{"id":2031,"date":"2020-06-19T17:45:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T22:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sakshizion.com\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2020-07-05T21:20:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T02:20:01","slug":"hindu-influences-on-rastafari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sakshizion.com\/?p=2031","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Influences on Rastafari"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is only one Jah, one God with Infinite Names. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Si1fIXEmoxA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aristotle referred to the Ethiopians as a people of both Kush (Africa) &amp; Sind (India).. Queen of Sheba ruled over the land of Sheba\/Shiva\/Saba.. the indigenous traditions of the Sabians was ancient African Shiva &amp; Shakti worship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To overstand the issue with iconography verses idolatry one must know the difference between a graven image &amp; sacred murti, the ancient Egyptians had a similar practice as Hindus when they would designate specific icons for temple worship and a ritual is performed where the breath of God\/Life is breathed into the icon and thus the image becomes a living deity\u2026 that being said.. when Yeshua went to India, he learned about the sacred science behind murtis, mandalas, Hindu &amp; Buddhist symbolism and yantras, mantras and pujas BUT he also saw the corruption of the caste system &amp; how the elite class of Brahman priests and people in general would worship and lavish great riches and honor to their stone icons but treat their fellow brothers &amp; sisters like animals or worse.. thus Yeshua preached a razor edge distinction regarding this.. and emphasized to the people that the real deity to be worshipped is within the heart of all living beings.. the so-called low caste folks (Dravidians aka Lost Tribes of Israel) loved Saint Issa, as they called him in the East, but the elites didn\u2019t like what he was preaching at all (threatening their hierarchy of power), and the story goes that then Yeshu had to flee from some of these areas of India to the Himalayas and stay with some Buddhist monks whom agreed with his teachings on rejecting the caste system. These stories can be found in The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus Christ, The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ, The Christ of India &amp; various other manuscripts that have been hidden &amp; repressed for centuries. The secret archives of the Vatican has several of these various manuscripts as well as ancient icons\/murtis of these connections and sadly many of these manuscripts were destroyed in the 2 worst literary holocausts in history.. the burning of the library of Alexandria &amp; the burning of the Saint Thomas Christian\u2019s library in India, both burned down by the Roman Catholic Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Haile Selassie, the emperor of Ethiopia was gifted with a Ramayana by an Indian sannyasi, he smiled, and said they were all descendants of Lord Rama. He explained how the Ethiopians are called as Cushites, or coming down from Kusha, a son of Rama. The country is called Kushadwip, or the land of the son of Rama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethiopians admit their ancestor as Kush, and they quote the Biblical story of Cush being a son of Ham (a phonetic misnomer of Ram). This only confirms to the widespread influence of Ramayana, even in a land that is 3000 miles away from the mainland of India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kemetic Yoga is the OG Sanatan Dharma brought from Ancient Kush (Ethiopia) to Ancient Sind (India) by the Dravidians in the first major human migrations out of Africa, and they founded the Indus Valley Culture &amp; city of Harappan (Hara is a name of Shiva &amp; Pan is an archetypal god often linked to Shiva) which was one of the most advanced in the ancient world, later it was the Aryans from the north that brought in many new ideas and later subjugated the Dravidians with the caste system. The Dravidians were mostly agricultural people who worshipped the Mother Goddess &amp; Pushupati (Lords of the Animals) aka Shakti &amp; Shiva in their indigenous African-Dravidian forms similar to the ancient traditions of the land of Kush\/Saba\/Sheba\/Shiva but the Aryans were hunter\/gatherers &amp; would invade and conquer wherever they went, their pantheon was more War gods &amp; Sky Gods like Indra and Surya.. these two traditions were eventually synthesized \/ merged to form modern Hindu religion. But the true mystical path of Sanatan Dharma is what the Sadhus (Holy Men) &amp; Rastafari trod.. the lifestyle and consciousness of the Natural Mystic as Buddha, Krishna &amp; Yahshua the Christ taught us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch Yogiraj speak on his rare meeting with Haile Selassie I after his supposed death :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/imdcqZY15bQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read about the how the <a href=\"https:\/\/sakshizion.com\/?p=1517\">Ancient Hebrews worshipped Shiva here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"711\" data-attachment-id=\"2030\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/sakshizion.com\/?attachment_id=2030\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sakshizion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_4716.jpg?fit=550%2C825\" data-orig-size=\"550,825\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_4716\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sakshizion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_4716.jpg?fit=474%2C711\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sakshizion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_4716.jpg?resize=474%2C711&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sakshizion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_4716.jpg?w=550 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sakshizion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_4716.jpg?resize=200%2C300 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><figcaption>Leonard Howell also known as Gong Gang Guru Maharaj aka The First Rasta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Read this thesis paper on the <a href=\"https:\/\/kb.osu.edu\/bitstream\/handle\/1811\/28443\/Vincent_Burgess-Senior_Thesis.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\">\u201cHindu Influences on Rastafari\u201d <\/a> for more relevant information about Leonard Howell\u2019s influences on Rastafari and his connection to Hindu ideas and traditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is only one Jah, one God with Infinite Names. Aristotle referred to the Ethiopians as a people of both Kush (Africa) &amp; Sind (India).. Queen of Sheba ruled over the land of Sheba\/Shiva\/Saba.. the indigenous traditions of the Sabians was ancient African Shiva &amp; Shakti worship. To overstand the issue with iconography verses idolatry &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sakshizion.com\/?p=2031\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hindu Influences on Rastafari<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1162,1240,15,18,20,22,23,1169,651,29,31],"tags":[1117,1329,1047,1049,969,964,1327,963,226,1325,982,235,276,283,1330,696,1326,972,1002,446,1043,1328,471,1008,486,620],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christ","category-history","category-india","category-mantra","category-mystical","category-rastafari","category-reggae","category-shiva","category-spiritual","category-vegetarian-2","category-yoga","tag-africa","tag-africa-india-connection","tag-christ","tag-christ-consciousness","tag-dravidians","tag-ethiopia","tag-gong-guru-maharaj","tag-haile-selassie","tag-hare-krishna","tag-hindu-influences-on-rastafari","tag-hindu-kush","tag-hinduism","tag-jah-rastafari","tag-jesus-christ","tag-kemetic-yoga","tag-krishna","tag-leonard-howell","tag-queen-of-sheba","tag-rasta-yogi","tag-rastafari","tag-saba","tag-sabians","tag-sadhu-rasta","tag-sheba","tag-shiva","tag-yoga"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hindu Influences on Rastafari - Sakshi Zion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sakshizion.com\/?p=2031\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hindu Influences on Rastafari - Sakshi Zion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There is only one Jah, one God with Infinite Names. 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