Wrong Mustard Teachings of Jesus

The guru Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952) presents Jesus as one of the six gurus of SRF (Self-Realization Fellowship), the SRF Church he set up in 1935, headquartered in California. And even though the guru speaks of omnicience and so on on behalf of "guru Jesus", the teachings of Jesus on mustard are not right. Below is the evidence. See for yourself and appreciate biology teachings over and above erroneous doctrine, of course.

Mustard in Latin is Brassica, at times Sinapis too. There are different sorts of mustard, such as black mustard (Brassica nigra - see the picture) and white mustard (Brassica alba). The Greek at the time of Jesus and earlier were fond of mustard. Many who eat hot dogs are fond of mustard too.

Mustard is a not a very big plant. It may grow to become up to about 1,3 metres tall, and is often half a metre less, depending of soil, species, climate and so on. Its seeds are stout, not particularly small. Now we will assert:

Its seed is not the smallest "of all your seeds" - flax seeds and sesamum seeds are smaller - it is not the largest of garden plants, it does not become a tree, and there are no branches - no big branches either - that the birds can come and perch on.

"None of [the mustards] reaches a size sufficient to host birds (not even hummingbirds)," tells Gernot Katzer [NOTE 1]. So the teachings of Jesus about mustard are not true, although some sallow people trust all he says about anything and teach that too. Some fundamentalists go further and think the whole Bible is correct in all details. They are taken in greatly. Below is the needed evidence:

The Places

HERE ARE all the places in the New Testament where mustard is mentioned:

He told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field.

Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and perch in its branches." [Matt 13:31-32; cf. Mark 4:30-32]

Then Jesus asked, "What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to?

It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air perched in its branches." [Luke 13:18-19]

He replied, "Because you have so little faith. Truly, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, "Move from here to there" and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you. " [Matt 17:21]

The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"

He replied, "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, "Be uprooted and planted in the sea," and it will obey you. [Luke 17:5-6]

The Crown of the Little Study

The mustard itself, with "that fit, small faith", is not known for any of the feats Jesus goes into, but is a "must" with hot dogs, however. It is not known for uprooting trees and planting them anywhere else, or for moving mountains! Is that staggering? Maybe it has other things to do.

Look around and see if anybody at all has had the marks of faith that Jesus talks of. They should be able to do greater things than massing bible slogans without delivering the wares - do better than holding up a sick or infirm faith and be made hypocrites and demonaics through it.

• The devil - not Jesus - deceives and leads astray if he can, says Jesus.
• Some say that the data of Jesus about mustard, which allow for double-checking, were wrong, but his information about heaven, which is difficult to find out of first-hand, are right . . . not a devilish, old plot.

"Do not be led [blindly] by whatever has been handed down from past generations." - Buddha in Kalama Sutta [Link].

Do not be led by your neuroses.