What impressed me was the after effects of this shocking revelation.....bcos there was hardly any. There were no scenes of marches being carried out, no riots.....looting and other forms of human animalistic behaviour. And even Vatican made no fuss about it. Though I can say that news like these hurts the very core of Christiandom.
Has Christianity as a religion suffered. Has it got weakend by this revelation? My answer to this is a firm NO. On the contrary it has grown stronger and has shown more maturity
There's a lot one can dislike about the West, but at the same time there's much more one can like about it. Conversely, there's such a lot one can love about India, and at the same time there's so much one can dislike about it.
Just imagine, if similar revelations about any Hindu deity was revealed, would we have accepted it calmly. Would fanatic groups like Bajarang Dal sit quietly. Surely not !
We were the first in terms of having a purely liberal religion. Temples in Khajuraho affirms to my point. Yet today we have let dogma take over and stultify everything.
Getting back to the Gospel…. What struck me the most as I watched the documentary was the language that was attributed to Jesus Christ:
'...You will sacrifice the man that clothes me...' Jesus is said to have told Judas. For us in India, this is a familiar language, and one can turn to our Vedas for this and so many of our mystics who deride that the physical body as an impediment after realising their self. This again points out to the fact that Jesus may have in some form come in contact with the eastern form of spirituality.
And again I will question the western historians why have they tended to IGNORE this fact, which seems very much plausible.
Which is the real tragedy.
