Friday, October 17, 2008

Lady re-converted to Hindu Dharma, stops missionary work!

Pune: A converted Christian woman was taking two youths working on daily wages to a church. When the matter was learnt by few seekers of Sanatan Sanstha, they met the two youths and tried to create awareness in them;but the youths were under complete influence of Christianity.

A seeker came to know that one of the youth belonged to Lingayat community. He, therefore, explained to the youth that it was a practice followed in that community to have a Guru at young age. People come from outside countries to seek guidance from such Gurus. How could he then go to a church? Would his Guru like it? After hearing this, the youth accepted his mistake and asked that what should be his further course of action. The Sanatan seeker advised him to make circumambulations around Sanatan's Sree Ganesh idol and pray to Him. Accordingly, the youth went to Sanatan ashram and did so and did even 'aarati'. His 'bhava' was awakened and he realized the importance of our deities. Since then he started going to the ashram regularly for 'darshan' and did seva too.

Here, the converted Christian lady learnt that the youths had stopped going to the church. She got annoyed and started quarreling with the youths. She kept on harassing them for a few days. The wife of one of the youths met that lady and although she herself was not so educated, explained to that lady that how Hindus are misguided by Christians. She was talking to the lady for almost 3 hours. She was also carrying a copy of 'Sanatan Prabhat's weekly issue. Finally she showed her the picture published in the periodical under the heading 'True nature of Christians'. As soon as the woman took the copy of the issue in her hand, she started feeling better. As she saw the picture, she realized that she was also misguided and asked for advice from Sanatan seekers. She said that she used to go to church although there was opposition from her family members. She had started taking to church even people from her neighborhood. The missionary from the church was therefore, happy with her and she was to be given the post of a pastor.

Source: 'Daily Sanatan Prabhat'

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