Missing 18 Years of Lord Christ

While surfing on web, I came across lot of stories claiming that Lord Christ was in India for 18 missing years in his life. Hence I decided to find and judge truth behind these stories.

The entire birth & life of Jesus Christ is shrouded in mystery, fable and legend. The Holy Bible records the birth of Jesus as well as his life until he was 12 years old in vivid detail. After that, there is no discussion about Jesus’s life for the next 18 years.

Where was he during those years? Some will say that it does not matter where he was. But Bible fails to tell us about those 18 missing years, when it gives vivid details about the first 12 years of his sermons, life, his crucifixion & resurrection.

And this has led all kind of stories in the word about missing years of Lord Christ. One of those stories claims that Jesus was in India for his missing 18 years in his Life.

One of the view supporting this story is of Nicolas Notovitch.During his visit to Ladakh, India, he found out the story of Saint Issa and he resembled him like lord Christ.In his book , "The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ", he put forward theory that Saint Issa in India.

Read Full story of "The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ".

In his book, he has described how Saint issa came to India, got impressed by Buddhist and Hindu teachings, learned them and one day left India and landed Israel to spread his principles.

There is also a German book "jesus lived in India", which claims that Jesus Lived in India after his resurrection. Read Full Story.
This article is a summary of Kersten's exhaustive research into Christ's travels after the Crucifixion, his arrival in India with the Mother Mary and finally his death and entombment in Kashmir.

There can be many such stories with extensive research done on it and claimed on basis of various manuscripts, verses. But fact can't be denied that It is very difficult to prove that Jesus was in India and he learned Buddhist and Hindu principles in India.It can happen that at some time, a person who resembles like Christ, might be existing in India but it will be fullish statement to say on that basis that it was Lord Christ.

Again, It is a human tendency to take credit of everything that is great.And Lord Christ was indeed the great personality on this earth and many would get delighted to get connected with him.This again would have led all kind of such stories trying to connect themselves with lord Christ.

The Close resemblance between Christianity and Buddhism has led people to spread such stories that Christianity was evolved from Buddhism and Lord Christ learn Buddhist principles in India. But again, if you study all religions on this earth, then principles of every religion are same in one or other way. There is close resemblance in all principles and again, it will be unwise if we say that Christianity was evolved from Buddhism.If it had been, then there would not have been differences like below in Buddhism and Christianity.

* In my opinion the main difference is a belief in reincarnation, nirvana and karma. Christian people believe that they have only one life,but Buddhist people believe on cycle of life, which is reincarnation.
* Christianity has the hell and the heaven.Buddhism has a sin and a benefaction.
* Christianity is based on holy book-Bible. Buddhism is based on teaching.
* Christian is a monotheistic religion, Buddhism is a polytheistic one.Buddhism doesn't have a holy book.If any edition you can share your opinion.
* Again ,the Christian founder, Jesus Christ was the Son of The Father, God, while the
founder of Buddhism, Siddhartha Gautama was a normal human being, who achieved
enlightenment through meditation and later on was referred to as The Buddha(The
Awakened).

These are one of the major differences between Buddhism and Christianity. Had Christianity been evolved from Buddhism, there would not have been such big differences in these principles.But again, both of these are one of the sacred religions along with all other religions whose teachings are almost same to one another.

Having studied all these facts, what i believe now is that it will be the waste of time, if we try to find out whether Christ lived in India and learned from Buddhism in India, or Christianity is evolved from Buddhism. It will be insult of the greatness of Lord Christ and to all those religions, whose principles are nothing but same, show the path to ultimate illumination! Let us not waste time in finding the past and from where's Christ teaching came? But to spread his teaching all over the world!