Christ vs Krishna

CHRIST vs KRISHNA - RE-READING SAKES
M. M. NINAN
And now, gentle reader, my work has boon accomplished. You have kindly followed
me through these chapters, and I trust have been interested in my humble attempts to
elucidate the great truth, viz : that the Christian religion, with its sublime teachings, and
its illimitable HEAD and FOUNDER, when compared with one of the most ancient
religions this old world of ours knows of, loses not one whit of its grandeur and
sublimity, and that Krishna, with all the close copying of the GREAT MODEL, is little
better than an egregious failure ; while facts are evident of the borrowed light with
which Hindooism shines.
I now finish my little work. It has cost me much thought and no little anxiety, but the
hope of elucidating the great truths just named has buoyed me up, and rendered my
pains and mental exertion a pleasure. Commending therefore these truths to your kind
keeping, I close my little book on Christ verses Krishna,
NOTES.
(Seepage 32, 2nd para.)
THE Hindoo festivals have no specific dates fixed for them, as is the case with the
great feasts of Christianity ; and what is still more strange, the anniversaries of their
great anthropomorphic deity Krishna are reckoned,' not with reference to ordinary fixed
time, but in accordance with lunar calculations which render them moveable. The idea
was doubtless to connect the actions of Krishna with celestial influence, though it is
exceedingly difficult to see how while the moon may exercise a power over tidal
actions, it could possibly affect the arbitrary will of such a potent deity.
The birth and death of Krishna do not possess a fixed date, and the commemoration of
the annual festivals of Dewalee and Holi (signifying the nativity and death of their god)
depend upon the lunar cycles. This year, 1883, our Lent and their Holi come together.
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