Satyajit Sahib Bihari was just 14 when he took his first trading trip with his father, a successful leader who traveled the world to find treasures and daily products which were needed in one location, and found in another. His entire life was made up of moving, picking up, delivering, from one location to another. Saty was not quite sure he was going to like becoming involved with the trading business, but, surely, he would ultimately have to take over for his father...
But on this very first trip, a young boy, maybe 11 or 12, came running toward him, saw Saty, and ran to where he was hiding, glancing behind to see if he was still being chased. The boy was laughing, enjoying the confusion, as if he was not afraid, but still realized that, maybe, an adventure was starting... Maybe, he thought, this young boy could become his friend and join the caravan? It would be wonderful to have a boy of his own age to talk and play with while they traveled. So he took the boy to introduce him to his father and asked whether he could be invited to provide a companion for himself...
Yeshua must have impressed his father, because before long, his parents brought him back to where the caravan waited and delivered him with their blessings... Saty becomes the narrator of what was to happen and the Prologue sets the final stage against which Saty tells his story... Many years have passed. Saty had come to meet his friend Yeshua, but he was dead, murdered just days before. His best friend ever and he had missed seeing him once again... Those who had traveled with Jesus were all together in a building, but they would not allow him to enter. But food an drink was brought...
He Stayed For Three Days... Until...
The beginning and the ending of the story of Yeshua/Jesus is well known to both those who have chosen Christianity and those who Have retained the Jewish faith--as well as those who are leaders of religions that have been started and stopped, or those who have continued for many years since the birth of Christ.
But well-known researcher and writer and, one of the most brilliant men I've met through his books, Stanislaw Kapuscinski (a.k.a. Stan I.S. Law) began to discover, perhaps, bits and pieces through his searches and began to actually see what might have happened in the long period between the time already written about in the Bible when he began to travel to the Temple...and when he later sought to be baptized, find those who would be his disciples and moved on to the life He was to live...
This book is one of the most important books I will have read in my lifetime. It is written as a personal memoir, not of Jesus, but of the lad who became His very first best friend... Let's begin the journey of Yeshua and Saty which lasted for over a decade...
Saty was from India, while in describing his new friend, Yeshua, he referred first to his reddish hair, but most of all his eyes of blue. Eyes that, he noted, could feel like he was looking straight through you... Yet they began to laugh and play together and grew to greatly care about each other... And, when, Saty was required to learn from a teacher who traveled with them, Yeshua would join them... Slowly, over time, Saty realized that his friend would meet with his teacher even more than needed... Saty started asking questions. And each night when they came back together, Yeshua started sharing:
Yeshua told of his earlier years when he had been required to memorize the entire Torah. He admitted that he had found himself still questioning--needing to know more--beyond the Torah... And, in, now, in beginning to be taught of history, geography and past religions or other cultural matters, Yeshua soon was earnestly searching to know more... In fact, often when they would be traveling from place to place, Yeshua would go off by himself, each time, able to find those most appropriate--learned men who were willing to quench his thirst with more on their lives, what they believed and how they came to that knowledge... He learned of those philosophers that lived before Him-- Greek thinkers such as Socrates, Plato and Aristotle... and when they were in places where religious retreats were located, he would go, greeted by the monks or other leaders and learned of their religions, how they came about... Questioning... always seeking new knowledge, new cultural information...and assimilating...
In reading this book, we learn along with Yeshua of all those past gods that had been created... yes, created by man until finally, Yeshua pronounced a fact: Man Created Religion... Although He had read many scrolls and other documents from the various cultures, not once had he talked to Saty about His Own beliefs. Indeed Saty actually knew little about his cultural religion, learning all that he needed to know as a resident and constant traveler... But slowly, watching and talking to Yeshua allowed a deep friendship, a brotherly love to grow between the two that was totally different and perhaps stronger than either had with their own siblings...
Now, thinking about my memories of how I felt while reading this book, I wonder... First, whether I should state clearly as I had planned that this was of the alternative history genre... and Second, if Yeshua wanted us to learn of all things--to read, absorb, and then to Love All as God the Creator Does, is it not possible that a man who is concerned enough about his readers to used a simple more easily remembered name to write under--could He not have been touched just as Paul was? Paul was not a disciple--He had never met Yeshua himself... Yet his words are accepted to become a part of a book that was first created by the Jewish people, together with other people's accounts which make up the majority of what we know as The New Testament, which, includes little about what Yeshua actually spoke...
I believe that God Lives Today. He speaks to those with open hearts, and listens... There wasn't one thing that I read that I could disagree with, based upon my own, limited, in relation to Stanislaw, knowledge of Yeshua - Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior. If you find you are not satisfied with religion and, especially, how it is being used these day to incite and use violence against others saying they are led by God, then I recommend you read another version of daily living in any religion in which you happen to have been born. This book, in my opinion, will speak to anybody who is searching for answers... And by reading, you have already discovered what is important to remember... Learning More Each Day...
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