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Raheel Patel: 我从小在英国一个虔诚的印度教家庭长大，每天都进行严格的祈祷和仪式。16岁时，我被任命为印度教僧侣，并在印度寺院里接受了六年的严格训练。之后，我被派往欧洲和俄罗斯传播印度教，建立了多个寺庙和会众。然而，在多年的修行中，我开始对印度教产生怀疑，并对基督教产生兴趣。我开始在演讲中融入一些基督教的思想，这最终导致我与印度教组织产生冲突，并最终放弃了印度教僧侣的身份。在2012年，我在伦敦的一座教堂里体验到了上帝的同在，这让我确信基督教才是我的归宿。我的信仰转变并非易事，我经历了个人和职业上的许多损失，但我最终找到了内心的平静和满足。 John Dickson: Raheel Patel 的故事是一个关于个人和平的探索，这正是我们焦虑的世界所需要的。他的故事挑战了我们对信仰和文化的固有观念，展示了人类心灵的不可思议的转变能力。他从一个虔诚的印度教徒转变为基督徒的经历，引发了我们对印度教核心信仰（如业力、阿特曼、梵天和达摩）的思考，以及对印度教寻求解脱轮回的本质的探讨。同时，也让我们思考了西方文化对东方神秘主义的误解，以及信仰转变可能带来的个人和社会影响。

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Rahil Patel, a former Hindu priest, shares his personal journey from devout Hinduism to finding peace in Christianity, highlighting the struggles and doubts that led to his spiritual transformation.

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What do you do if you devote your entire life to one religion, then slowly realise you belong somewhere else?

This episode isn’t an exploration of a forgotten piece of history, a tricky topic, or an ethical dilemma, but a story, plain and simple about a search for personal peace, which is just what our anxious world needs right now.

Rahil Patel was one of the Hindu world's leading evangelists, who spent decades establishing temples all over Europe and Russia, until one day he woke up to discover that his heart belonged to someone else.

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