Index

Index

(This index carries page numbers of Third reprint (2000) of this book)

Abdullah, son of Umar, 92

Abraham also Ibrahim, 29, 37, 57, 58, 66, 70, 93fn.

Abu Ali, 99

Abu Yazid Bistami, 99

Adam, 45, 93fn.

Advaita, 26

advaitic-God of the Yogas and the Puranas, 47

Aeschylus, 94fn.

Age of Reason, 33

ajnachakrabja-nilaya, 45

Akalis, 111

Akhnaton, 35

Al-Hallaj, 99

Ali Uahis, 48

American Bible Belt, 51fn.

Ameer Ali, Syed, 18

Amini, Muhammad Sharif Ahmad, 67

Anglican Church, 30; “Articles of Religion” of, 41

Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor, 60 apokatastasis, 48 Apologetics, 32 Apollonius, 116 Arnold, Thomas, 46 Arya Samaj, 111 Atharvaveda, 79, 80fn., lOlfn.

Aurangzeb, 42

Baal, Babylon's Sun-God, 63, 108 Babism, 21, 68

Baha-ul-lah also Bahaullah, 21, 68 Bahaism, 21 Bankim Chandra, 106 Bar-Kochkba, 61

Bar Sudali, ghost name of Dionysius the Areopagite, 98 Basilides, 48 Batde of Badr, 38 Beduin manners and institutions, 19

Bible, 15-18, 20-22, 29-32, 34, 41, 47, 57, 88-94, 105-07, 111-12,

Biblical Prophets, 15, 71 Bishop Augustine, 84fn.

Book of Common Prayer, 31 Bonham, Sir George, 69fn.

Boniface, the missionary, 82fn., 84fn„ Borsodi, Ralph, The Challenge of Asia, 49 Brahmo Samaj, 111 Buddha, 95

Buddhism, wisdom of, 24

Calcutta Review, 14, 27, 55 Caligula, Roman emperor, 43 Calvin, 73

Cassian, Christian John, 46fn.

Celtic religions, 54 Catholic Catechism, 91 Charles the Fat, 98

Christ, also as Jesus, Jesus Christ, 14, 28, 29, 30, 32, 37, 40, 41, 59-69, 71-83, 87- 91, 95-97; Immaculate Conception of, 29

Christian, apologists, 15; Arabists, 16; con­ception of prayer, 48; persecution, 85; researchers, 14, 16; theologians, 70, 90; theology, 45, 70, 71; tradition, 116; writers, 15, 17, 48 Christian Mission of Imperialism, 46fn. Christianity, advent of, 35; as Islam with­out Muhammad, 26; attack on, 16; fun­damental doctrines of, 48; genial and healing streams of, 13; history of, 18; radical, 50; truth of, 32; usefulness of, 32; weapons of, 16, 33; Western, 12 Christianity and Islam, appear on the scene, 57; as intruders, 27; comparative studies of, 55; propagators of, 112; quarrel between themselves, 33; simi­larities between, 26 Church, as the Supreme Lord over all

things, 40; big holes in the citadel of, 13; holy, 12; superstitious practices of, 13

Church of England, 14, 19 Church of Rome, 65 Confucianism, wisdom of, 24 Coulton, G.G., Life in the Middle Ages, 92fn.

Council of Basel (ad 1434), 13 Council of Constantinople (ad 543), 47, 48

d’Alvilla, G., 77

Dante, Divine Comedy, 93fn.

David, 61, 68

de Souza, F. Francisco, 84fn„ de Souza, T.K., 84fn.

Decree Ad Gentes on the Church Mission­ary Activity, 86 Dharma, 96-97; status of, 24 Dictionary of Islam, 99 Druids (the priest’s order), 54 Dayananda, Swami, 106, 107

“Eastern meditation practices”, 48 Eaton, R.M., Sufis ofBijapur, 46 Ecclesiastical Cyclopaedia, 72 Eckhart, 98, 116

Ecumenical Council of Vienna (ad 1311- 1312), 12 Edmunds, A.J., 64 Edwardes, Sir Robert B., 29 Egyptian Gnosticism, 90 Egyptian Gods, 34

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 54, 99, 116 Erigena, Scotus, 98 Euclid, 93fn.

Evangelists, 50 Eysinga, Van, 64fn.

Flavius Josephus, Jewish historian, 60 Forster, Rev. Charles, Mohammedanism Unveiled, 14 Freud, 35

Gabriel, angel, 19 Galen, 93fn.

Gandhi, Mahatma, 65fn., 86, 106 Garbe, R„ 64 German Mission, 16

Ghulam Imam Shahid, Moulud Sharif, 27 Gibbon, 60fn.

Gita, 44, 63 Gnostic tradition, 46fn.

Gnostic work, Secret Book of John, 46fn. Gnostic writings, 71 God of Midianites, a Volcano-God, 35 Gods, 102

Gods, yogic and non-yogic, 46, 102 Goel, Sita Ram, Hindu Temples: What Happened to Them, Part II, 38; History of Hindu-Christian Encounters, 84fn. Goudge, H.L., 70 Griffiths, Fr. Bede, 53 Guru Nanak, 24

hadis, 33 Haug, Martin, 111 Herder, J.C., 115 Hermetics, 43, 45fn.

Hindu Shastras, 96 Hindu spirituality, 24,44 Hinduism, Europe’s Pagans as European branch of, 47; great truths of, 24; wis­dom of, 24 Hinduism Today, 49, 115fn.

Hung Hsu-chuan, leader of the Taiping Rebellion, 69 Huxley, Aldous 42, 72; Perennial Philoso­phy, 112fn.

Iconoclasm, 77-80

II Tengiri, God that presided over the life of Chingiz Khan, 107 Indian Mission of C.M.S., 17 Indian spirituality, 23

Irving, Washington, Life of Muhammad, 27 Ishwar Sharan, The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple, 42 Islam, “a spurious faith”, 27; as a “baleful superstition”, 14; as “confessedly supe­rior” to gross idolatry, 14; banners of, 13; begun as a “secret society”, 19; its conflict with neighbouring Christianity, 12; its role in destroying idolatry, 14; knocks at the doors of Christianity, 12; prophet of, 29; Prophetic, 46, 99; story of, 46; study of, 14, 10

Jefferson, Thomas, 106 JNU, 43

Jeschu ben Pandira, 63 Jewish tribe of Banu Quraiza, 17 jihad, 23, 46, 99, 108; theology of, 80-86 jizia, 33

John the Baptist, 59, 60, 68, 89 Johnson, Paul, A History of Christianity, 83fn.

Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, prophet of the Mormons, 21, 68 Joshua, 15

Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 115 Justin Martyr, 64

Karma, the great law of, 47 Kafir, 99

Lafitan, 77

Lecky, W.E.H., History of European Morals, 84, 85 Levites, 35

Liberation Theology, 50 Lincoln, 106 London Economist, 52

Mahabharata, 96 Malik Kafur, 22fn.

Malik Khitab, 46n Manicheans, 47

Margoliouth, D.S., Mohammed and the Rise of Islam, 12fn., 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 39fn. 42, 55 Martyn, Henry, 16 Marx, 14 Messiah, 57-61 metensomatosis, 47 Minhajus Siraj, Tabqat-i-Nasiri, 107

Minos, 14 Mishna, 92

Missions, theology of, 80-86 Mirza Ali Muhammad, 21, 68, 69 Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of Qadiani or Ahmadiya sect, 67 Mithra, 63, 64 Mithraism, 63 Modern India, 31

Mohammed, also as Muhammad, Prophet, Last Prophet, Mahomet, 14, 18-24, 27- 37, 40-42, 66-67, 74-75, 92; “a false prophet”, 14, 27; a “wicked impostor”, 15; “counterfeit Messiah”, 27; Prophet of Arabia, 14, 27; his mission, 32; his mother Ameena, 28; his revelation, 20, 21, 33, 51; widows of, 38 Monchanin, Fr. J., 53fn.

Monier-Williams, Sir, 30 Monolatry, 110 Monolatrous, 16

Monolatrous religions, 10, 52, 55 Monolatrous ideologies, 111 Monolithic code, 96 Moorish annexation of Spain, 100 Mosaic-Monotheistic tradition, 36 Moses ,14, 28, 29, 34, 35-7, 58, 59, 66-67, 70, 93fn„ 111 Mu’in al-Din-Chishtl’s dargah at Ajmer, 46n

mujaddid, Renewer of Islam, 67 Muir, William, The Life of Mahomet, 13, 16, 17, 26, 26fn„ 27-33, 55

Nafis Academy, 39 Nero, Roman emperor, 60 Nestorius, 83fn.

New Bible Dictionary, 70 New Testament, 16, 29, 40, 64fn., 75, 76, 89, 90, 109 New Tribes Mission, 51fn.

Noah, 70, 93fn.

Non-Yogic Samadhis, 103-07

Non-Yogic gods, 46, 102

Non-Yogic religions, 45

Norman Lewis, 51fh.; The Missionaries, 50fn.

Old Testament, 15, 16, 29, 58, 59, 64fn., 110

Order of Knights Templars, 49fn.

Oriental Studies, genesis of, in the Chris- tian-Muslim encounter, 12 Origen, 48, 106 Origenist error, 47 Orphic mystery, teachers of, 47 Osborn, 17

Packer, J.I., 70 Pagans of Great Britain, 49 Paine, Thomas, 106 Papal See, 13

Patahjala yogadarsana, 103-05, 109 Paul, 41,75 Pennick, Nigel, 49 Pfander, C.G., 16; his Persian works: Mizan-ul-Haqq, Miftah-ul-AsrSr,

Tariqul Hayat, 17 Pharaoh, 43

Pharaonic golden age, 52 Pharaonic paganism, 52 Philo, 106

Plato, 47, 48, 80, 93fn„ 116; Laws, 80 Pledge of the Tree, 38 Plotimus, 116

Pope, his authority, 13; Gregory III, 82, 84fn.; Honorius IV, 13; John Paul, 48 Pre-Islamic Arabs, 36-40 Prince Charles, 84

Priolkar, A.K., The Goa Inquisition, 84fn. Prophetic religions and spirituality, 21, 78 Prophetism, 23, 40 Protestant movements, 13 Prudence Jones, 49 Pythagoreans, 43, 45, 47

Quran also as Koran, 13, 15, 21-23, 28-32, 40, 47, 57, 74, 92, 103fn„ 105, 107, 111, 122; traslations of, 15

Rabia, 99 Rajaneesh, 68

Ramakrishna Mission, 111 Ridderbos, H„ 89 Richard Brothers, case of, 67 Rodinson, Maxime, Muhammad, 18 Romish Church, Protestant name for Catholics, 13 Rushdie, Salman, 37 Ruth, a biblical character, 58

Sachidananda Ashram, 53fn.,

Sadek, Mullah Abdel-Kerim, 85 Sahih Muslim, 33, 92

Sale, George, translator of the Quran, 13- 15

Sanatana Dharma, 45, 47 San Bernardino of Siena, 73 Satanic verses, 37 Sayyid Ahmed, Sir, 28 •

Schlegel, 115fn.

Schopenhauer, 115fn.

Second Vatican General Council, 86 Semitic God, 40, 41 Semitic prophets, 78 Semitic religions, 40, 47, 48, 49, 59 Seneca, 93fn.

Seydel, R., 64fn.

Shabbathai Sebi, 61fn.

Shintoism, 50 Smith, Vincent, 74 Southcott, Joanna, 68

Southern, R.W., Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages, 73 Spanhemius, 15 Spiritualism, science of, 20 Spiritualities, Yogic and Prophetic con­trasted, 92-97 Sprenger, A., Life of Mohammed, 17; The Life and Doctrine of Mahomet from Sources hitherto for the most part Unused, 17 Sri Anirvan, Inner Yoga, 46 Sri Aurobindo, 106 Sri Ramanujacharya, 22 St. Anthony, 98 St. Dominic, 98 St. Dunstan, 98

St. Firminus, 42fn.

St. Gall, 44fti.

St. Gothlac, 98 St. Gregory, 42fn.

St. Martin, 82 St. Maurillius, 42fn.

St. Niman, 73

St. Romuald of Ravenna, 73 St. Thomas Aquinas, 73 St. Thomas Beckett, 72 St. Xavier, 42

Stalinists and Trotskyites, 33 Stalinist historians, 43 Statesman, The, 67, 81 Stoics, 43; stories of: the Immaculate Con­ception, the Virgin Mother, the Only Begotten Son, 28 Sufi movement, 46

Sufism, silsilas of: Naqshbandiyya, Qadiriyya, Chishtiyya, Dervish, Marabout, Ribat, 99 Summer Institute of Linguistics, 51fn.

Talmuds, 35, 63, 92

Taoism, 47; wisdom of, 24

Taoists, 43

Tarikh-i-Tabari, 39

Tawfiq al-Hakim, 51

Taylor, Isaac, Ancient Christianity, 30

Telegraph, The, 115

Times of India, The, 115

Tertullian, 64

Thales, 93fn.

Theodora, Christian empress, 47 Theodosius, Christian emperor, 82fn., 83fn„

Theudas, 60

Three Hundred of the Batde of Badr, 38 Titus, Roman General, 60 Trismegistos, Hermes, 116 Turner, George, 68

U.K. Pagan Federation, 49 Umar, the Caliph, 38, 74, 92 Ummah, 23, 43, 97 United Nations also UNO, 52

Universal Decleration of Humun Rights, 52

University, of Bologna, 12; of Oxford, 12, 19; of Paris, 12; of Salamanca, 12 Upanishads, 79, 80, 94, 102, 111, 116; Brihad, 79fn.; Chhandogya, 79fn„

80fn., 88fn.; Isopanishad, 80fn.; Kathopanishad, 79, 100; Maitri, 94fn.; Taittiriya, 93

Vedanta, 116 Vedantists, 43 Veil, Gustav, 17

Versluis, Arthur, The Egyptian Mysteries, 116

Vicarious Atonemat, 48 Vidal, Gore, 110 Vis'uddhi Marga, 103, 109 Vivekananda, 106 Voice of India, 24, 55 Voltaire, 73

Waddington, History of the Church, 12 Wahabism, 74 Walker, Dennis, 52 Waqidi, 17

Wesley, John, founder of the Methodist Church, 65fn.

Wherry, EM., A Comprehensive Commen­tary on the Quran, 15 William Carey Group, 16 (The) Word As Revelation: Names of Gods, 54

Yoga, 16, 22, 45-48, 108; savants of, 22;

spiritualities based on, 48 Yoga-bhumi, 23 Yogadarsana, 23 Yogic gods, 45-46, 102, 110-111 Yogic spirituality, 26, 93

Zeno, 93fn.

Zimmis, 23, 99 Zoroastrianism, 111

Zumarraga, Juan de, Christian iconoclast in Mexico, 84fn.

The Author

Ram Swarup graduated from the University of Delhi in 1941 and has been an original writer and thinker ever since. He participated in his country’s struggle for independence, courting imprisonment. For some years, he was a close associate of British-bom Mira Behn (Miss Slade), Mahatma Gandhi’s adopted daughter. In the fifties he led a movement warning against the growing danger which international communism presented to the newly won freedom of the country. Around 1957, he took to a life of meditation and spiritual reflection, and since then he has made a deep study of the scriptures of different religious traditions.

Mr. Swarup is a noted writer in many fields. His previous books and brochures include Communism and Peasantry: Implications of Collectivist Agriculture for Asian Countries, Foundations of Maoism, and Buddhism vis-a-vis Hinduism. His Gandhism and Communism stressed the need to raise the struggle against communism from a mili­tary to a moral and ideological level. The brochure caught the attention of several US Congressmen, and some of its ideas were adopted by the Eisenhower administration in its agenda for the Geneva Conference in 1955. His Gandhian Economics, small but seminal, shows that the pres­ent industrial production system suffers from circularity, a deep inter­nal technological contradiction — coal and iron, and a hundred other commodities symbolized by them, producing and consuming one an­other in a crescendo, round and round. His magnum opus, The Word As Revelation: Names of Gods, is on linguistics, philosophy, Vedic exege­sis, and Yoga. It shows how a religion of ‘many Gods’ represents au­thentic spirituality.

Mr. Swarup’s latest book, Understanding Islam through Hadis: Religious Faith or Fanaticism, has played an important role in opening up Islam for discussion, hitherto a tabooed subject in India.

Mr. Swarup is a distinguished spokesman of renascent Hinduism which, he believes, can also help other nations to rediscover their spiri­tual roots.

Voice of India

Humanity faces difficult times. Its deeper spiritual vision and values enshrined in various indigenous religions and cultures of the peoples of Asia, Europe, Africa and the two Americas have been under the attack of monolatrous creeds claiming to be the only true religions. Hinduism along with other members belonging to its family too has been under their attack, physical and ideological. Voice of India aims at providing an ideological defence of Hindu religion and culture through a series of publications. Some of these have already come out and have received wide appreciation.