THE GREAT CHRISTIAN MIRACLE

THE GREAT CHRISTIAN MIRACLE

What you call 'miracle' is as yet unexplained happening obeying subtle natural law (sukshma vijnaan). Miracles are material phenomena and not spiritual at all. Hence, a religion like Christianity ✝️ that relies heavily on miracles is essentially material in content and character. From Virgin Birth to Resurrection with the intermediary wine-making from water to raising Lazarus from the dead are all either concoctions, misreading of events or instances of miracles which obey subtle natural law. Hence, they are all within the ambit of materialism, albeit of a subtler order at best, and not expressive of spirituality at all.

Did Christ ever speak of such exalted spiritual states as samadhi, Brahmajnana and the like or did he only speak of sublimated states of matter like Heaven and degenerate states of matter like Hell? It is materialism all the way, so full of ancient superstition that it beats one's imagination to conceive of any credible reason why some preeminent Hindu 🕉 religious organisations and individuals should be hell-bent upon thrusting Vedantic import on Christ's rather innocuous 'Sermon on the Mount', no doubt an inspiring message to mankind by a Jewish prophet -- although the Jews have historically rejected his prophethood or his being Messiah -- but in no way remotely resembling the Upanishadic ideas of absolute existence and non-dualistic transcendental freedom from all material fetters. Christ's faith in the Father in Heaven, his overcoming of the Temptation by Satan, his casting of the Devil into the body of the swine, his forty-day fast in the wilderness followed by supposed self-proclaimed illumination of sorts -- all these are not indicative that he was a trained yogi of credible spiritual attainments and realisations. The miracles he performed are attested to his being the Messiah as are the assertions of his mother's conceiving him as a virgin, before the coup de grace is delivered unto declaration of his divinity and of his status as the only begotten Son of God -- to doubtlessly suit exigencies of the narrative of Original Sin -- by stating that he physically rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven. What a preposterous proposition by way of proving divinity when all the instances cited above are either fabricated or, if indeed they had occurred as stated, at best miraculous and, hence, material and not divine at any rate. Moreover, this Heaven and Hell and the Hereafter and the Day of Judgment which Christ purportedly preached was such crass superstition that adorns all three Abrahamic religions that one seriously starts doubting Christ's status of minimum sainthood, leave aside his being the only begotten Son of God -- which is another puerile proposition -- or an Indian-style Avatar which status the Ramakrishna Mission confers upon him and in accordance offers him worship. The chronicled Christ, to all intents and purposes, does seem to be a spiritual novice in Indian yogic terms and in no way a realised soul, let alone a Divine Incarnation.

This curious blend of arrant superstition and supposed spirituality really renders Christ a most intriguing personality and Christianity ✝️ a queer cult of materialism and mysticism borrowed from prevalent Middle Eastern practices of the day when its founder -- if he ever existed, that is, for there is no proof of it as well -- moved about preaching his mixed baggage of piety, purity and puerile precepts. Indeed, the fabled Christmas tree stands on such hollow roots on shallow soil that it must reform continuously by cleverly ingesting principles and practices of the Sanatan Dharma -- which, incidentally, it has been doing right since inception, in error, though -- if it is not to suffer uprooting in the advancing rational tide of times.

Written by Sugata Bose