Judas too loved Christ! || Acharya Prashant, on Jesus Christ (2017)

Question: With the deal that Jesus made with the serpent he knew what was coming. Doesn’t that make Judas, the disciple that loves Jesus the most? He must have known that in fulfilling his role, his Life too would be over with. If it is like this, Judas sacrificed his Life for Jesus .

Acharya Prashant: We all Love God and we all Love Jesus as well.

The doubt, the question, is not on the Love. The ego loves the Truth madly, there is no doubt about it. People do not differ in whether or not they Love the Truth. Everybody loves the Truth.

People differ in whether or not they directly Love the Truth.

Appreciate the difference.

In the epic story of Ramayana , if you go to a Lakshman or Hanuman or Vibhishan or Sita , they will say that they Love Ram, so they are with Ram . And if you go to Ravan, he’ll say he loves Ram and therefore he is fighting Ram . He will say that his way of gaining liberation through Ram is to get killed by Ram .

Now, this is quite strange. This is strange and tragic because this indirect way leads to a lot of suffering for mankind. We all Love the Truth but there are two types of lovers. There is one kind that is simple and straightforward, innocent and says, “because I Love you, I am…