There are no facts to tell us what happened to the young Jesus during his "lost years" between the Nativity story and the day he appears at the River Jordan, age thirty, to be baptized. I was glad for this mystery, because it allowed me to describe an extraordinary youth who discovers, step by step, that he is the awaited Messiah. This isn't a fictional biography but a journey into the realm of miracles and, in the end, complete enlightenment.
It's been a long time -- perhaps as far back as Thomas Jefferson -- that Americans seriously considered Jesus, not as the Son of God, but as an enlightened teacher. For me, that doesn't rob him of his sacred stature. It puts sacredness in human terms.
I wrote my book, "Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment" to give readers an appreciation for how enlightenment unfolds from promising beginnings, not full divinity. In an age when Jesus threatens to become the exclusive property of fervent, literal-minded devotees, we have an urgent need to bring him back, not as the savior, but as a savior -- one who won his own salvation before promising it to the world.
Warm regards,
Deepak Chopra
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...point being made, even if Jesus wasn't the greatest orator or teacher, what He said was truth. The whole truth.
Smoke and mirrors, the topic isn't about Jesus's teaching skills, but whether or not He is the way, the truth, and life as He said.
If He is, then it must mean other paths to God, humanistic, works, religion, well, all fall short.
Whether or not God judges pygmies because they don't know Jesus, I leave that up to Him, but you now have heard and therefore have the choice.
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." -- John 14:6
Jesus was conceieved by the HolySpirit but took birth through a virgin's womb.
Jesus become Christ, He was complete God and true man. He was God became man and He became life giving Spirt so that he can enter into man's spirit. The Gospel proclaim with all his works He was having the highest standard of morality.
God's chosen pepople only can understand this with human spirit which cannot be explained by the human mind.
Abraham
In answer to Abraham.. once one begins to chant or meditate, using the Right Brain (letting go of all ego), the opportunity to connect with The Divine is totally possible. We are all here to make this connection.. if not in this life time, then in a future one. We all return to The Oneness. Eventually. And it depends on how much time we devote ourselves to being Grateful, Obedient, Loving, Loyal & Devoted.
If you read Ekhart Tolle's book A New Earth it will give you some insight to this. Due to my own persistence with this I have been able to raise my own vibrational energies considerably quickly.
Wishing you all, Love, Light, Peace & Harmony
buddha is an enlightened being, he is a "light of asia", jesus followed same footsteps and mastered suffering more than buddha did and he endured not just mental torture but as well as physical. He became a "light of the world". He is an enlightened being.
You missed the most important ingredient of the idea, Deepak. Let me ask you this question: When you happened to be famous, and the crowds in India started to wonder each other, "Isn't he the son of dr. Chopra our physician?", what initial knowledge do you think this wonder was based on?
When Jesus became famous, the crowds wondered, "Isn't he the son of Joseph, the carpenter?" On what previous knowledge about Jesus do you think they questioned, Deepak? On the knowledge that Jesus was around his father all the time, helping his father making your wardrobe!
Jesus didn't have the lost years as the world speculated. He's there, helping his father making furnitures. He's not lost to India or Tibet or everywhere. Such thing is a mind-wandering of people who don't read bible. Lost in mind-wandering, like you Deepak.
Why I dare to tell you this? Because this is the truth Jesus spoke in my heart when I asked him: "Where were you, Lord, during those unwritten years?" So, Deepak, why don't you start having conversations with Jesus and confirms with him what you have discovered in your mind-wandering, a habit we inherited from Cain as a punishment to his murdering sin.
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