We went to Mumbai last year 2006 [Flash Back]

St.Antony's poor home at Bandra -with Sr.Lilly Ann [Flash Back]

Did Jesus Christ lived in India ???

The famous book "Jesus Lived in India: His unkown life before and afterthe crucifixion" by Mr Holger Kersten, which also provides a detailed andgreatly fasciniting account of the life of Jesus; especially the 12 unaccounted years of his life, and the remainder of his life after crucifixion. The authorclaims that Jesus had not died on the cross, and was brought back to India by his disciples. In India Jesus spent rest of his life (about 30 years) mostly inKashmir, and died there. There is still a tomb/samadhi dedicated to Jesus. Evenprior to this, when Jesus was 12 years old he came to India and got initiatedunder a Buddhist Monk in Ladakh and himslef became a Buddhist monk. On his wayback to Israel, he preached Buddhism and established Buddhist monstaries allover the middle east. According to the author, several middle eastern countriesaccepted Buddhism as the state religion and continued to practice Buddhism until they fell to Islamic onslaught in 6-7th century AD. The book even citesnumerous archaeological, biblical, historical facts, and the contemporary Hindu scriptures in support of his findings. He quotes Puranas where there is clearmention of the Jesus's sojourn to India. The author also made trips to Kashmir,Ladakh and other parts of India in 1970's to verify some of the legends andrumours first hand. And it seems he achieved remarkable success insubstantiating most of the claims made by Nicolai Notovitch. It is a fascinitingbook and sheds new light on the Jesus, bible, and influence of Hindu/Buddhistphilosophy on the social and religious events of that period in middle east.Mr Kersten even makes an attempt to trace the ancestry of Moses to Indiaby quoting Jewish and Hindu scriptures, and shows remarkable similarity betweenold jewish traditions and Vedic rituals. The book is must for those who havean inquisitive mind to visualize a unity among all the religions or looking fora common source for all ancient religions.

Jesus accepted defeat ................Could we ??

Accepting defeat, humiliation & death is divine.

"Please give me the courage to accept failures in my life, oh Lord Jesus"

Good Friday - God's Friday

Jesus died in the cross. He was a revolutionary leader. He was a poet as well as prophet. He could have escaped from the crusifixation, as he got a large number of followers. But he dropped himself to a little ordinary human being. He shown us how to accept the cross, how to plunge oneself to zero. It's very very difficult to accept failure, defeat, and finally death. We are all working for and living for victory. With out which we cannnot imagine a life. We choose suicide rather than defeat. But he crushed himself to 'Calvury' the mount of nothingness.
I am really doubtful about the easter stories. For me whether he risen up or not is a question. But he died (for our sins) to teach us what is love. Love means zero. When Lord Jesus dropped himself to the hands of Rulers of the nation, he was sacrifising his life. Whether we are ready to sacrifise in life? We are 'celeberating' the holy week with out knowing the meaning of crusifixation. We are living in laxuries, we are not ready to loose a single penny, we are not ready to face a single problem, we are not ready to take up a little pain - and we say we are the disciples of Jesus Christ.
Our churches are fighting everyday in the middle of the street, for nothing but 'power' and 'money'. In the name of jesus, we fight each other. It's really crusifying Jesus again and again. Jesus tought us a way of simple living and loving eache other without any barriers. We started building barrier and claiming that we are the true followers of Christ. We commersilised Christ for our own benefits. We sold his label of making money, building institutions, claiming fame, gaining power. But lookt at the face of Jesus from Nazereth.. He was not an emporar, not a King. He was an ordinary man, who lived with ordinary people. Worked hard and tought us work hard, earn living, and help others.
He taken all the pains, all the defeat, all the humiliations with out opening his mouth. This is the sign of divininty in him. Not that he had risen up after 3 days. He could have used the mob and fought against the rulers and priest of the country. But he did'nt, he accepted the defeat and humiliations. Easter is made for celebrations. For eating and drinking. Is it the only way for being happy. Can we get peace of mind though this worldy celebrations??