Riddle me this one.
If what you say is true, then why do the ruling elite hate and work against Jesus and Christians and not Buddha or Hindu?
BTW, I won't presume to know as much as you on the subject, but I've read Siddhartha by Herman Hess and have studied the Ramayana and Vedas a bit.
Because Jesus as an individual person/entity/human being did more then the books, sermons, churches, and all the garbage built in his IMAGE.
What western people fail to recognize is the FACT they worship an IMAGE version of "God".
Billions of people see "God" not as a "wizard sky dude who created everything" but as the "Mother" "Matriarchal" FEMININE version of God. For this and this reason alone rich white men could never do anything more then bastardize the mother of all religions, "India".
Even Alexander the Great stopped at India.
You see the winners write history not the losers and if you don't study history objectively from a "3rd person" POV you will end up believing all sorts of imaginary nonsense.
The Abrahamic faith as a whole has caused great structure, purpose, and will power because people started to FEAR the imaged version of God.
In Sanskrit that is called "maya" or "illusion".
Just like the politics we discuss is more so or less all an illusion.
The mind in fact is not real and all things that it projects are unreal. The human being and it's tendencies come back and fourth with each new human. Jesus knew this well and you'd be surprised where he walked during his "missing years"......hint hint he was in the far East and it's recorded that Jesus a "fair skinned" "lamb" studied at some of the Buddhist monastaries.
I'm not saying this is exactly what happened but a dude doesn't just "magically" come up with a repository of knowledge out of thin air. All things are based somewhere and so Jesus used what was around him at the time and used symbols/language at that time to go up against the "false idols".
Jesus threw the money lenders physically out of the temple and got crucified for it but the Jesus that's painted in "books" is one who could "do no wrong" and was "sinless" "born of a virgin" "3 wise men" etc......all these things symbols for the human being and human nature itself.
Jesus Christ was a man like me and you as was Buddha and all these other great teachers but what Jesus preached is different from all the "books" written after.
The Germans/Nazi's when they went to India and read all the major Sanskrit epics they learned how to build Atom bombs from reading ancient Sanskrit texts.
This is why Oppenheimer famously would always hand people a copy of the Bhgavad Gita which adorns the famous quote,
"Now I am become Death the Destroyer of Worlds"which he said after the "Trinity Test" in 1945
This post was edited by SwamiVivekananda on Sep 15 2025 07:22pm