Christ vs Krishna

CHRIST vs KRISHNA - RE-READING SAKES
M. M. NINAN
(* It is a strange coincidence that in Hindoostan there is also a temple to the
UNKNOWN GOD. otherwise known as BRAHM. Hindoos, besides their meditations on
Brahma, Vishnoo and Shiva in their representative form, observe the devotion of
Brahm the Great Unknown God of Infinity, whose powers are boundless and
illimitable. This ONE temple suffices for the whole of Hiudoostan, and from that place
Brahm is supposed to preside overall the world. Whether this be copied from Greece,
or is a more recent imitation of the one great temple at Jerusalem, it is difficult to say.).
It is incumbent on the teachers in many prominent private schools to continue the
study of the Shastras, the fallacious policy of which is carried out much to the
detriment of the students, who are thus taught much which in after years, in more
advanced schools, they have to unlearn. It is hoped the practice will sooner or later be
a thing of the past. the students themselves have become sufficiently enlightened to
perceive the absurdity of its inculcation. While on this subject we may refer to the time
which is perhaps unnecessarily consumed in the study of Latin, and which has
similarly become burdensome to English students. Being a dead language they sec
the absurdity of its teaching and therefore endeavour as much as possible to shirk it,
being conscious that the prosecution of it will be of no avail to them hereafter in public
life, unless it be for an ecclesiastical position, and how low they are who follow it,
In like manner native students have an antipathy to an interruption in their study of the
higher attainments by the introduction of the absurd teaching of the Shastras, and
Sanskrit.
The Hindoo of the day can only too well appreciate the policy embodied in the old
phrase, "following the plan of the polypus," that is, to accommodate yourself to
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