P K Vijayan

Nirvana of Jesus Christ P K Vijayan

Nirvana of Jesus Christ brings out the spiritual and philosophical genesis, growth, fruition and culmination of the personality of Jesus Christ from childhood to crucifixion in comparison to that of Lord Buddha. Nearly 18 missing years of Jesus' younger days, until the time of his emergence as a preacher evangelizing the ideals enshrined in the New Testament of the Holy Bible, are delineated. The significance of Jesus' revolutionary philosophy, ethical code of conduct and imperatives of righteousness to be compatible with the divine path of God are graphically brought out. It narrates Jesus' long years spent with John, later John the Baptist, in the university of Takshashila, and his comprehensive absorption of Yoga precepts and practices and Indian spiritual ethos. This novel will be quite purposeful in understanding the maturation of the kernel of Buddhist and Christian philosophies in an identical ambience. Even a cursory read of Nirvana of Jesus Christ will conclusively prove to the reader that core values, metaphysics and ministerial conducts in Jesus' gospels are rooted in Buddhist doctrines. Since Jesus Christ was presenting his spiritual and religious creed to usher in the Kingdom of God, he needed to reshape the Buddhist philosophical architecture in the template of theistic, faith-centric Judaism, whose followers were his first listeners. In short, Christianity articulates Buddhist composition by imposing the superstructure of God onto the concept of the Son, Father and Holy Ghost. The great commandments of Jesus and the pathology of the Sermon on the Mount are refashioned in the gist of Buddha's Noble truths, eight-fold paths (Ashtanga Marga), five Silas and the characteristics of Nirvana.