Christ vs Krishna

CHRIST vs KRISHNA - RE-READING SAKES
M. M. NINAN
the poor and miserable, and assuredly they will have their reward. In their next birth
they will rise to a higher position. If low-caste now, they may be born the next time in
the family of a Brahmin, it may be in their next birth they will be gods. They will be thus
nearer their coveted liberation, If, however, they act an irreligious or unworthy part,
they are sure to descend in the scale of births. They will be born low-caste, demons,
beasts, or even be imprisoned in a stone or a clod. Escape from the misery of births,
even from, the birth of a god, is the aim of the truly wise man. Annihilation of self and
identity with Brahm are the final reward of all the austerities and contemplations of the
Vedanta. "What are we to conclude from all this? We learn the two most important
facts : the merits and demerits of the two doctrines under review, viz : the eternal
existence of the human soul or otherwise its nonentity. The Christian faith as laid down
in the article explained above, impresses upon the mind of the reader the certainty and
awfulness of an eternity; and the awfulness of sin, calling forth for an immediate
redress in the promise of an atonement in the sacrifice of the Son of God, fulfilled in
the person of Christ, whereby the Mosaic or Ceremonial law of the Jews was
abrogated.
The Hindoo theory of the existence and non-existence of the human soul after death is
an idea of no little consequence, as it bears out the testimony in the Bible teaching,
with reference to the spiritual part of man, which exists apart from his material body
after death. The Vedantic doctrine, and all the subsequent doctrines of the Hindoo or
Brahminical religion, current among that body, treat on the subject of transmigration.
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