Krishna and Christ Crossover

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Translations: [Baghavad Gita - Eknath Easwaran], [New Testament - New International Version], [Gospel of Thomas - Stevan Davies]


Krishna and Christ spoke things of such similarity as to nearly amount to verbatim quotations of one another. This is an incomplete list.

Krishna	Christ
As they approach me, so I receive them. All paths, Arjuna, lead to me. - Baghavad Gita 4:11	Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." - John 14:6
Arjuna: You were born much after Vivasvat; he lived very long ago. Why do you say that you taught this yoga in the beginning? Krishna: You and I have passed through many births, Arjuna. You have forgotten, but I remember them all. My true being is unborn and changeless. - Baghavad Gita 4:4-6	Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and You have seen Abraham?” “Truly, truly, I tell you,” Jesus declared, “before Abraham was born, I am!” - John 8:57-58
I am the beginning, the staying, and the end of creation; I am the womb and the eternal seed. - Baghavad Gita 7:5 I am the beginning, middle, and end of creation. - Baghavad Gita 10:32	I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. - Revelations 22:13
The glory of the Self is beheld by a few, and a few describe it; a few listen, but many without understanding. - Baghavad Gita 2:29	He said, "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, 'though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.'" - Luke 8:10
There are ignorant people who speak flowery words and take delight in the letter of the law, saying that there is nothing else. - Baghavad Gita 2:42	These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules. - Matthew 15:8-9 (Mark 7:6-8)
Death means the attainment of heaven. - Baghavad Gita 2:37	For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. - Mark 8:35 (Matthew 16:25, more)
I am easily attained by the person who always remembers me and is attached to nothing else. - Baghavad Gita 8:14	Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. - Matthew 7:7-8 (Gospel of Thomas 94)
One who shirks action does not attain freedom; no one can gain perfection by abstaining from work. - Baghavad Gita 3:4	Jesus said: Blessed is the one who has labored and has found life. - Gospel of Thomas 58
The secret of these teachings is profound. I have explained them to you today because you are my friend and devotee. - Baghavad Gita 4:3	Jesus said: I tell my mysteries to people worthy of my mysteries. - Gospel of Thomas 62
But beyond this I have another, higher nature, Arjuna; it supports the whole universe and is the source of life in all beings. - Baghavad Gita 7:5	Jesus said: I am the light above everything. I am everything. Everything came forth from me, and everything reached me. - Gospel of Thomas 77
The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead. - Baghavad Gita 2:11	But Jesus told him, "Let the dead bury their own dead." - Luke 9:60 (Matthew 8:22)
The body is mortal, but that which dwells in the body is immortal and immeasurable. - Baghavad Gita 2:18	The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. - John 6:63

More coming.