In this Weekly Wisdom, Gurudev shares beautiful insights on Jesus’s time in India, and the links between the Christian and Hindu traditions.
In response to a question from someone who wanted information on Jesus’s travels in India, Gurudev shared the following:
It’s a fact that Jesus went to India. The three wise men who came to see him when he was a baby told the parents, “When he’s 10 or 12, you should send him to study in India.” India was, at that time, the seat of both material and spiritual knowledge.
That’s why those 12 years of Jesus’s life aren’t in the Bible at all. In fact, the Bible was written 40 years after Jesus’s demise.
Jesus in India
It’s true that Jesus went to India to study. He studied in the south of India, in a place called Mylapore. He studied with the pundits there. He studied meditation and all of the other knowledge of spirituality.
Today, you see all that’s there in Judaism and Christianity. But there’s a gap between them. There are certain things that aren’t in Judaism, which are only in the Christian tradition. All of those items are in the Hindu tradition, such as the rosary. In Judaism, they don’t use a rosary, but the rosary in Christianity came from the Hindu tradition. The bell in Christianity came from the Hindu tradition.
So he introduced all those things he saw in India. Those were introduced when Jesus came back to the Middle East again the second time.
Doubting Thomas
Of all the disciples, or apostles, Thomas who always doubted Jesus, is who Jesus sent to India. Otherwise, why would Thomas go to India?
Paul didn’t go. John didn’t go. Who went? Thomas went. Why did Thomas go? Because Jesus had told him, “If you don’t believe me, go to India and see for yourself.”
Suppose you say that you know something and someone doubts your knowledge. What do you say to them? “Well, you don’t believe in me? You go and see the one who taught me. Go and ask my teacher.”
It’s very natural. So when Thomas kept doubting Jesus all the time, Jesus had informed him, “Okay, you don’t believe me. You don’t trust me, so go to India and see for yourself. Go to my source, from whom I learned.” So Thomas went to India in 52 A.D. after Jesus had been there much earlier.
So he traveled all the way there, and he went to the south of India, not the north of India. Exactly where Jesus had gone, the same place he went, and he died there. Even today, there’s the grave of St. Thomas in Chennai.
The same essential knowledge
But due to many political reasons and other reasons, these revelations weren’t publicized. They were kept hidden and in due time they got lost.
Just take what Jesus has said. He said, “God is love.” That’s exactly what the Upanishads say in ancient Vedic wisdom. It says, “Asti bati preethi.” God is love. Don’t be afraid of God. God is love.
So the same knowledge, essence, and the same teaching that Jesus spoke of is in the Upanishads, and the Vedas. And the same thing has been said by Jesus and Krishna also.
Jesus said, “I’m the only way.” Those exact words were said by Krishna also. “I’m the only way.” The same was said in the Upanishads, “There’s no other way. This is the only way.”
That means what? Focus on the knowledge and the path that you have. Right now, this is the only way.
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