To Meet at the Source; Hindus & Quakers

Recently I was with a group of Friends visiting an old California Mission. As I sat in the ancient church with its thick adobe walls, and strolled through the vine-covered cloister, I was overwhelmed by a deep sense of the Presence of God. I was suddenly catapulted back to an occasion in South India when I was alone in a small section of a large Hindu temple. The room was dominated by a large statue of a bull and an equally large Ganesh (the elephant god) stood just outside the door. There ...