The Search After Reality
-Sadhu Sundar Singh
[Emphasis only on Hinduism]
Sundar attended an American Presbyterian Mission school
where the New Testament was read daily as a textbook. He refused to read it
because he thought it was false and yet something about the gospel always
attracted him. His crisis of faith took over when he was fourteen, his mother
passed away. He was very close to his mother and her passing left a deep void
in his heart, he desperately longed for peace, and in his outrage, he even
burnt a Bible.
However, after becoming a Christian he strongly believed
in spreading the hope & peace he found in the gospel, to Indians in an
Indian way. Like Jesus, he had no possessions and called the road his home.
Stories are still told of the amazing miracles that God did through Sundar.
Though there have been many life-threatening attempts to poison him, imprison
him and stone him, but there have been even more miracles.
He stood out from other Christians as he always wore a
saffron turban and a saffron robe. He was known as, “the apostle with the
bleeding feet” for he walked far and long.
From the northern mountains of Shimla & Tibet to the
southern plains of Tamil Nadu. He has also preached in Ceylon and in other
nations around the world.[i]
One of his books, The Search After Reality, is found really
fascinating. Sundar Singh was one of the greatest evangelists. I shall give him
a tag “Paul of the Eastern World”. The person who literally persecuted
Christians and burnt God’s word later miraculously converted to him [Jesus]. He
was later boycotted from the family by his father. He then determined to live
for Christ. He had mysterious death at the end in Himalayas.
I recommend his book due to following features:
1.
Problem with Vedanta philosophy regarding
everything is Maya except Brahman alone,
2.
Comments on Aadi Shankracharya’s dogma of Maya
as creative power of Brahman,
3.
Comments on Swamee Vivekakanda’s statement “It
is a sin to call a man sinner.”
4.
Objection on destination whether salvation or
annihilation,
5.
Objects knowledge, works and devotion’s necessity
for salvation,
6.
Describes problem with karma, jnana and bhakti
marga,
7.
Shows problem with transmigration, salvation and
rebirth,
8.
Comments on Krishna’s concern to the necessity
of the fight for sweeping away tyranny and injustice and establish dharma and
justice,
9.
Debunks Krishna-Christ similarity and questions
who gives the hope of salvation,
10. Comments
on the Bhagavad Gita as an attempt to reconcile Samkhya, Yoga and Vedanta
system of aastika darshan[ii]
with doctrine of bhakti,
11. Answers
the reason behind continuation of Hinduism despite its unsuitability to people’s
need.
Download the book and explore yourself in detail.
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