The ocean of philosophical insight hiding in the words and story of Jesus Christ has influenced and charged millions of people and are still inspiring. The teaching and philosophy discerned across the four Gospels — According to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John — have stirred the philosophical perspective of Muni Narayana Prasad and it paved the way for him making a Gospel commentary in the light of Indian philosophy, Advaita . In his scholarly attempt, the author has brought an apocryphal Gospel of Thomas too into its ambit.

Though the words of wisdom revealed by Jesus across these Gospels differ in language and style from Indian Vedanta, they reveal the same wisdom or supreme happiness that the Vedanta philosophy talks about. In this book, the author has attempted to explain the wisdom found in one cultural frame of reference as found in the other. That is, the teachings of Jesus Christ are elucidated in terms of the characteristics of . Jesus, seen across these Gospels, always maintains his position of an enlightened seer (rsi). Thus the author calls him a sad-guru.

The author contends that from the Gospel accounts one may perceive, in Jesus's life and words, the same absolutist vision that underlies the teachings of Advaita Vedanta. Echoing interreligious harmony, the author invites the non-Christians to visit the great enlightened guru in Jesus and the Christians to imbibe the spirit of Advaita Vedanta in Jesus's teachings.

A must-collect, the book should find favour with the spiritual gurus, philosophers, and all progressive-thinking persons across religions. Swami Muni Narayana Prasad is the Guru and Head of Narayana Gurukula, a guru- disciple foundation open to all, irrespective of caste, creed, gender, religion or nation, aimed at promoting the Science of the Absolute (Brahma-vidyD) as restated by . A disciple of and Guru Nitya Chaitanya Yati, he has travelled widely teaching Indian philosophy. He has authored around eighty-five books in the language. His English books are: commentaries on the Isa, Kena, Katha, Prasna, Mundaka, Mandukya, Taittiriya, Aitareya and Chandogya Upanisads, Vedanta Sutras and Darsanamala of Narayana Guru, Three Acaryas and Narayana Guru, Karma and Reincarnation, Basic Lessons on 's Wisdom, The Philosophy of Narayana Guru, Life's Pilgrimage Through the Gita, Collected Works of Narayana Guru, Narayanasmrtih, and Pure Philosophy Simplified for Youth.