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From
http://www.indianexpress.com/story-print/476103/ A Encouraging HINDU-VATICAN Native tongue
Sudheendra Kulkarni Posted online:
Sunday, Jun 14, 2009 at 0150 hrs
Stupendous two days. I'll never grieve for these two days lived in love and assurance and gripped in Hindu-Christian verbal communication." This is how Jean-Louis Pierre Tauran, boss of the Pope's Legislative body for Inter-Faith Native tongue, Vatican City, described the relatives relating Hindu and Christian get-together in Mumbai on Friday and Saturday. Upcoming from someone who interested the wisdom and detail of the spiritual tradition in India for the summit time, this flattering reaction seemed natural. Hindu participants too were collective that this was a prolific verbal communication.
Award accept been something else first-class dialogues in the beyond relating Hindu devout leaders and get-together of the Catholic Church. By and excessive, the themes of these dialogues were "cultured" in classify, as they sought after to explore the theological prevalent playing field relating the two faiths. But the Mumbai give rise to was peer for three total reasons.
Primary, this was the summit airless relatives relating the two sides after the unlucky explosion of opposition in Orissa in arrears engagement, which tinted two inter-related facts: the condemnable unsettled turning on churches and careful Christians on the one hand and, on the other, the insurrection Hindu depression self-important a sustained energy of revolution to Christianity.
Detailed, this was for the summit time that the Catholic decentralization was led by the Pope's topmost agent subtitle the division of inter-faith verbal communication.
Third, this was moreover for the summit time that Hindu devout leaders of high settled participated in the verbal communication, dispensing a illustrative consultation that the Hindu place is firm to take on in a useful verbal communication with Christians of all denominations.
Swami Jayendra Saraswati, the Shankaracharya of Kanchi Mutt, led the Hindu decentralization, which included Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, founder of the Art of Living movement; Swami Chidananda Saraswati of Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh; Rajayogini Dadi Janki of Brahmakumaris; Swami Nikhileshwaranandaji and Swami Vigishanandji, two improved monks from Ramakrishna Mission; Sri Venkatachariar Chaturvedi Swami of Sri Ramanuja Appointment Mingle and Mahamandaleshwar Swami Vishveshwaranand Giri Maharaj of Sanyas Ashram, Hardwar.
Catholic participants included Pedro Lopez Quintana, the Vatican's mediator in India; Archbishop Felix Machado of Nashik; Bishop Thomas Dabre of Pune and Bishop Raphy Manjaly of Varanasi.
I was flabbergasted to be invited to appear in the splinter group, which was hosted by the Archbishop of Mumbai, Cardinal Oswald Gracias, a instinctive bridge-builder relating the two communities. My just prerequisite, almost certainly, was that I had participated in a earthly inter-faith give rise to on devout revolution in Italy in 2006, which was in concert organised by the Vatican and its Protestant the same, the Geneva-based Construction Legislative body of Churches. It was the summit ever inter-faith verbal communication, organised by the two excessive Christian establishments, Specific Fully ON THE Development Selling OF Religious Paraphrase. The fix announce adopted at the end of that give rise to has become a revolutionary document. Flat the BJP's manifesto for the deceased parliamentary elections carried an comprehension confirmation of it, and called for the "solid up of a binding inter-faith consultative spiral to publicize demand and assurance relating communities".
The good part of the Mumbai give rise to was that, even period the subject matter of revolution subject it, the deliberations were draw to a close by candour as well as civility. THE HINDU LEADERS Puncture CONDEMNED ANTI-CHRISTIAN Misuse. CATHOLIC PARTICIPANTS WERE Somewhat Straight IN AFFIRMING THAT Clear Paraphrase, AND Paraphrase Amongst ALLUREMENTS OF ANY Style, IS Canceled AND REJECTED. THEY Obvious THAT ALL FAITHS WERE Public figure OF Self-ruled Worship. THIS IS AN Signal THAT HINDU LEADERS Deem BEEN WAITING TO Pick up FOR A Want very much Magic charm, since numerous Christian and Muslim scholars make a intently unwarrantable disparity relating "Land of the Purloin" (Jews, Christians and Muslims) and persons standalone the "Purloin". The crave history of devout revolution in India has dazed how Hinduism was, and dormant is in numerous places, untaken as a "pagan" and "untruthfulness" religion, whose adherents may perhaps succeed to emancipation just by abandoning "anecdote" and embracing the unattached "Completely Concentrate".
Cardinal Tauran, a godly man of hoarse inspection, has imparted a fortifying new circumstance on the Vatican's family with Hinduism and other oriental faiths. In an try-out in arrears engagement, he had unconditionally noteworthy that "he would be travelling to India later on and at hand he at ease to describe this consultation that all religions are go with...We mustn't get the persona at hand are foremost religions and second-class religions." His remarks in Mumbai accept fashioned a sound crucial for delight blatant the Hindu-Christian verbal communication in a up and about avenue. The fact of the relatives was moreover substantial from the fact that, after the summit day's closed-door deliberations, Cardinal Tauran led the Christian decentralization on a kindness observe to Mumbai's extensive Siddhivinayak Forehead. This was followed by the Hindu decentralization visiting the Holy Entitle Catholic Cathedral.
The coordinate of inter-faith verbal communication got greater than before on the time day like Cardinal Tauran was the surpass guest at a soulful all-religion prayer, followed by an educating colloquium, in which prominent Muslim, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Sikh, Jain and Buddhist personalities moreover participated. It was organised by Shantilal Somaiya, a illustrious octogenarian educationist, who has been striving for rupture inter-religious understanding for numerous decades.
The system of reunion and glaring demand and subdued is a unyielding one. Many penetrating questions poverty fat deduce leading to convergent positions. In the months hopeful, moreover Hindu and Christian leaders moreover accept a requirement to crystallise joint assurance and understanding happening a practical and collaborative desk of action at all levels, in the midst of the manual level, to remove the sources of prejudices, crack and opposition. How to move ahead? One allude to was agreed by Swami Chidananda Saraswati, who assumed, "Apni apni bhakti, parantu sabse badhkar rashtra bhakti." (LET US Intuition AND Search out OUR RESPECTIVE FAITHS, BUT Foundation Intuition OF THE Disarray Enhanced ALL.)
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From
http://in.christiantoday.com/articles/hindu-pontiff-slams-us-commission-visit-to-india/4027.htm
HINDU PONTIFF SLAMS US Job Many TO INDIA
By: John Malhotra
Saturday, 13 June 2009, 15:01 (IST)
Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi, one of the leading records of Hinduism, on Friday, slammed the advent observe of U.S. Job on Transnational Religious Make available (USCIRF) to India.
The Hindu pontiff, addressing an inter-religious give rise to relating the Catholic and Hindus in Mumbai, warned adjacent to unknown nations blatant in the institution matters of the saving. He was antagonistic to the investigative check by the Job on the Kandhamal meanness and Gujarat riots.
The almanac action of the U.S. Congressional transmit in arrears month assumed "the Job is negotiations to travel to India for the summit time in June 2009" to carefully regard and account the violations of autonomy of religion.
Jayendra Saraswati, responding to the action, assumed it was an "officious spiral of a unknown parliament to butt in in the institution associations of this saving."
"The Job, assigned to friction meetings and detangle the devout autonomy and restrictions in the saving, essential not be officially recognized to major India," the 69th Shankaracharya of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham, assumed.
He reiterated that the "outer surface involvement happening the institution associations bestow be protested".
Church leaders, meanwhile, accept diffident their fingers crossed on the common sense of the U.S. explicatory transmit set to line India within weeks. They trance the Job can bring to light the burgeoning meanness on minorities and moreover the impunity of the wrongdoers.
Archbishop of Orissa Raphael Cheenath has moreover spoken trance on the observe which he assumed may perhaps be principal in restricting meanness and ensuring the protection of minorities.
He wishes the U.S. government-funded agency to put emergency on the Indian parliament to dutifully public the Position enshrined in the Organize
Related post on the dialogue:-
http://jayasreesaranathan.blogspot.com/2009/06/dont-encroach-hindu-space-inter 13.html
