Unknown Life of Jesus Christ New Edition 2009 Publication

Author(s): Nicholas Notovitch, Virchand R Gandhi, Kumarpal Desai
Publisher: World Jain Confederation

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The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ the principal cities sacred to the Brahmins, and in the time of Christ possessed a great religious influence.*
At Jagannath there is a very fine library of precious Sanskrit books and religious manuscripts. Jesus remained six years here studying the language of the country and Sanskrit, which enabled him to search into all the religious doctrines, philosophy, medicine and mathematics. He found much to condemn in the Brahmanical customs and laws, and he maintained public discussions with the Brahmins who tried to convince him of the sacred character of their established customs.
Among other things Jesus denounced the injustice of humiliating the labourer (they not only deprived him of the right of future happiness, but also denied him the right to attend religious sermons). And Jesus began to preach to the Shudras, the lowest caste of slaves, teaching them that there is one God only according to their own laws, that all there is existsm only through Him, that with Him all are equal, and that the Brahmins had obscured the great principle of monotheism in perverting the words of Brahma himself, and in insisting strongly on the external ceremonies.
According to the doctrines of the Brahmins, this is what God speaks of Himself to the angels: "I have been since eternity and forever will I be; I am the first cause of all that exists in the cast and in the west, in the north and in the south, above and below, in heaven and in hell. I am older than all things, I am the All-Powerful; I am the God of Gods; the Kings of Kings; I am Parabrahma, the great soul of the universe."
Tradition claims that the ashes of the illustrious Brahmin Krishna are preserved here in the hollow of a tree near a magnificent temple, Krishna lived 1580 B.C., and collected and arranged the Vedas, which he divided into four books-Rik, Yajur, Saman and Atharvan. Krishna, who received for his work the name of Vyasa (i. e., he who has collected and divided the Vedas) has also composed the Vedanta and eighteen Puranas consisting of 400,000 stanzas.
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