Danda 1995 - Suhotra Maharaja Archives

experience and his unexpected crucifixion acc. to their capacity and who acc. tomy understanding quite didn't get it. Vaishnavera kriya mudra. The difference toSri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is that he had highly elevated and learned men aroundhim to preserve his teachings. Here we have fishers, simple men.However, these men, while not perceiving the teachings of Jesus BEYOND the Torahwere serious devotees, adhering to ascetic practices and Vegetarianism(inconceivable that they would not have been taught this by Jesus himself - "noservant is greater that his master") These were the puritans, later condemned asfanatics and finally declared heretical in their succeeding movements asEbionites and Nazarites (all Vegetarian).It is most significant that they described Paul as the first Christian Apostate(that means who fell from the faith) They were for at least twenty years heavilyembroiled in fighting with Paul and followers and ultimately lost the battle.Due to their Jewish-ness they would acc to scholars have participated in theRise of all of Israel in rise against the Romans. Consequently they would havenot survived the ensuing massacre of the entitě city of Jerusalem in 7o AD.There are description of a flight to Transjordania, pella though. But thesepeople were scattered, all information about them are distorted and possiblydestroyed by later Christian fanatics.Only AFTER all that all 4 Gospels were compiled...Paul and his followers make up the next phase of Christian development.Different from the original disciples of Jesus Paul was an intellectual, thefirst Theologian, well trained, according to him trained at the feet of thefamous Pharisaic teacher and scribe Gamaliel (Acts 22:3, this report is by theway is doubted by scholars). Naturally in comparison to him the Jerusalemcommunity was no match.He had no proper concepts of the teachings of Jesus either (having never metJesus except as described by Paul himself in his encounter on the Road toDamascus (which is impossible to verify and I cannot help to have some doubtsabout) And even if he met Jesus, the instructions from him are very differentfrom what he must told the other apostles. Hence the controversy.Like everyone else he is similarly on the bodily platform by all accounts, andbeing trapped in the thought patterns of his Pharisaic upbringing (who were bythe way the only Jewish sect which believed in the RESURRECTION of the dead , -hence hardly any traces are left in the later Gospels of reincarnationalconcepts and the resurrection of the flesh is prominently featured) Let us notforget that the Pharisees Sect were not exactly the target of Jesus' adoration.Paul would define now Christianity according to his realization. It isindicative that he does not at all dwell in all of his writings on thehistorical Jesus or his sayings like one would expect from him (like we saySrila Prabhupada said this and Srila Prabhupada said that). Indeed there arehardly a handful of references to the historical person. Rather he goes to workwith expounding his own philosophy which acc to his own writings areunacceptable by the direct followers of Jesus.At the heart of it all is the idea of the Salvation coming from the cross. It isthe cross which becomes the climax event from now on, providing the Salvationof men. Acc to the Torah crucifixion of a person actually points to the divinedamnation of the victim. ".. If a man guilty of a capital offense is put todeath and his body is hung on a tree, 23 you must not leave his body on thetree overnight. Be sure to bury him that same day, because anyone who is hung ona tree is under God's curse."(Deuteronomy 21:22-23)