An English priest causes controversy as he embraces Hinduism in Karala

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SHOTLIST :
1. Large exterior home in village Karamam the place David Hart lives
2. Shut up signboard exterior home studying ‘ Bhairavi’
3. Again shot Hart praying in entrance of idol of widespread Hindu deity Ganesha
4. Mid shot Hart chanting ‘ Om ‘ , the normal Hindu prayer chant
5. Shut up Hart reciting Christian prayer
6. Mid shot Hart holding incense sticks and providing prayer in entrance of images of Jesus and Hindu Gods positioned collectively within the prayer room
7. Varied of Hart strolling out of his home , stepping into automobile and leaving
8. SOUNDBITE (English): David Hart, Anglican Vicar
“I imply I learn the papers and I perceive that there’s some controversy – some individuals, some evangelical Christians particularly who imagine that Bible is the one solution to God – they imagine that I shouldn’t proceed to follow as a priest. They have not communicated with me straight, so I do not know what their perspective is any greater than you …I’m simply studying about it. However in the intervening time my life and my religious welfare and my prayer is right here in India – so that is what I’m primarily involved about.”
9. Large shot Hindu temple
10. Large shot Hart strolling into the temple with another person
11. Varied of village girls praying
12. Varied of Hart providing prayers on the temple
13. Shut up Hart’s arms
14. SOUNDBITE (English) : David Hart, Anglican Vicar
“I believe the purpose is that I’m right here in Karamam, which is a village the place the individuals pray to God, they worship God however the one type of faith right here is the Hindu faith. And due to this fact it appears to me applicable that I pray with the neighborhood within the kind that they worship. This doesn’t imply that I’m changing within the sense that I’m renouncing my Christian religion. Slightly it is the sense that I imagine that God is the centre of all faiths and due to this fact I can worship God simply as properly within the Naga temple right here as I can if I’m in a Christian place in a church or cathedral.”
15. Hindu temple priest Sundereshan conducting prayers on the temple , Hart standing within the background
16. Shut shot Hart
17. Temple priest handing out choices to devotees
18. SOUNDBITE (Malayalam): Sundereshan, Hindu temple priest
“He ( Hart ) got here right here as he believes on this – we didn’t ask him to vary. He has been coming right here and I’m very blissful about that…he believes in our God.”
19. SOUNDBITE (English): Shaji Vettooran, Hindu believer
“I believe he has realised the place God is…and he has come to the Hindu faith. As a result of whenever you discuss faith, all religions carry you …saying that they’ll present you God.”
20. Varied of Hart inside his home, sitting on the desk and writing, prayer room with idol of Hindu God Ganesha within the background
21. SOUNDBITE (English): Father C. Joseph, Catholic Parish Priest
“To start with, it’s a private alternative of a specific individual…and we respect his choice, his freedom in addition to his selecting the lifestyle one or one other. However I do not see any sound or stable purpose why he ought to go away Christianity or go away the Catholicism and go away his priesthood and embrace this Hinduism or Hindu cult.”
22. Varied of Hart studying aloud verses from sacred Hindu spiritual textual content Bhagwad Gita
23. Shut shot ebook cowl of Bhagwad Gita translated in English
24. SOUNDBITE (English): David Hart, Anglican Vicar
“As you most likely know , there are half one million Hindus residing and worshipping in temples in Britain. So we not can have separate outlined teams. So I’m blissful to spark an argument as a result of solely by discussing and evaluating can we really work out the place our religion must be within the yr 2006.”
25. Shut shot Hart’s ebook ‘Buying and selling Religion’
26. Shut shot Hart speaking
27. Hart providing prayers in entrance of photographs of Hindu gods
LEAD IN :
He has transformed to Hinduism.

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