Do you want to have solution to every problem? Do you want to discover self and be united with the Self? If so read, meditate and pray with the help of Gita and Bible. Gita and Bible are sacred scriptures of Hinduism and Christianity respectively. Both these sacred masterpieces convey a message which is timeless and universal and transcends all religion. These books are not ordinary writings but have profound meaning that is to be expounded and experience by each reader. When the words of the Gita and Bible enter in our blood we will experience the holy magic in the core of our being. Gita and Bible are love story books. Love is the central and running theme in both these books.
The Ultimate goal of every human being is to be united with the Being, God or Brahman, and to live peacefully and blissfully in the heavenly kingdom. The comparative study of the Gita and the Gospel of Jesus enable a person to know the self deeply and by knowing self, to be united with the Self. Here text from the Gita and Bible are being quoted so that we will truly understand ourselves and love God more dearly with the help of the text.
The Beginning
Creation is like a sort of yoga through which God manifests himself. God is in the heart of all beings. Behind the changing world there is an unchanging reality and that is God or Brahman. Everything comes forth from Brahman or God our Father, our Creator and Lord. We begin from God and we end in union with God. Gita (9:7-9), said that everything comes forth from nature. The reason why nature comes forth again and again is because of karma. There is a force in nature which causes all beings to come into existence. In Christian context we are all created in the image and likeness of God. Christian and Hindus believe that in the beginning there is the force which enables all creation on this universe, God. Below are some of the parallel passages about the creation from the Gita and the Bible.
Bhagavad Gita 4:6; My self is changeless and unborn and I am Lord of every being but using Nature, which is mine, by my own Power I come to being.
Bhagavad Gita 7:25; To all men I am not revealed by creative Power concealed, the deluded world perceives me not, the Unborn and one that Changes Not
Bhagavad Gita 8:16-17; The world as far as Brahmas’ realm dissolved and then return around but everyone who comes to me has no more transmigration found. All manifested things spring out at Day from the unmanifest and then dissolved again at Night in that same one Unmanifest.
Bhagavad Gita 9:7-9; Back to my material Nature all kinds of beings flow, form when a period ends and when a person begins I send them forth against. I dispatch by my own Nature, angina and every issuing in the power of mu Nature all this helpless host of being. And yet I am not bound at all in any manner by these words, but sit as one indifferent and stay detached along theses works.
Bhagavad Gita 10:20; I am the Self established in the heart of all contingent beings: I am the beginning, the middle, and the end of all contingent beings too.
John 1:1, 3; In the beginning was the word and the word was with god, and the Word was God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing comes into being.
Rev I: 8; I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.
Wisdom of Solomon 7:25; For she is a breath of the power of God, and a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty: therefore, nothing defiled gains entrance into her.
Human Being
God created human being male and female alike. In Gita (9:32) we find that one should be first obtain birth as a man. But in Christian context God created human being in his own image and likeness. All people whether low castes, high caste, rich or poor are also devotees and saints or children of God and does not have any difference in the sight of God. The relation between Brahman and the personal God may be illustrated by the ideal of unity within the Trinity. The Father is in the Son, and the Son is in the Father, they are distinct yet they are one. When we free ourselves from the forces of the world we discover our identity that is, being one with God. Our only true self is our Self in God. Below are some of the parallel passages about Human Being from the Gita and the Bible
Bhagavad Gita 5:13; In mind renouncing every work, not working nor yet causing work, in the Nine- gate city embodied soul sits happily, in full control.
Bhagavad Gita 9:32; But those who dwell in godlike nature and know me are men of Mighty Soul, they love me with unswerving thoughts as Source of Beings, Unchangeable.
Bhagavad Gita 14:26; One who transcends these Qualities intent on me and never swerves, is fitted for becoming Brahman if in discipline of love he serves.
John 1:1, 3f; In the beginning was the word and the word was with god, and the Word was God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing comes into being.
Psalm 8: 5-6; Yet you have made a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honour. You have given them dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under their feet.
Society and religion
Friendliness and compassion are the two important virtues in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity. Friendliness and compassion are to have no thought of ‘I’ and ‘mine’. The ultimate fulfillment is not to lose one’s true self but to discover one’s true self living in harmony with all others. It is a striking evidence of the similarity of all oral teaching that this might well be a list of Christian virtues. Non-violence, Truth, and freedom from anger are part of renunciation. Peace is a great virtue reflected in the Beatitude, ‘blessed are the peace-makers’. Gentleness, modesty, steadfastness are the fruit of the Holy Spirit. Religion should be a source that helps us to respect each other and not creating enmity. Below are some of the parallel passages about society and religion from the Gita and the Bible
Bhagavad Gita 1:28; Quickly become compassionate and in despondency he spoke: O Krishna, those who want this war I recognize as my own folk.
Bhagavad Gita 12:13; Be compassionate and friendly released from ego selfishness, patient, not hating any being, the same in pain and happiness.
Bhagavad Gita 14:23; He sits as one indifferent whom the Qulaities have not perturbed, he thinks ‘the qualities are at work’, remaining firm and undistributed.
Bhagavad Gita 16:2; A fearless man and pure in heart with disciplined wisdom and steadfastness, generous restraint and sacrifice, study an ascetic uprightness.
Bhagavad Gita 17:14; This is Austerity of Body in pureness, homage, uprightness, to teachers, priests and gods and sages.
Mt 5:39, 42; But I say to you, do not resist an evil doer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also. Gove to everyone who begs from you, and do not refuse anyone who wants to borrow from you.
Mt 9:13; Go and learn what this means, “I desire mercy, not sacrifice”. For I have come to call not the righteous but the sinners.
Lk 6:27; But I say to you that listen, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
Lk 6:31; Do to others as you would have them do to you.
Lk 23: 34; Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.
Duty
According to Hindu believe duty is dharma, and the Hindu society was formed on the basis of dharma. There are four ends of life in Hindu tradition, kama, artha, dharma, and moksha. Kama is pleasure, artha is wealth, Dharma means a man's own duty and moksha, which is final liberation. This is achieved when one is set free from all sorts of attachments. In Christian context work is worship. God continue to work because He loves us therefore we too should work ceaselessly. Duty demands commitment. Here below are some parallel passages about duty and work from the Gita and Bible.
Bhagavad Gita 2:31; Look then to your proper Duty and you will have no cause for fright, soldiers have nothing better here than Duty that demands a fight.
Bhagavad Gita 3:5, 24; Nobody for the shortest time remains without doing anything, but each is made to act perforce by the Qualities that from Nature spring. And if I performed no action the worlds would come to end in void, I’d be an agent of confusion if all these creatures I destroyed.
John 5:17; Jesus answered them, “my Father is still working, and I also I am working”.
Lk 6:31; Do to others as you would have them do to you.
Suffering
Suffering is part and parcel of life. No one can live life happily without any suffering. Suffering is cause by the evil. Both the Bhagavad-Gita and the Bible deal with Suffering. Suffering helps people to face the reality. The Bhagavad-Gita and the Bible allows us to understand suffering in a positive way. Sin in the Gita is evil but it is the nature of ignorance or the seeking of truth. But the Gita does not stop there it goes beyond sin. Sin is really the beginning. The ego is the root of the mind, and therefore the root of human nature is to seek the light beyond and that is God. To go beyond sin is to go beyond Karma. Suffering is a way to glory.
Bhagavad Gita 3:5; And if I were to refrain from action, the human race would be ruined; I should lead the world to chaos and destruction would follow.
Lk 24:26; Was is not necessary that the Messiah should suffer these things and then enter into glory.
Mysticism
The idea that nature is all-powerful is an illusion, because behind the whole course of nature is this eternal Being who is sustaining everything, and who pervades everything, and who is guiding everything to its destiny. It is ignoring which makes people think that they are simply subject to mechanical laws. There is a scene in the Gospel when Jesus goes to Nazareth, his home town, and the people say, is not this the carpenters’ son? Do we not know his brothers and sisters? They were unable to see behind that semblance of his human form to the real being, the Lord within. When the material universe is transfigured, when it ceases to be subject to the present laws of matter, space and time, and is realized in God, it is the plentitude of reality. According to Christian we are person within the person of Christ. In the mystical body of Christ, each person is al cell. In the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, the ultimate Godhead is beyond words and thought, beyond all conception, there is communion; an intercommunion in knowledge and love. In the Godhead itself, there is love. The Holy Spirit is immanent in matter from the beginning of the creation. The Holy Spirit brings forth life from the earth. Below are some of the parallel passages about mysticism from the Gita and the Bible
Bhagavad Gita 11:44; And to my prostrate body bending low, O Lord adorable, thy grace bestow, as father bears with son, as friend with friend, as lover with beloved, God’s mercy show!.
Bhagavad Gita 9:11, 15; Some foolish people may despise my taking of a human guise, ignoring that my higher state is Lord of Beings, that most great. With wisdom as a sacrifice others to me such worship pay in my unique and may forms, as various, facing every way.
Bhagavad Gita 17:3; Surely the faith of every man with his won nature must agree, since man is her composed of faith and as his faith is so is he.
Bhagavad Gita 12:7; And if their thoughts are faced on me immediately I am found their Savior from the mortal sea that forms this transmigrating round.
Bhagavad Gita 18: 55, 67; By love he comes to recognize my greatness, who I really am and enters into me at once by knowing me as I really am. But you must never speak of this to whosoever lives without austerity or envies me, is disobedient or undevout.
Bhagavad Gita 9:28; Thus released from bonds of action good or bad fruits, in discipline by practice and renunciation your soul is free and me you win.
Bhagavad Gita 10:10; To those men always discipline who evermore show love to me I give that integrated mind by means of which they come to me.
Bhagavad Gita 13:18; So the Field and also knowledge and the object of knowledge I declare, my devotee who comprehends in my own mode of being will share,
Bhagavad Gita 14:19; When the observing should perceives no agent but the Qualities he finds my modes of being and knows One higher than the Qualities.
John 17: 22-23; The glory that you have given me I have given to them, so that they may be one, I in them and you in me, that they may become completely in, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
John 17:10, 18; He was in the world and the world come into being through him; yet the world did not know him. Those who believe in him are not condemned; but those who do not believe are condemned already, because, they have not believed in the name of the only son of God.
Lk 17: 20b-21; The kingdom of god is not coming with things that can be observed; nor will they day, ‘Look, here it is I” or “There it is! For, in fact, the kingdom of God is among you.”
Mt 11: 28; come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give your rest.
Mt 18:20; For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.
Mt 28: 20b; I am with you always, to the end of the age.
Hypocrisy
We may control outwardly our activities but if we do not restrain the desires which impel them, we have failed to grasp the true meaning of restraint. Hypocrisy is an attitude of pleasing others and seeking attention. This attitude is condemned by Jesus. Both Gita and Bible points out that hypocrisy will not help a person to come closer to God. Below are some of the parallel passages about the Hypocrisy from the Gita and the Bible.
Bhagavad Gita 3:6; He who restrains his organs of action but continues in his mind t be brood over the objects of sense, whose nature in his mind to brood over the objects of sense, whose nature is deluded is said to be a hypocrite ( a man of false conduct).
Matthew 10:26; So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known.
Lk 12:1-2; Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, their hypocrisy. Nothing that is covered, will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known.
The conflict between good and evil has existed long ago and will continue to exist. It is a general understanding, that to fight in a just war is a way to heaven. It is a very strong sense in Muslim tradition where it is called a jihad, anybody who dies in the jihad goes straight to heaven. The Christian too have similar tradition called as crusades in olden days. The war is the battle of life and the conflict is with the powers of evil. This has to be undertaken with peace, ‘in pleasure or pain, in gain or loss, in victory or defeat’. This is the ‘indifference which St. Ignatius of Loyola promoted. It means complete equilibrium in the face of all the opposites, the good and the evil, the pleasures and pain we should keep on striving till we reach the goal. Both Gita and Bible affirm that Death is a sting of sin but this is not the end it is also the attainment of heaven. Below are some of the parallel passages about war and evil from the Gita and the Bible
Bhagavad Gita 2:31-38; For a warrior, nothing is higher than a war against evil. The warrior confronted with such a war should be pleased, Arjuna, for it comes as an open gate to heaven. But if you do not participate in this battle against evil, you will incur sin, violating your dharma and your honor....
Death means the attainment of heaven; victory means the enjoyment of the earth.
Therefore rise up, Arjuna, resolved to fight! Having made yourself alike in pain and pleasure, profit and loss, victory and defeat, engage in this great battle and you will be freed from sin.
1 Cor 15:57; The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law, but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Mt 10:34; Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
Forgiveness
To err is human but to forgive is divine. Forgiveness is a virtue that human being need to cultivate in order to come closer to God and to his fellow human beings. Forgiveness leads us to freedom. God is a forgiving Father therefore we too should forgive others unconditionally. A person who forgives is pure at heart and live an ascetic uprightness. Both the Gita and Bible tells us that we should not be perturbed when we sinned, instead we should turn back to God, turn away from evils and God will forgive us. Below are some of the parallel passages about the Forgiveness from the Gita and the Bible.
Bhagavad Gita 12:13; Be compassionate and friendly released from ego selfishness, patient, not hating any being, the same in pain and happiness.
Bhagavad Gita 14:23; He sits as one indifferent whom the Qulaities have not perturbed, he thinks ‘the qualities are at work’, remaining firm and undistributed.
Bhagavad Gita 16:2; A fearless man and pure in heart with disciplined wisdom and steadfastness, generous restraint and sacrifice, study an ascetic uprightness.
Bhagavad Gita 18: 66; Give up all things of law, turn to me, your only refuge, I will deliver you from all evils, have no care.
Mt 9:2; Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven.
Mt 6:14; For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Mt 18:21-22; Peter came and said to him, ‘Lord, if another member of the church sins against me how often should I forgive? As many as seven times? Jesus said to him, “Not seven times, but I tell you, seventy- seven times.
Mk 2:5; When Jesus saw their faith; he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven”.
John 8:36; If the son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
Peace
Peace is what the world long for. In Gita (2: 64, 66) we see that there are stages of perfection. There is no wisdom for a man who is not integrated. To one who is not integrated there is no contemplation. Without contemplation there is no peace, and without peace there is no joy. In Christian context Peace is a gift from Jesus. We should all strive for peace because God will bless us. For St. Paul the fruits of the spirit are these: love, joy, peace. Below are some of the parallel passages about peace from the Gita and the Bible
Bhagavad Gita 2: 64,66; But he who roves among the objects of sense, his senses subdued to self and disjoined from passion and hate, and who is self-possessed, draws nigh to calm serenity. The man who is not integrated has no soul, in Him there is no development: for the man who does not develop there is no peace.
Mt 5:9; Blessed are the peace makers for they will be called children of God
John 14:27; Peace, I leave with you; my peace I give to you
John 16:33; I have said this to you, so that in me you may have peace.
Reward
According to Gita, the people who seeks wisdom, or the man who strives for gain each in their different way want something from God. The afflicted man wants relief, the man seeking wisdom wants wisdom and who is integrated is seeking God in himself. This is the difference: first of all we seek god for something we can get from him; only later do we discover that God himself is what we want. In Christian context we should ‘seek ye first the kingdom of God’ and then everything else will follow. When we love our brothers and sisters, we love God and God will bless us. Therefore we need to love God so that we will be loved by God. Below are some of the parallel passages about reward from the Gita and the Bible
Bhagavad Gita 7:17; Of these the man of wisdom, ever integrated, who loves and worships One alone excels: for to the man of wisdom I am exceeding dear and he dear to me.
John 6:56; those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me and I in them.
John 14: 21b; those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.
Mt 10:40-42; “Whoever welcomes you welcomes me,… whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous and whoever gives even a cup of cold water… none of these will lose their reward.
The Gita and the Bible speak about the Trust in God. The Gita (6:30) tells us that the three concepts of God, Brahman, Atman and Purusa, are all ultimately identical. They are the one reality realizes in different ways. For the Christian, Christ is the personal aspect of God, the person in whom the universe finds its ultimate meaning who reveals himself as life, love and truth. God is the everywhere, he abides in us, and He is the way, and our refuge and strength. Therefore when we trust God we will not be lost because He will live in us and we will be in Him. Below are some of the parallel passages about trust from the Gita and the Bible.
Bhagavad Gita 6:30; Who sees Me everywhere, who sees the All in Me, for him I am not lost, nor is he lost to Me.
Bhagavad Gita 9:18; (I am) the way, sustainer, Lord, and witness, home and refuge, friend,-origin and seed that passes not away.
John 14:6; Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life”.
Rev 1:17; I am the first and the last.
John 6:56; Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me and I in them.
John 3:16b; Everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.
Loyalty
To be loyal to God or Brahman is an important aspect of every human being. The Gita tells us that, ‘He who sees me everywhere and all in me, I am not lost to him nor is he lost to me’. The man who is fully integrated and made one, becomes aware of something that is other than himself, in the one case, this touch of contact with Brahman. Detaching oneself from outside contacts has been replaced by contact with the omnipresent Brahman and through Brahman with all things but in a new dimension, a new light. In Christian context we live in God and God lives in us. By loyal or faithful to God we will not lose anything instead we will not be lost in the sight of God; we will become completely one with Jesus or Brahman. Below are some of the parallel passages about Loyalty from the Gita and the Bible.
Bhagavad Gita 9:31; Right soon will his self be justified and win eternal rest. Arjuna, be sure of this: none who worships Me with loyalty and love is lost to Me.
Bhagavad Gita 6:29-30; With self integrated by spiritual exercise he sees the self in all beings standing, all beings in the self: the same in everything he sees. Who sees Me everywhere, who sees the All in Me, for him I am not lost, nor is he lost to Me.
Matthew 10:28; Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
John 17:23; I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
Life after death or Immortality
The divine life has drawn us into itself. If we fix our mind on God, we are drawn into the divine life. The great illusion under which we live is to think that when somebody dies the person, rather than the body is dead. It is illusion which comes over us and makes us see the eternal reality which is present in that situation. When a person dies we should rejoice and say he is born, he has come to life. He has passed on beyond this maya, this appearance of life, to eternal life, to the world of the Spirit. For Christian it is only the body that dies because it goes but to the mud. The soul will go back to God and on the last day the person will rise again. Below are some of the parallel passages about Life after death or Immortality from the Gita and the Bible
Bhagavad Gita 2:19; Both he who thinks that this can kill and he who thinks that this is killed, have neither truly understood, this does not kill, is never killed.
Bhagavad Gita 8:6; Whatever state he bears in mind at death and leaves his frame aside to that very state he will arrive and ever after they abide.
Bhagavad Gita
Ch 3: 42; The sense, they say, are high; Higher than the senses is the thought-organ; But higher than the thought organ is the consciousness; While higher than the consciousness is He (the soul).
Ch 4:6; Unborn am I, changeless is my Self, of all contingent beings I am the Lord! Yet by my creative energy I consort with nature- which is mine- and come to be in time.
Ch 9: 7; All contingent being pour into material Nature which is another (aeon) starts, I emanate them forth.
Ch 11:4; If, Lord, You think that I can see You thus, then show me, Lord of creative power, this Self of yours which does not pass away.
Mk 12: 27; He is god not of the dead, but of the living.
1Cor 15:42, 44; So it is with the resurrection of the death what is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable, It is sown as a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body.
1 Cor 15: 54-57; when this perishable body puts on imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled:
“Death has been swalled up in victory:’
Where, O death is your victory?’
Where, O death is your sting?’”
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law, but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Heaven and Bliss
Heaven or the blissful stage is the aim of every human being. There are different ways in which people believe that they will be able to achieve this goal. Both in Gita and Bible the same thought is expressed. It is the state of being fixed in the Brahman or God. When one has freed oneself from desires and no longer has a thought of the 'I' or 'mine' then one awakes to reality, to truth, to real being. We should be free we from attachments for it is the root of all evils. Clinging to senses, clinging to our feelings, clinging to our thoughts, and clinging to ego is evil. Nirvana is experienced when one is totally freed from the ego and from the appearances of things, and when one has realised reality or truth. By meditation the meditator and the meditated object will become one and then one will enjoy the supreme bliss. In Christian context heaven is a place where all will be one. It is a place of perfection where no evil exist. Below are some of the parallel passages about heaven and bliss from the Gita and the Bible.
Bhagavad Gita 6:15; With integration of himself the disciplined with governed mind the peace that culminates in Calm and rest in me, will surely find.
Bhagavad Gita 2:72; This is the still state of Brahman, with this be no more stupefied, one goes to the Calm of Brahman if here on dying he abide.
Bhagavad Gita 10:3; He who knows me, Great Lord of Worlds, the Unborn and the Beginningless, he of undiluted mortals from every evil finds release.
Bhagavad Gita 5:24; The disciplined has joy within and happiness and light within, therefore on becoming Brahman he will the Calm of Brahman win.
Bhagavad Gita 14:27; I am the Ground of Brahman still immortal and unchangeable, of everlasting righteousness and of invariable bliss.
Mt 8:11-12; I tell you, many will come from east and west and will eat with Abraham, Issac and Jacob in the Kingdom of heaven, while the heirs of the kingdom will be thrown into outer darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Mk 9:47b; It is better for you to enter the kingdom of god with one eye than to have both eyes and to be thrown in hell.
Lk 16: 22; The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham.
John 3:16; for God so loved the world that he gives his only son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.
John 3:36; whoever believes in the son has eternal life whoever disobeys the sons will not see life, but must endure God’s wrath.
John 5:24; Very truly, I tell you, anyone who hears my worked and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and does not come under judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 11:25; Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life, those who believe in me even though they die, will live.
Bhagavad Gita and Gospel of Jesus (Bible) in some other Areas of life:
The Bhagavad Gita and the Gospel of Jesus helps in overcoming sorrow and becoming a detached person. There is numerous lives situation in which a person can get consolations from these two sacred scriptures. Every meditator or reader who meditates and pray by using these sacred texts will never go unhappy. Some of the comparative passages for some areas of life are:
In the Hour of life Crises: Bhagavad Gita 1:28-30, 2:2-7; Bible Mt 26:36-44 Ps 6
Perfection: Bhagavad Gita 2:54-59; Bible 1Thes 4:1-8, Mt 7:24f.
How to overcome Passion: Bhagavad Gita 2:60; Bible Gal 5:13-36.
Peace of Soul: Bhagavad Gita 2:64-71; Bible Jn.14:27, Mt 6:25-34.
Presence of God: Bhagavad Gita 7:7-11; Bible Is 44:6-8, Acts 17:23-28, Col 1:15-20.
Deities: Bhagavad Gita 7:20-23; Bible Wisdom 11:21-12:2, Joshua 5:1-11 Mt 6:24-33.
God the source of everything: Bhagavad Gita 9:13-19; Bible Ps 148, Jhn 6:35, Jhn 10:14-15.
Speak to me: Bhagavad Gita 10: 12-18; Bible Ps 138, 142, 144, Jn 6:68-69.
Human Being longing to see God: Bhagavad Gita 11:1-4; Bible Ps 42, 63, Jhn 9.
Lord in Majesty Bhagavad Gita 11:9-14, 15:24 Bible Mt 17:1-8, Ezekiel 1:4-28, Rev 4.
Adoration: Bhagavad Gita 11:32-46; Bible Ps 6 Lk 10:21-24 Is 6:1-5.
Dearness to God: Bhagavad Gita 12:13-46; Bible Ps 18:1-30 Mt 5:1-9.
Omnipresent of God: Bhagavad Gita 13:12-17; Bible Ps 139, Jer 26:23-24, Sirak 43:27-33.
God within us: Bhagavad Gita 13:12-17; Bible Jhn 15:5-22.
Two classes: Bhagavad Gita 16:24; Bible Gal 5:16-26.
Consecrating our life to God Bhagavad Gita 18:4-6, 45-47,56-57, Bible Mt 6:1-18.
God’s Personal love for us: Bhagavad Gita 18:61-66; Bible Jhn 15:9-15.
There is a saying which goes, ‘If God can move you from January to December, He’ll move you from Shame to Fame, Insult to Result, Sorry to Glory, Disgrace to His grace and Labour to Favor’. This phrase could be one of the core teachings of Gita and Bible. God is the immovable mover who moves all things in this universe. We need to love ourselves, love our neighbors and love God, and then we will truly experience the fullness of life. When we read the Gita and Bible we get inspirational support in the struggles of live, consolation in times of grief and we are taken to the culmination of oneness with God or Brahman.
‘Whosoever offers to Me with devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or water, that offering of love, of the pure heart, I accept. (Bhagavad Gita 9:26).
‘Do to others as you would have them do to you’. (Luke 6:31).
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