The spiritual family of Saint Thomas continued and grew. None will deny that there is some substance in this belief” (S. G. Pothen, The Syrian Christians of Kerala). He therefore made his body lighter than air and passed over to the land of Israel. A contemporary written record of the life and teachings of Jesus in India was discovered in 1887 by the Russian traveler Nicholas Notovitch during his wanderings in Ladakh. The Ishannis considered astrology a legitimate means of forecast and guidance, and used it accordingly. According to The Acts of Thomas, when King Mazdai, who would eventually have him martyred, asked Saint Thomas: “Who is thy master? 17. As the grandson of the Pharaoh, Moses had been an initiate of those mysteries and destined to ultimately become the head of the Egyptian religion. Jesus then set forth on his return journey to Israel with the blessings of the masters. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. At Nilamperur, near the site of a Hindu temple, the effigy of a king wearing a pectoral cross was unearthed at the end of the last century. After crucifixion, or perhaps even before it, Isha Natha entered samadhi by means of yoga. Their claims about their very existence was certainly a controversial matter. This being so, the Gospels themselves must be approached with grave caution and with the awareness that Jesus was not the creator of a new religion, but a messenger of the Eternal Religion he had learned in India. 5. Two of them, The Book of Charms and The Ring of Solomon, were on Christian magic. (Many Saint Thomas Christians still wear rudraksha beads, a mark of worshippers of Shiva.) Q. Some were actually taken to Portugal and Rome and subjected to “interrogation” by the Inquisition. I saw the effects of this for myself when speaking at a church meeting in Niranam where Saint Thomas had founded the congregation. The masters also instructed Jesus in the form his spiritual teachings should take and the specific yogic practices that should be given to his disciples. Nanduji told me that Saint Gregorios told his uncles that he considered his mission in life was to bring about the restoration of three essential teachings to the Saint Thomas Christian Church: 1) the belief in karma; 2) the belief in reincarnation; and 3) the belief that God and the individual spirit-Self are one. Central to More than one unsuccessful attempt was made in the early centuries by the Mediterranean Christians to establish their form of Christianity in India. But both Swami Abhedananda and Swami Trigunatitananda–direct disciples of Sri Ramakrishna and preachers of Vedanta in America–went at separate times to the Himis monastery. 2. The necessary preliminaries being completed, Jesus of Nazareth set forth on a spiritual pilgrimage that would end at the feet of the three masters who would transform Jesus the Nazarene into Isha the Lord, the Teacher of Dharma and Messiah of Israel. Ganesha is the Hindu deity that is depicted with the head of an elephant. The stone, which is black in color, is said to have been given to Abraham by the Archangel Gabriel, who instructed him in its worship. It was, though, felt that appropriate prayers directed toward the sun would evoke a divine response. When confronted with this document, Saint Thomas abandoned his resistance and left for India where he did in truth follow the steps of his Master and become his “twin” in all things. (The Saint Thomas Christians still use divination of various sorts.).