America, you erect churches all
through India, but the crying evil in the East is not religion. They
have religion enough, but it is bread that the suffering millions of
burning India cry out for with parched throats. What they want is bread,
but they are given a stone. It is an insult to a starving people to
offer them religion; it is an insult to a starving man to teach him
metaphysics. Therefore, if you wish to illustrate the meaning of
“brotherhood,” treat the Hindus more kindly, even though they are Hindus
and are faithful to their religion. Send missionaries to them to teach
them how better to earn a piece of bread and not to teach them
metaphysical nonsense.
[At this point, Swami Vivekananda said
that he was not feeling too well that day and so wished to be excused.
But, we read in the newspaper report, “there were thunders of applause
and cries of ‘Go on,’” so Vivekananda continued:]
The earlier
speaker said something about the miserable and ignorant priests in
China. The same may be said of the priests in India. I am one of those
monks who have been described as beggarly. That is the pride of my life.
I am proud in that sense to be Christ-like. I eat what I have today and
think not of tomorrow. “Behold the lilies of the field; they toil not,
neither do they spin.” The Hindu carries that out literally. Many
gentlemen present in Chicago sitting on this platform can testify that
for the last twelve years I never knew whence my next meal would come. I
am proud to be a beggar for the sake of the Lord. The idea in the East
is that to preach or teach anything for the sake of money is low and
vulgar, but to teach the name of the Lord for pay is such degradation as
would cause the priest to lose caste and be spat upon.
Writer can be reached at: upananda.br@gmail.com
Writer can be reached at: upananda.br@gmail.com
There is one suggestion in the earlier speaker’s paper that is true: If
the priests of China and India were organized, there is an enormous
amount of potential energy that could be used for regeneration of
society and humanity. I endeavored to organize it in India but failed
for lack of money. It may be I shall get the help I want in America.
I came here to seek help for my impoverished people and I fully
realized how difficult it was to get help for heathens from Christians
in a Christian land. I have heard so much of this land of freedom, of
liberty and freedom of thought, that I am not discouraged. I thank you,
ladies and gentlemen.” (Swamiji’s Addresses at the Parliament of
Religion, Chicago as produced in the site of Belur Math).
But,
the politicos and media in India much rely upon the dictum of Vatican
and the Al Rabita than the ideology and instructions of Swami
Vivekananda.
It is fortunate that the Hindu organisations, the
Hindu Saints and most of the common people are believing in the message
off Swami Vivekananda who told us categorically, “For whoever goes out
of the Hindu Religion, is not only lost to us, but also we have in him
one more enemy.”
Hence, every devout Hindu find ‘Reconversion’
as an essential duty to do. But, “Conversion” as a legitimate right to
live. Yes, Swamiji told us, Expansion is life and contraction is death.
We do want to live with our might and right.
