Some amazing ‘coincidences’ involving Guruji’s and Christ’s birthdays~~

[Devotee]

Some amazing ‘coincidences’ involving Guruji’s and Christ’s birthdays~~

The following article, which appeared in the ‘Times of India’, gives a good summary:

*Christmas was first celebrated in the Eastern churches on Epiphany—January 5-6
*The visit of the ‘Three Wise Men’ or Magi who came to honor Christ is celebrated on Epiphany
*The traditional ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’ begin on Christmas Day and end on January 5
*‘Twelfth Night,’ which is also the title of a Shakespeare play, occurs on January 5

Guruji says in ‘The Second Coming of Christ’ that the Magi were from India.


EPIPHANY: FESTIVAL OF THE TWELFTH NIGHT

Anniyil Tharakan


Epiphany [January 5-6] was originally celebrated by the people of the Eastern Churches, commemorating Christ’s birth … It was the “Christmas” of the Christian Orient.

The Twelfth Night celebration begins on the evening of January 5 and the feast of Epiphany is celebrated on the following day. In the Jewish tradition a day begins the previous evening. The ceremonies and festivities are called “revels”. Comedies were performed at the courts and homes of nobles. Shakespeare’s comedy, ‘Twelfth Night’, embodies the genial spirit of the Twelfth Night’s revelry…

In the tradition of the western Churches the festival marks the visit of the three Wise Men or Magi from the East to the infant Jesus.

Epiphany celebrates the intervention of God in the life of a people…In the past it was also known as the Twelfth Day as it falls on the twelfth day after Christmas and winds up formally the Christmas season of rejoicing.

Much has been written about the whereabouts of the Wise Men from the East who were led, as the Bible says, to the infant Jesus by the course of the stars they read in the sky. India, Victor Cousin wrote, was the centre of the East and the East was identified with India. So the Biblical reference to the three Wise Men visiting Infant Jesus could well have been from India. Why would wandering yogins travel all the way to Judaea?

Roman historian Suetonius pointed out that there had spread all over the East the belief that some great sage was to be born into Judaea, who will spiritually transform the world. The gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh, which the Magi carried to the Babe, are the traditional eastern ways of honouring a great personage.


OM beloved Guruji, Jai Guru Jai!