St.
Essa is mentioned in many of the ancient accounts
of India have been preserved. Many people believe that
these textssay that Jesus traveled to India, the birthplace
of Rama, Krishna and Buddha. Unlike the original records of
Christianity,
In the archives of an ancient
Tibetan monastery, there are said to be records, originally
written in Indian, in the ancient poly-language, and later
translated into Tibetan, dealing with the life of an
extraordinary saint known to the Buddhists as St. Essa.
The life story of St. Essa closely resembles the life of
Jesus. One might conclude that either Jesus did spend some
few years in India or that the story of St. Essa is but one
of the elements coming together to give us today's Jesus
myth.
In the Indus River Valley, scrolls were found which mention
St. Essa. In the late 1880s, Russian travelers heard stories
of St. Essa as they visited the ancient monasteries of
Tibet. The llamas translated it for the Europeans from the
original, ancient poly-language.
St. Essa traveled to many holy cities in India. The young man was renowned
for his teachings. He could explain the Vedas. He understood
the scriptures. According to the story of St. Essa: ’People
came from near and far to hear the wisdom from this infant’s
lips.
It is
said that the scrolls are accurate records of the stories
carried to the East by merchant caravans and that the legend
was written shortly after the caravans brought word of the
crucifixion of St. Essa. According to this legend, he arrived at
the Indus Valley and studied the Vedas and the Upanishads
with the Brahman priests. He spent six years in Northern
India studying the scriptures. He then moved North to the
Himalayas, the land of those who follow Buddha. Essa left
India in his 26th year. Later, he journeyed to Athens,
Greece and Alexandria, Egypt. Essa learned secret knowledge
at the great Library. His final teachings apparently took
place inside the Great Pyramid. At twenty-nine years of age,
he ’returned to Palestine to fulfill his destiny.’
The next quotes are translations concerning the young man
who became St. Essa: ’a wonderful child born in Israel’,
’first born of his family’,
’divine child’,
’talked of the one God’, ’Eternal Spirit dwelled within this
child' and ’I and my father are one.’
The idea that God was not some distant being far away in
heaven, but could be as close to your heart as a father to a
son. This was a radical concept. Yogis, who master the art
of meditation, know that the miracles that Jesus performed
were simply those attainable by discipline and mind-power.
Any great, enlightened master or ’avatar’ could do what was
attributed to Jesus. East Indian masters praise Jesus
Christ. They consider him a great master-avatar. ’The
miraculous powers of Jesus Christ are natural to one who has
reached the highest level of yogi attainment.’ We all can be
one with Christ…We all can be one with God!
More quotes on St. Essa that appeared very Christ-like: ’everyone loved Essa because he lived in peace.’
’he strongly denounced the doctrine that gives to man the
power of robbing their fellow men of their human rights. In
truth…there is no difference in the Children of God’
’do not worship idols, they do not hear you’
’do no evil to anyone’
’He (God) has breathed into man’
’do not listen to the scriptures where the truth has been
perverted’
Four hundred years after the death of St. Essa, his
teachings spread across Tibet and India. When Essa was 30
years old, he returned to Palestine. He preached to the poor
and diseased. He went from city to city and proclaimed the
Kingdom of God. Monotheism was also in the beginning
stages.
The Brahman priests and warriors heard of this huge sermon
given by St. Essa. Governor Pilot thought St. Essa was
exciting the people against the authorities. They thought he
was proclaiming himself to be the new King of Israel. It was
decided that the great man of peace, St. Essa, would be
killed. He was warned and left by night. Later, he was
arrested, imprisoned, tortured and brought to trial. Judges
told Pilot that they would not condemn an innocent man and
acquit robbers. Nevertheless, soldiers seized Essa and two
robbers. They were ordered to be nailed to crosses. Essa
became an enemy to the Brahman priests exactly as Jesus
became an enemy to the highest Church officials; the
Sanhedrin who decided Christ must be killed.
’The Earth trembled and the heavens wept because of the
great crime committed in the land of Israel, for they have
just finished torturing and executing there the great, just,
Essa in whom dwelt the Soul of the Universe; who incarnated
himself in a simple mortal in order to do good to men….was
ended the terrestrial life…’ The idea of earthquakes and
rainstorms directly after the Crucifixion is corroborated in
the Bible. With the mention of ’Pilot’ and the other
parallels to the two stories; Essa was Jesus.
Is there any evidence that disciples of Jesus lived in
India? According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, St. Thomas
evangelized the lands between the Caspian Sea and the
Persian Gulf as well as further East to India. Called
’Doubting’ Thomas, because he required physical proof of
Jesus’ resurrection, he was known to spread the Gospel in
India. Records in Madras report that he entered India as a
carpenter and died as a martyr. The tomb of the disciple is
in India. A mountain was named for St. Thomas in India.
Paramahunsa Yogananda, founder of the Self-Realization
Fellowship in LA (1925), was the first high master of India
who taught and lived in the West. In his book,
’Autobiography of a Yogi,’ he speaks of his master’s close
connection to Jesus Christ. He often expanded on the Old and
New Testament. Yogananda had mentioned the ’missing years of
Jesus Christ.’ He spent some years in India, he had told his
students. According to Yogananda, the three wise men that
came to see Christ’s birth at Bethlehem were from India. The
visit by Jesus to India was an honor paid back for the three
wise men.
’It is true that Christ lived in India during most of the 18
unaccounted years of his life; studying with India’s great
masters. That doesn’t take away from his divinity and
uniqueness. It shows the unity and brotherhood of all great
saints and avatars.’ This was not unlike studying ways of
martial arts in Shaolin temples. Was Jesus learning
knowledge and truths that the masses were NOT ready for?
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