OW TO BECOME A HINDU IS DEDICATED TO MY SATGURU AND ALL THOSE BEFORE HIM IN OUR LINEAGE, DATING BACK 2,200 YEARS. Satguru Siva Yogaswami (1872 -- 1964), paramaguru of over
two million Sri Lankan Hindus, had the vision, the foresight, to
fulfill my request to enter the Saivite religion in 1949 and
receive my namakarana samskara and the love and support to
this day of the Tamil religious community for over fifty years.
Today he and I work together, he in his world and I in mine, to
stabilize, encourage and enlighten the Sri Lankan Hindus, who for a
decade and a half have experienced an unexpected diaspora into all
major and minor countries. We have established temples and
dedicated shrines, published books in their language, and given
solace to those suffering in leaving their homeland, so fraught
with war. We have worked to keep them reminded of their ancient and
historic culture of music, art drama and the dance, literature and
so much more, to keep it all as it once was, without a break in
continuity. This book is also dedicated to all swamis who for
decades have taught the ancient Sanatana Dharma in the West and
thus effectively brought tens of thousands of devout souls half way
into the Hindu religion, and now, through a more carefully defined
ethical conversion, will complete the process. Swami Vivekananda
(1863 -- 1902), one of the foremost progenitors of Hinduism in the
Western world, noted: "Why, born aliens have been converted in the
past by the thousands, and the process is still going
on."
OW TO BECOME A HINDU IS DEDICATED TO MY SATGURU AND ALL THOSE BEFORE HIM IN OUR LINEAGE, DATING BACK 2,200 YEARS. Satguru Siva Yogaswami (1872 -- 1964), paramaguru of over
two million Sri Lankan Hindus, had the vision, the foresight, to
fulfill my request to enter the Saivite religion in 1949 and
receive my namakarana samskara and the love and support to
this day of the Tamil religious community for over fifty years.
Today he and I work together, he in his world and I in mine, to
stabilize, encourage and enlighten the Sri Lankan Hindus, who for a
decade and a half have experienced an unexpected diaspora into all
major and minor countries. We have established temples and
dedicated shrines, published books in their language, and given
solace to those suffering in leaving their homeland, so fraught
with war. We have worked to keep them reminded of their ancient and
historic culture of music, art drama and the dance, literature and
so much more, to keep it all as it once was, without a break in
continuity. This book is also dedicated to all swamis who for
decades have taught the ancient Sanatana Dharma in the West and
thus effectively brought tens of thousands of devout souls half way
into the Hindu religion, and now, through a more carefully defined
ethical conversion, will complete the process. Swami Vivekananda
(1863 -- 1902), one of the foremost progenitors of Hinduism in the
Western world, noted: "Why, born aliens have been converted in the
past by the thousands, and the process is still going
on."