Jesus went to India - Twice

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You may have read the Book Jesus Lived in India (Holger Kersten. 1986. Element

Books), a book that goes over the lost years of Jesus from the time of his

childhood to when he returned to Israel in his mid-thirties, a gap of about 18

years.

 

" A short introductory section precedes a brief description of the early history

of the people of Israel and the life of Moses. An account then follows of how

the eternal Spirit resolves to take on human form 'so that he might demonstrate

by his own example how moral purity may be attained, and by freeing the soul

from its rude mortality, achieve the degree of perfection required to enter into

the Kingdom of Heaven, which is unchanging and ruled by eternal happiness'. And

so, a divine infant is born in far-away Israel, and is given the name Issa.

Sometime during the fourteenth year of his life, the lad arrives in the region

of the Sind (the Indus) in the company of merchants, 'and he settled among the

Aryans, in the land beloved of God, with the intention of perfecting himself and

learning from the laws of the great Buddha'. The young Issa travels through the

land of the five rivers (the Punjab), stays briefly with the 'erring Jains',

'and then proceeds to Jagannath', 'where the white priests of Brahma honoured

him with a joyous reception'. At Jagannath Issa/Jesus learns to read and

understand the Veda. But by then instructing the Sudras of the lowest castes, he

incurs the displeasure of the Brahmanas, who feel their position and power

threatened. After spending six years in Jagannath, Rajagriha, Benares and other

holy cities, he is compelled to flee the Brahmanas who are outraged at his

continuing to teach that it is not the will of God that the worth of human

beings should be judged by the caste.

 

There is an extraordinary correlation between the accounts in the texts found by

Notovitch and those of the Gospels, a correlation that can shed more light on

Jesus's own personality - especially in what he said. Notovitch's Issa opposes

the abuses of the caste system, which rob the lower castes of their basic human

rights, saying, 'God our Father makes no difference between any of his children

all of whom he loves equally.' And later on his travels he takes issue with a

rigid and inhumane adherence to the letter of the law, declaring that, 'The law

was made for Man, to show him the way., He consoles the weal: 'The eternal

Judge, the eternal Spirit, who forms the sole and indivisible World Soul

(Super-soul) ...will proceed sternly against those who arrogate His rights to

themselves.' When the priests challenge Issa to produce miracles, to prove the

omnipotence of his God, he retorts, 'The miracles of our God have been performed

ever since the first day when the universe was created; they take place every

day and at every moment. Those who cannot perceive them are robbed of one of the

most beautiful gifts of life.' Challenging the authority of the priests, he

makes his position quite clear: 'So long as the people had no priests, they were

ruled by natural law and they preserved the flawlessness of their souls. Their

souls were in the presence of God, and to commune with the Father they had no

need to resort to the meditation of an idol or a beast, nor to fire, as is

practised here. You say that the Sun must be worshipped, as must the spirits of

good and the spirits of evil. Well, I tell you your doctrine is an utterly false

one, for the Sun has no power of its own, but solely through the will of the

invisible Creator, who gave it birth, and who has willed it to be the star to

light the day, and to warm the labour and the seed-time of Man.'

 

Notovitch's text goes on to describe how Issa goes further into the Himalayan

ranges, to Nepal, where he remains for six years and dedicates himself to the

study of Buddhist scriptures. The doctrines that he teaches widely there are

simple and clear, and are particularly aimed at uplifting the oppressed and the

weak, whose eyes he opens to the falsity of the priests. Finally, he moves on

towards the West, passing through various countries as an itinerant preacher,

preceded well in advance by a celebrated reputation. He also stands up to the

priests of Persia, who expel him one night in the hope that he would quickly

fall prey to wild animals. But Providence allows the holy Issa to reach

Palestine safely, where the wise men inquire of him, 'Who are you, and from what

country do you come? We have never heard of you and do not even know your name.'

 

'I am an Israelite,' Issa replies, 'and on the day of my birth I saw the walls

of Jerusalem and heard the sobs of my brothers in their slavery and the walls of

my sisters condemned to live among the heathen. And my soul grieved sorely when

I heard that my brothers had forgotten the true God. As a child, I left my

parents' home to live among other peoples. But after hearing of the great

sorrows that my brothers were suffering. I returned to the land where my parents

lived, in order to bring my brothers back to the faith of our ancestors, a faith

which enjoins us to be patient on Earth so that we might achieve the consummate

and highest happiness in the Beyond " .(Holger Kersten. 1986 & 1994. Jesus Lived

in India. pages 10-12.)

 

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