Christ-Krishna Connection

Similarities in the Life & Teachings of Christ & Krishna


 Despite their differences, Hinduism and Christianity have great similarities. And this is particularly prominent in the case of the life and teachings of the two central figures of these world religions — Christ and Krishna.

Similarities in just the names of 'Christ' and 'Krishna' have enough fuel for the curious mind to prod into the proposition that they were indeed one and the same person. Although there is little historical evidence, it is hard to ignore a host of likenesses between Jesus Christ and Lord Krishna. Analyze this!

    * Both are believed to be sons of God, since they were divinely conceived
    * The birth of both Jesus of Nazareth and Krishna of Dwarka and their God-designed missions were foretold
    * Both were born at unusual places — Christ in a lowly manger and Krishna in a prison cell
    * Both were divinely saved from death pronouncements
    * Evil forces pursued both Christ and Krishna in vain
    * Christ is often depicted as a shepherd; Krishna was a cowherd
    * Both appeared at a critical time when their respective countries were in a torpid state
    * Both died of wounds caused by sharp weapons — Christ by nails and Krishna by an arrow
    * The teachings of both are very similar — both emphasize love and peace
    * Krishna was often shown as having a dark blue complexion — a color close to that of Christ Consciousness

Similarity in Name

Christ comes from the Greek word 'Christos', which means "the anointed one". Again, the word 'Krishna' in Greek is the same as 'Christos'. A colloquial Bengali rendering of Krishna is 'Kristo', which is the same as the Spanish for Christ — 'Cristo'. The father of the Krishna Consciousness Movement AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada once remarked: "When an Indian person calls on Krishna, he often says, Krsta. Krsta is a Sanskrit word meaning attraction. So when we address God as Christ, Krsta, or Krishna we indicate the same all-attractive Supreme Personality of Godhead. When Jesus said, 'Our Father who art in heaven hallowed be Thy name', the name of God was Krsta or Krishna."

Prabhupada further says: "'Christ' is another way of saying Krsta and Krsta is another way of pronouncing Krishna, the name of God…the general name of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose specific name is Krishna. Therefore whether you call God 'Christ', 'Krsta', or 'Krishna', ultimately you are addressing the same Supreme Personality of Godhead…Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said: namnam akari bahu-dha nija-sarva-saktis. (God has millions of names, and because there is no difference between God's name and Himself, each one of these names has the same potency as God.)"

God or Man?

According to Hindu mythology, Krishna was born on earth so that the balance of good in the world could be restored. But, there are many conflicting theories regarding his Godhood. Although, Krishna's story depicts him as the ultimate Lord of the Universe, whether Krishna himself is God or man is still a contentious matter in Hinduism. Hindus believe that Jesus, like Lord Krishna, is just another avatar of the Divine, who came down to show humanity in the righteous way of life. This is another point where Krishna resembles Christ, a figure who is both "fully human and fully divine."

Krishna and Jesus were both saviors of mankind and avatars of God who have returned to earth at an especially critical time in the lives of their people. They were the incarnates of the Divine Being Himself in human form to teach human beings divine love, divine power, divine wisdom, and lead the benighted world towards the light of God.
Similarity in Teachings

These two most admired of religious icons also claim to hold the completeness of their religions by themselves. It's interesting to note how alike each one spoke in the Bhagavad Gita and the Holy Bible about the righteous way of life. Lord Krishna says in the Gita: "Whenever, O Arjuna, righteousness declines and unrighteousness prevails, my body assumes human form and lives as a human being." He also says, "In order to protect the righteousness and also to punish the wicked, I incarnate myself on this earth from time to time." Similarly, Jesus said: "If God were your Father, ye would love me; for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of Myself but He sent me."

At many places in the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna said about His oneness with God: "I am the way, come to Me…Neither the multitude of gods, nor great sages know my origin, for I am the source of all the gods and great sages." In the Holy Bible, Jesus also utters the same in his Gospels: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well…"

Krishna advises all men to continue working for the welfare of the state all through the life: "That man attains peace who lives devoid of longing, free from all desires and without the feeling of 'I' and 'mine'. This is the Brahman state…" Jesus too ensures man, "Him that overcometh 'I' will make a pillar in the temple of my God and he shall go no more out."

Lord Krishna urged his disciples to follow the art of scientific control of the senses. An expert yogi can withdraw his mind from old temptations of the material world and can unite his mental energy with the joy of inner ecstasy or samadhi. "When the yogi like a tortoise withdrawing its limbs, can fully retire its senses from the objects of perception, his wisdom manifests steadiness". Christ too delivered a similar directive: "But though, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thy shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly."

Krishna stressed the idea of the grace of God in the Gita: "I am the origin of everything, and everything arises out of Me…". Similarly, Jesus said: "I am the bread of life; he that cometh to me shall never hunger and he that believeth in me shall never thirst."

Hinduism : Aryan Society

• Introduction
• Language : Sanskrit
• Holy books : Vedas, Puran, Ramayan, Mahabharat, Shrimadbhagavatgita etc.
• Swastik
• Om
• Rudraksha
• Holy Plants and Trees : Tulsi (Basil),Pipal, Neem etc.
• Trishula (Trident)
• Aryuved
• Yoga
• Mantra
• Jyotish (Vedic Astrology)
• Cow
• Panchtatva
  
• Orange color
• Chandan (Sandalwood)
• Vastushastra

Sacrifices of Hindus

When I add a picture on corner of header of my blog ,in which Bangladeshi muslims are torturing a hindu, my friends say that it is anti-islamic. I want clear confusion. In this picture I want show that Hinduism i.e. Aryan culture was oldest culture and fully developed society but when many communities born in the world then they torture hindus. I am not blaming any perticular community, I want only show Sacrifices of hindus when they were killed for thier culture and faith. I do not want revenge from that communities, I have respect my forefather for their faith and glorious history. So I have added this picture.

insaniyat??????

जब इन्सान सिर्फ इन्सान थे तब उसके पास culture नहीं था और ना ही पहचान........

तब इंसानों ने अपना अपना नाम रखा .....
ताकि वो एक दुसरे को नाम से जाने ...........
जानवर अपना नाम नहीं रखते .......
और इसके बाद इंसानों को यह एहसास हुआ की इन्सान social creature है अकेले नहीं रह सकता .......
तब साथ साथ ख़ुशी ख़ुशी रहने के लिए कुछ rule और regulation बनाया .......
इन्सान जानवरों से अलग था इसलिए उसने culture को बनाया .......
तब मैं आई .......तब मेरा जन्म हुआ ......

लेकिन यह क्या ????
इन्सान इन्सान का दुश्मन बन बैठा वो भी सिर्फ नाम की वजह से ??????

मैं??? मुझे जानना चाहते हैं आप ??? मैं आपमें हूँ ......

मैं इंसानियत हूँ .......

लेकिन अब लगता है की इंसानों को अब मेरी जरुरत नही है ...........
मैं जा रही हूँ .......
हो सके तो मुझे रोक लेना ........

मैं जाना नहीं चाहती .............
लेकिन मैं इंसानों के दिलो में रहती हूँ .......

कहाँ जाऊ मैं ??????

Why we should respect Hinduism?

* It is not religion, it is culture and way of life.
* It is related to Sindh civilization (Indus Valley Civilization). Hindu is the Persian name for the Indus River, first encountered in the Old Persian word Hindu, corresponding to Vedic Sanskrit Sindhu, the Indus River. In Persian the letter H and S are pronounced almost the same so they mistook the word Sindhu (Sanskrit name for Indus) to H and then started calling Hindus and Hinduism. The term Hinduism was introduced by the English People to denote the religious, philosophical, and cultural traditions native to India. Indus Valley Civilization is oldest culture in world.
* In Hindi language Religion means Dharm but in Hinduism Dharm is defined as humanity and morality, it can not be divided as Christianity, Islam or Budhiusm.
* Hinduism is sometime called Sanatan Dharm means Eternal Law.
* All religions are the result of the works of thousands of thinkers. Hinduism and Judaism are cultures and they are the mothers of all religions. New religions like Christianity and Islam took the best aspects of Judaism and made part of them. So too Buddhism and Jainism took the best aspects of Hinduism and made part of them.
* Forbes Magazine, (July, 1987) wrote: "Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages and is the most suitable language for the computer software."
* Hindus believe in One and Only God – Brahman which expresses itself in trillions of forms. Hindus do not believe God has human form or any other form. God is nameless and timeless. But there is nothing wrong to worship a God with name and form (nama-roopa), since man cannot conceive anything without any name and form. In fact, in the Shruti scriptures of Hinduism, God or Brahman has been described as Saguna Brahman (God-Brahman with attributes) as well as Nirguna Brahman (God-without attributes. In the Upanishads, God is described as Neti–Neti (not this-not that) method. So first Hindus worshiped 33 natural gods in the Rig Veda. Then Hinduism came to the realization that there is one and only God - Brahman.
* In Hinduism Woman is called Shakti (Power). They worship Goddess as Mata (Mother). The Man is called Shiv ( Originator) and Woman is Shakti (Power). Both man and woman are complement of each other.
* Ayurveda – The Hindu Medicine Scripture – consists of more than 100,000 verses initially. Still it is considered as a upa Veda of Atharva Veda.
* In Rig Ved the holy book of hinduism says that God is Only one , It is almighty, immanent and immortal but there can worshiped in many name and many ways.
* Namste is the popular Hindu greeting performed by pressing two hands together and holding them near the heart. The whole act communicate to the world 'You and I are one. I salute and worship the God within you, which is a mirror image of myself"

Why Hinduism differ from other religion?

Before explaining it I want share my experience.One day I was seeing videos on website www.youtube.com, then I have saw that there are many video about people who has changed their religion.If you search the topic as "Islam converts to Christianity" or "Christianity converts to Islam" then you will see many video about hundreds on this topic, in which people are talking about the differences and faults of religion of each other. They are telling that why they change religion? what was faults of their religion? what do inspire to change religion? what is good thing in their new religion? etc.But if you search topic on "Islam/Christian converts in Hindu" then you will find no any video. It does not mean that Hinduism does not inspire any person because there are many example that foreign people come to India, they get inspired and stay here forever without change their name and religion.you will see a video that an Australian hindu woman has change her religion into Islam. Here is video -

In this video they show that Hindus are foolish,they worship animals and sexual organ.

I am Hindu. I proud to be Hindu. Do you know that Hinduism originated from Sindh civilization (Indus Valley civilization) which is oldest civilization of the world. Many civilization came and gone but Sindh civilization stay alive in form of Hinduism. It has increadible philosophy, science, literature, sociology, psychology etc.It has nature of changing with time period.It has no founder. It has no any special holy book as Bible and Quran, it has many books & literature that define the Hinduism and its traditions. Hindu religion is not organised. It is originated when human beings developed as civilised man. Nowadays people laugh at Hinduism and make a fun on their activities.Now I will explain why Hinduism differ from other religion.

Have you seen tribes? If you don't know then see this video.

Can you make understand about happy and civilised life? Why these people are difference from us?Why they spend dirty life?Have you any answer?

No,you have no answer.

You can't make understand to them because they do not understand us.They do not know about science and technology.There are many difficulties to introduce about science and world, same difficulties came to our ancestors. They were very intelligent but they could not have make understand to barbarian people, then they made understood people in different ways. For example they knew that sunlight has made by sevens lightbeam of different wavelength, but how did they made understand it to illiterate person then they said that god sun has seven horses.If you will see hinduism in this way then you will realize that why hindus are so religious and why they have great faith for their religion while hindus are so intelligent.

मूर्ति पूजा

प्राचीन काल में एक हिरण्यकश्यप नाम का असुर था . वह अपने आप को ईश्वर कहा करता था .परन्तु उसकी पत्नी एक नागकन्या थी और वह एक भली स्त्री थी . एक बार हिरण्यकश्यप युद्घ करने गया था और उसकी पत्नी साधुओं के कुटिया में रहने चली गयी थी .तब वह गर्भवती थी . वहां भगवान् विष्णु का यज्ञ हो रहा था .यज्ञ में उच्चारित मंत्र गर्भ में पल रहे बच्चे के कानों में जा रहा था . उसकी माँ इस बात से अनजान थी .कुछ दिन बाद हिरण्यकश्यप लौट आया और अपनी पत्नी को ले गया .जब बच्चा जन्म लिया वो असुरों के बीच था मगर वो भगवान् विष्णु का परम भक्त था । यह जानकर हिरण्यकश्यप बहुत क्रोधित हुआ । उस बालक का नाम प्रह्लाद था । हिरण्यकश्यप अपने पुत्र से कहता - "रे मुर्ख अपने पिता जो इस ब्रह्माण्ड का ईश्वर है सबसे शक्तिशाली है ,को छोड़ तू विष्णु का पूजा करता है । वो विष्णु मुझसे छुपता फिरता है "। बालक प्रह्लाद बोला -"पिताजी आप एक मनुष्य हैं, मैं आप की पूजा कैसे कर सकता हूँ ?भगवान् विष्णु अंतर्यामी ,सर्वशक्तिमान ,पालनहारी और सर्वव्यापी हैं । उनका पूजन सारा जगत करता है । आप मेरे पिता हैं मैं आपको प्रणाम करता हूँ "। यह सुन हिरण्यकश्यप बौखला गया । उसे प्रताणित करने लगा । कभी सापों के बीच छोड़ देता ,तो कभी शूल पर चढाता,तो कभी अपनी बहन होलिका के साथ आग में बैठाता । मगर भगवान् विष्णु हर बार अपने भक्त की सदैव रक्षा करते । एक दिन हिरण्यकश्यप प्रहलाद से बोला तेरा भगवान् कहाँ है उसे बुला देखता हूँ आज तुझे वह कैसे मुझसे बचाता है । तब बालक प्रह्लाद बोला - "पिता जी ईश्वर सर्वव्यापी हैं वो हर जगह हैं । वो अपने भक्तों की रक्षा करते हैं" ।हिरण्यकश्यप बौखला गया और बोला "तेरा भगवान् यहाँ है ? "
बालक प्रह्लाद - "हाँ ,वो यहाँ भी है । वो सृष्टि के कण कण में हैं । '
-"वो इन असुरों में भी है "
-"हाँ पिता जी "
-"वो इस दासी में भी है "
-"हाँ पिताजी "
-"वो इस महल के दीवारों में है "
-"हाँ पिताजी "
हिरण्यकश्यप बिल्कुल बौखला गया और एक खंभे को ईशारा कर बोला "तेरा भगवान् इस खम्भे में है?"
बालक प्रह्लाद -"हाँ पिता जी "
हिरण्यकश्यप हंसा और बोला "देखता हूँ तेरा भगवान् कैसे बचता है ?"यह कह वो अपने पैर से उस खंभे को मारता है और खम्बा गिर जाता है , उसमे से भगवान् नरसिंह अवतरित होते हैं और हिरण्यकश्यप को मार देते हैं ।

तबसे हिंदू ईश्वर को मूर्ति के रूप में पूजा करने लगे ।

Hindu

मेरा जन्म उत्तरप्रदेश के छोटे गाँव में हुआ था. मैं जब छोटी थी तो मैंने अपने परिवार में दिवाली, होली, दशहरा मनाते देखा भगवान राम और भगवान् कृष्ण के बारे में सुना, माता - पिता से उनके आदर्शों का अनुसरण करना सीखा.हिंदू धर्म के मान्यताओं और रीती रिवाज को सम्मान देना सिखा जब विद्यालय जाने लगे तो जाने की हिंदू धर्म के अलावा और भी धर्म हैं. मुझे ईश्वर पर गहरी आस्था है मगर बड़े होने पर जाना की मेरे उसी आस्था का मजाक बनाया जाता है. कोई हमें सपेरे वाला तो कोई काफिर कहता है. बचपन से जो सीखते आए वही हमारे लिए सवाल बन गये. लोग क्यों कहते हैं की हम ग़लत है ?क्या मेरे माता -पिता जो संस्कार दिए वो ग़लत था ?क्या सचमुच भगवान् राम और भगवान् कृष्ण ,भगवान् नहीं हैं ?ऐसा क्यों है ,भगवान ईसा मसीह भगवान् हैं और हमारे भगवान् राम और भगवान् कृष्ण भगवान् नही हैं ? लोग हमसे सबूत क्यों मांगते हैं की - क्या सबूत है की भगवान् राम का जन्म अयोध्या में हुआ था ,क्या सबूत है की भगवान् कृष्ण ने गीता का उपदेश दिया है ?ये प्रश्न हमसे क्यों पूछे जाते हैं ?