I was born into a landowning Hindu family. My great-grandfather was a rags-to-riches story who had ended up with more land than anyone else in the village in southeast Nepal near Janakpurdham. We always had plenty to eat. But when I left for college in the United States in August 1996, my family had never owned either a car or a telephone. My family still does not have a car.

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In middle school, I remember leafing through a Bible out of curiosity. I figured out the Ten Commandments are the summary. I read each of them. Worship God. Makes sense. Respect your parents. Makes sense. Do not lie, cheat, steal or kill. Makes sense. No argument there. A South Indian physical education teacher in Kathmandu who still regularly shows up in my Facebook stream first took me to church in Banepa in the Kathmandu Valley. I read through the Gospels on my own many times over the years. In fact, that is the only thing I read in the Bible when I felt like reading the Bible. The story was great, and the lessons were nothing to argue with. Do good, be good. No argument there.

Other than the Psalms and the Genesis story, I mostly stayed away from the Old Testament. The genealogies felt like Latin. Even the New Testament past the Gospels I simply skipped, until 2016, that is, when I read the Bible cover to cover. When God Himself tells you that you are Jesus come back, one thing you are going to do is read the Bible cover to cover. I read every word of the genealogies with rapt interest. When I came over to the Book Of Isaiah, I got elated. The work that I was here to do was described in vivid detail right there. It was as if I was following a script.

Me being born human is a voluntary emptying of powers and knowledge. In 2016 the concept of the Holy Trinity was explained to me by the Holy Father in human form and the Holy Spirit in human form. Early in 2016, I had what Sadhguru might call an enlightenment experience. You see something that is much, much brighter than the sun, but you are not seeing it with your physical eyes. It is not a dream. It is an experience. I still have to read the news. I still read books. But after that experience, I can make sense of every book of scripture. The knowledge was gifted to me. Or what I had voluntarily relinquished, I took some of that back. Back then I thought it had been gifted to me. Then in 2022, the Holy Father in human incarnation hinted I myself was doing it. I took back some of what I had given up voluntarily. Fully human, fully divine.

Early in 2016, I made a trip to heaven. There is similitude as has been said in the Koran. I saw a garden. I heard music that is incomparably better than anything I have heard on earth. I went to smell hell. It is foul. Why would that be? Why did I make those trips? This person that is talking to you has direct knowledge that indeed there is a heaven, there is a hell. Just like I know the news today, I know there is a heaven. It is true.

But then you show up for college in Kentucky, Bible Belt, and there are many instances when you are asked to pick your side. Do you want your soul saved or not? A good friend of mine once just sat me down and said, “Either you are right, or I am right, and I am willing to switch over!” I said, look, I don’t think you are wrong, but I don’t think I am either! There is nothing for you to leave!

To those who tried to point out the miracles in the Bible, I wanted to say, if only you knew all that Hanumanji did!

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