Hinduism: What Really Happenned in India (PDF) - Oration

Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan
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Eph 1:9 And he made known to us the mystery of his will according to
his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, 10 to be put into effect
when the times will have reached their fulfillment--to bring all things in
heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.11 In him we
were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him
who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will,12
in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the
praise of his glory.
Heb. 2: 14 Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their
humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power
of death--that is, the devil-- 15 and free those who all their lives were
held in slavery by their fear of death.
Thus we see that Vishista Advaita teaches exactly what the bible teaches
in a very pictorial way. This is exactly the stand of the Eastern Churches
III DVAITA VADA - DUALISTIC THEISM
Madhva (Ananda Tirtha) 1197-1273 Dvaita the Dualist school.
This Kanarese Brahmin philosopher was born near Mangalore, S India.
After studying in Trivandrum, Banaras, and elsewhere, he settled in
Udipi, and is traditionally held to have vanished in mid-lecture in 1317,
retiring to the Himalayas. Taking Ramanuja's side against Sankara, he
promoted dvaita or dualistic Vedanta, allowing for the separate existence
of the Divine, human souls, and matter. His belief that some souls were
eternally damned suggests Christian influence on his thinking. Being a
student in Trivandrum his life and teachings were influenced by Indian
Christians. Madhva strongly refuted the non-dualist analogy of Sankara
— who believed the individual self to be a phenomenon, with the
absolute spirit, the Brahman, being the only reality. That’s not all.
Madhva also cogently rejected the venerable Hindu theory of maya, or
illusion, which infers that only spirituality is eternal, with the material
world being only ‘varnished’ and delusive. He departed from orthodox
Hinduism in a number of ways. He believed, for instance, unlike a vast