Christ vs Krishna

CHRIST vs KRISHNA - RE-READING SAKES
M. M. NINAN
a hoax as it would be a matter of utter impossibility for the soul which is lying dormant in a
state of torpidity to show itself on the stage of the world in activity. Can the caterpillar
while in the cocoon, transforming into a butterfly, appear on its wings and exhibit itself?
But if the Brahmins 'will have it that the soul enters another body after birth, the
problem becomes still more difficult to solve. The mind at once resents the deception,
and enquires: Can the soul of the departed enter the body of another animal while it is
already occupied? It may be a cat for instance, and the soul of a dog entering the body
of a cat what would be the consequence? A tremendous fight, for the separate
possession of the cat's body would most assuredly be the result, and such a desperate
condition of things would be enough to kill the cat in spite of its nine lives.
Having been tempted to this digression, which I hope is interesting to my readers; I
may now resume the consideration of the Hindoo tragedy of human sacrifice and
God's severe dealings with them in consequence. But on the other hand it is manifest
that God is not only severe but merciful. In the retribution for crimes and unpardonable
offences, God has most miraculously spared the innocent. the determination of the
Moguls to exterminate the idolaters appears to have stayed as soon as the rulers of
the people ceased to be. Here God interposes. The bloody edict of the Koran was not
carried out to the letter. God's purposes were therefore fulfilled. In the second chapter
of Malachi the priests are blamed only for the people's evil doing, it was they who set
them going wrong by willful misinterpretation of the law, and God's anger was justly
kindled against the law-givers and not the people whom they had corrupted,
accordingly the retribution of Bins was rightly visited on the heads of the ministers. The
Mahomedan antipathy to idolatry was so great that in every instance they destroyed
the idols and images they came across the following account from Colonel Medows
Taylor's story of his life is an instance in point:
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