MANGALURU: He found redemption as a contrabandsmuggling prisoner 1 / 4 of a century ago, performed God a decade later and is now on a global search to grasp a thread that binds all cultures — religion.
That final is what brought Hollywood icon Morgan Freeman to Kathmandu and an interview with Swastishri Charukeerthi Panditacharyavarya Mahaswamiji, the pontiff of Sri Jain Mutt, Moodbidri, in Karnataka’s Dakshina Kannada district.
By his own admission, the Moodbidri seer, an acclaimed student of Jain philosophy, was “amazed” via Freeman’s “deep wisdom about religions” after a two-hour dialog on Thursday for the 81-year-old actor’s The Story of God with Morgan Freeman, a television documentary that premiered at the National Geographic channel and can air for a third season in 2019.
Freeman wanted to grasp God as Jains do and Jainism as a way of life, the seer instructed TOI from Kathmandu.
“It was freewheeling affair,” he mentioned of the interview on the Kamalpokhari Jain Mandir. “Freeman had a lengthy discourse with me for 2 hours on God, how religions compare and [the need for a] message of tolerance. I was amazed via his deep wisdom about religions and the effort he is putting into making the documentary.”
The seer, who holds a degree in civil engineering and a degree in economics, become the pontiff of the Moodbidri mutt on August 29, 1999. He mentioned Freeman’s safety element had a troublesome time controlling a crowd that mobbed the actor in Kathmandu. “It’s like he is the Amitabh Bachchan of Hollywood as far as other folks in Nepal are involved,” he mentioned.
To the seer, Freeman — who portrayed Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding, a convict serving a existence sentence, in The Shawshank Redemption (1994), and God in the Jim Carrey starrer Bruce Almighty (2003) — looked to be a philosopher.
“He got here to wait the week-long Namokar Mandala Vidhana, which is set yoga meditation and puja, and to satisfy Jain spiritual heads and understand Jainism,” he mentioned. “His simplicity impressed me. He’s a philosopher.”
“He had one vital question: What is God?” he mentioned.
Freeman has a lot of appreciate for India and its tradition, mentioned the multilingual seer, who heads 18 basadi (Jain temples) together with the Guru Basadi in Moodbidri, which homes worthwhile statues decorated with more than a few precious stones. And yet, Freeman, who lit the lamp on the function, shocked the seer via shaking a leg on level to a devotional song, Rangama.
“I have invited him to India,” he mentioned. “I might be at liberty if he comes to Moodbidri.”
That final is what brought Hollywood icon Morgan Freeman to Kathmandu and an interview with Swastishri Charukeerthi Panditacharyavarya Mahaswamiji, the pontiff of Sri Jain Mutt, Moodbidri, in Karnataka’s Dakshina Kannada district.
By his own admission, the Moodbidri seer, an acclaimed student of Jain philosophy, was “amazed” via Freeman’s “deep wisdom about religions” after a two-hour dialog on Thursday for the 81-year-old actor’s The Story of God with Morgan Freeman, a television documentary that premiered at the National Geographic channel and can air for a third season in 2019.
Freeman wanted to grasp God as Jains do and Jainism as a way of life, the seer instructed TOI from Kathmandu.
“It was freewheeling affair,” he mentioned of the interview on the Kamalpokhari Jain Mandir. “Freeman had a lengthy discourse with me for 2 hours on God, how religions compare and [the need for a] message of tolerance. I was amazed via his deep wisdom about religions and the effort he is putting into making the documentary.”
The seer, who holds a degree in civil engineering and a degree in economics, become the pontiff of the Moodbidri mutt on August 29, 1999. He mentioned Freeman’s safety element had a troublesome time controlling a crowd that mobbed the actor in Kathmandu. “It’s like he is the Amitabh Bachchan of Hollywood as far as other folks in Nepal are involved,” he mentioned.
To the seer, Freeman — who portrayed Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding, a convict serving a existence sentence, in The Shawshank Redemption (1994), and God in the Jim Carrey starrer Bruce Almighty (2003) — looked to be a philosopher.
“He got here to wait the week-long Namokar Mandala Vidhana, which is set yoga meditation and puja, and to satisfy Jain spiritual heads and understand Jainism,” he mentioned. “His simplicity impressed me. He’s a philosopher.”
“He had one vital question: What is God?” he mentioned.
Freeman has a lot of appreciate for India and its tradition, mentioned the multilingual seer, who heads 18 basadi (Jain temples) together with the Guru Basadi in Moodbidri, which homes worthwhile statues decorated with more than a few precious stones. And yet, Freeman, who lit the lamp on the function, shocked the seer via shaking a leg on level to a devotional song, Rangama.
“I have invited him to India,” he mentioned. “I might be at liberty if he comes to Moodbidri.”
When Morgan Freeman left Dakshin Kannada seer amazed
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December 01, 2018
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