"Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond
measure."

"God had brought me to my knees and made me
acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been
reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see
God in everything."


"I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of
life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the
feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been seeking for
a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me. "

"I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who
had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made
myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God."

"I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to
me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother
and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their
marriage."


"I was being called to surrender the very citadel of
my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what
repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the
turning point of my life."

Alan Richard "Bede" Griffiths

(17 December 1906 –13 May 1993),

also known as Swami Dayananda (Bliss of Compassion), was a British-born Benedictine monk and missionary who lived in ashrams in South India. He was born at Walton-on-Thames, England and studied literature at Oxford University under professor and Christian apologist C. S. Lewis, who became a lifelong friend. Griffiths recounts the story of his conversion in 1931 to Catholicism while a student at Oxford in his autobiography The Golden String.

Biography

In December, 1932, Griffiths joined the Benedictine monastery of Prinknash Abbey near Gloucester, where he was ordained to the priesthood in 1940. Griffiths spent some time in the sister abbey in Scotland but, after two decades of community life, he moved to Kengeri, Bangalore, India in 1955 with the goal of building a monastery there. That project was unsuccessful, but in 1958 he helped Francis Acharya to establish Kristiya Sanyasa Samaj,Kurisumala Ashram (Mountain of the Cross), a Syriac rite monastery of Syro-Malankara Catholic Church in Kerala.

In 1968 he moved to the Shantivanam (Forest of Peace) Ashram in Tamil Nadu, the ashram had been founded by the French Benedictine monk Abhishiktananda in 1950.

Although he remained a Catholic monk he adopted the trappings of HinduHindu-Christian dialogue.

Griffiths' form of Vedanta-inspired Christianity is called Wisdom Christianity. monastic life and entered into dialogue with Hinduism. Griffiths wrote twelve books on Hindu-Christian dialogue. Griffiths' form of Vedanta-inspired Christianity is called Wisdom Christianity.

Griffiths was a proponent of integral thought, which attempts to harmonize scientific and spiritual world views. In a 1983 interview he stated,

"We're now being challenged to create a theology which would use the
findings of modern science and eastern mysticism which, as you know,
coincide so much, and to evolve from that a new theology which would be
much more adequate."

Griffiths died at Shantivanam in 1993. The archives of the Bede Griffiths Trust are located at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.
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