M. Payoly
JESUS´ YEARS IN INDIA
FACTS REVEALING THE TRUTH
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The author
M. Payoly was born in Kerala State, India.
This book is dedicated to my mother
Content
FOREWORD
Chapter 1: Who is Jesus?
Chapter 2: What was the Purpose of Jesus’ Birth?
Chapter 3: The History of the Ten Tribes
Chapter 4: The Life of Jesus Between 13 and 29 Years
Chapter 5: Buddhism and Christianity
Chapter 6: Crucifixion and Resurrection
Chapter 7: Return to Kashmir
Chapter 8: Saint Thomas
Chapter 9: Tomb of Jesus `Roza Bal` at Khanyar in Srinagar, Kashmir
Chapter 10 Conclusion
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To whatever religious creed a man may belong and whatever may be his position in society, if he purely cultivates this ruling principle naturally implanted in his heart, he is sure to be on the right path, to save himself from wandering in this creation of Darkness, Maya.
Swami Sri Yukteswar
Life is always unsafe and unstable like a drop of water on a lotus leaf. The company of a divine personage, even for a moment, can save and redeem us.
Sri Shankaracharya
FOREWORD
The purpose of this book is to reveal and justify the real Jesus Christ. For the true believers and admirers of Jesus Christ, it is hardly possible to believe some of the dogmas established by the Roman Church on Christianity over 1900 years. These dogmas cannot be explained logically, and if one thinks about them and questions a Christian priest, the answers are suffocating with long explanations. And eventually one will hear: “the Christian dogmas are beyond human logic”.
One who is born in India, a land of many religions, is lucky because he gets exposed to Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Jainism and Christianity. All the religions of the world find followers in India. This cosmopolitanism is the most attractive cornerstone for an Indian child to build his life on. His friends in the neighborhood and in the school, with whom he plays, are from families practising different religions. This helps him to pick up knowledge of other religions subconsciously right from childhood by attending various festivals, where he is a curious participant. Irrespective of the religion of his birth, he grows up with a ready acquaintance of prominent names in various religions such as Krishna and Arjuna, Rama, Lakshmana and Sita, the Mahabharata and Ramayana, the Buddha, Jesus Christ, Muhammad and Shankaracharya. Indeed, the Indian child acquires this precious spiritual capital in his early childhood. By the time he grows into an adult, the differences of the various religions are neither strange nor hostile to him.
I was born in a Thomas Christian family in Kerala, India. It was a privilege to be born in Kerala (advertised as God’s Own Country) where Shankaracharya (788-820) and Narayana Guru (1855-1928), the redeemers of Hinduism, were born. It is accepted among the philosophers in the world that Shankaracharya was the most logical thinker ever born. Shankaracharya has said:
Do not blindly believe and follow my words. What I said and wrote is what I really experienced as a human being. You and I are equal. If you really follow what I said, you would experience what I experienced. If you really tried and not achieved what I said, throw it away and do not follow me.
He tells us clearly to believe in only that which our logical thinking can accept and not follow him blindly.
Prophets proclaimed many years before Jesus’ birth that a Messiah would be born and forecast where He would be born. We know about His childhood from the Holy Bible. However, there is a vacuum in the New Testament about Jesus’ life between the ages of 13 and 29. It is illogical to believe that this pious young man spent all these years working as a carpenter, helping His father Joseph in Palestine, His existence entirely unknown to the world. But if there are ample evidences that Jesus was in India during that period, learning and visiting Hindu temples and Buddhist monasteries, and preaching His new faith to the common people, why can’t this be acknowledged?
There are three special dogmas in the Roman Church which defy logic, namely, the resurrection of Jesus Christ after crucifixion, the bodily ascension of Jesus Christ and the bodily ascension of His mother Mary to heaven.
There is an eternal truth: if one is born on earth, he shall die on earth.
In the case of Jesus and Mary, the Church makes an exception, namely that they ascended bodily into heaven. This is beyond logic.
But there are clear evidences in India and Kashmir that Jesus and Mary arrived in Taxila, capital of the Parthian Empire, in AD 49, after the ordeal on the cross.
Why did the Roman Church hide that information from the Christian believers all these centuries?
One can assume that the Church fathers wanted to save Jesus from the Romans who doubted His death on the cross and had, therefore, sent Him to a far off land outside the Roman Empire. If that were the case, the question arises: why didn’t the Church correct the record after the decline of the Roman Empire?
The Church didn’t.
In order to rectify a lie, one has to lie again and again; but a lie always remains a lie and it can never be equal to the truth.
In 1974 I read an interesting article in a German weekly Stern written by two German journalists, Mr Claus Liedtke and Mr Jay Ullal. They had visited Kashmir and talked with the famous archaeologist Prof. Fida Hassnain about the life of Jesus in Kashmir after the crucifixion. Professor Hassnain, a Kashmiri Muslim and a neutral researcher about Jesus of long standing, gave them all the information he had gathered about Jesus in India, Kashmir and Tibet.
Professor Hassnain had learnt that Jesus had come to India as a 13-year-old and stayed in Hindu temples learning Yoga, the Vedas and other Hindu scriptures. He also visited Buddhist temples and monasteries in India, Nepal and Tibet and spent many years learning Buddhist scriptures. He preached His new faith to the common people in market places and visited many places in India. When He was about 29 years old, He returned to Palestine to fulfil His mission. After the crucifixion, Jesus returned to India and reached Taxila, capital of Parthian Empire, in AD 49. Later He moved to Kashmir and died in Kashmir at the age of 117.
For Professor Hassnain there was a missing link: how was and who saved Jesus after the crucifixion? But now that missing link has been found and the truth is there for everybody who is interested in Jesus’ life.
Every Indian child comes in contact with the Mahabharata and Ramayana (Indian epics) from primary school onwards without considering his religion. It is a fact that there are many religions in India, especially minority religions like Islam, Christianity, Sikhism and Jainism. But there is one common factor: irrespective of the minority religion one belongs to India, everyone, with small exceptions, had Hindu ancestry. Not even one per cent of the Christians and Muslims in India would claim that their ancestors hailed from either Rome or Arabia. Only the religions were foreign. And persons like me, born in a Syrian Christian family in Kerala, are really proud of the ancestry. Because of the plurality prevailing in India, the religious truths one gets from schools, from friends and from the holy books are so rich.
As far as I know, there is no religion in the world which is as tolerant as Hinduism. It is a fact. All Christians and Muslims of Kerala know from their own history how the Hindu kings of Kerala welcomed the new religious people, helped them to build their churches and mosques and gave them land for farming and business. There was no discrimination and they did not consider them as foreigners - only the religions were foreign.
Swami Vivekananda said:
“I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true. I am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth.”1
India was a country which was conquered by Alexander the Great from Greece and the Moguls from Central Asia. Because of the universal tolerance that existed in Hinduism, India could absorb the new cultures without offending her indigenous identity.
“It is the unique nature of Hinduism to accept and absorb new ideas and appreciate them. Hinduism has an open mind, respects all other faiths and sentiments and embraces them.”2
Since centuries the Hindus in India have not been against other religions. They were spiritual and their aim of life on earth was to attain God. According to Hindu tenets, religion was only a way to attain God and nothing more. Quoting from Swami Vivekananda’s famous speech in Chicago:
“I will quote to you, brethren, a few lines from a hymn which I remember to have repeated from my earliest childhood, which is everyday repeated by millions of human beings: “As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea so, O Lord, lie different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.”3
If there are many religions, one can choose one that suits him and try to attain God. Swami Vivekananda went further: Each person should have a religion suitable for him. How could then a true Hindu become a religious fanatic?
The social history of India underwent changes after Vivekananda. There came a new religion in the name of politics. The politicians misused the feelings of the normal man and made many Indians religious fanatics. They used religion as a weapon to garner votes and the consequence was the massacres of innocent minorities as it happened even as recently as in 2002 in the State of Gujarat. The perpetrators were not at all real Hindus. They were people who respected neither Hinduism nor the age-old social harmony that prevailed in Indian society. At the same time, one thing was astonishing, worth appreciation and outstanding: the hard opposition those fanatics encountered also came from the Hindus. They were morally courageous Hindu police officers and Hindu women working in social fields who went to court and told the truth and protected the minorities. People like them are the true Hindus of modern India who have been brought up in real Hindu families upholding and respecting the principles of Hinduism.
Jesus was an Indian because He spent most of His life in India. But many of His followers did not know about the real life of Jesus because the Roman Church had manipulated the truth and brought up dogmas which were beyond human logic.
What I have tried here is to present the real life of Jesus, re-connecting the missing links. If one is a follower or admirer of Jesus, one has the opportunity to go through the referenced books given in each chapter and enlighten his knowledge and belief and understand the real Jesus.
7th June, 2018
1 Swami Vivekananda: speech at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, September 27, 1893.
2 Bharat, Sandy: Christ Across the Ganges, O Books, UK 2007, Appendices, p. 158.
3 Swami Vivekananda: op.cit.
Chapter 1
Who is Jesus?
The historical life of Jesus is simple to understand. But his followers have made it purposely so complicated, and sometimes beyond reason, it has become so difficult for a common man to understand Him. So many are the dogmas and mysteries. Either one has to believe blindly those dogmas without reason until one dies as an obedient and God-fearing Christian, never learning what really Jesus wanted, or one has to leave the Church. Unfortunately, until very recently, the Roman Church, with its undisputed clout, would not let its critics go in peace and hounded them to their graves, making their life miserable.
Many horrible deeds were done in the name of Jesus, the pious Son of God and friend of the poor. What He came for, what He taught mankind and where He was between the ages of 13 and 29 were never mentioned in the history of the Church of Rome.
He taught tolerance to others, but His followers never tolerated. He taught to love one another, but His followers hated those who did not believe in the Church. He asked not to kill, even animals, but his followers killed thousands of human beings in His name. He asked for freedom for all, but the countries in Europe, influenced by the Christian Church, colonized other continents and destroyed thriving civilizations and cultures and looted their wealth and put innocent people under the yoke of foreign rule, denying them their freedom for hundreds of years. He taught that ‘The Kingdom of God is within you’ and that one has to find God ‘while one lives on earth’, but His followers projected a God of aggressive and unsympathetic mien, attainable only after death and created heaven and hell. He came to redeem the poor, break their chains of slavery and save them from ignorance, but His followers put many under chains and made them slaves, scattering their families across continents and selling them as slaves. He sent His beloved disciple Thomas to Kerala in AD 52 to teach His new faith, but the Church of Rome, through the Portuguese colonial power, manipulated their original belief in Jesus Christ, their old customs and even terrorized His believers and burned their original books and even imposed inquisition on them.
The Church of Rome manipulated and rewrote His words and even sent Him and His mother bodily to heaven, which is contrary to natural law made by God.
His followers in Europe preached and taught in His name in different continents upholding and supporting the political interests of their kings and the Pope. They were fanatical and powerful. They had only one doctrine: “Ours is the BEST religion; all other religions that existed in the continents since centuries were not at all to attain God.” They monopolized not only the one God, but also the way to attain Him. For them all other ways to attain Him were wrong and worthless.
They did this for hundreds of years in the name of Jesus, the pious, the merciful, the redeemer, the friend of the unprivileged.
Jesus was saved after the crucifixion and He secretly left Palestine for Kashmir in order to avoid Roman punishment once again. He passed through Syria, Persia, Afghanistan and reached Taxila, the capital of the Parthian Kingdom. The Roman Church knew the truth, but not its followers.
Jesus became a ‘prisoner’ of the Church from about AD 36. The Church suffocated Him, did not allow Him to speak the truth. Millions of people blindly followed and believed the untruths and dogmas up to their graves. If anybody tried to find the truth about Jesus in Europe, the powerful Roman Church hounded them and made their life very difficult. The Roman Church was powerful and would spread its net worldwide in order to render the truth seeker silent. Any document found anywhere in the world about the real Jesus was burned or bought off and suppressed at the source. The Church had no scruples about the means it adopted in order to suppress the truth.
They did this in the name of Jesus, the Son of God, who was born and died a poor in order to redeem humanity. His words are universal and valid for all people to free the soul within and He showed the way to attain God during one’s life on earth. But the Roman Church lost the way after about AD 250.
The Church of Rome, His official follower, put Him in prison after His crucifixion in AD 36.
The time has come to free Him from the chains of lies, false dogmas and superstitions in order to tell mankind the TRUTH about the real Jesus, His life, His work and His death and ultimately to redeem the Christian Church. Jesus’ words are universal and are for all people on earth. The Roman Church has no right or moral authority to keep the real life of Jesus a secret from His followers and the world.