The Bhagavat-geeta, or Dialogues of Krishna and Arjoon., Sansc., Canarese and Engl. The Engl. tr. by sir C. Wilkins, with his preface and notes. With ... [with the Sansk. text] &c., Ed. by J. Garrett

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ...A distinction however seems to lie in this, that it would be impossible to turn this sentence, and to say, Brahma is Krishna; for Brahma is the supreme and original divine power, resting as it were in its own eternal nature; while Krishna, the God, has the additional character of a person. For this reason Krishna is named together with Brahma in the following passage. "He who pronounces Brahma, him who is designated by the monosyllable Om, and remembers me, "On quitting his mortal frame--he goes the supreme path. (VIII. 13.) In another passage even a gradation is not undistinctly hinted as existing between the Brahma and Krishna. After a lengthy description of the pious sage it is said: He who is thus minded, "Is formed for being Brahma, "And thus having become Brahma, his mind is at ease and he neither longeth nor lamenteth. "Being the same with regard to all creatures he obtains my supreme service; "By service he knows me, how great, and who I really am, "Then, having really known me, he forthwith enters me. (XVIII. 53--55.) Here the transition into Krishna is represented as the last and highest stage of perfection, which remains to be attained even after man has become conformable to Brahma. Both beings are even more fully distinguished as begetting and conceiving deity in the following passage: "The great Brahma is my womb, in it I place my foetus; "From this, O Bharata, is the production of all nature: "The great Brahma, is the womb of all those various forms which are conceived in every natural womb, "And I am the father who soweth the seed. (XIV. 3, 4.) This quite corresponds to the oriental ideas of a separation in the divine power, of a proceeding and reentering of some part of it. And yet this...