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Hinduism and Christianity - Strong Ties

My dear Christians and Hindus,

Jesus Christ came to India and He was honoured by Indians. He wandered all over India and several Indians were attracted to His shrewd preaching’s given with excellent analysis. He lived up to 85 years of age. He was buried in Kashmir with all the spiritual honour. Hindus treated Him as their own preacher. Similarly, the Christians honoured Swami Vivekananda and His preaching was appreciated and Christians loved Him to the bottom of their hearts. The Christians treated Him as their beloved preacher. No two religions can mix so fast and so homogeneously as Christianity and Hinduism. The reason for this is that the spiritual skeleton is one and the same for the two religions. When the skeleton is similar, flesh and the skin cannot make any difference between the two bodies. Any two living beings belonging to the same category may differ by the quantity of flesh and colour of the skin but the skeleton is the same. The common spiritual sketch of the two religions is the concept of the human incarnation.

The Gita says “Manushiim Tanumaashritam”, which means that God enters a human body. Similarly, the Christian scripture says “God in flesh”. The God is one and the same who is mentioned in both the religions. The flesh may differ qualitatively and quantitatively. The Christian flesh may be rich in proteins and the Hindu flesh may be rich in vitamins. The composition of flesh may differ. The Christian skin may be white and the Hindu skin may be black. Thus, the differences are only external. Christian and Hindu should understand the same concept. Both may have external differences but internal causal body or Karana Shariiram or Atman or Soul is one and the same. The gross bodies may differ in flesh and skin. The inner subtle body may also differ due to different proportions of the qualities. But, the souls are one and the same. Thus, you both should find the homogeneity in the souls of a Hindu and a Christian. If you cannot appreciate the uniformity at this basic level itself, how can you find the uniformity between Krishna and Jesus?

In both the human incarnations, God is one and the same. The God is surrounded by the causal body, which is the pure awareness. This causal body is also one and the same. The difference may be in subtle and gross bodies. The gross bodies of Jesus and Krishna might be different in colour. The composition of their flesh also may be different. When you compare the subtle bodies of the Jesus and Krishna there is difference. In fact, any subtle body is made of three qualities, called Sattvam (good qualities), Rajas (qualities of egoism) and Tamas (qualities of ignorance).

In fact, all these three are equal in proportions and exist in equilibrium. But, the equilibrium appears to have been disturbed. The inequality is only in expression or vision. In the case of Jesus, Sattvam is fully expressed. The other two are hidden. An exactly similar human incarnation in Hinduism is Lord Rama who is the embodiment of all good qualities only.

A branch in Hinduism, called as Vaishnava cult worships Lord Vishnu only as God. Vishnu is representative of Sattvam, Brahma represents Rajas and Shiva represents Tamas. They do not consider Brahma and Shiva as Gods. Christianity, Buddhism, Jainism and Islam can be similar to the Vaishnava cult. The impression about God in general is that He is the embodiment of all the auspicious and good qualities only. It is easy to love God associated with good qualities. All parents love their sons if they are good. Such love is great. But, a greater love is that which loves the son having both good and bad qualities. Such mixture of expression is Lord Krishna. The greatest love is that which loves the son having bad qualities only. Such expression of bad qualities is Lord Datta.

The introduction of a bad quality to God cannot be generally digested. God created this universe. In such case, God only created all the qualities. God created even Satan. The Gita says that God created all the three qualities (Ye Chaiva…). The writer of a film story creates the role of a villain in the story. The producer of the film gives remuneration to that actor. The audience will be bored without the role of villain in the cinema. A person who takes the meals is also bored if there are no salt and chillies in the food along with the sweet. The day has no meaning without night. The summer bores without winter. The very goodness cannot be recognised without bad. Therefore, the creation of contrast is essential. If one realises this concept, no hatred or anger can rise in his heart. The anger or hatred is generally towards bad qualities only.

If you consider the Lord as the creator and maintainer of the entire universe and if you treat the universe as the body of the cosmic Lord, you have to accept that both bad and good qualities are in the body of the Lord. If you say that the body of the Lord contains only good qualities, a little part of the cosmos is only created by the Lord and maintained because good qualities are very few compared to the bad qualities in this universe. The region occupied by good qualities is very less compared to the region occupied by bad qualities. There is difference between the bad qualities in the Lord and the bad qualities in a demon. A demon uses the bad qualities to trouble the devotees and good people, which lead to the disturbance of the world peace. But, the bad qualities in the Lord are used to test the hippocratic devotees who boast that they are the topmost devotees. By such hypocrisy, egoism develops and they fall. To prevent such fall, the Lord conducts tests so that they will realise their true positions. For such tests, bad qualities are utilised. Thus, bad qualities of the Lord are the means for the spiritual preaching.

When a stone falls on you, you are not wrong. But, if you jump on the stone, you are responsible. Similarly, when a demon comes to you and shows his bad qualities and disturbs you, you are not responsible. But when you go to Datta and want to develop in the spiritual line, you have to be constantly tested and in such occasions, Datta exhibits the bad qualities to test your faith in Him. You can find fault with the demon but not with Datta.

When some body throws a stone on you, you can find fault with him. But when you yourself jump on the stone and break your limbs, you cannot find fault with anybody. Datta did not come to you. You have gone to Datta. In fact, when you approached Datta, He threatens you in the beginning itself and tries to throw you out. But you have clinged to Him and constantly pestered Him for salvation. The sages pestered the Lord for salvation. The Lord agreed and made them born as Gopikas in Brindavanam. He stole their hard earned wealth, which was butter. By this, He broke their bond to the wealth. For us it appears as if the Lord cheated them and stole their wealth. But if you analyse their previous birth and their request, this act is perfectly justified. In fact, this act is done due to extensive grace of the Lord. The Lord is criticised as the thief and acquired bad name. He tolerated all this negative criticism for the sake of the sages. The Lord has no trace of need to steal their wealth. The Lord attracted their children and played doing lot of mischief. This cut their bonds with their children. Again, this brings bad name to the Lord because the Lord spoiled their children. In fact, the Lord does not spoil anybody. Thus, again this act is the extreme grace of the Lord only. The Lord danced with them in the midnight without the knowledge of their husbands. This is the climax of the sin. The Lord is criticised extensively for this act as the greatest sinner. The Lord is blamed like this. In fact, He has no desire even to look at any lady. The Lord is Infinite Ocean of bliss. He does not require any external object to gain happiness. The Veda says that the Lord has no desire, which is not fulfilled (Apta Kamah…). Such Lord got eternal defame in this world. Several devotees doubted about the divinity of Lord Krishna due to this. Even the greatest devotee like Hanuman criticised Krishna for such act. The actual reason in this act is that the Lord broke the bonds of Gopikas with their husbands. When the bonds with wealth, children and husbands or wives are fully broken, the salvation is complete.

For the sake of salvation of sages, Lord Krishna sacrificed even His name and fame. This shows the unimaginable love of the God towards His devotees. Without understanding such background, ignorant people criticise Lord Krishna. Even Lord Jesus patiently suffered the negative criticism and all sorts of insults to protect His devotees. This shows the divine love of Jesus. Jesus kept silent in the court when He was charged with so many crimes. The silence shows His deep love towards His devotees. Due to such silence only the judge ordered crucification. Unless the crucification is implemented, He cannot suffer for the sins of His devotees. Thus, the Lord tolerates anything, which damages His personality for the sake of His devotees. Due to the crucification, devotees misunderstood Jesus and criticised Him as incapable. Thus, the firm faith of the devotees was tested. Similarly, Lord Krishna or Datta test the devotees by exhibiting the bad qualities. Several devotees misunderstood Krishna for this dance and thus, the depth of their faith was exhibited.

Datta came as human incarnation in Punjab by the name Ramlal. Ramlal stayed in a village and attracted all the devotees by His divine knowledge and miracles. He was finally leaving the village. All the villagers followed Him stating that they cannot live without Him. They said that Ramlal was their very life and entire love. Then Ramlal stood for sometime and smiled. Ramlal asked the villagers whether they could accept Him as the husband of their wives. Ninety percent of the villagers scolded Him and returned back. Only ten percent accepted the statement of Ramlal and followed Him sincerely. Ramlal was extremely pleased with them and gave them full divine knowledge and assured them that He will protect them always. The word husband in Sanskrit represents “Bharta”, which means actually the maintainer and protector. Ramlal used the word in that sense. But, the people took the word in another sense and were misled. The egoism of the husbands was touched. They boasted that their extreme love was on Ramlal and that they can sacrifice anything or anybody for the sake of Lord Ramlal. Ramlal knows the item, which they can never sacrifice. Thus, Ramlal exposes the hypocrisy in the devotion. He used the word in different sense and tested their faith and sacrifice. The only protector and maintainer is the Lord. Thus, the Lord is the only husband for all the souls in this world. The difference between a male and female is only in the external gross body. The soul is the same in the gross body of male or female.

Some devotee from USA asked Me to analyse the philosophy of Osho. I think that Osho pleads for freedom in the love of even married human beings. He pleads that the secret contacts are wrong. He says that such illegal contacts should be frankly spoken out. This concept is wrong in two stages. In the first stage, the illegal contact itself is wrong. In the second stage, when the other partner knows such contact, the other partner undergoes unimaginable agony. To do sin is one mistake. To hurt the heart of any human being is another mistake. It is a double sin and such a soul, whether male or female will be punished twice in the hell. According to the ethical scripture of Hinduism, a red-hot copper statue of the person with whom the illegal contact was done is placed before the sinner and he or she will be forced to embrace it. The attitude differs from one culture to another.

The villain stole the Helen of Troy. Helen led family life with the villain. When Helen returned back, again she had the normal family life with hero. But, when Ravana stole Sita, Sita did not even look at Ravana. Therefore, there is vast difference in the cultures of East and West in the root itself. I do not criticise or praise any culture. But even Jesus did not agree to any such illegal contact of any married human being. He criticised even the prostitution. Thus, the field of Pravrutti is one and the same in view of God, whether it is East or West. Therefore, this again proves that God is one and the same. Now the point of Lord Krishna comes for analysis. The field of Nivrutti is completely different. As analysed above the background was completely different. The meaning of the act was totally different. The act was done by the request of the soul. The act means the breakage of bond and complete liberation of the soul. The act does not mean any secret dealing to pacify the blind lust. The Lord has no trace of such necessity. The Lord did this act only in Brindavanam and only in the case of Gopikas. After leaving the Brindavanam He never repeated this with any other soul.

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