Jesus in India
The question is not whether Jesus was or was not in India, during his 17 lost years, but why not? why do some find it so revolting to consider that? I guess it would have been less absurd and more digestible by Christians, had India been a land of “white people”.Secondly, who owns Jesus? Christian missionaries use Jesus as if it is their trademark, and they’ve copyright’ed him. The irony is Christianity was created by Rome, the very people who persecuted the followers of Jesus! Just like any company’s philosophy: if you can’t beat them, buy them.Here is an excellent article: The Christ of India.Here are over a dozen books about Jesus in India. As people are now more open to daring to question the “lost years of Jesus” (without fear of crucification or being branded as heretics – well maybe still the later :)), the evidence is piling up now more than ever:
- The Lost Years of Jesus: Documentary Evidence of Jesus’ 17-Year Journey to the East
- The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ
- Saving the Savior: Did Christ Survive the Crucifixion?
- Jesus of India
- Jesus in India
- The mystery of Israel’s ten lost tribes and the legend of Jesus in India
- Jesus In India: An Account Of Jesus’ Escape From Death On The Cross And His Journey To India
- Jesus’ Tomb in India: The Debate on His Death and Resurrection
- Jesus and Moses Are Buried in India, Birthplace of Abraham and the Hebrews
- Jesus Lived in India
- Jesus in Heaven on Earth: Journey of Jesus to Kashmir, His Preaching to the Lost Tribes of Israel, and Death and Burial in Srinagar
- A Search for the Historical Jesus
- Jesus Lived in India: His Unknown Life Before and After the Crucifixion
Bedazzled
Naturally people were mesmerized by this person who appeared out of nowhere in the Middle-East, like a diamond shining in a place of darkness. A huge fan following grew. Why not? considering that even in todays modern society people can be bedazzled by gurus and preachers, imagine that much more back then in a bleak and dark time of strife and turmoil. Added to that, people were desperate, for a savior.In contrast, because enlightenment was taken up as a science (see yoga) in India, India had so many hundreds of enlightened sages. Thus Hindus never felt the need to fall head over heals over a single “savior”, or go into a frenzy destroying, killing, and plundering in the name of their “savior” as the “only savior”.Hindus are fine with accepting Jesus as one of many enlightened sages. Christians for some reason find that idea revolting.
Another alternative?
Is their an even more fundamental origin of Jesus, probably he’s not even a person?! See this interesting video: Zeitgeist.