Jesus and India

 THE LOVE OF GOD...THE SON OF GOD

"Oh, Great Son of God

Guide me in this material world

Thy face and eye is full of love

We love you and shall respect your thoughts

Jesus, the Great Yogi...who walked over seas to your people

Lord Jesus forgive humans and hear this pray"

- Swami Nalanda

Jesus was born in the year 4 B.C., in the city of David, Bethlehem. He was born of the virgin Mary, fathered in her by the Holy Spirit of God. Angels announced to the world in beautiful song, glory to God in the highest and on earth peace among men with whom He is well pleased. One angel in particular announced to them, "Behold I bring you good news of great joy, for to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior who is Christ the Lord." Thus the shepherds were invited to pay homage to the new King. Wise men were called from afar by the shining of a glorious star. Later old Simeon and old Anna saw their life's ambition come to pass as they viewed the new child, the Savior, as God had promised them they would before they died.

The birth

Jesus was raised in the small rural town of Nazareth, where His adoptive father, Joseph, taught him to use the tools of a carpenter. It was hard work, work requiring much manual labor, skill, an eye for construction and body that could bear up to hours of sweating in the hot sun. It produced hands made coarse from touching rough wood. For many years Jesus worked in the trade of being a carpenter.
At the age of 30 Jesus sought out John the Baptist, at first John refused to baptize Jesus saying, that he felt unworthy to touch even the sandals of the Son of God. As Jesus was coming up from the waters of Jordan, a voice spoke from Heaven, "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." Jesus went into the wilderness, to allow Satan to tempt Him just as Satan tempts us today. For forty days Jesus fasted and then beat down the foe, Satan, with his powerful knowledge of God's will. As He came down from the hills, He was filled with the Holy Spirit, and he walked, talked, and lived among men for three years.
John wrote in his gospel (20:30) "Now Jesus did many other signs ill the presence of the disciples which are not recorded in this book. But these were written so that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name." And John recorded that Jesus raised the dead to live again, made the blind to see, made the lame to walk, cast out demons, made food for five thousand from a few loaves of bread and a few fish, stilled the seas during a storm, and walked upon water. Yet even these displays of power did not convince the Jews to whom God sent the Son as a Savior and King. Instead they sought to kill Him.

Diogo Morgado as Jesus in "THE SON OF GOD"

On a Thursday night, Jesus met with his apostles, in the city of Jerusalem, to take the Passover meal with them. It was here on a solemn occasion, that Jesus told them He must soon die. That it was God's will that He give His life for His friends. He drank wine and broke bread with them, and told them, to remember Him when they did this from that time forward, to be reminded of His death and His promise to come again to take His own to a place He was going to prepare for them.
Later that night He spent time in the garden of Gethsemane to pray with and seek comfort from the company of His Father. His prayer was ended by the clamor of swords and the shouts of angry men sent to arrest Him. Around midnight Jesus was arrested and sent to trial. On tramped up charges, the Jewish authorities tried the Lord in an illegal, night-time trial. They had Him beaten, spit upon, slapped, and humiliated Him.

That was not enough, they wanted Him to die. In the early morning they carried Jesus to the Governor of Judea, Pontus Pilate. After hearing His case, Pilate could find no charge against Jesus, but the authorities of the Jews demanded the death of the man of Nazareth. Pilate had Him scourged, stripped, mocked, hoping that would appease the crowd, finally sending Him to Herod, where again He was beaten, and shamed. But, at last Pilate had to give in to the cry of the crowd, "Crucify Him, Crucify Him."

Sometime that Friday morning, Jesus was placed on a wooden cross and knees were sunk into Him arms, a cold nail was placed on his wrist and driven with force through skin and muscle, pinning Him to the cross. It was not those nails that held Him to the cross, nor was it the fear of the Roman swords, but it was His love for you and me. Hours of agony, unable to breath, pain that was unbearable, body moisture drained, taunts and jeers from the crowd, and worse, He became sin for you and I and His Father in Heaven forsook Him. Jesus died, yet in dying His power was proclaimed, the skies darkened and the dead walked, an earthquake split the temple and shook Jerusalem. They buried Him before 6:00 that Friday and laid Him in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, the Jews insisted on a guard of soldiers to keep anyone from stealing the body.

 But on that Sunday morning, Jesus rose from the dead, the action of power that none can dispute came only from God the Father. He appeared to Mary, to Peter and the apostles later to 500 at one gathering. At last He stood on a hill and angels watched as He began to ascend into Heaven, as He rose, He said to his apostles, "Go everywhere and tell the good news." Jesus can be your Savior.

UNKNOWN YEARS OF JESUS

The unknown years of Jesus (also called his silent years, lost years, or missing years) generally refers to the period between Jesus's childhood and the beginning of his ministry, a period not described in the New Testament.

The phrases "lost years of Jesus" is usually encountered in esoteric literature, (where it at times also refers to his possible post-crucifixion activities) but is not commonly used in scholarly literature since it is assumed that Jesus was probably working as a carpenter in Galilee from the age of twelve till thirty, so the years were not "lost years", and that he died in Calvary.

In the late medieval period, Arthurian legends appeared that the young Jesus had been in Britain. In the 19th and 20th centuries theories began to emerge that between the ages of 12 and 30 Jesus had visited India.

A video-clip from a lecture given by Gyan Swami in the Tattvaloka Auditorium, Chennai (Madras), India in March 2011. Gyan Swami is a respected master of Kriya Yoga in India. Kriya Yoga became known world-wide by the activities of the well known Paramahamsa Yogananda and his teachers Shri Yukteshvar and Shri Lahiri Mahasaya. Paramahamsa Yogananda was the founder of the Self Realization Fellowship of California. He passed away in 1952 at the end of a formal dinner party with a number of celebrities. At the end of the dinner he took leave of all those present and litterally passed away. Shri Lahiri Mahasaya died in 1895 and Shri Yukteshvar in 1936. The system of Kriya Yoga is especially geared towards breath control. The system may be traced back to the mystical figure of Babaji Mahavatar. Some say that Jesus studied Kriya Yoga in India under the guidance of babaji Mahavatar.( Missing years of Jesus ).

"From 22nd March until 22nd April 2011 I travelled extensively throughout India in search of any further information about the ‘missing’ or ‘forgotten’ years of Jesus in India. In 1887 a rare manuscript in Tibetan language was discovered by author Nicholas Notovitch in Hemis monastery, Ladakh. The manuscript was translated into French and English and published by Notovitch in 1894 entitled The unknown life of Jesus Christ. This manuscript gives specific information about the 18 years between age twelve and age thirty of Jesus Christ which are unaccounted for in the Bible.

 Christian tradition goes so far as to suggest that Jesus needed no formal education, that he was an analphabetic because everything came from the Holy Spirit and in order to spend his time usefully he made chairs and tables in the carpenter’s workshop of his father who was not his father. It is amazing that this story has been accepted by the masses for some 2000 years. If one tries to find one’s way through the dense traffic of Madras, South India, one would not be surprised to find the odd car stickered with the saying: we follow the Jewish carpenter. So even today the myth of Jesus as a carpenter is still alive in India and elsewhere. Let us be clear: Jesus was not a carpenter, he was a Bodhisattva, a Yogi and a Jewish Rabbi of the highest order. He was a liberated soul who lived amongst the people of his time, and even today in a subtle form, in order to ’help them back on the road’ towards freedom from which they had strayed. His directions and inspiration have lasted now for more than two thousand years.

Swami Nalanda's view 

Obviously, Jesus had the most careful education possible as is shown by the fact that when he was twelve he passed his final exams in the temple of Jerusalem with the highest honours whilst everyone of his examiners was amazed by his wisdom and understanding. It is obvious that Jesus wanted to study further and – above all – practice under the guidance of competent masters. In Israel he had done what he could. So he went to India and Tibet where he studied the ancient Vedic tradition, Yoga and Buddhism. At the age of thirty he returned to Palestine to preach what he had learned. He survived the crucifixion and returned, once more, to India"

According to Indian spiritual master Meher Baba, When Jesus was crucified, he did not die physically. But, He entered the state of Nirvikalp Samadhi (the I-am-God state without bodily consciousness). On the third day, He again became conscious of his body (RESURRECTED), and  he traveled eastward with some apostles, most importantly with Bartholomew and Thaddeus, to India.

After reaching India, Jesus traveled farther east to Rangoon, in Burma, where he remained for some time. He then went north to Kashmir, where he settled. After Jesus's spiritual work was completed, Jesus subsequently dropped his body, and the body was buried by the Two Apostles in Harvan, at Kan Yar, district of Kashmir. This theory of Meher Baba was endorsed by other masters like Swamy Abhedananda, Shankaracharya, Satya Sai Baba, etc. Modern Research about the Tomb of Jesus by Nicholas Notovitch, Fida Hasnain, Aziz Kashmiri, James Deardoff, Mantoshe Devji etc. also approve this Gospel.

Swami Nalanda: The state that Meher Baba refers to in the above paragraph is "AHAM BRAHMASMI" which means am GOD...am Brahman or am Divine. As you know, all beings have soul in them and this soul is formed from the Supreme soul (GOD). Hinduism teaches that the soul in mortals is infinitely small parts that are formed from GOD and that the soul ( Geevathma) is identical to the Supreme soul or Brahman (Paramathma). When someone comes to understand this in its depths, he will understand that he has God in him. When he destroys his emotions like Kama( Lust) , Moha , Bhaya(fear) and breaks his bonds with this material world, he will understand that he is GOD. This knowledge is considered to be the peak knowledge that a mortal can attain in his life time. Once we know this, we will have super natural capabilities. People like Adi Shankara, Sathya Sai Baba, Shridhi Sai Baba, Mahaavatar Babaji etc were people who controlled the elements of earth in their will. 
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ANOTHER EVIDENCE 

Edward T.Martin stumbled across a book by Nicholas Notovitch from the 1890’s telling of Notovitch’s discovery of a crucial ancient manuscript at the Buddhist monastery of Hemis, high in the Himalayas at Ladakh, India (part of the current Indian province of Jammu and Kashmir).  This had a profound influence on him, for Notovitch claimed that the document he saw and translated (and published asTHE SECRET LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST) came from an ancient manuscript called THE LIFE OF ST. ISSA, THE BEST OF THE SONS OF MEN.  In India, St. Issa has long been the name for Jesus.  And the manuscript, purportedly written soon after the crucifixion, filled in the prominent details of Jesus’ life from the missing years.

The concept that Jesus was in India during those lost years is not new to anyone in India, be they Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim or even Christian.  After all, it was well known that the Apostle Thomas had brought Christianity to India after the crucifixion and preached there for about twenty years.  Jesus had sent him.  And it is easy for Indians to believe Jesus was sending Thomas to a country Jesus already knew well. 

The stories of Jesus in the temple of Jagannath and of Jesus (after purportedly surviving the crucifixion) living on in Kashmir as the spiritual advisor to King Shalivahan are so well known in India they were commented upon recently by the magazine INDIA TODAY (which is much like TIME magazine in the U.S.).  There was definitely an ancient Jewish influence on Kashmir.  There was very strong evidence of the influence of a “lost tribe of Israel” living in Kashmir that had an impact upon Kashmir’s language, place names (there’s a temple of Solomon there) and customs.  Even Prime Minister Nehru of India confirmed the deep-seated traditional beliefs in Jesus’ travels in India.  To Edward T. Martin, it seemed only logical that the Messiah, dedicated to reuniting the Israeli lost tribes, would take on the responsibility of such travels in India, and since the New Testament tells nothing about eighteen long years of Jesus’ life, the quest for evidence seemed well founded. 

READ THE LINK BELOW TO KNOW OF LORD JESUS IN THE PURANAS...

http://www.swaminalanda.blogspot.in/2013/12/references-of-mohammad-and-lord-jesus.html

PICTURES OF TOMB OF LORD JESUS IN KASHMIR

Tomb of Youza Asaph (Jesus ) Exterior 

interior ( tomb)