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I see your devotion to Christ as historically unique and raise you a Hindu view on Christianity:

>Master expounded the Christian Bible with a beautiful clarity. It was from my Hindu guru, unknown to the roll call of Christian membership, that I learned to perceive the deathless essence of the Bible, and to understand the truth in Christ’s assertion—surely the most thrillingly intransigent ever uttered: “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.” 11
>The great masters of India mold their lives by the same godly ideals which animated Jesus; these men are his proclaimed kin: “Whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.” 12 “If ye continue in my word,” Christ pointed out, “then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” 13 Freemen all, lords of themselves, the Yogi-Christs of India are part of the immortal fraternity: those who have attained a liberating knowledge of the One Father.

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>“Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus. . . . When Jesus heard that, he said, ‘This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.’” 1
>Sri Yukteswar was expounding the Christian scriptures one sunny morning on the balcony of his Serampore hermitage. Besides a few of Master’s other disciples, I was present with a small group of my Ranchi students.
>“In this passage Jesus calls himself the Son of God. Though he was truly united with God, his reference here has a deep impersonal significance,” my guru explained. “The Son of God is the Christ or Divine Consciousness in man. No mortal can glorify God. The only honor that man can pay his Creator is to seek Him; man cannot glorify an Abstraction that he does not know. The ‘glory’ or nimbus around the head of the saints is a symbolic witness of their capacity to render divine homage.”
Paramahansa Yogi, “Autobiography of a Yogi”

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Every historical religion is a fleeting appearance inside of your mind. There is no tangible Advaita, Taoism, or Buddhism “out there” you can hold in your hand or conclusively say “this is it”. However, there are organic similarities between various thinkers and mystics of different cultures about certain similar ideas — group them under the name of “non-duality”, maybe — which some (like pic related) have pointed out. A crude interpretation could indeed say that people like those in pic related are simply saying “Taoism, Advaita, and Buddhism are all the same”, but it’s a bit more nuanced than that in reality.