Contd………..
Christianity : This is little
older and is 2000 years old and in actuality isn’t a religion on its own just
as Islam. Jesus himself was a Jew just as Buddha and Mahaveera were Hindu
Kshatriya Princes. Jesus revolted against rituals followed in the churches by
Jewish Rabbi and questioned them on the purity of their intent. He said mere
physicality wasn’t enough of a prayer but one needed to surrender one’s will completely to God to drink of His Grace and become His vehicle and thereby
inherit the kingdom of God.
Can’t you see the similarity
here again of all these principles with ‘Bhakthi Philosophy’ of Hinduism? It
is! That is because Jesus vanished from
Jerusalem at around his 14th year and returned only after his 30th
year of age. The missing period of his life is never discussed or sought after
by ‘blindly believing Christians’. It is found in Tibetan Monastery of India in
Himalayas (in the manuscript 2000yrs old) that Jesus did come here and studied
Vedic philosophy, various meditation techniques, practiced them and left when
he became ‘Enlightened’. That’s why he could say ‘forgive them for they know
not what they do’ of his oppressors who were nailing him to death on the cross.
No where he talks about conversion – but only of believing in the God and the
path where in one developed qualities of compassion, mercy, forgiveness,
treating all as self (treat thy neighbour as you would want to be treated) as
such of qualities.
Treating all as self is the
‘concept of non-duality’ of Hinduism. So, he never taught killing. Yet all the
genocide of Jews happened in the name of Jesus. He preached right. The
followers were at fault. They couldn’t love enough. They killed ‘the embodiment
of love on cross’ and once done with him, they had to divert the hatred within
themselves somewhere and so they used it in the name of their religion to
slaughter all whom they thought were inferior to them.
But
if you look into mystics in this religion, say St.Francis of Assisi or
St.Theresa – their spiritual ecstasy, experiences, way of life and sayings
correlate with mystics of any other religion.
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