I Love Jesus! He is Awesome!!!I just can't stand alot of His followers,unfortunately.Sorry:( I agree that He taught Respect&Tolerance&Kindness,also hung out with the lower people,not the rich,the ones who Really needed Him.Jesus seemed to be very innocent&Loving towards all,a Great Teacher&Prophet.His Word&Teachings are still received by many.He was very Unconditional in His Love,Perfect Love.Hopefully we can all try harder to be More like Him!

How any body think that anyone folowing a spiritual path hates Lord Jesus i love him and evryday he help me in loving His father more and more S.Prabhupada toll us that Lord Jesus whas are guru and one of the shaktiavesa avatara of the Lord like is esplaing in the shastras or vedas.Love Jesuscrist but do not crucified Him evryday

Shari, while I see negativity in the forums original poster, I must say that I cannot see any hate-filled message or actions in the TRUE followers of Jesus. He was all about love, kindness, and non judgement. So, to call Christians hateful is an oxymoron. I used to call myself a christian, and while I dont anymore, I could still follow His example of a TRUE devotee of God. (Krsna). He was the perfect example of a devotee and, in my opinion, preached Krsna consciousness. Like most everything, human kind put a spin on things and screwed up His message..All Glories to Lord Jesus Christ-Ki Jaya!

His actual name is Yashua.....

So why make up the word Jesus......

There was no J in our alphabet in his day.

I love you lord, save me from your Followers.

I think unfortunately that Jesus' messages got lost in the shuffle, so to speak. The more I read of the "lost" gospels, the more his messages sound similar to Buddha, among others. He seems to have actually taught that we are all pieces of god. The funny thing is, the reason I left christianity in the first place was because I felt that every natural thing and everyone was holy, and had desired to learn these very same lessons! I never thought I would be dabbling in gnostism, but never say never!

In the terminology of Vedic /sanskrit theology, Jesus can be understood as shaktyavesha avatar. That means, one who is empowered by Divinity to act on behalf of Divinity. An agent of the Absolute Reality, or a visa granting officer of the Transcendental world.The Bhagavad-gita describes that periodically (in every yuga or universal epoch) Divinity introduces teachings for the spiritual evolution of mankind. The Lord descends Himself or empowers a qualified soul as in the case of Jesus.

yada yad hi dharmasya
glanir bhavati bharata
abyutanam a dharmasya
tad atmanam sri jamy aham

"Whenever and wherever there is a decline in dharmic practice and a predominat rise of adharma, at that time I descend Myself." BGita 4.7

Dharma means the intrinsic quality of a thing. Like the qualities of heat and light are inseperable from fire, or liquidity is the inseperable quality of water. The dharma of the soul is to love (prema-rasa). All the developed theistic systems in the world teach that we are eternal non-material spiritual (conscious) souls distinct from gross matter. Teachers like Jesus come to awaken our spiritual hearts in love for the Supreme Soul. They don't come to create religious institutions and formalites which breed predjudice. Formal doctrines and institutions are only useful if they foster growth of love in our hearts and self giving and spiritual communion. If the form impedes the flow of spiritual substance in our hearts then we should abandon the form or formality. What is the use of a formal latin or sanskrit prayer if it is recited absent-mindedly or without true feeling and a spirit of self giving on our part? Better is the simple prayer in broken english of a small uneducated child that has true feeling and love. This is the substance of dharma or religion. It simply means the proper adjustment of the individual soul in spiritual love with God the Supreme Soul. If we get hung up on methodology or cultural or ritualistic trappings our progess becomes checked. If we look at the substance of what Jesus taught (or whats left of it...) We get a better understanding of what His purpose was. Deny thyself, self sacrifice for a higher non-material ideal. I like to think also that Jesus was enlightened enough to understand that a higher conception of God would necessarily include the female shakti or Divine Potency, not just an antropomorphic male patriarchial creator diety. The Vedas give us information that above the impersonal unconditioned all accomodating spiritual light of Brahman there exists an infinite variagated beautiful unlimited realm of transcendental spiritual consciousness (vaikuntha - meaning without limit) where God plays in the form of a beautiful child in unlimited loving pastimes with unlimited numbers of liberated souls in bot male and female spiritual forms. Jesus said " In my fathers Kingdom there are many mansions"

The miracles that Jesus performed can be understood as yogic siddhis or mystic powers that are obtainable by the practice of the Astangha yoga as delineated by Patanjali in the yoga sutras. Few are qualified to achieve them in this age however they do in fact exist. There is a great body of suppressed evidence that Jesus travelled, lived and studied in Northern India. Please see the book, " Jesus Lived in India". It has a wealth of documented information regarding Jesus, His teachings, travels and the history of Jews in Northern India since the time of Moses. Also the Essene/Gnostic connection offers alternative views of Christ.

Over the centuries Christianity has been adulterated, formalized and used for social and political control. Some of the original concepts like reincarnation and other esoteric knowledge have been omited in favour of a watered down version more sutable for widespread propaganda. However the core of devotional theism remains which is a wonderful teaching and very akin to the Bhakti yoga of Indian devotional theism.... The unfortunate addition of the myopic view that Jesus is the ONLY way is a misconception that breeds intolerance of other forms of faith and spirituality. When He said "I am the way" We interpret that to mean, devotion is the way, My example of self sacrifice, My whole hearted giving of My soul to the Supreme Soul in loving devotional relationship (vatsalya-rasa, ie: God as father, devotee as son) Also "I am the way" can be interpreted as the concept of Guru-tattva. "No one passes to the Father but through Me" This means you must develop your relationship with God through a genuine agent of Divinity. A saint, a guru, ie: a realized individual who is situated in transcendental consciousness and Love of God. By serving such a realized master the disciple also develops bhava (loving spiritual emotions for God). This is a very developed science of theological truth called sampradaya in India. Jesus created sampradaya with His disciples.

Realized persons such as Christ teach according to time place and circumstance. (desha-kala-patra) They deliver teachings that are appropriate to the subjective spiritual evolution of the culture they are dealing with. No doubt He knew more than He revealed. He said: "there are many things you are not ready to hear' But what He did reveal was enough to ignite the hatred of the self-seeking religious hypocrites of His time. He was a beacon of light, and His example of self-sacrifice lives on powerfully to this day. He sacrificed His life so that we might gain faith in the higher eternal conscious Reality. Some will hate the light of Truth (the asuras or gross materialists) but those who love the light (the devas or dharmic & spiritually evolved ) will recognize it and embrace the revelation as a message of love from our spiritual home, no matter what external form it may take or what ethnic culture it may appear in. Jesus is our dearmost friend.