Bhagavad Gita and Christ: Parallels
Gita is the source of joy – 18.77
Tac ca samsmrtya-samsmrtya
Rupam atyadbhutam Hareh
Vismayo me mahan rajan
Hrsyami ca punah-punah
(again and again does that most wondrous form of Hari arise in my mind, generosity great astonishment and endless thrills of joy).
John 15:11 “I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy mat be complete.”
Gita is revelation out of love – 18.64
Sarva-guhyatamam bhuyah
Srnu me paramam vacah
Isto si me drdham iti
Tato vaksyami te hitam
(listen again to My Supreme word, the profoundest of all spiritual teachings. You are well beloved of Me; and so I shall tell you what is beneficial to you).
John: 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.”
Gita is a promise – 4.7-8
Yada yada hi dharmasya
Glanir bhavati bharata
Abhyutthanam adharmasya
Tad’ atmanam srjamy aham
Vinsaya ca duskrtam
Dharma-samsthapan’ arthaya
Sambhavami yuge yuge
(Whenever there is decline of Dharma and ascendance of Adharma, then, O scion of the Bharata race! I manifest (incarnate) Myself in a body. For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the wicked, and for the establishment of Dharma, I am born from age to age).
Mathew 1:23 “Look the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel, which means, “God is with us.”
Acts 13:23 “God has brought to Israel, a Saviour, Jesus, as he promised.”
The promise of the Gita is fulfilled in Christ; for he is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world and establishes Dharma.
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