Jesus, Christianity and Swami Vivekananda

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The book 'Jesus, Christianity and Swami Vivekananda' by Virag Pachpore is a valuable contribution to the literature on comparative religion. But it is much more than that. Virag's book is not only an academic work which has interest only to the scholarly critics, but has immense implications for the present day world.

At first sight one may wonder how the two great men, Jesus Christ and Swami Vivekananda, who lived two millennia apart and preached two different religions, can be compared. A close study of the book will reveal that there is much in common between the original teachings of these two spiritual leaders. To understand this deeply, scrupulous and critical study of both is essential. This book shows such a study is highly instructive and greatly rewarding.

The study is prompted by two reasons the first one is that both Jesus Christ and Swami Vivekananda were Orientals and had inherited from a common pool of ancient wisdom. Swami Vivekananda had made it clear through many of his speeches and writings, both in India and abroad, that Christ's original teachings, few as they are, were distorted and embellished by the priestly class later on. Secondly, Jesus, like Vivekananda, was not only an oriental by birth but also by training. There is voluminous evidence to show that Jesus had widely travelled all over northern India from Jagannath Puri to Tibet and had learned his spiritual lessons from Brahmins as well as Buddhist monks. It has been proved that the so called 'Lost Years' in the life of Jesus were the days he spent in India. Innumerable scholars from India, Russia and Europe have collected massive evidence to buttress this point. But the Church has been deliberately trying to suppress Jesus' oriental connection.