Yogis Who Saw Jesus, & Those Who Revered Him

This video is taken from the article “Yogis Who Saw Jesus”: The great spiritual masters of Indian have seen Jesus in visions, researched and proved not only his existence but his having lived in India, and expounded his teachings as being the same as (not just consistent with) Sanatana Dharma. 0:00 Introduction 0:32 Yogis who had visions of Jesus 0:52 Sri Ramakrishna & His Disciples 1:05 The Jesus Cave in the Himalayas 1:22 The monastery in Tibet that Jesus visited 1:53 The controversial “Unknown Life of Jesus Christ” 2:40 The Shankaracharya of Puri and Jesus in Govardhan Math 3:06 Sri Yukteswar and Paramhansa Yogananda 4:09 Swamis who wrote about Jesus and the teachings of India 4:37 Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh and his reverence for Jesus 6:25 The book “The Christ of India” Sri Ramakrishna, his great disciple Swami Brahmananda, Swami Rama Tirtha, Swami (Papa) Ramdas, and Paramhansa Yogananda all saw Jesus in visions–some more than once, and some actually spoke with him. Sri Ramakrishna kept a picture of Jesus in his room at the Dakshineswar Kali Temple. He also told several of his disciples that he had seen in visions that they had been disciples of Jesus. Both Swami Rama Tirtha and Swami Ramdas had visions of Jesus while staying at Vashishtha Guha north of Rishikesh in the cave where Jesus had lived for a while (though they did not know that fact at the time of their visions, but learned it later). Swami Abhedananda and Swami Trigunatitananda, disciples of Sri Ramakrishna, at separate times journeyed to Ladakh and verified the existence of ancient Buddhist texts recording the life of Jesus. Swami Trigunatitananda was also shown two paintings of Jesus by the Buddhist monks, and had a copy of one made from his memory when he was living in America as a Vedanta missionary (see page X [where image is]). Swami Abhedananda, also for a while a Vedanta Missionary to America, printed a translation of the part of the Buddhist text on Jesus and defied the British government’s ban on Nicholas Notovitch’s Unknown Life of Jesus Christ which contained the complete text. He not only brought copies of the book from America to india, he had an edition printed in India. He also wrote the pamphlet: Why a Hindu Accepts Christ and Rejects Churchianity. A friend of mine gave me a copy of a letter Sri Ramakrishna’s disciple Swami Saradananda wrote to her aunt, Edith Grey, who had gone to India and become a disciple of Sri Ma Sarada Devi, the consort of Sri Ramakrishna. Miss Grey had written to the Swami about how she felt equal devotion to Sri Ramakrishna and Jesus. The Swami wrote back: “Our Master assured us that they were just the same.” Later in the twentieth century the Shankaracharya of Puri, Jagadguru Bharati Krishna Tirtha, found what he called “proof positive” of Jesus actually having lived in the Govardhan Math, the present math of the Order of Shankara in Puri. Before that, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, the guru of Yogananda, wrote a study in which he proved that Jesus had lived in India and that his teachings were identical with the Sanatana Dharma which he adopted and preached in the West. That was borrowed by a Christian missionary who refused, in Sri Yukteswar’s lifetime and even after his death, to return it. Paramhansa Yogananda wrote and lectured extensively on the teachings of Jesus. At his very first speech given in this country he announced that he would be holding classes in Boston which would consist of three half-hour periods each: one on the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita, one on the teachings of the Gospels, and one demonstrating that their teachings were the same. As a final example which our Abbot George Burke witnessed himself in his journey to India in 1962, his beloved Swami Sivananda, founder of the Divine Life Society in Rishikesh and perfect example of Sanatana Dharma, not only wrote and published a life of Jesus for popular circulation and celebrated Christmas each year, in the daily evening satsang kirtan he led all in singing: “O my Jesus, O my Jesus, Lord Jesus: Come, come to me! O my Mary, Mother Mary, Virgin Mary: Come, come to me!” At the end, with other exclamations in praise of Dharma, would call out: “Jesus Bhagavan: ki jai!” All these great yogis of India did not just believe Jesus existed, they honored him as a liberated son of God and considered him a Sanatana Dharmi just like themselves. And we must not forget that the Nath Yogis consider Jesus as a Nath Yogi and one of their gurus. 📚 If you enjoyed this video, you may enjoy our FREE online ebooks: 📕 The Bhagavad Gita for Awakening 📗 The Dhammapada for Awakening #jesusindia #spirituality #ramakrishna #yogananda