The Hindu 'Milk Miracle'

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🗓️ 14 December 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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In September 1995, millions of Hindus around the world were gripped by reports of their God, Ganesha, 'drinking' milk. Rachael Gillman hears from Hindu priest Radha Krishna Bharadwaj about first seeing the apparent 'miracle' at the Shree Durga Vishno temple in New Delhi.

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0:00.0	Hello and thank you for downloading our history program witness on the BBC World Service with me Rachel Gilman.
0:07.0	Today I'm taking you back to India in 1995 and an apparent miracle involving one of the most revered deities of the Hindu religion, Ganesha,
0:16.0	the phenomenon grit devotees around the world.
0:19.0	I've been speaking to a Hindu priest who saw it happen.
0:25.0	It's late at night on September 21, 1995 in the Indian capital New Delhi and rather Krishna Burudwaj
0:36.2	Hindu priest at the Sri Durga Vishnu temple is fast asleep. to sleep. I can't be able or two
0:43.0	I'm, I'm going to need.
0:45.0	I can't recollect exactly, but I think it was between 12 and 2 a.m. that one of our neighbors, a very pious man, woke us up.
0:57.0	He knocked on my door forcefully and started saying,
1:00.4	Wake up!
1:01.4	Wake up! Lord Ganeshha is drinking the milk.
1:05.0	Pause only to collect a spoon and a bowl of milk to take with him.
1:09.0	Rather, Krishna Buradwaj, accompanied the man the short distance to the temple which he had left the night
1:15.3	before.
1:16.6	They went inside and approached the small statue of the elephant-headed God.
1:21.2	The sprakar, see, J.
1:22.2	See, I'm going to go. The moment I put the spoon to his mouth, he started drinking just the way we drink something with a straw or a tap.
1:32.0	I just tilted the spoon like this and the milk started
1:36.0	disappearing. Like this, I got him to drink four or five spoonfuls. Something very strange was happening.
1:45.0	A statue apparently drinking milk out of a bowl.
1:50.0	By mid-morning, other Hindu temples across India were reporting that their statues of the God
1:58.0	Ganesha were also apparently drinking milk offerings.
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