"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project ,all your thoughts break their bounds. Your mind transcends limitations,your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new great and wonderful world" - PATANJALI
Sabharathnam Dr. Geevarghese Mar Osthathios Metropolitan of the Indian Orthodox Church is widely known in India and abroad as a prophet of social justice and as a propagator of the universal religion of love. His passion for justice, equality, sharing and love is grounded on the Christian doctrine of Holy Trinity. He has given a new approach to the Christian Theology based on the Indian Philosophy and introduced the theory of “Atraita” to complement the theory of Advaita. He is the President of the Malankara Orthodox Church Mission Board since 1979. He taught in the Old Seminary for over 50 years. He has written about 56 books of which 13 are in English. He has participated in so many national and international conferences as a leader, preacher and a resource person. He is the founder of Mission Training Centre, Mavelikara which gives training to lay missionaries of love and evangelism. He also started more than 40 humanitarian institutions, movements and projects all over India for poor people, HIV positive patients and their children, cancer patients, leprosy patients and their children and orphans, old age homes for men and women,Sick Aid Foundation, House Building Aid Foundation, Self Education and Employment Loan Fund, Save a Heart Foundation, Karunya Guidance Centre, Visrantibhavan, etc.He is also a poet who has written more than 50 songs. The spiritual and revolutionary ideas in the songs, of course will inspire the mind of the faithful urging them to repent and dedicate themselves fully to the Triune God.(http://geevarghesemarosthathios.org/images/home.html)
For the author he was more than a Thirumeni; the transformation happened during the Junior National Association for Mission Studies (NAMS) conferences' held in and around the divine campus of Mission Training Center, Mavelikara, during the last part of the previous century. The best part of the camp was the interaction with Thirumeniappachen every evening which inevitably extended towards night. The way he sits with us all along the camp and even during the dinner time, having the same food in an ordinary plate, the way he takes his own insulin-injection are all now memories. The insights, the ideologies, the songs, the speeches, guidances were much superior and class apart. He was the factor which motivated the author to attend the first three conferences of Junior NAMS. He belonged to a different generation and class altogether with hardly anybody left in the same. He was an individual for whom the IQ-EQ explanations might have rendered redundant owing to his high Spiritual Quotient (SQ). He was the true follower of the Jewish carpenter-his master. He was a true leader of the church who never yearned for positions. He was a leader much like a shepherd. He stayed behind the flock, letting the most nimble go on ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all day along they are being directed from behind.
He was inspired by the power of love. He was committed to the doctrine of holy Trinity. His cognitive thoughts broke all the bonds. His consciousness expanded in every single direction. No doubt, he was the citizen of a new, great and wonderful world. A prophet, a great soul leaves us. He walked along the path of love. He did not falter. He has taken us to the apex and has showed us the glorious vista that surrounds the world of love and empathy. It is our duty to take up from where he has stopped. The intercessions of Thirumeniappachen will be always with us.
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