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CHRIST vs KRISHNA - RE-READING SAKES M. M. NINAN of life; he that cometh to me shall never hunger and he that believeth in me shall never thirst." Major differences between the analogies of Christ and Krishna are evidence of the distortion of the original story under the Brahminic Priesthood. Evidently the simple hypothesis that Krishna is a direct distortion of the historic Christ is an over simplification. The obvious reality is that the Christ concept was mingled with the local tribal heroe worship culture and other tribal stories to derive the Krishna of today. Apparently after the entry of Vaishnavism into America there is an attempt to make Christ = Krishna as is shown in the above comparison with concoted stories and distortion of realities. See Prabhupada. 82
CHRIST vs KRISHNA - RE-READING SAKES M. M. NINAN It is remarkable that the incidents of the after life of both these Great Personages are as corroborative, inasmuch as the love that Jesus bore to mankind influenced him in suffering for their redemption and Krishna likewise was taken prisoner (banished as the Hindoo version has it, but which means the same thing,) and suffered death for the love he is said to have borne to females, his preference for this sex and their regard for him indicating that he had also the adoration of the dominant or male sex. The mere fact of his lining in love with females does alone testify that his followers were indiscriminate, and the allegation of immorality thrown against him is merely a poetical misrepresentation of the religion. Love in religion, as in every thing else, becomes profound where females are concerned, consequently poets give a tinge of immorality as they describe any other love, although this love of Krishna, borne by and for the females, was purely a holy love. The account in the Hindoo Shastra of Krishna's marriage with 16,000 damsels at one time is purely figurative, and is intended to convey to the reader's mind the degree of universal love of his female votaries alone, irrespective of the attachment felt for him by the male portion. The Shastra states that Krishna kept all the women and treasures of Narak to himself, and married 16,000 damsels at one time. Now it is the taking of this in a literal sense that destroys the original meaning of the author. The explanation is obvious, that the whole population of Narak came with one accord to accept the religion promulgated by Krishna, and their fidelity to this new movement was such, that they brought all their worldly goods and laid them at the foot of Krishna to be made use of for one common purpose. I leave with confidence to all unprejudiced minds to judge whether the explanation given is satisfactory or not. The Hindoo rests his main defence of Hindooism on its being a symbolical and representative religion, and in order to make the characters of 83
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