1. |
Krishna was
miraculously conceived and born of the
Virgin Devaki ("Divine One") as
a divine incarnation. |
2. |
He was born at a time when his family
had to travel to pay the yearly tax. |
3. |
His father was a carpenter yet Krishna
was born of royal descent. |
4. |
His birth was attended by angels, wise
men and shepherds, and he was presented
with gifts. |
5. |
He was persecuted
by a tyrant who ordered the slaughter
of thousands of infants who feared that
the divine child would supplant his
kingdom. |
6. |
His father was
warned by a heavenly voice to flee the
tyrant who sought the death of the child.
The child was then saved by friends
who fled with them in the night to a
distant country. When the tyrant learned
that his attempt to kill the child failed,
he issued a decree that all the infants
in the area be put to death. Writing
about Krishna in the eighteenth century,
Sir William Jones stated, "In the Sanskrit
dictionary, compiled more than two thousand
years ago, we have the whole history
of the incarnate deity, born of a virgin,
and miraculously escaping in infancy
from the reigning tyrant of his country."
(Asiatic Researches, Vol. I, p. 273). |
7. |
The Bible states
that Jesus and family fled to Egypt
afterward to escape from King Herod.
According to the Christian apocryphal
text "the Gospel of the Infancy,"
the family traveled to Maturea, Egypt.
Krishna was born in Maturea, India,
hundreds of years earlier. |
8. |
He was baptized in the River Ganges. |
9. |
The missions of Krishna and Jesus were
the same - the salvation of humanity. |
10. |
Krishna worked
miracles and wonders such as raising
the dead and healing lepers, the deaf
and the blind. |
11. |
Krishna used parables to teach the people
about charity and love. |
12. |
Jesus taught
his disciples about the possibility
of removing a mountain by faith. According
to tradition, Krishna raised Mount Goverdhen
above his disciples to protect his worshipers
from the wrath of Indra. |
13. |
"He lived poor and he loved the poor." |
14. |
Krishna washed the feet of the Brahmins
and transfigured before his disciples. |
15. |
Krishna's
teachings and Jesus' teachings were
very similar. The celebrated French
missionary and traveler,
Evarist-Regis
Hucv,
who made a journey of several thousand
miles through China and Tibet, stated,
"If we addressed a Mogul or Tibetan
this question, 'Who is Krishna?' the
reply was instantly 'The savior of men."
According to Robert Cheyne, "All that
converting the Hindoos to Christianity
does for them is to change the object
of their worship from Krishna to Christ."
Appleton's Cyclopedia says this about
the teachings of Krishna: "Its correspondence
with the New Testament is indeed striking." |
16. |
There is an
extra-canonical Hindu tradition which
states that Krishna was crucified. According
to some traditions, Krishna died on
a tree or was crucified between two
thieves. |
17. |
He descended
to hell, rose bodily from the dead,
and ascended to heaven which was witnessed
by many. |
18. |
Krishna is called
the "shepherd god" and "lord of lords,"
and was considered "the redeemer, firstborn,
sin bearer, liberator, universal Word." |
19. |
He is the second
person of the trinity, and proclaimed
himself the "resurrection" and the "way
to the Father." |
20. |
He was considered
the "beginning, the middle and the end,"
("alpha and omega"), as well as
being omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent. |
21. |
His disciples bestowed upon him the
title "Jezeus," meaning "pure essence." |
22. |
Krishna is to
return again riding a white horse to
do battle with the "prince of evil,"
who will desolate the Earth. |