Excerpt from Raghuwar Dayal, Sometimes Priest of Vishnu: The True Story of His Life
This is an unusual story to hear, sitting at an ordinary dining table. To be sure all dishes have been removed to transform its surface into that of the usual writing desk, but from the pictures on the wall to the doily in the center of the table, these are but commonplace surroundings, and the story we are to hear in their midst is the strange story of a divinity student of the East, the far tropical East. Have you patience to listen with me, O friends? Shall we try, together, to understand what Hinduism is? The way is a tangled one through a jungle of peculiar and ancient beliefs. The student before us would lead us, would make us understand the traditions, the attitude, the need of his people. Will you try to know what Arya"s children believe, and through some tiring explanations of a Hindu scholar catch his view-point, understand his need, know the wonder that has come into his life? Your opportunity is a rare one, for through the years I, at least, have known of no voice from the dark interior of a great Hindu temple penetrating the thick stone walls and coming to western ears!
In the face across the table from me is intensity and keen thought. A few weeks ago he was as effectually prevented from sitting in this easy, natural way at the table of a Mission House as though he had been bound hand and foot with heavy chains!
As I take up my pen and look expectantly toward the face across the table, I know I must ask those who are to read the recital to walk in a winding way; that I must attempt to illuminate what is so difficult for western minds to understand, but if this man, Raghuwar Dayal, cannot make you and me understand, then we can never know.
In the preliminary conversation with the narrator of this story I learn of that dim past in whose shadows strange shapes waver, who are believed by millions of India"s men and women to be authentic 1 historical characters, and so I arrange for you in beginning the founding of a famous Hindu family.
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