Christ vs Krishna

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
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