Krishna and Christ
Similarities and differences

Similarities between Krishna and Christ
Differences between Krishna and Christ
The essence of Christianity
Come to the Cross of Jesus Christ

 

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    Krishna and the stories associated with him appear across the spectrum of Hindu philosophical and theological traditions. Though they often differ in details reflecting the concerns of a particular tradition, some core features are shared by all. These include a divine incarnation, a pastoral childhood and youth, and life as a heroic warrior and teacher. The immense popularity of Krishna in India also meant that various non-Hindu religions that originated in India had their own versions of him.

Similarities between Krishna and Christ:

    Author Kersey Graves (1813-1883), a Quaker from Indiana, compared Jesus Christ's and Krishna's life. He found what he believed were 346 elements in common within Christian and Hindu writings.

    He did report some amazing coincidences:   

    There many similarities between Krishna and Jesus Christ, but essential differences which may call any Hindu to become a Christian. Krishna's life may be a type of prophecy foretelling the arrival of the Christian Messiah. And today, in the third millennium, there are 2,1 billion Christians, by far the largest religion in the world.

    - Krishna delivered His famous message known as the Bhagavad-gita, literally the Song of God. This Song supposedly contains the essence of all knowledge having been spoken by the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna Himself.
    - Jesus left us his "Gospel", the "good news" of redemption from all our bad karma, from all our sins, to reach eternal Heaven without any reincarnation. Christianity

hindu5.bmp (19166 bytes)Essential Differences between Krishna and Christ:

1- Existence as a "human Person"

    - Jesus Christ existed, lived and died on earth as a human being... Krishna did not.
   
Most of the 2.1 billion Christians agree that Jesus lived and died on earth as a human person about 2,000 years ago.

    - Krishna: Is the hero of the 18th chapter of the novel or epic Mahabharata, the Bhagavad-gita, who never existed as a person.
    He is the result of divinization of a novel hero, like the Greek or Roman gods... it is like making a god out of Hamlet or Sherlock Holmes who never existed, only in the mind of the writer, of Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conon Doyle, the writers of these English epics. Krishna is not alive now, because he never was, just as Hamlet or Sherlock Holmes can't be alive now, because they never were.
    Of course, there are many wonderful novels and epics with great moral and social teachings, and with glorious descriptions and intuitions of God, but there is no way to make a god out of any of their imaginary heroes
... and no one should adore or trust an imaginary god.

    Most of the 800 million Hindus know and agree that Krishna never existed on earth, that he is a product of a novel, a hero of an epic.    .   

    Most Hindu gods do not exist as a person and they never existed, they are the result of divinization of novels or epics heroes, like the Greek or Roman gods... or like the many false gods of Animism - God and many gods in Hinduism

2- Marriage Life:

    - Jesus Christ never married, never had a child. The Da Vinci Code novel is just that, a novel, not a reality, and a heretic fantasy novel.
    - Lord Krishna
supposedly was married to 16,100 princesses and had 161,080 sons, which is about an impossibility for a real human being. Only in a novel you can find those incredible numbers!  http://www.avatara.org/krishna/chart.html   

3- Death, Resurrection and Ascension to Heaven:

    - Lord Krishna:
    - "A hunter mistook his partly visible foot for a deer and shot an arrow wounding him mortally". The Mahabharata (Mausala Parva) says: (The hunter) ...Regarding himself an offender, and filled with fear, he touched the feet of Keshava. The high-souled one comforted him and then ascended upwards, filling the entire sky with splendour. ...the illustrious Narayana of fierce energy, the Creator and Destroyer of all, that preceptor of Yoga, filling Heaven with his splendour, reached his own inconceivable region."
   
From Krishna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
   
- There are not witnesses of his Resurrection, except the hunter, in the novel Mahabharata.
    - There are not witnesses of his Ascension to Heaven, except the hunter, in the novel Mahabharata.

    - Jesus Christ:
    - He was crucified, by order of Pontius Pilate, the Roman authority at that time in Israel, to redeem us, to pay for all our bad karma, for all our sins.
    - He resurrected at the third day, witnessed by the soldiers placed on his tomb by order of Pilate to make sure no one will steal his body.
After His Resurrection Jesus Himself wants to live in us, here, on earth. We were saved from sin to live on earth with the love and joy and peace of Jesus in us, I no longer live, but Christ lives in me (Gal.2:20). A love and joy and peace that nothing and nobody can take away (Rom.8:37-39).
    - He Appeared 11 different times to his disciples after his resurrection, as the same "human person" but with the wounds in his hands, feet and chest
    - He Ascended into Heaven witnessed by his disciples, to prepare  an eternal life for us in Heaven, after our death, without any reincarnation.
    Christianity is the religion of joy on earth, but still more, for one eternity! The Cross, Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus

The Hare Krishna:
   
Founded in 1966, it is considered a cult by most scholars.
   
They claim a membership of 2 million, but the Center Roger Ikor of Paris puts it at 15,000 devotees worldwide. and for me these "devotees" are the most pitiful people on earth.

The Krishnamurti Foundation of America
   
Founded in 1907 is also a weird cult rejected by Krishnamurti himself.
  

    Jesus Christ is God, a live person  right now... he is real, he can clean all our bad karma, forgive all our sins... he is Brahman, the Absolute for real  made flesh who died on a Cross with love, to pay for all our sins, to clean all our bad karma, and resurrected to give us a new glorious life on Earth, and an eternal life in Heaven, as the person we are, and without the need of any reincarnation... and it is free, just believe in Jesus!... He is at your side right now, for real!... Christianity

The Essence of Christianity:

     It is not "to know" about Christ but "to be" another Christ, with Christ in the Christian and the Christian in Christ, in his Mystical Body, in his church... and Christ is God, the Absolute, the real Brahman who became a real human person, not just a hero of an imaginary novel.

    The Work of Jesus on earth:

    1- The Cross: Jesus on the Cross redeemed us, He paid for all our sins for all our bad karma, we just have to appropriate this free payment by believing in Jesus Christ and doing what He asks, mainly to be baptized in His church.

    2- The Resurrection: But the Cross was not the end... After His Resurrection Jesus Himself wants to live in us, here, on earth. We were saved from sin to live on earth with the love and joy and peace of Jesus in us, I no longer live, but Christ lives in me (Gal.2:20). A love and joy and peace that nothing and nobody can take away (Rom.8:37-39).
    Give thanks with joy to God always and in any circumstance as proclaimed in Eph.5:20 and emphasized in the Preface of every Holy Mass, Indeed it is "just" and "necessary", our "duty" and our "salvation" to give thanks to God always and in all circumstances. There are no more words in the dictionary to emphasize it!
    The life of a Christian on earth is a  A Wedding Feast! , as proclaimed in at least 20 quotations in the Bible. In this Wedding Feast each one of us is invited, and not just as any guest, but as the "Bride of the Lamb". This is the message of the Cana wedding feast in John 2, the first miracle of Jesus.
    With problems like in Cana, but always with the joy and love and excitement of a bride in her wedding feast. In success or failure, good or bad health, always with the joy and love and peace of Jesus in me that nobody and nothing can take away.

    3- The  Ascension: Still more: The work of Jesus on earth did not end with the Cross nor with the Resurrection, but with His Ascension to Heaven: He wants us to go to eternal Heaven, like Him!... Christianity is the religion of joy on earth, but still more, in Heaven for one eternity, without the need for any reincarnation, because Jesus paid for absolutely all or sins, all our bad karma.

    Suffering?
    Yes, many problems and sufferings, but with the joy and excitement of a "mother in labor" Jesus tells us in Jn.16:21. Because Each suffering is to bring up a new life, either in us or in others:   
        1- In us... because each suffering is like an injection of God to purify us, as proclaimed in Hebrews 12.
        2- In others... like the sufferings of redemption of Christ or Mary, of Peter or Paul... Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body, which is the church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions. (Colos.1:24)... yes, with my cross I am a co-redeemer with Christ, it is my best evangelization, to help others to go to Heaven. An old sick woman is not a burden, but the best treasure of home.
    "Suffering" is a great revolution of Jesus in the two mountains:
    1- In the Mount of the Beatitudes, proclaiming the "poor happy", the "hunger happy", those who "mourn happy", the "persecuted happy"...
    2- At Calvary it was not with words, but with deeds, with his flesh... the greatest success of humankind!...
    IT CAN BE DONE... CHRIST AND I, ABSOLUTE MAJORITY!, I can do everything through him who gives me strength.  (Phil.4:13).

Come to the Cross of Jesus Christ:

    Believe in Jesus Christ, and trust Him... if you have faith in Jesus Christ all your bad deeds, all your bad karma will be totally erased , right now!... you don't need any more reincarnations...because Jesus paid for them in his Cross... it is as if you owe one million dollars and some millionaire pay them for you... now you owe nothing... really nothing!... there is "power" in Jesus... infinite "power" to erase all bad deeds of 20,000 lifetimes... because he is God!.
... and if your gods do not have this power, your religion is a religion "without power".
    What Hinduism needs is an agent from God, who comes to earth and pays for all our bad actions and makes us free and holy... and you already have it!... Jesus is not only an agent of God, he is God himself, the only one "Brahman", the only one "Bhagvan", the only one "Ishvara", who incarnated in the womb of Virgin Mary, became flesh, and died in a Cross with love, to pay for all our bad deeds, for all our bad karma, to make us free of sin, and to give us a new glorious life on Earth and eternally in Heaven without any reincarnation.

    Lord Jesus, I believe in you, that you are the only one real God incarnated as a real human person to pay for all my sins, for all my bad karma, at the Cross...   and I will be baptized in your church as soon as possible. Thank you, my Jesus, I adore you , my God and Savior.

 

 

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