Susan's Reviews > Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment

I really wanted to like this book. I like Deepak and I enjoy his writing style but the "symbolism" was beyond my comprehension level and I just don't know enough about the politics of that time to fully understand the story plot. I had no idea what any of the characters were doing or thinking, including Jesus, in regards to their mission. Some characters were from the Bible, but some I'm not sure. And I have no idea who the story teller was or who he was supposed to represent.

The "Reader's Guide" at the end of the book gave a nice summary of Jesus's teachings in the New Testament, but did not, in my opinion, explain the story just told.

However, this quote was one good take-away for me:
"Now we have a much clearer picture of the path Jesus walked and the one he wants us to walk. Our goal is to shift our allegiance away from the material plane, to be guided by our souls, and ultimately to rejoin our source, which is God. Renunciation of the world, in the sense of giving up on it, has nothing to do with this path, nor does piety and ostentatiously living a religious life in order to seem better than those who don't. Jesus scoffed at all such pretenses and dismissed the professional priestly caste of Pharisees and Sadducees - he called them hypocrites because they knew everything about the letter of God's law, but nothing about its spirit."