Christian missionaries have often complained about the intractability of Hindus. They're very tough to convert. Hindus may listen with great interest and enthusiasm to the story of Jesus' life and then go home and lovingly place a picture of Jesus on their home altars, right next to the pictures of Shiva and Krishna and the Goddess! They have a hard time grasping that Jesus supposed to be only God whose picture is on the altar!
Hindus worship God not only in temple images but in special trees and stones and rivers. For Hindus, God is literally omnipresent and his grace is literally limitless . Divine being never turns away from any soul who turns to It with sincerity, no matter whether they call It Isis or Allah, Rama or Jesus.
And if Jesus really blesses and protects as the missionaries say he does, then by all means, Hindus feel, put his picture on the altar, too!
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