THE GOODNESS & FAVORMINDEDNESS OF A LIVING GOD: a testimony

Note: Testimonies come out of A Personal Experience.  Posting A Testimony is fraught with danger cause the person sharing the Testimony is often made fun of and mocked at. Be that as it may as a soldier of the Cross I am HIS slave forever and hence this post.

GROWING UP in Bombay, India as a 6-year-old onward, I knew of One American City: NASHVILLE.  It was a city well etched in my mind in my early formative years. 

Awareness about New York, California, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago came much later in life.

Why, you may ask?

Well.....I grew up on Late Jim Reeves & Elvis Presley music as a kid.

My Dad had Vinyl Records and I typically developed a reading habit very early on and I used to read the Notes on the back side of the Jacket of these Vinyl Records of Jim Reeves and Elvis Presley and two sets of words would stand out:

RCA & NASHVILLE

The Music of the above two Artists held its own fascination of course for me and the fact that all this wonderful music was produced in Nashville bore a fascination for America from early childhood.

I Never Dreamed of ever getting to America as in my mind America was for Indians who were Scientists, Doctors or Engineers or Students who were pursuing A Science Education and I was just an accountant.

Little did I know back then as a child that there would come a time in the late 90s’ & a day would come when I would board a flight from Dubai to Chicago to be involved with SAP/R3 ERP Implementation & that would be my ticket to the United States of America on an H-1 Visa in circa 1996-’97.

Well even after coming to the USA and being here for close to two decades, some how the Dreams and Passion about Nashville took a back seat. 

BUT GOD in who I believe & trust and I am always tracking or trying to track as much as I am reminded to, NEVER forgets our Dreams and Aspirations. That is the GOD I have come to know time and time again ever since I embraced HIM as my personal savior as a young teenager back in New Delhi, India.

That does not mean that I had a easy ride through life so far.  There have been plenty of bumps and upsets throughout my Christian Journey.  Christian Life is NOT easy.  Perish that thought.  You follow The MAN wholeheartedly due to what HE has accomplished for you and for me on that wooden cross 2000+ years ago.  Period.

I am just in Awe of how HE has worked it out in HIS Time!

Here I am going to NASHVILLE, TN on a Speaking Engagement speaking to more than 100 Finance Professionals in Nashville and with my Ticket and Stay paid for.

How Wonderful is HE!  HE is An Amazing God!

We live in an Age and Time when RAGE Against the Jewish Carpenter, that Famous Nazarene who caused the Divide of Time between BC and AD is One of the Most Hated Person the World Over.

One just has to be on Social Media or YouTube to know All the Spite and Hate that is directed at The HOLY ONE.

That may continue ad-infinitum and as far as I am concerned its water over a duck’s back whether Richard Dawkins, or Late Christipher Hitchens or any Atheist or Agnostic mocks at HIM.

HE is who HE is to those who are Awakened and Stirred by the CROSS at Calvary.

It has been A RELEVANT FACT well before HE took on human form and continues to nudge at the human mind and tug at the human heart and Knocks at their door even today and will continue to do so till the end of Age.  That is HIM.  HE is unstoppable at that and HE will carry on.

I am just a Soldier of The Cross and Because HE Lives, I can Face Tomorrow.

I know, that My Nashville Trip would Never Have Happened if HE did not wish for it to.

Everything happens IN HIS TIME. This is why I Testify & I am NOT  Ashamed of The Cross & Acknowledging who HE is to me in the face of the Stiffest Opposition. 

HE IS MY SAVIOR.

Note: The Christian is not like the Snake Oil Sales Men who are out there peddling the Gospel & make it out to be to fool gullible masses to help them buy their next supersonic Private Jets for their escapades. As long as Christianity is on the face of earth, there will be Snake Oil Sales men and women on the world platform who have interests like Judas did in MONEY.  For those types Gospel is A Business.

One Thing we must Remember what The Nazarene Said: “Look, I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. So be as shrewd as snakes and harmless as doves.’ ◄ Matthew 10:16 ►

BRAHMINAAL MATTAM (Only Brahmins can eat here) & AGRAHARATHIL KAZHUTAI (The Donkey in the Elite Village Agraharam)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agraharathil_Kazhutai

This Blog is still in the works, however I felt the need to put it out, in the light of the Rampant LYNCHINGS going on in India in these Contemporary Times.

[A TRUE STORY about an incident in my Dad's life during the early years of Indian Independence]

My DAD has often told me growing up in his home that ‘he is a self made man’ & that I need to be One too.

TODAY when I reflect over What my Dad means by that statement is that One must get educated & if needed work to earn & get educated, as well as be bold in this World & have Opinions too.

Few Days back when Swami Agnivesh was brutally beaten up by the RSS Gangs, my memory was stroked & I remembered an incident from my Dad’s past that he had told me about & My Dad has told me many stories. That is Him. Always Communicating & meaning well. Today moving towards 92 years of age he is old & more feeble and his memory is not as strong as it used to be. He has also gone Very Quiet. That is Very Unlike the Dad I experienced growing up. He was always full of wisdom, joking enjoying fine food, talking about & describing fine food, good Restaurants, fine attire, fine fountain pens, books & of-course Politics, Movies & Music Too. That’s the Dad I grew up knowing & Dad was STRICT. I know it’s tough to understand how a man given to a Jovial Spirit & Bonhomie could be STRICT!

But he was Strict with me. Ram Rod Strict with me but Immense Palpable Affection & Love towards my Two Sisters.

I do not know how to distribute that kind of Strict Love & Affection, as I have only one:-))) So I Shower it all on that One: Strictness & Love.

Anyways let me Move on to the Main Matter that is the Reason for doing this Piece.

It was the year 1947 & around the time of Indian Independence & my Dad was in Calcutta studying for his Bachelors in Commerce during the evening & during the Day working for A Jewish & Armenian Shipping Company as an accountant. The large shipping company was called Pillman Agencies Private Limited.

Those were scary days to live in Calcutta or any where in West Bengal as Hindu Muslim Riots would break out frequently & lots of Property etc would be damaged & Killings Too.

Dad kept himself fully busy & engaged with Work during the Day & Night College studying for Bachelors & then his Masters.

Well post Indian Independence the Jews determined to leave India & the Management Of The Shipping Business was shifting to An Indian Marwari Family & Tycoon.

The Jewish Management offered Dad a choice of a Golden Handshake or continuing on with The Marwari Company.

Dad opted for the Golden Handshake & got INR 5,000. His plan was to pursue Chartered Accountancy.

Getting admission into Chartered Accountancy with Ford, Rhodes & Parks a top Chartered Accountancy firm those days meant shelling out INR 5,000 in Bombay or Calcutta.

Dad being the Self Made Man that he is preferred to move to Madras (Chennai) where the asking rate was INR 3,000. Which meant he could use the balance towards stay etc.

So he bid Goodbye to his favorite Calcutta & headed for Madras & pursuing Chartered Accountancy. This was in the mid 1950s’.

He was hungry one day afternoon & stepped into a Vegetarian Restaurant to eat.

The Owner Of The Restaurant came up & asked him his name & after hearing Dad’s name went on to ask him if he knew the type of Restaurant he was in?

Dad responded Vegetarian & The Owner said ‘Well Yes, But You are not supposed to enter or eat here’.

Dad had a quizzical look on him. The Owner said come with me & took him outside & showed him a Board that read:

“BRAHMINAAL MATTAM”

Which meant that Only Brahmins could eat there.

The Owner then told Dad that he was never supposed to step in to this restaurant because of who could eat there.

He then went on to point to a different section of the restaurant where people were sitting on the floor & eating.

The Owner said ‘you are expected to sit & eat there’.

The Restaurant Owner went on to say: “Since this is your first mistake we are sparing you. The next time you enter a Brahmin Restaurant you will be dealt with”. Meaning Dad could be physically harmed.

For Dad it was A SHOCK!!!

He had Never Experienced something like this in Kerala growing up or in Calcutta.

Madras was different back then & he experienced DISCRIMINATION for the First Time in Independent India.

I wrote it as my Dad had told it to me long back & I was reminded about it when I read about the ill treatment meted out to Swami Agnivesh]

With RSS & BJP in Power in these Contemporary Times in a Sense “BRAHAMINAL MATTAM” is Back. You could say APARTHEID is Back. Modi has left many trails in these last 4+ years through incidents through out India & ripple effects abroad among Indians. So much so that it is Scary. This is The Primary Reason I am Opposed to Modi & The RSS. They leave very little to imagination not to feel Despair in the years to come.

John Abraham made a film to expose many such similar matters through A Movie titled “AGRAHARATHIL KAZHUTAI” (The Donkey in the Village Agraharam)

The piece I wrote & published here last night is NOT meant to stir up hate. Far be that & perish that Thought.

I was Stirred to write 
it ‘Cause I come from The Land Of Swami Vivekananda, Raja Rammohan Roy, Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore & Mahatma Gandhi.

All these People extolled the Virtues Of India. 

It’s JUST cannot be that They are Wrong & The Present Ruling Dispensation in India who Spread Hate & Market Hate Too are Right.

Is INDIA Dying?

That is The Question that came to mind when I saw an 80 year old Swami (who btw is A Global Citizen from India: Swami Agnivesh) being beaten up & disfigured by A Mob Of RSS Urchins.