Truth About The Crucifixion — Page 237
Was not it perhaps a man knowing the order of Jahwe: And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation! 2M. 19, 6? Was it not the man who had made an unsuccessful attempt to realize this in Palestine? A man who got by subjective and objective ways of perception a deep knowledge of the unlike effects of different ways of ruling and of different rulers. Possibly was it the man who forged for his disciples the basic instruction of ruling in Luke 22:25: "The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them. . . but ye shall not be so; but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that serves. " Did not Jesus recognise in Ashoka his own conception of the ruling business? Was it the preacher of the “sower” in Kashmir, Yuz Asaf, who not only discussed the hinayanama teaching with Buddhists eager to acquire higher merits than having no desires, but to deserve them by self-sacrifice? Was not this a man who had the right to see this unique opportunity as a reward from his Lord for hardships suffered under the burden of his service of Love? Is it possible to doubt then, that this tum-over in Buddhism i. e. from the ascetic and selfish teaching of hinayanama to that of mahayanama, to this "Renaissance of Buddhism", or as the Czech indologue V. Lesny has put it, to the "Messianic Buddhism,” was catalyzed by Yuz Asaf and that it crystalized in Jesus' inspiring king Kanishka to install the Buddhist rule in Kashmir. Certainly this was a “kingdom of God" for Jesus. 229