Guest guest Posted November 15, 2004 Report Share Posted November 15, 2004 According to divine is it wrong to have intercaste marriage? for ex . A Brahmin boy, marrying a christian girl. Is conversion from christianity to hindu possible? How to accept the relation without causing damage to community and affecting religious sentiments? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gopalapriyadas Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Mahatma Gandhiji said "There is nothing but vilification of Hinduism in the books distributed by the missionaries. The other day a missionary descended on a famine area with money in his pocket, converted the famine-stricken by distributing it amongst them and then got them to demolish their own temple. That was outrageous. The advent of a missionary in a Hindu household has meant the disruption of the family. The missionaries are vendors of goods who target the most susceptible when they are most vulnerable, using just not dialogue but allurement and violence. If I had power and could legislate, I should certainly stop all proselytizing." Hindus do not believe in conversion. Hindus believe in Ekam Sataha Vipraha Bahudha Vadanti, or "The truth is One but known by different names" Yet, for at least past 1300 years, there have been vigorous attempts at converting Hindus. Some of those who sought to convert Hindus use force, while others used fraud and inducement. Very few Hindus are converted by changing their hearts. Hundreds of thousands of Hindus faced severe brutalities at the hands of Islamic invaders to defend their rights to preserve their dharma and way of life. During the British rule, the conversion of Hindus to Christianity started in ernest, the attempts to convert Hindus continues unabated today with millions of dollars each year poured by the missionaries. Great leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and Swami Vivekanand spoke about the futility of conversion, and yet, ironically, today those who speak against the conversion of Hindus are branded fundamentalist and worse. The conversion of Hindus is usually accompanied by loss of compassion towards other religions, loss in respect for the Hindu and Indian culture and way of life and more often than not, loss of self-respect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sumedh Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Hare Krishna In the vaishnava tradition a devotee would only marry another devotee. In the more traditional system, brahmins were not allowed to marry others but then a devotee automatically comes to the level of Brahmin. Is conversion from christianity to hindu possible? How does it matter if one labeled as hindu or christian, the thing that matters is whether one's spiritual practice is bona-fide and leading to deeper love for God. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 In my opinion Hinduism is more of a way of life than a religion, there is no conversion needed you can claim yourself to be a hindu if you follow the hindu way of life by being a vegetarian, following darma and praying krishna. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 In most other religions, which seem more like political organizations than religions, conversion from them is usually condemned. Devotees of Prabhu Shri Krishna should then be wary of marrying into such religions due to unrecognized infatuation, if they wish to continue their transendental lifestlye, avoid fundamentalism, and thus earn self-realization or 'Moksh' - which is the point of human birth to begin with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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