Christ vs Krishna

CHRIST vs KRISHNA - RE-READING SAKES
M. M. NINAN
of their Ruler. Nowhere, however, can we acquire this principle of high moral
attainments save in the Bible. All the good law, and good government, observable in
Western lands originates from the BOOK of Books. Heathenism and idolatry have
never made any of those gigantic revolutions of thought and morality, which come
from the great Revelator - the Book of God. Greece was a grand country, its
philosophers were numerous, and their theories are, some of them, immensely
inspiring. But a certain Jew of humble position, possessed of the living Light, mourns
over the sad moral darkness and destitution of that belauded land. Amidst all the
multitudinous temples, amidst all the grandeur and pomp, amidst all the seeming
abundance of culture, the people did not know themselves, much less know God, and
they confessed their ignorance like the Hindoos of this country in the erection of a
temple to the GREAT UNKNOWN,* a temple without images but with an altar, whore
devotion was performed without any figurative representation of that Great Being
whom man with all his wisdom could never know except through the medium of a
Divine communication. This Apostle possessed, and so he could call upon those
grave* and reverend know-nothings, whose altar, " To the Unknown God,'* was visible
in the distance from the top of Mars Hill, to listen to the declarations of that Unknown
God made by Himself. The insufficiency of man is without guise delineated in the
Bible, and that only, and the sufficiency of a Supreme Power which rules the destiny of
man is so vividly impressive of the fact that the mind cannot belie the truth. How early
in the Bible is God set forth as a righteous holy God, who demands holiness from His
worshippers. We may travel wearily through the labyrinths and intricacies of the Vedas
in search of such teaching, and find it not. Nor do we see it in any of the works of the
Bhagavat: although the Bhagavat speaks disparagingly of the ancient Vedas, it never
the less has failed to prove its own morality and rectitude on the whole it has a greater
tendency to depreciate its own standard of morality than that of the Vedas, which it
has had the audacity to impeach.
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