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Monday, February 13, 2012

Jesus After the Crucifixion-India-Evidence to Bridge Between East & West

Did Jesus study Buddhism in Hemis?  Evidence says so.

Today, it has become possible to assert that it is not possible to disprove Jesus’s stay in India, in view of the body of knowledge and evidence India gives us.  No historically reliable source, nor accounts in the Gospels, comment on the years of Jesus’s life between his twelfth and thirtieth years.  It is as if Jesus’ life began only after he turned 30! 

And what of after the crucifixion?  There are many written stories of people having met, touched and heard from Jesus after the crucifixion, even in the Gospels it is so.  He told the disbelieving Thomas, “here touch my wounds and let us eat together so that you know I am not a ghost but am real as you or any of these men and women here”.    Yet, still today, people believe he raised only in spirit, not in body, and then disappeared! 
Here is evidence of how Jesus would have survived his ordeal.

1.      According to modern day doctors and forensic pathologists, it would take a man at least 24-48 hours to die from crucifixion. One would die a slow death, eventually ending in suffocation as the lungs filled up with fluids.

FACT:  Jesus, according to the Gospels, was on the cross for 4 hours, crucified at high noon, brought down before sunset, due to impending Sabbath.  When the sword pierced his side, liquid and blood came out.  Blood/liquid does not move in a dead man.

      2.      To give a man condemned to death, wine and spiced herbs such as myrrh (for pain) and
             poppy, as a narcotic pain relief, was completely in accordance with Jewish custom.  There is a
             plant known as Swallowwort, soma, celandine, asclepias acida or Master Herb / Jewish Herb
             that was such a magical potion, with the property of putting into a cataleptic state resembling
             death.  Best known example of this is in the story of Romeo and Juliet.  This apparent death is
             a comatose state resembling deep sleep, where all signs of life such as respiration, heart beat
             and pulse are no longer noticeable.  It is perfectly feasible to presume that those who loved
             ‘the Messiah’ would try to save him in some manner such as this.

FACT:  In the Talmud of the Jews, “he who went out to be executed was given a small piece of incense in a beaker of wine, so that he might lose consciousness” (Sanh. 43a)

Jesus was given a sponge from Joseph of Arimathea, to quench his thirst.  It was after sucking upon this sponge, that Jesus lost consciousness and was promptly brought down as ‘dead’.

3.       When Jesus was brought to the Sepulchre, there were jars of aloes and myrrh brought into the burial chamber by Joseph of Arimathea for caring for Jesus’s body.  Aloes are given to purge poison and to soothe inflammation, broken skin, rashes and wounds.  Myrrh is given for pain.  Why would these have been brought to a dead man?

4.       Blood – FACT – blood does not flow from a dead man, yet it is said blood and water flowed from Jesus’ side when he was speared between the ribs.  If the Turin shroud is indeed the real thing, then the flowing blood upon the shroud proves that the man who was crucified was still alive.

5.   In Scripture, the prediction was that the Messiah would heal the sick, cure the blind, raise the dead, preach to the wicked, would then be killed, and would rise again. 

It was also predicted that he would preach to and unite the lost tribes of Judah.  Many of these lost tribes were known to have settled in India.  There is an enormous body of evidence that Jesus did indeed go in search of these Judea tribes after crucifixion, which he survived. 

In fact, evidence reveals that he spent most of his life in India, until his demise in his late eighties.  His tomb is still there in Srinagar, Kashmir, and for centuries has been worshipped by the local people as a great Prophets tomb, where miraculous healings have happened. 

Rozabal Tomb, Sringar Kashmir - the final resting place of Jesus, Ysha, Yeshua, Issa, Yuz
The tomb is known as the Rozabal Tomb, and it points East to West as in Judaic traditional burial, rather than North to South as the Muslim people bury.  The Muslim’s claim the tomb belongs to ‘their’ Prophet Yuz (Asaf), which was a name given to Jesus when he visited Persia after the crucifixion.  His teachings are one and same.  Identical in every way.  This Persian Prophet Yuz lived at the same time as Jesus, and followed the path from Judea to India after the crucifixion date.  This same Prophet , after coming to India, was known as Isha, Issa or Ysha to the Indian people who lived during this time line.  He was known as Yeshua to the Jews. 

6.     One such reference in India, refers to Jesus's and Thomas’s visit to the Courts of India, where they met with the local Kings of that period.  At the Court of King Andrapa, on the wedding night of his daughter, the King showed Thomas into the bridal suite to preach to the young couple.  After Thomas had prayed with the couple, everyone present left the bridal suite “but after everyone had left and the doors closed, the bridegroom raised the curtains in the bridal suite to join his bride, and there he saw Jesus speaking with his bride, resembling Judas Thomas, who had just blessed them and left.  The groom said to Jesus “did you not just leave?  How did you leave, and also stay at the same time?”  The Lord replied “I am not Judas called Thomas, I am his brother Yeshua”.  Jesus is documented to have then sat down on the bed asking them to sit down on the chairs before him, and told them “remember my children, what my brother said to you, and unto whom he recommended you…. I am he” (A.Th.8,11).

The power, influence and authority of the Christian/Catholic churches are so strong that the authenticity of canonical teachings cannot be questioned, for critics and skeptics, or people who find great bodies of evidence proving ‘otherwise’ heretical teachings and stories, are condemned and damned as Godless heretics.  Throughout history such persons, have been tortured, killed, muzzled, ostracized and laughed out of society. 
Such is the power of the Church over the mindset of the masses. 
However, God’s truth carries with it a great power that is unstoppable, even by any organization such as this. 
In the Aquarian Gospel of Jesus, authored by the disciple Levi, there are numerous accounts of Jesus’s life in India, that correspond to the life of the Holy man known as Issa, and Yuz.  According to this Gospel, the Indian Royal Prince Ravanna of Orissa, met the twelve year old boy known as Yeshua, in a Temple in South India, where he hears him debate.  Prince Ravanna, being impressed with this young Davidic Prince, brings Jesus (Yeshua) to the Temple of Jagannatha in Puri (Orissa) where he is accepted as a student, granting him an opportunity to deepen his studies of the ancient scriptures. 


It is interesting to note, that historians find no mention of Jesus, or of his miracles, or the extraordinary events that surrounded his life, nor any mention of his childhood and adolescence, which are totally ignored in the known Gospels.  In fact, even in the accounts about his famed public life, only a few hours and days of trials and teachings are given, for the full life of a man on earth.  Yet the Christian world, still disregards the collection of evidences surrounding Jesus’s life, that are outside of the Judaic/Christian world.  Ernst Kasemann, a historian, who specialized in the New Testament, summarized the results of his research into the matter, by saying ”one is overwhelmed by how little of the accounts about Jesus’ life in the New Testament can be authenticated”.  Theologian Bultmann continues “the character of Jesus, the clear picture of his personality and life, have faded beyond recognition.”  Professor Fida Hassnain, is wealth of knowledge on the life of Jesus in Kashmir.  He was a Scholar of Indology and Archaeology from Kashmir India, and Director of the Kashmir Research Center for Buddhist Studies, and a member of the International Conference for Anthropological Research in Chicago.  He said “not until one establishes an irrefutable foundation for the historical facts of Jesus, will one be able to ascertain whether or not it is possible that he did live in India, survive crucifixion and did not depart to heaven on an ascension cloud, but rather returned to India and died at an old age.  Without such a foundation, it is indeed hard to divert the current thinking pool of almost 2,000 years of deeply rooted tradition”.

The Tomb of Jesus Clip of 5 minutes 32 seconds.
Section 1 - focuses on the Sign Post (click and then click link that comes up)
Section 2 - features the inside of the tomb showing the entrance level. The carved footprints (click attached link) of the Prophet Yuz/Issa/Jesus can be seen in this section.  In India, when a Prophet, Saint or great Guru dies, they take a stone casting of his feet. Note the raised bumps on the feet where the wounds of a crucified man are shown.  There can be no doubt that this is one and the same person!
One must examine all the evidence available if one is to make a fair assessment of  the historical Jesus.  Without examining all sides of the coin, one simply cannot believe that there in only one side of the coin, and it is the side that everyone has been believing for centuries past, based upon a few weeks of this man's life written into a Scriptural Book, known as The Bible. 
Click links below (click below and then click the link that comes up on your screen) to watch amazing footage of inside the Tomb of Jesus, in Kashmir!


Yet, indeed there is proof that there is another side to this coin, to the story, and to the life and person known as Jesus.
There is evidence that Moses lived and travelled in Kashmir, and his Tomb and Rod (staff) still exists there today, worshipped and protected by the locals.  For when Exodus happened, in which the Israelites came out of slavery in Egypt, they went in search of the land of their forefathers, the blessed land which had been promised by God to their people.  Was this land “the land of plenty” Kashmir in India?          “and the Lord said unto him – This is the land which I swore unto Abraham, Issac and Jacob saying, I will give unto your seed, I have caused thee to see it with thin eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.  So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord, and he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor, but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day” (Deuteronomy 34, 4-6).
The literal meaning of Beth-peor is “a place that opens” for instance a valley that opens out into a plain.  The River Jhelum in the North of Kashmir is called “Behat”, and the small town of Bandipur where the valley of the Jhelum River opens out into the broad plain lake of Walar was once called Pehat-Poor.  Beth-peor became Behat-poor, which is now Bandipur in the region of Tehsil Sopore, 80 kms south of Srinagar, the capital of the very beautiful land known as Kashmir.  18 kms northeast of Bandipur lies the small village of Hasba, or Hasbal, which is referered to as Heshbon in the Bible (Deuteronomy 4,46), and is mentioned in connection with Beth-peor and Pisga.  On the cliffs of Pisga (now Pishnag) North of Bandipur and 1.5kms NE of the village Aham-Sharif, there is a famous spring, famous for it’s healing quality.  The valley and plains are called the plains of Moab, ideal pasture land. 
Because the Indian scriptures known as The Vedas are certainly the oldest scriptures known to mankind, it would seem logical that accounts of the great flood of Noah, would also be found in the Veda’s.  The flood appears as a legend in Hindu scriptures: 
“True to the predictions of the Lord, the Earth was populated by Man, and the progeny of Adamis and Hevas soon became so numerous and wicked that they were no longer able to live in peace with one another.  They forgot God and even rebelled against Him.   The Lord thereupon decided to punish His creatures in a manner to serve as an example for generations to come.  He looked for the man most worthy of being saved for the preservation and continuation of the species.  His choice was Vaivasvata, and he let him know his will.  On the holy bank of the River Virim, Vaivasvata saved a small Fish that later proved to be an Avatar (incarnation of God).  The Fish warned the just man that the end of the world was near, and that all of its inhabitants were doomed.  God, in the form of the Fish, then ordered Vaivasvata to build a ship for himself, and his family.  When the ship was ready, with the seeds of every plant, and pair of every species of animal, the big rains began, and the rivers flowed.  Then a great Fish with a horn on His head placed itself at the bow of the ark, and the holy man fixed a sail to the horn.  The Fish then pulled the ship safely through the furious elements, and the ship landed intact on the peaks of the HImalayas (cf. Genesis 6). 
The number of days of the flood accords with the number in the accounts of Moses (40 days).The great flood, was said to have been in “Sint”, which is quite simply Sindh (the old name of the mighty river to which the entire subcontinent of India owes it’s name Indus).  Sindh-Induas, is the most powerful river to be crossed in order to arrive in India.  Running from North to South, if flows through India, Pakistan, Tibet, Mongolia, and West Iran into the formidable delta on into the Arabian Sea”.  “The other side of the flood” Abraham’s place of origin, could certainly have been the land Kashmir. 
Here are some amazing villages, tribes, regions, estates and geographical terms of the Old Testament, that are almost identical to the places of Kashmir and it’s surroundings.  Surely this proves my point, that the lost Tribes of Judah, after the Exodus, came to Kashmir and settled in the land of milk of honey:
NAME IN KASHMIR                                      BIBLICAL NAME                           BIBLICAL REFERENCE

Amal                                                                Amal                                              1 Chron, 7, 35

Asheria                                                            Asher                                             Genesis 30, 13

Attai                                                                 Attai                                               1 Chron, 12, 11

Bal                                                                    Baal                                                1 Chron, 5, 5

Bala                                                                  Balah                                              Jos. 19, 3

Bera                                                                 Beerah                                            1 Chron, 5, 6

Gabba                                                              Gaba                                               Jos. 18, 24

Gaddi                                                               Gaddhi                                            Numbers 13, 11

Gani                                                                  Guni                                                1 Chron, 7, 13

Gomer                                                              Gomer                                            Genesis 10, 2

Agurn (province of Kulgam)                         Agur                                                Proverbs 30,1

Ajas (province of  Srinagar)                          Ajah                                                 Genesis 36, 24

Amonu (Anantnag)                                        Amon                                              1 King 22, 26

Amariah (Srinagar)                                         Amariah                                         1 Chron 23, 19

Aror (Awantipur)                                            Baalpeor                                         Numbers 25, 3

Behatpoor (Handwara)                                 Behtpeor                                       Deut. 34, 6

Birsu (Awantipur)                                           Birsha                                              Genesis 14, 2

Harwan (Srinagar)                                          Haran                                               2 Kings 19, 12

The inhabitants of Kashmir are different from other Indian’s in all respects.  Their appearance is fair, they are tall with green or blue eyes, their way of life, morals, character, clothing, behavior, language, customs, habits are typically Israelite in origin.   Though the white robes famed to have been the chosen clothing of Jesus and his disciples, was originally thought to have been because of his Essene connection, in fact, in India, house holders (married people), Priests and Teachers wore  and still wear white robes. 
Indeed, many of the teachings of Christ, are reminiscent of those of Krishna and Buddha of India.  It is easy to see that Jesus’s un-orthodox teachings, may indeed have been those he was exposed to during his travels in Indus as a young man, preparing for his Messianic destiny.

More later.............

Sunday, August 15, 2010

The Mood of Unmotivated Prayer

Prayer reaches God when we are sincere.  In India, Vaisnavism is one of the leading forces of Devotional life.  The great mystical Saints of the Vaisnava lineage teaches us to cry and pray that the Lord our God will accept us.  Prayers should be pure.  The only thing worth praying for is that our mind may be more and more attracted towards God.  We shouldn't pray for the things of this world, for they give temporary pleasures and pain!.  The proper mood of prayer is to become genuine in one's relationship with God, through love and devotion to God.  Prayer purifies the heart and attracts the attention of the Lord.  A repentant mentality is most conducive for spiritual advancement because "sinful desires burn up in the fire of repentance".  Being an ocean of mercy, the great Saints will rescue the repentant devotee desperately trying to escape the sufferings of material existance.  We should submit our most confidential problems and desires in prayer and lamentation songs, and patiently ask the Lord to help and heal us.  To begin upon the path of devotion  (bhakti-yoga), Yeshua (Jesus) teaches that we should "love God with all thy heart and all your soul".  So how does one genuinely love God more than any of the other things we love.  To pour out your heart and beg for mercy.  An example of this is the prayer of a great Vaisnava Saint Madavendra Puri, "I have indulged in numerous lifetimes, in every form of sinful activity, yielding to my lust and other passions which have led me to great sufferings.  Yet, now I am giving them up.  Realizing the Truth, I now surrender myself into Your protection which alone can save me from fear.".  Bhaktivinode Thakur prays like this "My only desire Oh Lord, which I submit at Your lotus feet, is that you please awaken in my heart constant UNMOTIVATED devotion to You.  Let the attachments I have for material things, be transferred to attachment for You alone.  I pray my love for You may remain undisturbed both in misfortune and properity.  Day after day may my love for You increase by the power of Your Holy Names.  May I live in heaven or hell, as a bird or a beast, but may devotion to You always remain in my heart". 

The language of prayer should not be cheap.  Use words full of feeling, carefully chosen in it's most sincere honest yearning.  God is interested only in the love you have to offer Him.  He is already taking care of your everyday existance, according to the wheel of samskara (karma lifetime after lifetime).  "Please bless me and keep my mind always pure and forever fixed upon You, for I am helpless without any shelter.  Please be my Guardian and Guide.  Reveal within me the Kingdom which I so yearn for".

Without prayer, no advancement can be made.  The Buddhists, Hindus, Vaisnava's, Catholics, Muslims and Sufi's all pray upon japa mala rosary beads to purify their consciousness so that they can be pure enough to realize the Kingdom within.  We should always be anxious at every step to use every moment to advance our love for God.  Here is an example of a great Vaisnava Saint's daily schedule. 

8pm - 10pm - Sleep (2 hours)
10pm - 4am - Writing
4am - 4.30am Rest
4.30am - 7am - Chant on japa mala rosary beads
7am - 7.30am - Correspondence
7.30am - 9.30am - Study of ancient scriptures
9.30am - 10am - Bathe and eat 1/2 ltr milk, fruit and 2 capati's (flat breads)
10am - 1pm - Court duties (he was a Judge)
1pm - 2pm - Refresh at home
2pm - 5pm - Court duties
5pm - 7pm - Translate ancient Vedic Sanskrit scripture
7pm - 8pm - Bathe and eat dinner 1/2 ltr milk, rice and 2 capati's (flat breads)

Summary of Daily Schedule

Sleep 3 hours
Write 8.5 Hours
Japa, prayer and study 4.5 hours
Work 6 hours

PRACTICAL APPLICATION - Where do you waste precious time?  On the phone?  Text messaging?  Drinking?  Sleeping?  Watching tv?  Talking about nothing important with people?  Shopping?  Computer?

See where you waste time daily and make a concerted effort to cut down on these wasted activities.  There is a time for work, a time for sleep, time for family..... where is your time for God?  Is it once a week at Church or the Temple / Mosque?  Or is it daily?  The Muslims pray and bow to God 5 times a day, as well as spend time chanting japa mala rosary, repeating God's Holy Names.  The Vaisnava's bow and pray 3 times per day and spend at least 2 hours daily chanting Gods Holy Names repetatively.  Try to use the example above, of Bhaktivinode Thakura's amazing life rhythm to inspire a change in the way you spend your time.  See where you leak time, and plug it up doing things to advance your consciousness towards the goal of life i.e. entrance to the Kingdom.  We don't have to die to enter the Kingdom, we need to enter the Kingdom now.  It is here within us now, not when we die, it is always there for us to dive deep into.

Thursday, August 12, 2010

The Passion of Christ

To the Gnostics, Cathars and bloodline followers of Yeshua, known as Christ in the modern world, Jesus did not die to save anyone from sin.  The implication that a loving God, which God is, would require a bloody sacrifice for his satisfaction of any sort is unthinkable.  Yet still to this day millions of Christ followers believed that Jesus, the Messiah, the most famous Jewish man in history, was killed for them, so that they could be saved!  One cannot be saved by someone else.  The teacher comes to implant the seeds of wisdom whereby the follower can him/herself do spiritual practices to attain the goal of life i.e. entrance into the Kingdom of God, or pure Bhakti (devotion to the Divine).  By one's own merit, due to the causeless mercy of the Guru/teacher, the disciple can advance according to their own daily efforts.  An example of this is the nuns and monks of all religions, Buddhist, Hindu, Catholic, Christian etc who daily recite chants, incantations and prayers to invoke the mercy of God.  It is the recitation of God's sacred Holy Names, over and over again, that ultimately frees us from sin, not the death of a beloved teacher who came to Earth to enlighten us with his sweet teachings.  Jesus suffered and died on the cross, not because of our sins or to save us, but because the Sanhedrin, the leaders of the Jewish temple, were envious of his magnetic appeal, and holy abilities, which they lacked.  He spoke and elaborated on teachings in ways that elevated ones consciousness out of rules and law mentality.  They, however, could not expound on the scripture in this way, because they did not live the path, they merely followed the rules of the path.  Envy was the real reason for Jesus's suffering and death.  To those who lived and breathed with the Master, one cannot imagine every saying to them that Jesus died for their sins!  It would have been unthinkable.  Jesus was a Shakti-Vesa Avatar, predicted in Judean, Roman and Ancient Indian Sanskrit texts.  Shakti-Vesa means a person within whom God has invested all His energies for a specific purpose of bringing souls back to the Kingdom.  This line of holy masters still continues to this very day.  Not necessarily because they are bloodline of Jesus and Magdalene, but more so, because they have realized the Kingdom, they have seen it within their own inner eye, and this is their qualification to give the Kingdom to others.

Practical Application:- Today, take responsbility for your own actions in life.  Do not think that you are being saved just because you are Christian, Hindu, Vaisnava, Catholic, Muslim or any other religion.  You must think good thoughts about others, do good deeds to others, lift people up everywhere you go, and never try to pull someone down.  Walk the path of love in every instance.  Make friends wherever you go, do not preach to someone, rather love them and build trust so that wisdom may be exchanged.  We do not need anyone to convert to our way of believing, for that shows lack of faith and also lack of integrity.  If you have faith, walk it.  Become like Jesus, live like he lived, walked like he walked, talked like he talked, heal like he healed, eat like he ate, fast like he fasted, pray like he prayed, love like he loved.

More tomorrow......
Krishna Rose