YOU MEAN THAT'S IN THE BIBLE?

    You Mean THAT's In the Bible?

By: Satyaraja Dasa  

     Dedicated to His Divine Grace A.C.  Bhaktivedanta Swami

Prabhupada, who set the perfect example in his own life, by

Loving the Lord with all of his heart, soul, and mind. (See

Matt. 22:36-40)

                       Table of Contents

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1) Introduction

2) You are not the Body

3) One Who Loves Christ Must Follow His Commandments

4) Meat Eating

5) Reincarnation

6) Celibacy

7) Renunciation

8) "There is much I have to tell you..."

9) Jesus and God May Be One--But They Are Also Different

10) Miscellaneous

11) After word

(Special thanks to His Grace Rajendranath Dasa; the fruits of

His research were indispensable to the production of this

Pamphlet)

1)  INTRODUCTION

   Both read the Bible day and night.

   But thou read’s black where I read white.

  --William Blake--

     Everyone has some conception of Christianity, whether one

Is a believer or not. The Christian doctrine is amenable to

Many different interpretations and, indeed, many have taken

Advantage of this amenability.  As early as sixty-five years

After the time of Jesus, for instance, Paul, who had never met?

Jesus, debated with the original Apostles in regard to Jesus'

Teaching:   Paul thought that Jesus’ advent freed the people

From following the Old Law, that faith alone was required.

Meanwhile, the Apostles taught that Jesus came to enforce the

Old Law, and that faith without work is dead.

WERE THERE TWO BUDDHAS?

Were There Two Buddhas?

by Sri Nandanandana dasa (Stephen Knapp)

I was asked to look into this a few years ago by someone who knew of my research abilities. But I have not been able to until now because of other priorities. But this topic has come up before, that actually there were two different Buddhas that played the part to establish Buddhism and its principles of ahimsa and nonviolence and its monist philosophy.

In the following material, we will look at the evidence that seems to indicate that there was first the Avatara Buddha, the incarnation of Lord Vishnu who appeared near 1800 BCE, and then there was another person who became known as Gautama called Buddha, born around 560 BCE.

1. The first Avatara Buddha established the philosophy of Ahimsa, nonviolence, and convinced those followers of Vedic customs who had become bent toward animal sacrifice to give up such rituals and simply follow him, and become kind to animals. Being an avatara of Vishnu, He did not establish any godless or monist philosophy.

2. The Avatara Buddha was also born of his mother Anjana in what became known as Bodhgaya.

3. The second Buddha known as Gautama, Siddhartha, or Shakyamuni – sage of the Shakyas – was born in Lumbini, now in Nepal, with Mayadevi as his mother. He is the one we often hear about, the prince who left home to do austerities to find enlightenment. He went to Bodhgaya to meditate because of its spiritual potency as the birthplace of the avatara Buddha. Then he became enlightened to the reasons for suffering in this world, and developed a godless way of becoming free from suffering. From that point he established the monist and godless philosophy of Buddhism, which became named after him.