18 Missing Years of Jesus Christ। Was he in India?
The entire birth & life of Jesus Christ is shrouded in mystery, fable and legend. The Holy Bible records the birth of Jesus as well as his life until he was 12 years old in vivid detail.
After that, there is no discussion about Jesus’s life for the next 18 years। Where was he during those years? Some will say that it does not matter where he was. But how can Bible fail to tell us about those 18 missing years, when it gives vivid details about the first 12 years of his sermons, life, his crucifixion & resurrection.
Where was Jesus of Nazareth during the 18 missing years of his life? That is a million dollar question।
A ------- Holy Bible does not shed much light on this matter except Luke 2:40 states "And the child grew and became strong in spirit, filled with wisdom; and the grace of God was upon Him।"
B--------Even DEAD SEA SCROLLS did not deal with this subject। The Dead Sea Scrolls span the lifetime of Jesus Christ, Old Testament to New Testament, yet fails to shed any light on the life of Jesus during the 18 missing years.
By the way, The Dead Sea scrolls consist of roughly 900 documents and they were found in caves 20 miles east of Jerusalem in 1947 and 1956 by a Arab boy।
C--------There is no detail about this matter in world history।
Did Jesus Christ visit India during the "missing" 18 years of his life? If he did not visit India, Where was Jesus during those EIGHTEEN MISSING YEARS? Belief it or not, those thought provoking questions cannot be answered even by Christian theologians।
1---------- When I was writing my book, AM I A HINDU?, I wrote to few Christian missions asking them those questions and only answer I got from them was Jesus was not in India during those 18 years। They did not answer where was Jesus during that period.
2---------- I feel there is some kind of a cover up on their part। Since all of them vehemently oppose the importance of Gnostic gospels which resemble Hindu philosophical concepts in many ways, I feel they want to deny any connection of Jesus with India।
3---------- There are who will argue that Jesus’s teachings was adversative to the view of Hindu concepts and beliefs and his teachings were based on the Hebrew concept of God and reality। I strongly disagree।
4---------- To me his statements such as “Love thy enemy”, “'I and my father are one' have to do a lot with Hindu concepts and ideals than Old Testament teachings। The “born again ritual” in the Bible has much to with Hindu Dwija [twice born] concept and Hindu Upanayana ritual than any other Jewish Ritual
5---------- Let us search more। For example, in the Gospel according to St. Thomas, Jesus said : He who takes the word out of my mouth will become just like me. To me all those statements are repetitions of some of the statements in the Hindu Upanishads.
6---------- When Jesus said “ I AM GOD”, he was actually repeating the Upanishad statement AHAM BRAHMANASMI [Brihadaranyaka Upanishad] meaning I am God as well as the statement Tat Tvam Asi - Thou Art That [Chandogya Upanishad ] meaning again that the
individual immortal soul within the body is indeed the supreme soul or Paramathman or God।
7---------- When Jesus Christ said: : “ I am the way, the truth, and life: No man cometh unto the father, but by me” [John 14:6]. , he was repeating what Lord Krishna said in the Bhagavad Gita, “I am the source of all spiritual & material worlds. Everything emanates from me. ” [GITA 10:8] “ Everything is born of me. I am the original source of all. No one is above me .” [GITA 12:6, 7] “Those who worship other gods and those who worship them with faith, are actually worshipping me. I am the receiver of all devotion ” GITA 9:२३
8---------- It is my opinion that Jesus was in India during his 18 missing years and much of Jesus taught like showing the other cheek, was a repetition of what Gautama Buddha taught। Compassion and love of Jesus for humanity is similar to what Lord Buddha had. I wish to speculate that Jesus's teaching of chastity, non-violence, and renunciation were derived from Hinduism & Buddhism rather than from Old Testament. "Hatred is not conquered by hatred at any time, but hatred is won by love; this is an eternal truth" Gautama Buddha and Jesus said: LOVE THY ENEMY [Luke 6:27]
9---------- What Jesus taught was an exact contradiction to what Old Testament taught। Old Testament taught EYE FOR AN EYE, where as Jesus taught LOVE THY ENEMY and SHOW THE OTHER CHEEK.
10---------- When Jesus said: " Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God' (Matthew 4:4) he was actually referring to Prana associated with breath mentioned in Raja Yoga।
11---------- When Jesus said: "If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light।", he was actually referring to the Hindu belief that anyone who meditates at the center of the eyes called “ Kuthastha Chaitanya” or “Cosmic Conciousneess” will see light alone.
12 ----------According to a Video LOST YEARS OF JESUS (1976) 92 min, during the “missing years” Jesus was in Tibet learning Buddhism along with Tibetan monks and they called him Saint Issa।
13 ----------The life story of St। Essa or Issa closely resembles the life of Jesus Christ revealing what may well be the lost years or missing years of Jesus Christ.
14---------- Jesus later left Tibet and went to Benaras and learned all Hindu scriptures under Hindu saints। Jesus was sick of the caste system existed among Hindus।
15 ----------Jesus wanted to fight “Caste System” in India, but he was told that his mission is back in Middle east to take care of his own people। So he returned to Judea through an Arab caravan।
16---------- It is said that there is historical evidence of Jesus Visit to Ladak, Tibet, India। That fact is documented in a Russian Nicolas Notovitch' works। It is stated that In 1887, Notovitch, a Russian Jew converted to Greek Orthodoxy visited the city of Leh, capital of the district of Ladakh on the border of India and Tibet।
17 ----------In 1894 he wrote a book a prophet named Issa, who sounded strikingly like Jesus। According that book he saw a manuscript in a Tibetan lamasery dealing with Jesus’ visit.
18---------- There are two more books dealing with Jesus visit to India। One is "A Search for the Historical Jesus। From Apocryphal, Buddhist, Islamic & Sanskrit Sources" written by Fida M। Hassnain (first published 1994 by Gateway Books, U।K।); the second one is "Jesus lived in India" by Holger Kersten।
19 ----------Once again, we do not know the exact truth। I agree। Life of Jesus is a mystery। Anyway, I see Jesus Christ to be the WESTERN LORD BUDDHA, since Jesus taught the world “unmotivated selfless compassion and love” like Lord Buddha did।
20---------- It is stated in the video that in 1890's after a trip by Nicolas Notovitch, a Russian, to Tibet, he found this amazing, ancient manuscript in a lamasery concerning Jesus।
21---------- In Hindu BHAVISHYA PURANA, there are statements regarding a person who is similar to Jesus Christ। It is stated, once upon a time a Hindu king named Himatunga met a very auspicious man who was living on a mountain near Himalayas. Complexion of this man was golden and his clothes were white. (Bhavishya Purana 19:22.)
ko bharam iti tam praaha su hovacha mudanvitah iishaa purtagm maam viddhi kumaarigarbha सम्भावं
The king asked, 'Who are you sir?' '
The man answered blissfully “You should know that I am Isha Putra, the Son of God'।
And added , 'am born of a virgin' (Bhavishya Purana 19:23.)
Who was that man?
