The Davinci Code

Recently I have read the novel The Davinci Code. It has been one fo my brain storming subjects then onwards. The film has been released world wide including India, but not in Hyderabad, my city. Few christian fanatics were able to stop the release though the film has been cleared in censor board and through court clearance. A novel which has been sold 60000 copies and released in all major christian populated countries has been found objectionable to be released in Hyderabad where christian population is only 8%.

I am not a theist. But I don't say I am an atheist either. When I am not 100 percent sure on one subject I don't stick to a particular dogma. But this much I can say. A person named Jesus Christ would have been existed in those times. He must have been a very saintly man... who can influence commons and the privileged as well. In those days violence is very common. People must have vexed up with violence which they see every day. They obviously were seeing for a leader who openly shunned violence.

They found him in the name of Jesus Christ! They have been attracted to his teachings.

In the Bible we clearly see that the Jesus condemned existing religion in those times and ethics which are leading to exploitation and violence. That made the ruling class get angry on Christ. On the day when Christ was arrested, he was hiding in a remote place. The soldiers doesn't even know who is Jesus Christ. They took the help of Judas in identifying Jesus. What is implied with this? It was clearly told that Jesus' activity is not completely open. He must have obviously running his campaign from under ground. People have patronised him... no doubt about it. But his activity was never granted openly by the authorities.

We also know by the Bible that even after death, the disciples were in doubt about the holiness of christ. That clearly means that they never treated him as a Holy Man when he was alive. They treated him as a Guru and respected him no doubt. But not as a 'Divine Person'. After death of christ soldiers come and enquire about Christ's followers. They even arrest few of the disciples. But St Peter, one of the most revered diciple of all, lies that he was a follower. Later, after his death, slowly there was a public opinion building about the need for change. Sensing on that, the disciples or followers who ever they are, started a very big campaign which ultimately became a religion. Bowing to their patronage, the mighty Roman empire had nothing to do but joined in the main stream. But while doing that, the king Constantine has done a clever mischief in constituting the religion. The original preachings of Christ were modified where they are objectionable to the Raj. They kept other things as they are.

That is the reason, they have hidden the gospels by Magdelene Mary, Judas etc. Which contain certain issues which are giving scope for questioning the Godliness of Jesus Christ.

This we see everywhere. Irrespective of region in every religion. People make great men into gods or sons of god. I recently visited Shirdi where thousands of devotees visit every day to take darshan of Sai Baba . To my surprise, the so called temple of Sai Baba at Shirdi is nothing but a museum of his things! I have seen his kitchen, room, oven, a stone on which he used to sit, and a neem tree underneath which he used to preach public.

Everyone in India knows what Sai Baba preached! He preached all his lifetime that God is one. He went to temple and masjid alike. Even we can see a masjid at Shirdi temple, though it is no more used by muslims. But now he was made a Hindu God! One may not wonder if Jesus Christ and Allah are also made hindu gods one day by these Hindus. Having listed a lot of miracles to his credit, Hindu brahmins perform puja like every other Hindu temple reciting Sanskrit slokas! If you go out to public and try to tell them that Sai Baba was not a God but he was just a man like you and me, people will hang you!

The people who lived during the time of Sai Baba might have built a memorium as a tribute to his noble deeds. Latter it has become a real Hindu temple with brahmin priests.... who once shunned him.... as the stories tell.

Sai Baba went to a Hindu disciple and Muslim disciple and ate whatever they gave for meal. He was obviously a non-vegetarian. But now his disciples practice Vegetarianism, at least on thursday.

With this example, we can easily understand how Jesus became Christ!