Sadhu Sundar Singh, also known as “The Apostle of the Bleeding Feet”, was a famous Christian ascetic and itinerant preacher from India. After he encountered Christ in a vision as a teenager, he decided to serve as a monk owning nothing more than a set of clothes, a thin blanket and a New Testament. He travelled barefooted preaching the Gospel in tiny villages and towns across India, Nepal and Tibet, and endured much suffering and persecution for sharing his faith.
Four years before he passed away at the age of 39, Sundar wrote this little book, “The Search After Reality,” sharing many unique and frank thoughts on Hinduism, Buddhism, Muhammadanism and Christianity.
In his preface, Sundar writes, “Living in close contact with Hinduism, Buddhism, Muhammadanism and Christianity; I have studied their sacred books and the writings of their leading thinkers; while, from personal conversations with many of their learned followers, I have been able to extract much information regarding their faiths. I have set down the results of my thinking on these four great religions in this book. It is not my intention to undertake a systematic and historical review of these religions, but I have sought to set before my readers in thoughts, clothed in simple words, a few of their fundamental principles in the hope that those who are seekers after the Truth may be helped to know the Reality.”
If you are on a quest after Reality or have always wanted to know how the three leading world religions differ from Christianity, this book is for you.
Sadhu Sundar Singh (3 September 1889, Patiala State, India) was an Indian Christian missionary. He is believed to have died in the foothills of the Himalayas in 1929.