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JESUS CHRIST IN INDIA
There is some evidence which supports the claim that Jesus Christ lived as a student for several years at Nalanda University in northern India. Guruji tells a story about how Christ came to India, what he learned, and why he left.
as I have been invited to at
Juolleges and universities in the United States and else
where, Jesus Christ was invited to speak at Nalanda University, when he was only eighteen years old. Although we do not know the name of the Jain monk who invited him, he and Jesus became very close friends.
At that time, Lord Buddha and Lord Mahavira's philosophies of religion were practiced widely in India, but there were no names or institutions for them. Thus when Jesus Christ, the son of the Lord, came to India, he learned what was purely and perfectly believed in and practiced by everyone including the students at Nalanda University.
The discovery of the Gnostic gospels in 1946, by a farmer in Egypt, has revealed that the earliest Christians believed in reincarnation and the knowledge of God through personal experience of the divine Self. These teachings, however, were very threatening to the political
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