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RUSSIAN ARCHBISHOP INSULTS KRISHNA

Thus far and no further, Archbishop Nikon.

(At the end of this article is (a) evidence of Jesus having lived in India, and (b) the complete text of the letter written by Archbishop Nikon which makes an interesting reading.)

The Russian Archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Archbishop Nikon. has called Krishna an "Evil demon".

In a letter to the Mayor of Moscow the rev. Archbishop has requested the Mayor to ban construction of Krishna temple in Moscow. In his view the temple of Krishna is “a satanic obscenity”, and "an idolatrous disgrace erected for the glory of wicked and malicious 'god' Krishna."

The rev. Bishop has used choicest of expletives for Krishna, which reflects his hatred (or is it fear! ) of Krishna. Sample these:

"…an evil demon, the personified power of hell opposing
God"
"…a livid lascivious youth"
“The satanic identity of
Krishna…”

The letter of the Archbishop is an insult to the billions of hindus who have always remained tolerant and have ignored barbaric attacks on their culture in history. If Archbishop Nikon comes to India he will find several people who are hindus, and yet read Bible, pray to Jesus and visit shrines of Sufi saints, because Hinduism is a lot about tolerance.

But this is going too far. The man has lost his head. The rev. Archbishop has also insulted all those who believe in true spirituality, the law of equality, human dignity and decency. He has spat on the face of the modern civilized society.

It is not a matter of concern to me that he is misinformed about Krishna, for there is no derth of spiritual illiterate and mentally bankrupt people who consider themselves enlightened and above the laws of human decency, but what is concerning and alarming is that he is misleading the devout christians across the world about Krishna. Perhaps the rev. Bishop would care to educate himself on the true meaning of Krishna by visiting a few websites and read a book or two. “Foundations of Indian Culture” and “Essays on the Gita”, both by Sri Aurobindo, will do good to him.

Unfortunately, his venom is targeting none else than Christ himself. Swami Prabhupada had said,” Krishna or Christ – the name is the same”. Hindus believe that Jesus, like Lord Krishna, is an avatar of the Divine who came down to show humanity in the righteous way of life. Paramhans Yoganand and Ramkrishna Paramhans have deitified Christ. Christmas is celebrated in Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry as the day of the descent of Christ, the Avatar.

There are striking similarities between the lives and teachings of Krishna and Christ. The birth of both these avatars was foretold, both were born in unusal place, both have been depicted as shepherds, both taught love and peace...

Krishna says in the Gita - I assume human form whenever righteousness declines and unrighteousness prevails. In order to protect the righteousness and also to punish the wicked, I incarnate myself on this earth from time to time.

Similarly, Jesus said: "If God were your Father, ye would love me; for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of Myself but He sent me."

In Gita Krishna says - I am the way, come to Me. Similarly Jesus said - I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well…"

Krishna stressed the idea of the grace of God in the Gita: "I am the origin of everything, and everything arises out of Me…". Similarly, Jesus said: "I am the bread of life; he that cometh to me shall never hunger and he that believeth in me shall never thirst."

Both are avatars, and in insulting Krishna the Archbishop has insulted Christ himself.

In my opinion Archbishop Nikon is not just piquantly intolerant about other faiths, he is misinformed, spiritually myopic and thefore singularly incompetent to hold such a prestigious office.

I protest against this ideological barbarism and naked vandalism in the name of religion, and ask you to join me in my protest. If you decide to join, then send a mail at let_sanity_prevail@yahoo.com. All the mails will be forwarded to the Mayor of Moscow.

Please make copies of this blog and circulate it amongst others.

Arun Naik

Jesus visited the land of Krishna

Like it or not rev. Archbishop, but Jesus visited India – the land of the very ‘satanic’ Krishna whom you drench with your venom.

Ancient scrolls reveal that Jesus spent seventeen years in India and Tibet. From age thirteen to age twenty-nine, he was both a student and teacher of Buddhist and Hindu holy men. The story of his journey from Jerusalem to Benares was recorded by Brahman historians. And when he survived the death penalty of crucification, he returned to India to live as Yuz Asaf till his last days. The mausoleum of Roza Bal in Srinagar is the place where his body rests in peace. The following is the English translation of the information displayed on the signpost that stands outside the Tomb of Jesus Christ in . The information contains the views of Khwaja Azam Deddmari , who compiled his Tarikh-i-Azam in about 1729 A.D.

“Nearby is situated the stone of the grave which, according to the people, is
the prophet's who arrived from a far off place during ancient times. Anointed
for Kashmir: This spot is famous as the resting place of a messenger: I have
read in an ancient book that a prince from a foreign land arrived here and
engaged himself in piety and prayers [and] became a messenger of God for the
Kashmiri people. In that ancient book his name is mentioned as Yuz Asaf.”

Source: www.tombofjesus.com

I invite rev. Archbishop and you too to visit the following websites:

www.tombofjesus.com
www.reluctant-messenger.com/issa.htm



Here is the complete text of the letter which The Russian Archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Archbishop Nikonwrote to the Mayor of Moscow.

FROM:

ORTHODOX CHURCH

Moscow Patriarchate

Ufa Eparchy

29 Sochinskaya street, Ufa, 450103, RUSSIA

phone +7 (3472) 724990, fax (3472) 711226

November 29, 2005

TO:Mayor of MoscowY. M. Luzhkov

Dear Mr. Luzhkov,

Situation with the construction of Krishna "temple" in Moscow does not fail to keep us thoroughly surprised for the last two years. One might fear that this satanic obscenity is destined to be built right in the heart of the Orthodox Christian country of Russia - and yet, all of a sudden, not only due to the mass outcry of the people, but -- miraculously! -- even due to imperfections in the Russian secular law the construction of this citadel of idolatry has become impossible.

Sectarians and various so-called "human rights activists," whose activity for some reason is always anti-Russian and anti-Orthodox, are exerting unprecedented pressure on you as they did last year, and so does the USA - the pillar of "democracy" and the foremost international lobby of various cults. Under the circumstances, you may well be tempted to yield to the pressure and to fulfill the demand of Krishna followers to build their idolatrous temple for Krishna.

But we are requesting you to ponder deeply on who this "god" Krishna really is, who is worshipped by all these almost "angelic," "benevolent" people who do not smoke, do not drink, do not eat meat, who "care" so nicely for the homeless by feeding them with idolatrous food and who may seem to work so laboriously and so voluntarily for the benefit of Moscow?

Krishna ("black" in Sanskrit) has many faces, and all of them are abominable. Here is just one of them: "I see in Your body many, many arms, b ellies, mouths and eyes, expanded everywhere, without limit. I see You with blazing fire coming forth from Your mouth, burning this entire universe by Your own radiance. All the planets with their demigods are disturbed at seeing Your great form, with its many faces, eyes, arms, thighs, legs, and bellies and Your many terrible teeth; and as they are disturbed, so am I. Our chief soldiers are rushing into Your fearful mouths. And some I see trapped with heads smashed between Your teeth."

And on top of it, this "nice god" reclines on a bed of snakes.

This disgusting appearance is fully concordant with his own self-description: "I am Yama, the lord of death. I am all-devouring death, the great destroyer of the worlds, and I have come here to destroy all people."

However, even human-like appearance of Krishna reveals an equally repugnant scene - a livid, plumpish, effeminate and lascivious youth.

For Christians, Jews and Muslims, for whom it is commanded: "I [am] the LORD thy God. Thou shalt have none other gods before me" (De. 5:6-7) and "For all the gods of the nations [are] idols: but the LORD made the heavens." (Ps. 96:5) The satanic identity of Krishna is obvious from his own words: "Those who are devotees of other gods and who worship them with faith actually worship only Me."

Respected Mr. Luzhkov - can you really allow the idolatrous disgrace to be erected for the glory of this wicked and malicious "god" Krishna? The construction of this Krishna "temple" is a blatant offense of our religious feelings, and an insult to the millennial religious culture of Russia, where the overwhelming majority of people, Orthodox Christians and Muslims, consider Krishna an evil demon, the personified power of hell opposing God. It is shown that even for Buddhists, Krishna is a negative figure, the head of black demons. Sikhs and Jains also consider him the most formidable demon.

Of course, modern Russia is a secular state, based on secular laws. But can these laws screen our peoples from the judgment of God? Can the Russian Constitution abolish our common responsibility for our acts before God? The Holy Scripture attests that there have been quite a few periods of "religious pluralism" and the equality of "rights" of the followers of various "religious denominations ." We have already mentioned to you in our first letter what had happened to the united Jewish state after Solomon allowed for the construction of various pagan temples in the city Jerusalem: "...and the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice, and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded. Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant." (1Ki.11:11)

Let us cite two more instructive passages from a whole many of kind, as described in the Old Testament: "Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years. and he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. And Ahab ma de a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him." (1Ki.16:29-33). "Manasseh ... reigned in Jerusalem, he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them... . And he set a carved image ... in the house of God." (2Chr.33:1-7)

But their worship was not a triumph of religious democracy, but the "EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD" (1Ki.16:30) and "ABOMINATIONS" (2Chr.33:2), for which not only the idolater kings, but all of their citizens paid a heavy price. In the first case, they suffered from a most severe drought which lasted for 3.5 years, and then Ahab was killed in a war with Syrians. In the second instance, "Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon." (2Chr. 33:11).

How much has Russia already suffered due to our sins in the former century? But have we got less crime and unlawfulness?! No, unfortunately. People has become as if blind and deprived of all intelligence, they engross in sins, they separate themselves from God's commands by their own earthly laws, they utterly d isregard history of the past and commit the same blunders over and over again. The bitter words of Isaiah the Prophet, which he spoke over 2.500 years ago, now seem to be spoken just for our sake: "Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD. Why should ye be stricken any more? Ye will revolt more and more." (Isa. 1:4-5).

Some are telling us that Russia is on the way to prosperity, but the country is actually dying away in childlessness, in wanton promiscuity, in alcohol and drug addiction, millions of babies are killed by abortions, selected individuals become affluent while millions of Russians border on poverty, terrorist attacks strike relentlessly, separatists, who want to tear Russia apart, do not slacken, and sectarians are multiplying, who consider Brooklyn, Salt Lake City and Indian ashrams their homeland. They hate their own culture and history and think service to their state and its defense are a grave sin.

So do we really have to add more to the load of our unlawfulness by building idolatrous temples for demons on the land where they are still hated, in the Russian land where the clouds of faithlessness and libertinism have not yet covered the light of Christian faith? Therefore, we once again request you on behalf of all Orthodox Christians of Bashkir Autonomous Republic to not allow the construction of the satanic Krishna temple in Moscow.

Respectfully yours,

Nikon,
Archbishop Nikon of Ufa and Sterlitamak,
Derector of the Ufa Eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church