Aravindaksha Menon, an upper caste Hindu who discovered Christ through the reading of the Vedas, died of heart attack in Kerala.
The death occurred on April 19 as he was being taken to a hospital in Kottayam with complaints of chest pain. He was 75.
“This is the death of a saint,” says Father George Panackal, director of the Divine Retreat Centre in Kerala’s Muringoor, mourning the passing away of Menon.

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