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

Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan
Chapter Fourteen
GNOSTIC TAKEN OVER
Mani, Arya Samaj and Indian Nationalism
The Forgotten Factor in Indian Religious History – Manichæism
When St.Thomas came to India in AD 52, there were
essentially three religious groups. The Vedic, the Budhist,
the Jain. Within the twenty years of his ministry all through
India, he was able to transform the Indian Religious
environment. He established the Indian Catholic Church all
over India with worship of Isa in culturally relevant way in
Temples - Kovil or Pally. Since these churches were solely
dependent on the oral traditions without contact with the rest
of the Catholic Churches, it is not surprising that lot of
syncretization came in force. Like the rest of the Catholic
Churches elsewhere in the world, Indian Churches were also
under the grip of Gnosticism. . Similar transformation also
occurred in other countries. Clear and specific example is the
Roman Catholic Church, which syncretizes with local
religions wherever it goes. Except for the recognition of the
historical Jesus, the Roman Catholic Church differs very little
from the Hindu Sanadhana Dharma of today.
Manichaean, the Gnostic from Persia visited India and had
extensive ministry converting the orphan Christian Churches
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