Hinduism: What Really Happenned in India (PDF) - Oration

Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan
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We can see the direct impact of these in the upanishads and later
teachings in India.
Gnostic woved in Jesus in to their scheme of salvation in the following
way. One of the early emanations, Demiurge a created being is usually
identified with the Old Testament Jehovah, the God of Israel. Jehovah in
his own turn created an imperfect, evil, world. Jehovah believe that he is
the real God. Man was created by Jehovah with defects. Hence to
redeem mankind, God send Jesus the Christ into the world .
Man himseld is a mixture of spirit and matter but has the spark of the
Pleroma Glory within him. Redemption means to be freed from this
bondage to the material world and its existence. The means of salvation
is gnosis -- a mystical, spiritual enlightenment and to recognize himself
as part of god himself. text The Gospel of Truth, found in Nag Hammadi
describes the human condition as emptiness, ignorance, and dereliction
to be healed by the saving revelation of Christ. Many Gnostics insisted
that ignorance -- not sin in the orthodox Christian meaning -- is what
involves mankind in suffering. Most Gnostics believed like the Hindus
that man must wake up, and have the self realization so that this world
and its fetters can be broken off.
Mani saw the world as a battleground in which Good/Light and
Evil/Darkness existed in eternal conflict. No gray areas for him. There
had been a Realm of Light (in the north), ruled by the Father of
Greatness; and the Realm of Darkness (in the south), ruled by the Prince
of Darkness (representing smoke, fire, storm, mud and darkness). These
two existed in a state of perpetual warfare until the Father sent Jesus the
Radiant, who then awakened Adam, the first man, and the first in a long
line of prophets including Zoroaster, Abraham, Buddha, Jesus, Paul, and
Mani himself. At the end of time, there will be a great war, after which
Jesus will return and the final victory of Light will end the Age. This
cycle will go on as long as there is time and existence.
For many years Mani traveled abroad, founding Manichæan
communities in Turkestan and India. During these periods Mani
absorbed many of the principles of Budhism and Indian ethics. When