{ "book_metadata": { "book_name": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials", "book_author": "M. K. Kuriakose", "publisher": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge", "published_on": "2011" }, "chunks": [ { "chunk_index": 1, "chapter_name": "143. Conversion Experience of Sadhu Sunder Singh", "page_numbers": [ 289 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00313-8c4b081f7496b31570d3.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Sunder Singh's Conversion Account", "chunk_data": "Sadhu Sunder Singh became well known throughout the world for his effort to adapt his forms of Christian ministry to the traditional religious patterns of India. This account of his conversion experience, on 18th December 1904, was given by Sadhu Sunder Singh himself twenty-five years later. 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I suppose you must have got this madness from your mother and the Sadhu.'", "time": { "start_year": 1904, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1904, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "Before 18 December 1904" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Sadhu Sunder Singh", "Sadhu Sunder Singh's father", "Sadhu Sunder Singh's mother", "The Sadhu" ], "places": [], "event": "Sadhu Sunder Singh's father questioned his early religious preoccupation and attributed it to his mother and the Sadhu.", "tags": [ "Family", "Religion" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 6, "chapter_name": "143. 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I can only say that when you grow up and get more experience and knowledge about spiritual life, these difficulties will disappear of themselves.'", "time": { "start_year": 1904, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1904, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "Before 18 December 1904" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Sadhu Sunder Singh", "The pundit" ], "places": [], "event": "The pundit told Sadhu Sunder Singh that maturity and spiritual knowledge would resolve his unusual difficulties.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Spirituality" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 8, "chapter_name": "143. Conversion Experience of Sadhu Sunder Singh", "page_numbers": [ 289, 290 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00313-8c4b081f7496b31570d3.webp", "raw\\pages\\00314-468178ea9b210d36c040.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Seeking Spiritual Fulfilment", "chunk_data": "I spoke to the Sadhu several times about my difficulties, but he also gave me a somewhat similar answer: 'Do not worry about it. When you get knowledge (gyan), all these difficulties will disappear.'", "time": { "start_year": 1904, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1904, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "Before 18 December 1904" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Sadhu Sunder Singh", "The Sadhu" ], "places": [], "event": "Sadhu Sunder Singh consulted the Sadhu, who said that knowledge would make his difficulties disappear.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Spirituality" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 9, "chapter_name": "143. Conversion Experience of Sadhu Sunder Singh", "page_numbers": [ 290 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00314-468178ea9b210d36c040.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Questioning Perfect Knowledge", "chunk_data": "I replied: No doubt it is true that when I obtain this perfect ultimate knowledge my difficulties will disappear, but even at this stage, the little knowledge that I have should remove some of my difficulties, while I should be able to hope for further enlightenment in the future. But I do not see how this increase of knowledge will be able to do much, for it looks as if further knowledge will result in my needs and difficulties being still more clearly seen by me, and how will these new needs be met? Here one requires not only knowledge but bread for the hungry, for when this little knowledge has shown my needs to me, then more knowledge will show more needs, so the question is: \"How am I to meet these needs?\"", "time": { "start_year": 1904, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1904, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "Before 18 December 1904" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Sadhu Sunder Singh" ], "places": [], "event": "Sadhu Sunder Singh argued that knowledge alone could reveal greater needs without providing the means to satisfy them.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Philosophy", "Spirituality" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 10, "chapter_name": "143. 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The loss of these two dear ones was a great shock to me; especially did the thought that I should never see them again cast me into despondency and despair, because I could never know into what form they had been re-born, nor could I ever even guess what I was likely to be in my next re-births.", "time": { "start_year": 1904, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1904, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "Before 18 December 1904" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Sadhu Sunder Singh", "Sadhu Sunder Singh's mother", "Sadhu Sunder Singh's elder brother" ], "places": [], "event": "Sadhu Sunder Singh's mother and elder brother died, leaving him shocked and despondent.", "tags": [ "Family", "Death", "Religion" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 13, "chapter_name": "143. 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