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

Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan
taught them that if they partook of the mixture, composed
of the five products of the cow (pancha Gomulyam), they
would find it specific for all kinds of sickness, secure long
life for themselves. Eight families were perverted by him,
and these so far increased to form at length a community of
ninety-six houses whose number has denounced the
worship of true God.”
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Many conjecture that this was Manichaen the Gnostic Prince of Persia.
However we notice that the tradition says they were converted back to
Hinduism. It is quite possible that he was a Manichaen disciple of Mani
from Persia who visited South India. It is not difficult to see what had
been happening in India.
During the time of Thomas there never had been a unified religion all
though India as it had always been. Thomas was able to build Christian
churches all though India in the midst of the local religions. The church,
thus established, worshipped Isa in culturally acceptable mode. Bhajans
and pujas and prasadams were part of the church. They simply represent
the Indian way of worship and Holy Communion. Bhajans can be
explained only in terms of a personal loving God as Isa. The very name
Isa (from Yesu) came to mean God all through India.
However unlike Malankara, these churches were isolated from the
Universal fellowship. Malankara churches had always been in touch with
the rest of the Catholic churches in Antioch, Alexandria and Rome. They
had their representation in the councils when the church faced the
onslaught of heresies. As any historian would know, Gnosticism was the
prime heretic force within the Christian Church everywhere. I have often
wondered what would have happened if Gnosticism took over the early
Church. The fact is that in India it did. The fact is that Indian churches
became Gnostic, while the Catholic Churches survived it. Hinduism is
thus the visible result of the success of the Gnosticism within
Christianity. Thus by the third century, Malankara Churches remained
within the Universal Historical Church while the rest of the Indian
Churches went Gnostic and became Hindu. This evidently it did not
happen without a fight. The Cavery incidence is only an indication of it.