Jesus In India — Page 65
CHAPTER ONE 55 the Jews became more firmly entrenched in their disbelief after listening to the evidence of the dead. Jesus, the Messiah, wanted them to believe in his divinity, but they, because of this evidence, denied that he was even a prophet. In short, such beliefs have a highly deleterious and unhealthy effect, namely, to say that hundreds of thousands of dead persons, or any dead person before that time, had been brought back to life by Jesus, the Messiah; for the restoration to life of the dead did not serve any beneficent purpose. This is a part of human nature that if a person goes to visit a far-off country and comes back to his hometown after several years of absence, he is naturally keen to tell the people of his wonderful experiences of that country, and to relate to them the wondrous of wonderful stories of the land he has visited. He will not keep mum or remain tongue-tied when he meets his people after a long period of separation. No, at such a time, others also are keen to listen to him and question him about the far off places; and if perchance, there comes to these people some poor and lowly person, humble in appearance, who yet claims to be the king of the country of which the principal town has already been visited by these people and who says that he is superior in his kingly rank even to this and that king, the people are always wont to question such itinerants whether the man, going about in their country, is really the king of that land; to which question these travellers reply to the best of their knowl- edge. This being so, the bringing of the dead to life by Jesus, the Messiah, would have been, as I have stated before, worth believing in, if the evidence on which the dead must have been questioned, which was but natural, had led to some beneficial result. However, this was not at all the case. Therefore, along with the supposition