Confluence of Opposites

SR No.: 006704
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain
Publication Year: 1921
Total Pages: 422
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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MYTHOLOGY ruption of all those faculties and functions which are useless and burdensome to a pure spirit, however serviceable they might be to a fallen ego. Hence, the highly significant speech of Jobo :
"He shall increase, but I shall decrease.".
As already stated, the Messial also figures in Hindu. ism in the guise of Krishna, the Lord of Gopis and Cows. I can only just barely touch upon the basic principle of this personification in the briefest way, consi. dering that the events of his life bave filled whole puranas. The need for the elucidation of this impersonation is also not very pressing now that we liave an autioritative Hindu exposition (The Permanent History of Bharatyarsha) of the whole of the mythical teaching of the Mahabharata, including the part assigned to Krishna. In a general way, when the fruition of good karmas leads an individual to turn to his inner self. the conception of the divinity of the soul is formed by the intellect, and the quickening of his spirit takes place in consequence of the acquisition of Right Faith, St. Paul aptly describes this in the following terms : " And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living
soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit "
(1 Cor. xv. 45). This quickening of spirit is the birth of Krishna, the true Saviour of man; for when fully quickened, the soul is itself transíormed into a full, perfect God. For this reason, Krishna is the abode of all Godly attributes. He is the Lord of Gopis and Gopas (sacred hymns, sites etc, etc.).