Mystics and Missionaries

[Satya Upadhya]

>    The recent flurry of exchanges between Aditya Mishra and Stephen Hodge
>points to a deeper issue that I think warrants further discussion--the
>varying ways and patterns in which mysticism is connected with organized
>religion. Mystics affiliated with a given religion, for instance, may be
>recruited to attract newcomers and to "soften up" their initial resistance.
>Missionaries then take over and complete the job of formal conversion.
>    S.Tilak
>

There are  mystics in hinduism as well, and there are  hindu converts in
North America (caucasian and even sometimes blacks). [Just visit any Hare
Krishna temple.] Wonder whether your logic applies to hinduism as well.

-Satya
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