Christ vs Krishna

CHRIST vs KRISHNA - RE-READING SAKES
M. M. NINAN
He brought the sword against every form of wickedness, and the peace which the
world cannot give. He was the most effective and yet the least noisy, the most radical
and yet the most conservative, calm, and patient of all reformers. He came to fulfill
every letter of the old law; yet he made all things new. The same hand which drove the
profane traffickers from the temple blessed little children, healed the lepers, and
rescued the sinking disciple, the same ear which heard the voice of approbation from
heaven, was open to the cries of the woman in trouble; the same mouth which
pronounced the terrible woe on the hypocrites, and condemned the impure desire and
unkind feeling, as well as the open crime, blessed the poor in spirit, announced pardon
to the adulteress, and prayed for His murderers ; the same eye which beheld the
mysteries of God, and penetrated the heart of man, shed tears of compassion over
ungrateful Jerusalem, and tears of friendship at the grave of Lazarus, These are
indeed opposite, yet not contradictory traits of character, as little as the different
manifestations of God's power and goodness in the tempest and the sun-shine in the
towering Alps and the lily of the valley, in the boundless ocean and the dew-drop of the
morning. They are separated in imperfect man, indeed, but united in Christ, the
universal model for all.
Finally he unites with the active or heroic virtues the passive and gentle, and thus his
life and death furnish the highest standard of all true martyrdom, Now that This
"guileless man has paid for with his blood your passport to heaven, He now offers it to
you unconditionally on your accepting, with implicit and unsophisticated faith, the ticket
of pardon thus preferred. As responsible debtors we take upon ourselves the onus of
the debt, if we hesitate to accept the offer of pardon, we voluntarily deny the great
benefit and blessing which such pardon would undoubtedly bestow on us.
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