Christ vs Krishna

CHRIST vs KRISHNA - RE-READING SAKES
M. M. NINAN
The question also naturally arises: Why was Krishna's nativity considered an
incarnation, and why did he consent to suffer death?
To the discriminating mind there are manifold indications of the fact, startling and novel
as it may appear to those who road the statement for the first time, that the history of
the Hindoo's Krishna, is nothing more nor less than a perverted, contorted, and
garbled history of the Christian's Christ, The knowledge of the Messiah with all the
leading events of His wonderful life, and His great mission, were gradually perverted
by mythological and puerile fancy, until now it is almost impossible, underneath the
overwhelming heap of rubbish, to discover the Great Original; and it is only when one
patiently sits down and divests its narration of the impossible and the absurd, that the
leading features of the Hindoo Krishna begin to assimilate somewhat with the Pure
and the Divine,
To illustrate, let me refer to Krishna in his trials and sufferings, which at this stage of
my work have forcibly struck me: and I mean to offer a few remarks on the similitude,
of the two. Do they not hear resemblance to those endured by our Saviour?
The manner of Christ's trials in the wilderness, his sufferings, buffeting and uplifting on
the cross, have a strong resemblance to Krishna's banishment, indignities, and death.
At the present moment, in the yearly worship of the deity Jaggurnath, we see a
strange course pursued. The image of Juggurnauth, which is made of wood to bear
rough treatment, is scourged, the arms mutilated, and then dragged out with a rope
round its neck, lifted up into the car and adored as the Master of the Universe, which
the name Juggurnauth implies. The similitude seems to be unquestionable. In both
cases the arms of the incarnation, the emblems of power, suffered mutilation.
Juggernaut’s arms and legs were severed from the joints; an evident reference to the
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