my query on christianity and vedas

[itskuttamit]

Namaskar,

I am amit,i have recently joined in this forum.Actually i dont have much idea about how to make my own posts,so i am posting my question here only.if possible plz pass that to other memebers.

Is any of our vedas has any reference of jesus christ.One of my friend he is a christian ,he use to tell me regularly that our vedas also describe about one god only Jesus and our gods are nothing but just a vauge.He even show me some of our vedas slokas where it was written that jesus is the ultimate god whom we should worship.I have not studied vedas much so i couldnt reply to him.I am a true hindu and i want to give him a strong reply of what he has said and shown to me.Need your help.Please tell me what i should say to him.

[Sudarshan]

Dear Amit,

If vedas describe Jesus as per your friend, then it means they are the truth. So ask your friend to convert to the vedic religion since we are much older and authentic.

Which were those verses? If you could post those we could give a fitting reply.

[devotee]

I am amit,i have recently joined in this forum.Actually i dont have much idea about how to make my own posts,so i am posting my question here only.if possible plz pass that to other memebers.

Is any of our vedas has any reference of jesus christ.One of my friend he is a christian ,he use to tell me regularly that our vedas also describe about one god only Jesus and our gods are nothing but just a vauge.He even show me some of our vedas slokas where it was written that jesus is the ultimate god whom we should worship.I have not studied vedas much so i couldnt reply to him.I am a true hindu and i want to give him a strong reply of what he has said and shown to me.Need your help.Please tell me what i should say to him.

Namaste Amit,

The problem is that Jesus was not even born when the Vedas were written ! Does your friend know this ? Without any intention of denying the divinity of Jesus, rest assured, there is no mention of Jesus in the Vedas.

Your friend cannot produce any verses from the Vedas regarding Jesus. Jesus & Prophet Muhammad have been mentioned in Bhavishya Purana but that is not a part of the Vedas & when the same is written & by whom is debatable.

OM

[Znanna]

I would refer you to an old recording called "The Point" by Neilsson ...

The Rock said, "You see what you want to see, and you hear what you want to hear."


ZN/everything is Holy

[Sagefrakrobatik]

Tell him the Vedas and other Hindu Scriptures contain prophecies foretelling the coming of the Muslim Prophet/

[itskuttamit]

Namasta,

first of all i want to thank all for answering my query.I have given my friend the reply which fits the best.Friends i want to study more about my religion.can you people suggest me of any website from where i can get much detail and indepth knowledge of my religion.

[saidevo]

This forum, HDF, has a number of in-depth articles about Hinduism. However, for a systematic study, it also hosts a library with pointers to downloadable books: http://www.hindudharmaforums.com/library

I think Satay can highlight this link somewhere in the Homepage so members can have quick access to it.

[jaggin]

Namasta,

first of all i want to thank all for answering my query.I have given my friend the reply which fits the best.Friends i want to study more about my religion.can you people suggest me of any website from where i can get much detail and indepth knowledge of my religion.

There appears to be a distinct possiblity that the one true God is in the vedas which would mean that you could say that Jesus is there by the fact that Jesus is God in the flesh. Of course He wouldn't be called Jesus; I think it was Brahma if I remember right.

[saidevo]

Namaste Jaggin.

There appears to be a distinct possiblity that the one true God is in the vedas which would mean that you could say that Jesus is there by the fact that Jesus is God in the flesh. Of course He wouldn't be called Jesus; I think it was Brahma if I remember right.

This is one of the approaches the proselyter-Christian takes towards Hindus: Vedas talk of One God, Bible talks about Jesus as the One God, so Jesus is mentioned in Vedas, why worship other false gods, come to Jesus to be in heaven! Even a cursory examination of this approach reveals that the One God spoken in Vedas and the Bible are poles apart!

The One God without a second, that is Brahman, that Vedas speak of is not the Father figure of the Bible who sits in heaven, sends his flesh-form in Jesus to the world, lets him be crucified and then let the priests take charge to impose the confused Church doctrines of inviting Jesus as the Father, the Son or the Holy Ghost to get redeemed in this birth and go to heaven. The church doctrines are confused because they spell out Jesus opportunistically as the Father, Son or Holy Ghost: who is Jesus, in this Trinity? If he is the be-all, the absolute, why should he not recognize the one God of the other religions? Why should he not let them co-exist in peace?

The Brahman of the Vedas, on the other hand, is:

• satyam, jnAnam, anantam Brahma(n) -- Taittiriya Upanishad

Here 'satyam' denotes that Brahman is the eternal Truth; 'jnAnam' denotes that Brahman is not inert but active consciousness; 'anantam' means that Brahman is not localized in Heaven but infinite.

• a-dvayam, a-dvaitami, a-dvidtiiyam -- Chandogya (6.2.1,6.2.2), Kaivalya (19,23), Brhadaranyaka (4.3.22), Mandukya (7)

That is, "Brahman is One without a second." This statements is expanded in Mandukya Upanishad mantra 7:

"It (Brahman) is not the inward awareness. It is not the outward awareness. It is not the intermediate awareness. It is not the undifferentiated mass of awareness. It is not the knowing awareness. It is not non-awareness. It is unperceivable. It is not accessible to transaction. It cannot be grasped. It is attributeless. It is not accessible to thought. It is not amenable to communication. It is the substratum of the I thought. It is the remainder of the negation (annulment) of the universe. It is changeless. It is auspiciousness. It is the nondual reality. …… That is 'AtmA'.

(na antah-prajnam, na bahih-prajnam, na ubhyatah-prajnam, na prajaana-ghanam na prajnam na aprajnam; adrshtam avyavahaaryam agraahyam alakshanam acintyam avyapadesyam ekatma-pratyaya-saaram prapancopasamam saantam sivam advaitams......sa atma)

• "Subtler than the than the subtlest, greater than the greatest." "Nearer than the nearest, farther than the farthest …… unmoving moving everywhere." -- Kathopanishad I.ii.20, I.ii.21

Brahman is not the flesh-incarnated Jesus, not the Holy Ghost or the Father God but in and beyond them all. Brahman is not just in heaven but everywhere, unmoving in nature but moving everything in the world.

• "He is all pervasive, pure, bodiless, without wound, without sinews, taintless, untouched by sin, omniscient, ruler of mind, transcendent, and self-existent." -- Isavasya Upanishad 8

• Finally, Chandogya Upanishad (6.8.7), cryptically summarizes Brahman into three words: tat tvam asi -- That You Are. And you will know it when you realize, "aham brahmAsmi" -- I am Brahman.

Therefore it is preposterous to equate the concepts of God taught in Christian or any other western religion with that of the Hinduism.

[Sudarshan]

The One God without a second, that is Brahman, that Vedas speak of is not the Father figure of the Bible who sits in heaven, sends his flesh-form in Jesus to the world, lets him be crucified and then let the priests take charge to impose the confused Church doctrines of inviting Jesus as the Father, the Son or the Holy Ghost to get redeemed in this birth and go to heaven. The church doctrines are confused because they spell out Jesus opportunistically as the Father, Son or Holy Ghost: who is Jesus, in this Trinity? If he is the be-all, the absolute, why should he not recognize the one God of the other religions? Why should he not let them co-exist in peace?

The Brahman of the Vedas, on the other hand, is:

• satyam, jnAnam, anantam Brahma(n) -- Taittiriya Upanishad

Here 'satyam' denotes that Brahman is the eternal Truth; 'jnAnam' denotes that Brahman is not inert but active consciousness; 'anantam' means that Brahman is not localized in Heaven but infinite.

Abodes of God do really exist - even though Brahman is not localized. There are several planes of consciousness each one more subtler than the previous. The experience of God in these different planes are different and are subjective. Each person's experience of God is quite unique and follows its own distinctive progress until the highest truth is reached.

To be able to see forms of God is not just myth. As long as the relation between man and God is of that between devotee-object of devotion and seeker-sought God may appear in any form that is seen through the senses or through the mind's eye.

As long as one has not evolved to the point of complete union with God (where there is no difference between the seeker and the sought) it is possible to experience God in various abodes. Such abodes are as real as the earth you see now. God in heaven also exists inspite of Brahman being non localized as long as the devotee thinks he exists apart from God. The cover of mAyA is much lesser in such abodes when compared with the earthly existance of total ignorance.( where man does not even have evidence for God!)