Christ vs Krishna

CHRIST vs KRISHNA - RE-READING SAKES
M. M. NINAN
With whatever motive the modern Hindoos have altered the period of transmigration, it
certainly controverts the Vedic doctrine, and it goes further to prove the undeniable
fact that the Brahmins did this as a check to the progress of the Christian religion. This
coincides with the opinion held by the Rev, Krisna Mohan Banerjee, who mentions in
his dialogues on the Hindoo philosophy, that the Brahmins, struck by the doctrine of
Christianity, made two of such by giving to their popular god Krishna a more imposing
character. In like manner, to strengthen their innovation, they have gone to the extent
of tampering with their most sacred record (the Vedanta) by changing transmigration
from a probationary period to instantaneous existence. By this change of doctrine the
Brahmins can give the proof of what they would now inculcate. The absence of proof
in the previous doctrine was unsatisfactory to the people who looked for proofs.
In the Christian’s Scriptures, when the people looked for signs and tokens, Christ
authoritatively rebuked,
" An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign and there shall no sign be
given to it but the sign of the prophet Jonah: for as Jonah was three days and three
nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in
the heart of the earth. "
The Brahmins forced by circumstances could not meet the enquiry, and so contrived a
vague alteration in their modified Shastras, and so ingeniously too that they believed
they had fully met the difficulty in the doctrine they now promulgate, and thus try to
ignore the Christian doctrine of eternity.
I believe it has been satisfactorily shown that the theory of the modern Hindoos as
regards transmigration of souls with instantaneous results is a religious fraud. It needs
no further comment than that it is a practice common with all nations to work on the
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