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 enlarge | Author: Deepak Chopra
Publisher: Harmony
Category: Book
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0307338312
Dewey Decimal Number: 232
EAN: 9780307338310
ASIN: 0307338312
Publication Date: February 19, 2008
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 Enlighten Yourself June 3, 2008
30 out of 32 found this review helpful
I was raised a Christian and still attend a Christian church on occasion. But if anyone who truly wants to understand and believe in Jesus they must first ask themselves why the Holy Bible leaves out the 13 years of Jesus' life. You simply can not leave out half of his life if you are going to chronicle the life and teachings of the Savior of the world. It simply states he went to the East to study. As if it was unimportant somehow. If you want to know about the 13 missing years I suggest "Googling" +Jesus +Issa or +Jesus +Isha (There are two spellings). I hope it would not be too disturbing for Christians to find out that Jesus went to the East to study Buddhism and Hinduism. That's probably why the "Bible Writers" left that part out. After all if Jesus studied and practiced Buddhism and Hindu Yoga why shouldn't we all.
The "Son of God" was not the man Jesus but the "Christ Consciousness" that he was endowed with. He was "one" with the Christ Consciousness so when Jesus spoke he was also speaking as Christ. So when he would say things like "I am The Light, The Way, and The Truth." it was Christ speaking not just Jesus. We can all tap into the Christ Consciousness but not to the degree of Jesus, and that is Chopra's point. Others have made full contact with the Christ Consciousness and have gone by the names Buddha and Krishna, and others.
I find it troublesome that so many people who call themselves Christians believe that theirs is the "one correct" religion and that everybody else has got it all wrong somehow. While Buddhist and Hindu practitioners are open and accepting of all religions as long as they are based on love and compassion. More than one reviewer has tried to make the argument that Chopra has no business writing a book on Jesus because he does not practice Christianity. I'm sure Mr. Chopra would argue he does practice Christianity, just in a different way.
I have a much closer relationship with Christ and God through regular meditation than I ever did going to weekly church services. I no longer follow the Christian doctrines because for me I believe Jesus came here to teach us how to live with one another and how to find God and be with him in our daily lives. Not just to die for my sins. And I do not believe that we are separated from Christ and God (They are "Up" in Heaven and we are "Down" here on Earth). I believe like Jesus taught that the "Kingdom of Heaven is Within" and that we are all endowed with a part of God's Light and God's Love within us and we just need to look inside and find it and nurture it. And that is the point of view that this book takes. It tries to explain, from maybe a different point of view, what Jesus was trying to teach us. How any one could have a problem with that is beyond me.
If you are interested in this book, and I hope you are, you should also take a look at Paramahansa Yogananda's "The Second Coming of Christ".
May you walk on the Path of Enlightenment and your Journey end in the Light.
 Great instruction on how to make it through the wide gate. June 1, 2008
7 out of 42 found this review helpful
There are books that help people understand the subject they are written about and there are books that obscure the truth. The easiest way to spot the ones that obscure the truth are the ones that contradict themselves. To write about Jesus using the Bible as its source and then to discredit that source is a blatant contradiction.
The new perspective on Jesus is not even new, but is a veil to obscure the rest Jesus. This is another book among many that allow people to call themselves christians without having to be christians. Being a christian is not easy. Finding your way through the narrow gate is difficult and treacherous. If your path is smooth, wide, straight and easy; you'll find your walk through the wide gate without ado.
 Deepak should stick to what he knows May 27, 2008
4 out of 18 found this review helpful
I really have enjoyed many of Deepak's books, but when you're talking about Jesus, you really need to have your research and insight down pat. This book really didn't provide me with any deep insight into who Jesus is and it really was surface interpretation. Once again, I have may of Deepaks books, but this one didn't hit the mark for me.
Very interesting May 22, 2008
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
In my search to discover my own beliefs, I have found this book to be very provocative. Being brought up as a Christian, I am discovering that the notion of this particular way of looking at Jesus may be what is missing the church of today.
Darn it, Deepak May 20, 2008
14 out of 78 found this review helpful
Man, I really, really wanted to trust this guy. I've always loved Indian culture, and have even trusted Deepak Chopra's health-related wisdom.
But, if he'll make this up to perhaps make some money, then where does the lying end? It happens all the time, and this guy has just exposed himself, especially to anyone who reads the Bible with faith and understanding.
The Son of God, Jesus, is God. Jesus is the one and only way to the Father, and He is the Savior of our souls.
"Life is short, Death is sure, Sin is the cause, Christ is the cure!"
"This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus." - Romans 3:22-24
If you want true peace with God, I would suggest reading "Romans" in the Bible, where there is no one-man or one-society philosophy, but there is the true words of God. If you realize that you need God because, like each one of us, you are a sinner, then put your faith in Jesus to reconcile you to God. Jesus, the Son of God, died and rose again to Heaven so that we who believe will have peace with God.
"For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! Not only this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation." - Romans 5:10-11
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