The issue of the so-called ‘lost years’ of Jesus and whether Jesus visited India was very prominent in the Sathya Sai Baba movement. Sai Baba is on record as having stated that Jesus visited India (Sind, Puri, Varanesi) during those years in his life of which the gospels say nothing. Sai Baba was questioned about this by the Hollywood film maker, and devotee, Richard Bock, who was making the film ‘The Lost Years of Jesus‘. There is much evidence, though little known outside India, that Jesus did visit there as Sai Baba claimed. What Sai Baba did NOT mention or know about was the discoveries and consequent intensive independent professorial researches by Prof. Fida Hassnain of Pakistan (see his ground-breaking publication ‘A Search for the Historical Jesus’ 1993 Gateway Books, Bath (excerpt here)
A website at http://www.arifkhan.co.uk/TOJ/faq/index.html#qu5 contains an interesting overview of researches into the following questions:-
1. Where is this ‘Tomb’ of Jesus Christ situated?
2. How could anyone survive Crucifixion?
3. Why did Jesus go to India?
4. When did Jesus go to India?
5. What evidence is there that Jesus went to India?
6. What route did Jesus take?
7. How could Jesus have travelled so far without transport?
8. Has anyone written in support of this theory?
9. Which religion or group believe Jesus went to India?
10. Why is there no evidence about this theory in the Holy Bible or Quran?
11. How does this relate to the so-called “Shroud of Turin”?
12. What is meant by Jesus was a Buddhist?
13. Are the ‘Ancient Documents’ on this website reliable?
14. What do we know about the man who is said to be in Srinagar, Kashmir Tomb?
15. Who are the living experts on this theory?
16. Is this website designed to hurt Christianity?
17. What about Archarya S’ writings on the theory and the footprints?
Sai Baba famously claimed he was ‘the Father who sent Jesus’ and, claiming omniscience, he told many ‘original’ stories about Jesus, mostly during the Christmas celebrations at Prashanthi Nilayam. These stories contain numerous blunders, such as in his Christmas Discourse 1996 – some utterly preposterous (eg. that Moses loved Jesus!’) and other remarkable contrivances and self-contradictory statements about Jesus’ birth and death.
See a comparison between the recorded aspects of Jesus with Sai Baba both in word and action.
Sathya Sai Baba Deceptions Exposed 