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Beyond the Darkness: A Biography of Bede Griffiths



Bede Griffiths was a Catholic monk who, in the 1950s, rediscovered the spiritual profundity of the Christian tradition and began exploring Eastern spirituality. He eventually became a Hindu monk and started an ashram in southern India. He was called a saint while he lived, but achieved that status only through sustained curiosity and sincerity in his search for the truth behind all religions. more details
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  • Bede Griffiths was a Catholic monk who rediscovered the spiritual profundity of the Christian tradition and began exploring Eastern spirituality.
  • Eventually, he became a Hindu monk and started an ashram in southern India.
  • He was called a saint while he lived, but achieved that status only through sustained curiosity and sincerity in his search for the truth behind all religions.


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Author Shirley Du Boulay
Format Paperback
ISBN 9781903816165
Publication Date 04/12/2003
Publisher O BOOKS
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Bede Griffiths was a Catholic monk who, in the 1950s, rediscovered the spiritual profundity of the Christian tradition and began exploring Eastern spirituality. He eventually became a Hindu monk and started an ashram in southern India. He was called a saint while he lived, but achieved that status only through sustained curiosity and sincerity in his search for the truth behind all religions.

To hear about a Catholic monk who meditates and seeks nondual union with Christ doesn't seem so astonishing anymore. That's because Bede Griffiths began blazing a trail to the East as far back as 1955. You might call Bede the Thomas Merton of England, except that Bede delved further into Eastern spirituality than Merton ever dreamed of doing. In Beyond the Darkness, Shirley Du Boulay traces Bede's ascetic tendencies back to early experiments in communal living after graduating from Oxford. A staunch atheist, Bede, like his professor and friend C.S. Lewis, then rediscovered the spiritual profundity of the Christian tradition. After entering the monkhood, a certain unarticulated pantheism led Bede to pursue the wide-open spiritual landscapes of the East, and to "discover the other half of my soul." In the 1950s, when the rest of the West turned to science and materialism for salvation, he donned the saffron robes of a Hindu monk and started a Catholic ashram in southern India. Left to his own devices by Rome, Bede, through his implacable kindness and theological writings, drew an increasingly large following, right through 1992 when he was drawing thousands of people to talks all over the world. Beyond the Darkness reveals a man who was called a saint while he lived but who achieved that status only through sustained curiosity and sincerity in his search for the truth behind all religions. --Brian Bruya
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