Jesus Christ – A True Revolutionary
By: Manas Sinha
Tags: Compassion, Bible, Jesus Christ, Poor, Orthodoxy

As I am recuperating from an operation, I will briefly touch upon some lessons of Jesus Christ which made him the extraordinary person that he was. This I am writing straight from my heart without any reference to anything.

Jesus Christ was nothing short of a social revolutionary of his time who challenged the social orthodoxy and the hierarchy of the religious bodies who were meant for the benefits of a miniscule aristrocracy. It exploited and deprived a large mass of ordinary people who were not given due respect or access to the pleasures of human life.

He started of as a renegade, assembled a group of such left out people who were disliked or looked down upon by the society. They were either termed useless or misfits or scums or all these together. Jesus’s credit lies in telling them the true worth of their lives and the hidden jewels that each one of them have, his transformative leadership not only brought changes to these few but very soon many more followed suit. So a small stream of people who initially tried their luck with Jesus very soon became a large river of inspired humanity.

Jesus taught them lessons which were quite opposite to what was known so far. He asked them to search inwards where the true kingdom of God actually resides and not outside in any temples or in any outer man made constructions. He stressed upon the qualities which differentiates humans from rest of animal species but which we were forgetful about. His stress on compassion was extraordinary to the poor, to the less fortunate, to the destitute – a value which made Christianity ✝️ to spread far and wide.

In contrast to several other religions, Jesus’s message was less about individual salvation but more about collective upliftment through helping each other, stretching one’s hand far and beyond to one and all and to seek salvation through wiping off the tears of every unfortunate eye.

The spread of education, the spread of health care in the farthest corners of the world has been the cornerstone of Jesus’s message.

If one analyses these acts, it will not be very wrong to conclude that Christ was indeed one of the earliest socialists of human civilization whose fight was against unscrupulous accumulation of resources depriving many. When he did finally hit the corridors of power directly challenging them with the power of the people, he was brutally taken on by the powers of the time.

False accusations were made against a person who accepted a prostitute as his closest companion and was dragged in a most inhumane way to the cross and was brutally murdered. Yet there was no ill feeling in him as he knew hate only breeds hate and truth though can be eclipsed for some time but will prevail even if its mauled, ridiculed or rejected immediately.

He was so full of kindness even to those who came to execute them, he sought forgiveness for their ignorance as he knew even a sinner is not be condemned, only his sin is what is wrong, he knew that through love and compassion even the most evil heart can be rectified to good and its out of our limited understanding of this world we only look for individual pleasure forsaking the greater joy in everyone’s happiness.

Jesus believed that a day will come when vast majority who have been run down as meek or worthless will have greater say in the affairs of the state as was seen with advent of popular democracy in most part of Christian world.

Jesus’s own life was his lesson. And for that one may or may not read the Bible. Its available for everyone to follow.

He was such a superlative character.

Copyright © Manas Sinha , December,20