Dear friend Santo,

Hinduism is the religion which has taught the whole world both tolerance and universal acceptance. if u go through the history of india u will know how tolerant is hindu religion. You have been talking about service activities of christian missionaries,schools etc i want to make it clear that 5 to 6 of my frnds have been converted to christianity who have studied in christian schools&colleges and the sad thing is after getting converted to christianity they started abusing hindu gods & godesses and says that only jesus is god and none other is god. Even jesus came to india and followed VEDANTA in order to attain self realization and become god and save humanity just like Rama,krishna,sri ramakrishna,swami vivekananda,shiridi sai baba,NOW Sathya sai baba........HINDUS BELIEVE THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUTH and ALL RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD ARE WAYS TO REACH THAT ULTIMATE TRUTH WHICH IS THE GOAL OF HUMANITY. THAT IS WHY WE WORSHIP JESUS ALSO JUST AS WE WORSHIP RAMA,KRISHNA,ETC.....AS SRI RAMAKRISHNA PARAMAHAMSA BEAUTIFULLY SAID " AS MANY WAYS , SO MANY PATHS" MANY HINDU ORGANIZATIONS HAVE BEEN SERVING SOCIETY SINCE 100 YEARS i,e Right FROM THE ADVENT OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA,WHO PREACHED UNITY OF RELIGIONS&MOST IMPORTANTLY WORSHIP OF GOD IN MAN WHICH IS HIGHEST FORM OF ADVAITIC TRUTH WHICH EVEN THE GREAT JESUS FOLLOWED AND IMPLEMENTED IN HIS LIFE AND BECAME GOD ...DEAR SANTO FRND WHOLE INDIA KNOWS WHETHER YOU CONVERT PEOPLE OR NOT.PLEASE KINDLY STOP CONVERSIONS AND ONE SIDED RELIGIOUS FANATIC THINKING..IT IS A SCIENTIFIC TRUTH.

FOR UR ALGATIONS OF SWAMIJI PLEASE KINDLY REFER TO THE BELOW INTERVIEW:

Sanjay Kumar Jena, a Correspondent of ORGANISER interviewed Swami Lakshmananda Saraswati to get his perspective on the issue. Here is the transcript of this interview which is revealing:

Organiser Correspondent: You are accused of being a conspirator in the attack on Catholic Church at Raikia?

Swami Lakshmananda Saraswati: I was at Jalaspatta when news of the attack on the Church reached me. I am in no way connected with the incident. But I can well understand the wounded psyche of Hindus against the Church. That might have made the people to attack the Church.

As far as their personal attack on me is concerned, let all the Padres, Popkaks and Palaks of Christianity come together and I will singularly argue with them. Let them come with their allegations on what damage I have done to their places of worship and what they have done to places of our faith. Let there be open debates so that the people can know the truth.
Organiser Correspondent: Hindus are wounded for what?

Swami Lakshmananda Saraswati: There was no problem when Christians were not here in Paikia. With their numbers increasing, they forcefully took away Hindu girls and forced the neo-converts to eat beef. They set several temples on fire. Be it Birupakhya Mahadev´s temple or temple at Malarimaha or my Ashram at Rupagoan, the Christians conspired to set them on fire.

They threw mortal remains of cows on mandirs. Kondh tribal´s Goddess Dharani Mata´s places of worship in several villages were dishonoured. The sacred sword at a temple at Bramhanigaon was forcibly taken away by the converts who melted the sword in public and prepared their weapons with that looted material. What was the need to do so?

Organiser Correspondent: But they are claiming service activities for the tribals?

Swami Lakshmananda Saraswati: Their only motivation is to convert the innocent tribal people through fraudulent means. In fact one entire village was converted to Christianity. They serve medicines claiming it to be the prasad of Jesus. After gaining confidence of the converts on a large scale, they cheat the people. Let me ask the Church why in their orphanages they are rearing so many boys and girls?

In the last so many decades the children who have grown up in such orphanages, where have they gone? Have they been sent to foreign countries or sold at a price? Let them explain this. The Kandh tribal community treats trees as their God. They do not cut forests out of fear viewings it as Adharma. But Christian Padres on their own cut one tree after the other saying that worshippers of Jesus can cut trees and no harm comes to them. The result has been that the forest cover is depleting day in and day out.

The real and dastardly truth about Orissa has been brought out eloquently by Radha Rajan. Let us hear her words of primordial fire and not secular fireworks: “This by-now habitual twisted coverage of events in Orissa by the print and electronic media calls for some Hindu plain-speaking. One name keeps cropping up repeatedly - that of Congress Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha, Radhakanta Nayak. He is being projected as the leader of the Christians in the locality; what is being consciously hidden from public gaze is that this Christian also heads World Vision in India”.

“World Vision is notorious for pumping money into India for religious conversion and their shenanigans in the conversion industry in the aftermath of the tsunami is well-known but equally well hidden from public discourse. I have personally known a lady who was Annalakshmi before tsunami and Anna Marie after tsunami”.

“World Vision is one of the top donors to NGOs in India and World Vision India one of the top ten recipients of funds for Christian missionary activity. I am therefore not at all surprised that the Hindus of Orissa are now beginning to summon the will to react against the willful offer of insult to Hindu sensibilities”.

“One only has to look at Chennai to understand what is happening in Orissa. An insolent ugly church is fast coming up right opposite the revered Pamban Swamy temple in Besant Nagar, Chennai. This church was until not long ago only a small thatched roof prayer house which came up overnight in a predominantly Hindu locality.

This is the modus operandi of Churches and Christians of all denominations — put up a small prayer house in the middle of a Hindu locality, close to a temple and after a few years of missionary activity, transform the prayer house into a big church”.

“This is what foreign money being pumped into churches in India is doing to society — erect insolent symbols of the church which offends the eye, the heart and the mind of Hindus — towering Jesus Christ statues obstructing the skyline, towering steeples with a cross atop, which is visible form a long distance, new and big churches close to old and popular temples, Christians of all denominations are using foreign money to increasingly put up their religious symbols in what can only be termed offensive and even obscene acts”.

“Christians in India must understand and understand fast that they cannot be protected by the US state department writing its annual vituperative anti-Hindu reports on religious freedom and human rights. Christians can be protected only by the good will of the majority Hindus in whose midst they have to live.

It is time for the country and Hindu organizations in particular to consider that religious freedom enshrined in the constitution has to be matched by a constitutional provision that unequivocally bans religious conversion of Hindus to Abrahamic faiths. Christians have to earn the good will of the Hindus instead of demanding special protection and special rights”.

.....to be continued