Indian Antiquary Vol 02

SR No.: 032494
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 428
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 20 MB

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OCTOBER, 1873.]
CHRISTIAN TRACES IN THE BHAGAVAD GITA.
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thine too, Arjuna! I know them all, but thou kuowest them not. (iv. 5.)
For the establishing of righteousness am I born from time to time. (iv. 8.)
yo cannot tell whence I como, and whither I go. (John, viii. 14.)
To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the Truth. (John xviii. 37.) For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil. (1 John, iii. 3.)
He that believeth... shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. (Marle, xvi. 16.)
WH Wher therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Cor. x. 31.) And whatsoever ye do in wood or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus. (Col. iii. 17.)
The ignorant, the faithless, and he of a doubt. ing min 1 is lost. (iv. 40.)
"I do nothing, let the absorbed think, who knows the truth, whether he sees, hears, touches, smells, onts, goes, sleeps, or breathes. . . . He
10, performing his actions in Brahma, acts free from inclination, is not stained by sin. (v. 8, 10.)+
Ene edge is enveloped in ignorance, therefore the crescures crr. (v. 15.)
Yet the knowledge of those in whose minds this ignorance has been destroyed by it, illumin- ates like the sun the highest. (v. 16.)
Having the understanding darkened.. through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart. (Eph. iv. 18.)
Until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts. (2 Pet. i. 19.) God ... hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. (2 Cor. iv. 6.)
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation. (James, i. 12.)
He who can bear in this world, before he is forced from the body, the pressure of desire and anger, he is absorbed, a happy man. (v. 23.)
Let the Yogi always exercise himself in secret. (vi. 10.)
Absorption is not his who ents too much, nor his who cats not at all. (vi. 16.)
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and, when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy father which is in secret. (Matt. vi. 6.)
Why do the disciples of John fast often ... but thine eat and drink? (Lulce, v. 33.) The Son of man came eating and drinking. (Matt. xi. 19.)
Lord, to whom shall we go P thou hast the words of eternal life. (John, vi. 68.)
I deterinined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ. (1 Cor. ii. 2.)
Besides thee there is no one who can resolve this doubt. (vi. 39.)
Hear, now, how thou mayst know me wholly, Partha! That knowledge ... I shall declare to thee
savour of the prophecios of the Revelation. In my opinion Bhagavad-Gita, and in which also trace of Christian infla. there can, at present, be no doubt whatever that the incar..ence may be pointed out. There it pays (Biblioth. Ind. vol. nation of Vishna as Krishna- the only one represented as a XV. p. 65, 6. 4): "Whoever after he has performed works truly human incarnation of the person of the god-i4 an endowed with qualities, places them and all his fondness imitation of the Christian dogma regarding the person of upon God-for if they do not exist, the effects also ceaseChrist, pointed to, not only by the similarity of the name obtains, by the cessation of work, that which is different Krishna to Christ, and the many coincidences in the legends from the principles of nature), (that is to say, he becomes about Krishna with the life of the Saviour, as has also like Brahina)." One should notice also the specification of already been supposed by Fra Paolino à S. Bartolomeo in individual actions ('ev Loya,' ev apya-dire dodiete, eine his Systems Brahmanicum (Roma, 1791), by H. Windisch
rivere) in the passages cited, and the enumeration of cor. man and others, and lastly also by Weber (Ind. Studien,
poreal functions in the 8th and 9th flokas which stand in I. 400, II. 898 ff., and by Wheeler, Hist. of India, 1..464 ff.),
the closest connection with the 10th. but also, es may be specially shown, by the Bhagavad. Gita itself.
I Compare also Clemens Alexandring, Protrept. $ 114 .. Conf. Avetisvatara Upanishad, vi. 6 (Biblioth. Ind. (ed. Sylbarg, p. 31) cap. xi.-"Let us pat away, then, let vol. XV. p. 66): Who is the stablisher of virtae and os put away oblivion of the trath, vis. ignorance; and rethe destroyer of sin.'
moving the darkness which obstruots, a dimnose of sight, + Conf. iii. 80; Psalm liv. 23, and specially Heb. ri. 1-2.
let us contemplate the only true God. For in a light has Comparo further with the doctrine here addooed Thomas
shone forth from heaven, ..puror than the ran, sweeter
than life here below." Kempia, de Imit. Christi, II. iv. 9: "No good action would be difficult if thou wert free within from inordinate
Bukht nur, -conf. also the expression of Paul, 1 affection. When it is the one simple intention of thy mind Oor. vii. 40. The idea enuncinted in this Aloka bears an to obey the will of God and do good to thy fellow-men, entirely Christian stamp, and reminds me of the words of thou wilt enjoy this inner freedom;" conf. (ibid. II. v.): Chrysostom (de Virginitate, cap. xi.), ed. Montfaucon, tom. "If you are simply intent on union with God, what you see viii. p. 837 :"Do you understand then the glory of virginity ? in the world will little move you. Nothing will be lofty, or of those who living on the earth, strive after a life like that grent, or plenant, or to be desired, except simply God or of of the celestiala, clothed in the body, suffer not the incor. God.". The same thought also occurs in the Sveta buatara- poreal to excel them in virtue, and render mortals the Upanishad, the doctrine of which is closely related to the rivals of angela."