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Richard Bock’s 1970s film, shared by the Sri Sathya Sai International Organization, fills the quiet youth of Jesus with an Indian journey under the name Issa. The gospels, it says, keep only scraps of those years, so the story turns to a land already old in yoga. A European visitor is refused at a Himalayan monastery, then copies Tibetan pages about Issa. The youth leaves in his twenties, teaches in Persia, reaches Athens, honors places tied to Krishna, and comes back near thirty to speak to the poor. Public wonders are treated as abilities of advanced yogic training, nearer Buddhist insight than a rival faith. It then studies the burial cloth, its weave, an image said to resist copying, a spear path toward the heart, and keepers who will not spare a thread for a date. A war relic runs from medieval campaigns to a Vienna display and a concealed vault in the Nazi years. The close presents Sathya Sai Baba as Krishna come again and translates his remarks on Jesus.
Key points
- Monastery pages in Tibet are offered as the record of Issa’s years outside the gospels.
- The route runs through Persia and Athens, with a return to Palestine near the age of thirty.
- Healing and other public wonders are credited to yogic mastery rather than to a separate kind of power.
- The burial cloth is handled as a physical object whose image, weave, and wound invite measurement.
- A spear tied to medieval victories is followed into a Vienna treasury and a hidden wartime vault.
- The ending presents Sathya Sai Baba as an avatar and relays what he is said to have taught about Jesus.
Short quotes
Next, he went to Athens, land of the philosopher kings, Aristotle, and Plato.
Richard Bock, Lost years of Jesus in India
The film sends Issa on to the Greek philosophical capital after his years in the east. Watch at 10:02
The miraculous powers of Jesus Christ are natural to one who has reached the highest level of yogic containment.
Richard Bock, Lost years of Jesus in India
Public wonders are treated as skills that arrive with the highest yogic training. Watch at 22:02
Is it possible that western science, the golden rule of Christianity and the first law of eastern philosophy are presenting the same message?
Richard Bock, Lost years of Jesus in India
The narration asks whether lab work, Christian ethics, and an Eastern law say the same thing. Watch at 43:57
Authorities have so far been unwilling to cut the cloth to provide samples for carbon 14 dating.
Richard Bock, Lost years of Jesus in India
He stresses that keepers of the cloth still refuse a sample for a dating test. Watch at 58:13
Is there a measurable difference between bodies with differing levels of consciousness?
Richard Bock, Lost years of Jesus in India
The shroud section asks whether a person’s level of awareness changes what instruments can see. Watch at 1:04:15
Video by Sri Sathya Sai International Organization. Watch on YouTube.