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

Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan
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church in Kottayam in Travancore. The motif on this black granite slab
is cut in relief, and on each side of the cross, which is surmounted by a
descending dove, is pillars crowned with supernatural composite animals
Cherubim, or yalis, from whose mouths issue an arch that join together
above the dove. The Hindus claim that the Yalis are Hindu symbols.
The dove-and-cross motif of this stone has been described by one writer
as Manichaean. If we look at the Persian cross (see the figure given
below) we can see the motif is a united composite whole of one artist and
was not an overworking on a then existing “Hindu” slab as some try to
suggest. Similar crosses are also found in Kerala.
A purer Christianity in Indian form developed during the 12 th to 14 th
century in the Saiva Sidhanta Church. Where Isa is still the central deity
and the theology is essentially sound Christian Theology. Evidently the
Sivites developed elaborate theological systems apart from the rest of the
World Churches. This church still live not only in south India but also in
Kashmir.
Thus evidently while the various syncretic levels exist at mundane
popular level, underneath are the unique contributions of Christ of
Thomas, which actually forms the backbone of Hinduism. It is not that
Christianity influenced Hinduism, but that Hinduism is the result of a
long series of events within Christianity giving in to tolerate and
assimilate other religious experiences.
ROSS MODEL FOR DEVELOPMENT OF RELIGION
Kelley L. Ross, Ph.D in http://www.friesian.com/myth.htm describes
the general form of such religious development in the following diagram: