Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 187
Chapter Twelve—The Unknown Life of Jesus 187 Jesus? The Aryas, in this respect, say that Jesus became acquainted with Buddhism in the course of his journeys in India, and having acquired knowledge of the facts of the Buddha’s life, made his Gospels out of it on his return to his native country. This, however, is a dishonest error of the Aryas. It is quite untrue that Jesus came to India before the event of the cross: he had no need to take such a jour- ney at that time, he had, however, need of taking it when the Jews of Sham (Syria) had rejected him and, as they believe, crucified him. Having thus exhausted his sympa- thy for the Jews and his solicitude to preach to them and, the Jews having become, by reason of their evil nature, so hard-hearted as to be quite incapable of accepting the truth, Jesus, on being informed by God that the ten tribes of the Jews had migrated towards India, set out for those regions. And, as parties of Jews had accepted Buddhism, there was no alternative for this true prophet but to turn his attention to the followers of Buddhism. The Buddhist parties expected the appearance of the Messiah ‘Buddha’. Therefore Jesus’ titles as well as some of his moral teach- ing (such as: Love thy enemy; resist evil) and as had been prophesied by Gautama Buddha, concerning the white- coloured Matiyya (i. e. , Masiha or Messiah), for all these signs the priests held him to be the Buddha. It is also pos- sible that some of his titles, moral teachings and the facts of Jesus’ life might consciously or unconsciously have been in that age ascribed to Buddha, for the Hindus have never given proof of much experience at recording history. The