The Hidden Story of Jesus
by Kripamoya das
Dear Vaishnavas,
Hare Krishna!
Perhaps you missed this piece of thought-provoking television on Christmas Day, but here's a second opportunity to watch it.
Channel 4 broadcast an extended documentary about the life of Jesus and how his life is viewed by other faith traditions, including ours. The researchers came to our Radha-Krishna temple in central London and were given lots of information and contact details of other expert sources to interview, both at the OCHS in Oxford and in Vrindavan, India.
Aired: December 25, 2007 on Channel 4
Duration: 1:40:53
Info: Theologian Dr Robert Beckford investigates amazing parallels to the Christ story in other faiths, some of them predating Christianity by thousands of years. The Hindu god, Krishna, was conceived by a virgin, and his birth was attended by angels, wise men, and shepherds. Buddha was also the result of a miraculous birth and visited by wise men bearing gifts. Beckford attempts to unravel the mystery of why there are so many versions of the Christ story across the world and asks which is the real one.
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Personally, I think they treated Vaishnavism and devotion to Krishna with great sensitivity and the scenes of Vrindavan, kirtans and temples certainly contributed a sparkle to the film's first fifteen minutes. And for this to be shown on Christmas Day in the evening was definitely an exercise in adventurous and courageous programming.
The narrator / interviewer of the film is himself a Christian, so the sub-text of the film, which we should also be aware of, is that Jesus Christ is such a figure that all the world's religions have some sort of an opinion on him. There is an attempt to highlight the commonality between all the faith traditions, something which is helpful in today's climate.
Everything considered, this film will have helped some people to understand many helpful messages and perhaps, for some people, it will have been their very first exposure to kirtan and the Krishna tradition. At the very least, we must wonder at the phenomenon of Hare Krishna kirtan being broadcast to millions of homes in England on Christmas Day!
Yours, Kripamoya das
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Comments
religeon,..
Religeon has been created by human, not by god himself..
The true wisdom of religeon has been stolen thousands of years ago by many governments who changed true religeon in their own profit for materialistic reason and to maintain power and control over people, coz the majority of people are to dumb to think for themselves.
The true connection to god should be a 1 to 1 link without any one interfering or trying to change ones mind.
As long as the fundamental thought of religeon is based on honesty, humbleness, consciousness and true love we will find peace and happiness.
Unfortunately , i have given up hope that the world will reach that stadium of consciousness as the majority is misled by wrong thoughts and selfishness. And ruled by materialistic human power which will kill the world and humanity bit by bit..
I dont want to be right but can't we see whats going on ? Can't we see that we already took the wrong direction and unless we stop following the wrong power of governments and hypocrites (which i believe is impossible now) we will not be able to find peace, true love and eternal faith..
Go with the almighty power of our creator.
Swamiprashad Jagbandhan