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I am curious what information you can or cannot validate about how Jesus spent any of his 18 or so missing years. Paramahansa Yogananda, known as the Father of Yoga on the Western World” purports in his writings, that many of Jesus’ missing years were spent in India studying and perfecting the techniques for his ministry, among them, meditation.
Explorer Nicolas Notovitch in late 1890s purports to have seen ancient Tibetan writings about a Saint Issa who came from the Mideast to the Far East and studied in India before returning home to preach. Many East Indians believe it was Jesus they referred to.
Whether that is truth or fiction…. Is it likely Jesus practiced any form of Eastern meditation? Would he have been familiar with terms like consciousness or AUM?
If looked at in Yogic terms, as Paramahansa does in the “Second Coming of Christ” and “The Yoga of Jesus” you can easily draw similarities in Jesus’ words to other Eastern teachings.
Regards.
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The stories about Jesus’ hypothetical time in the East only began in the 19th century with Madam Blavatsky and the rise of the Theosophical movement. The truth is that Jesus would hardly have even known what we call the “East” existed. What little education he might have possessed would have been thoroughly Jewish and he grew up in a backwater of the Roman empire. It’s entirely possible he never saw a Roman soldier until he was an adult, much less a Hindu.
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