Is the Resurrection of Jesus False?

[Shri Ahsan Habib asked: Dattaswami, You said Jesus did not die on the cross. He with the help of His disciples escaped to India where He died at the age of 85. So His resurrection is false. Is it not?]

Swami replied: What do you mean by resurrection? If it means rising from death, there is no problem for the word ‘resurrection’ because Jesus died by crucifixion and rose from death again. Then, after such resurrection, He came to India and moved with Indian philosophers upto the age of 85 years after which the inevitable death of mortal body of Jesus took place and the related tomb of Jesus exists in the area of Himalayas even today. There is no alive audio-video cassette of the life of Jesus as the perfect version. The version given by some is also based on some writings only and there is a version, which says that the priests of the churches modified the details written by the disciples of Jesus. In such case, all versions have equal probability. We can accept any version that does not conflict the divinity and spiritual knowledge of Jesus. If the version is bringing Hinduism and Christianity to closeness, why it should not be accepted? There is a version that Jesus did not die by crucifixion due to His miraculous power. The soldier confirmed that Jesus died after piercing a spear in His stomach. It is told that a little blood came out after the injury. From dead body, blood will not come out as per medical science. Hence, the second version is that He did not die due to crucifixion and rose on 3^rd day as stated by Him while He was alive. The word ‘church’ in His statement denotes His divine body and reconstruction of church in 3 days means resurrection from dead body after three days. He remained in inactive state in the cave for three days after crucifixion, which is possible for miraculous power. For the miraculous power of the unimaginable God merged with the human body of Jesus, anything is possible. Whether you say that Jesus did not die at all or you say that Jesus died and became alive again or you say that Jesus died at 85 years of age and then started appearing in energetic form to devotees or you say that Jesus with His alive physical body ascended the heaven- every version is possible in view of the unimaginable miraculous power of the unimaginable God existing in human incarnation. None need condemn any version told here and also any other version not told here also provided the divine power and divine knowledge of Jesus are not disturbed!

If you say that Jesus died and rose on 3^rd day, this is also possible for miraculous power using which He rose even a dead body of a devotee already while He was alive. You also agree that He became alive after three days in one of the above said two ways (1. did not die at all in crucifixion and 2. died in crucifixion and became alive again). Whatever may be the way, He became alive after three days and was seen by His disciples in physical form because Thomas touched the holes of His hands for confirmation of His crucifixion in which the hands were nailed. Hence, He became alive with His alive physical body again and this is to be agreed by both of us and also by all of us. The next question is that whether Jesus with alive physical body is existing even today? I don’t think that there is any other confirmation test as done by Thomas in the long time till now after resurrection. If Jesus appeares to anybody, He appears only in energetic form and not in human form. The soul will enter the energetic form after the natural death of the human form and this is the divine law of creation of God. This means that after resurrection while He was 32 years old, the physical body of the Jesus was alive for some more years probably upto the age of 85 years (After 16^th year, Jesus disappeared from home and appeared again in home while He was 30 years old. In this period of fourteen years, He was doing lot of penance in association with several sages in Himalayas.). Then, as per the divine law of creation, the mortal body died and He was buried under the tomb seen even today in Himalayas. The Hindu scripture (the Bhavishya Puranam) speaks about the movements of Jesus after resurrection in India and His conversation with king Shalivaahana exists in that scripture exists in which Jesus says “I am the Son of the Lord and I am born to an unmarried girl. I have propagated spiritual knowledge in foreign country” etc. (Iishaputtram cha maam viddhi, kumarii garbhasambhavam, mlecchadharmasya vaktaaram etc.).

You can find the influence of Hindu philosophies on the spiritual knowledge preached by Jesus indicating His long stay in India. Jesus said that He is the truth and light, which means that He is God and this is monism (Advaita). Jesus said that He is Son of God and this concept belongs to philosophy of intermediate stage between monism and dualism, called qualified monism (Vishishtaadvaita). Jesus said that He is the messenger of God, which indicates the perfect dualism (Dvaita). An ordinary worldly human being is not the soul referred in dualism because such soul is messenger of God standing in very high level of spiritual progress. All these three philosophies existed in the Veda and corresponding quotations exist. The philosophy of Jesus and the three philosophies of the Hindu Vedic religion are reflected in the famous three statements of Christianity: 1) I am in the light (Dualism), 2) The light is in Me (Qualified monism, which is intermediate between dualism and monism) and 3) I am the light (Monism).

★ ★ ★ ★ ★