What Is the Significance of Raising of Jesus in 3 Days After His Crucifixion?

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

[Shri Anil Antony asked: What is the significance of Jesus’s raising from death 3 days after crucifixion? What was He doing during 3 days?]

Swami replied: It is just a miracle, which is the unimaginable event focusing on the existence of unimaginable God to humanity, which thinks that everything is imaginable for its intelligence. Since soul is the highest item of the imaginable creation, there is every chance for the human being to think that since it is the best imaginable item of the imaginable creation, can be treated as God thereby denying the existence of anymore unimaginable God. Therefore, the fundamental concept of this miracle should be noted, which is acceptance of unimaginable God through unimaginable events called miracles. Whatever concept is exhibited by the unimaginable event called miracle, that alone should be grasped by us and all the rest part of the miracle is unimaginable only, which is not necessary to be communicated to us since it is unnecessary part for our spiritual knowledge.

Death means the individual soul covered by energetic body leaving this gross body. The body of Jesus did not decay in the three days, which became alive and arose after three days and walked as witnessed by some devotees. This is totally unimaginable event or miracle done by the unimaginable God. He lived 50 years more propagating spiritual knowledge in India since the region in which He was born was not congenial to receive and realize His preaching. As usual, as per the rules of nature, a body having birth receives death also. After the natural death, the soul covered by energetic body, amalgamated with the unimaginable God of human incarnation becomes eternal, appearing to very strong devotees fanatic of that specific form only and all this is true with Jesus also. The fans of a specific human incarnation are not disappointed at all since any human incarnation becoming energetic incarnation after death of body pacifies the strong fanatic devotion. A devotee realizing the absolute truth of spiritual knowledge finds the same unimaginable God coming in the next human incarnation. The human body of unimaginable God is just an external dress only. Rama came as Krishna in new human form. But, Jambavan, fan of Rama did not accept Krishna as God. To satisfy his strong fanatic devotion, Krishna appeared as Rama again due to the unimaginable miracle of the inner unimaginable God. The statement of Jesus that He will come again means only that the same unimaginable God again will appear in a new human incarnation for the next generation. Of course, the statement of Jesus that He will raise the collapsed church again in three days means that His body will raise again alive after three days after crucifixion. Saibaba also left the external gross body for three days and He was declared as dead by doctors. Three is certainly a divine number indicating God doing the creation, doing the maintenance and doing the final destruction of this world. The three faces of Lord Dattatreya indicate this concept. We can say, at the best, that in those three days, God was in the state of entertainment with the world, which was created basically for such divine purpose only.

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