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[Rteacher]

If the following is true, it would certainly have far-reaching implications:

... Dr. Vedavyas, a research scholar with a doctorate in Sanskrit, discusses some important prophecies from the Bhavishya Purana, which he says dates back to 3000 B.C. He states that one prophecy describes the future appearance of Isha putra, the son (putra) of God (Isha)(Jesus Christ), born of an unmarried woman named Kumari (Mary) Garbha Sambhava. He would visit India at the age of thirteen and go to the Himalayan Mountains and do tapas or penance to acquire spiritual maturity under the guidance of rishis and siddha-yogis before going back to Palestine to preach to his people. So if Jesus was trained by the sages of India, this would explain why he was able to perform various miracles (siddhas). It also explains why there are so many philosophical similarities between early Christianity and Hinduism.

Dr. Vedavyas goes on to say that the Bhavishya Purana describes how Jesus would visit Varanasi and other Hindu and Buddhist holy places. This is also corroborated by the manuscript on the life of Isha (or Issa), discovered by Mr. Notovich in 1886 at the Hemis monastery in Ladakh, India as well as by the Hebrew inscriptions found in Srinagar, Kashmir at the Roza bal, the tomb of Yuz Asaf [Isha or Issa]. The Bhavishya Purana also predicted how Jesus would meet Emperor Shalivahana who established the Shalivahana or �Saka� era. Dr. Vedavyas describes this in his Telegu book, Veerabrahmendra Yogipai Parishodhana...
http://www.utahkrishnas.com/main/page.asp?id=1532

Actually, near the end of the article, the authenticity of the passages about Jesus are challenged by reference to other sources. It is suspected that Christian missionaries who controlled the publishing of various Vedic literatures including the Bhavisya Purana, inserted the references to Jesus themselves in order to facilitate their preaching in India...

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[Rteacher]

Yeah (by sectarian, exclusivist so-called Christians...) but probably not nearly as much doctoring as goes on with highly regarded scientific research when big money and reputations are on the line ...

[Adventurer]

Jesus was from occupied Roman Syria-Palestine. Greek was a lingua franca, along with Aramaic, among the populace. Greek philosophy would have been known by many people. There were plenty of Hellenized Jews. Also, we do know that Buddhists of different sorts did with people as far as Mesopotamia. We don't know if they ventured further. Palestine, being on the Eastern Mediterranean, is far closer to Greece than India. So Christianity was more likely to be influenced by Plato than Indo-European influenced gurus who wrote the Veddas.

[Rteacher]

Yes, but there's evidence that Plato and the Greeks (and Egyptians...) had earlier Vedic influences both because of trade with India and by the travels of Greek intellectuals to India...

...The philosopher and researcher Edward Pococke ... in his book India in Greece (page 251)... states: "Sir William Jones concluded that the Hindus had an immemorial antiquity with the old Persians, Ethiopians and Egyptians, the Phoenicians, Greeks and Tuscans, the Scythians or Goths, and the Celts, the Chinese, Japanese and Peruvians." The observance of this global connection between India and the rest of the world is actually an indication that the whole world was once under the influence of the Vedic culture. Thus, it was India who nurtured the rest of the world with her wisdom and Vedic knowledge.

Pococke continues ... "Now the whole of the society of Greece, civil and military, must strike one as being eminently Asiatic, much of it specially Indian. . . I shall demonstrate that these evidences were but the attendant tokens of Indian colonization with its corresponding religion and language. I shall exhibit dynasties disappearing from India, western India, to appear again in Greece, clans who fought upon the plains of Troy." Therefore, since Greece is supposed to be the origins of European culture, and since Greece displays much of the same culture as India, we can say that the pre-Christian culture of Europe was Vedic...

William Durant, author of the 10-volume Story of Civilization, wrote, "India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of European languages. She was the mother of our philosophy. . . of our mathematics. . . of the ideals embodied in Christianity. . . of self-government and democracy. . . Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all..."
http://www.stephen-knapp.com/vedic_culture_is_the_parent_of_humanity.htm

[igotthisguitar]

Jesus, the great Bodhisattva.

[Hollywoodaction]

That whole Jesus being the sun of God/sheperd/protector/messenger was taken from the ancient Egyptian religion. The pharaoh was believed to be earthly manifestation of Horus, the son of Amun-Ra. One of the symbols of the pharaoh is the crook-shaped scepter, the sheperd's cane.

[igotthisguitar]

[Hollywoodaction]

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[Adventurer]

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[mindmetoo]

In any case, those who don't believe in Jesus are going to go to hell. How do you account for this, rteacher?

[Rteacher]

I think that if anyone offends Jesus they probably will go to hell. He should at least be respected as a pure representative and perfect son of God.

There were probably Buddhist and Egyptian influences on Christianity, but Vedic culture obviously predated Buddha (since he rebelled against the Vedas..) and it also influenced Egyptian culture.

I'm not sure if the passages in the Bhavisya Purana predicting the advent and describing the mission of Jesus were doctored by Christian missionaries or not. If they really were trying to impress Indians, they should have known better than to describe his mission as delivering "mleccas" (mulLEHchiz) which refers to low class meateaters...

The appearance of Lord Buddha was accurately predicted in the list of scheduled incarnations given in the Srimad Bhagavatam (Bhagavata Purana) The name of his parents and the town in which he would appear were clearly stated.

The next scheduled incarnation predicted to appear (in the village of Shambala at the end of this age, Kali yuga...) is Kalki avatar, who will appear riding a great white horse. Some Vedic scholars believe that this corresponds with (and may be the basis of...) Biblical descriptions of the second coming of Christ and the final Judgment Day. (Kalki kills a lot of diehard demons...)

[Adventurer]

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