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To Whom It May Concern,

 

 

 

Quite late in Ghent, Belgium, Europe now. It is 3.27 am. Been studying Hinduism

all that time, while surfing on various sites to come across this wonderful

group, as God sent I must say. I am 67 of age today, while my whole life has

been accentuated by “spirituality”. Born in a Roman Catholic family, I was from

early age at seven very interested in religion. In fact, I wanted to become a

monk. My parents opposed to the idea. At the age 21, having saved sufficient

money for one year full board study, I went to a theological college.

Afterwards, while working in a British firm in Brussels from 1966 to 1990, I

studied theology with several institutions “extra muros”, the last one being the

London Bible College. Meanwhile, I became an ordained priest in 1974, in Old

Roman Catholicism. My interests in mysticism in fact , went farther than

Christianity being interested in the practice of meditation in the late sixties.

Therefore, very early, I also studied Hinduism, particularly the

wonderful “Bhagavad Gita”. I realised that oneness is found in any religion,

the Lord Krishna says: “Whosoever desires to worship whatever deity (using any

name, form, and method) with faith (confidence), I make their faith steady in

that very deity. Endowed with steady faith they worship that deity, and obtain

their wishes through that deity. THOSE WISHES ARE, INDEED, granted only by Me.

(Gita 7:21-22) That is very clear. One day (1998/9) I was asked by the American

Gita Society (surfing on Internet) to translate the Gita in French and Dutch,

and I did agree. It took me years to do it, while I greatly enlarged my personal

library with books on the Gita, Sanskrit grammars, Hinduism as a whole, etc.,

dictionary and so on and forth. I had a great mission to translate the word of

God, His word in Sanskrit. What a responsibility? I stopped every Catholic

activity and pastoral work which had filled my leisure time all those years of

hard work, to consecrate myself on the Gita and

meditation. Today, I am a satisfied man, but my work is not finished. It will

never be finished. You will find my work on:

http://www.geocities.com/hagurcomic/GitaBelgium.html I wanted to share all

this with you.

 

Thank you for reading, thank you for your prayers. For those interested, I made

a small video, chanting the Gayatri Mantra in front o a newly oil painting of

mine of the Lord Krishna for my meditation room. If your mailbox is large enough

(1.45 MB), I will gladly mail it to you.

 

 

 

Namaste,

 

 

 

Philippe De Coster

 

My email address: fb060913