Are they same? (CHRIST & KRISHNA)?

Question

Many similarities. Many characters similar.

Answer 1

A conversation between Srila Prabhupada,founder of ISKCON and father Emmanuel Jungclaussen, a Benedictine monk from Niederalteich Monastery. Event took place during 1974, near ISKCON's center in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany.

Srila Prabhupada: What is the meaning of the word Christ?

Father Emmanuel: Christ comes from the Greek word Christos, meaning "the anointed one".

Srila Prabhupada: Christos is the Greek version of the word Krishna.

Father Emmanuel: This is very interesting.

Srila Prabhupada: When an Indian person calls on Krishna, he often says, "Krsta". Krsta is a Sanskrit word meaning "attraction". So when we address God as "Christ", "Krsta", or "Krishna" we indicate the same all-attractive Supreme Personality of Godhead. When Jesus said, " Our Father who art in heaven hallowed be Thy name," the name of God was Krsta or Krishna. Do you agree?


Father Emmanuel: I think Jesus, as the son of God, has revealed to us the actual name of God: Christ. We can call God "Father", but if we want to address Him by His actual name, we have to say "Christ".

Srila Prabhupada: Yes. "Christ" is another way of saying Krsta and Krsta is another way of pronouncing Krishna, the name of God. Jesus said that one should glorify the name of God, but yesterday I heard one theologian say that God has no name -- that we can call Him only "Father". A son may call his father "Father", but the father also has a specific name. Similarly, God is the general name of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose specific name is Krishna. Therefore whether you call God "Christ", "Krsta", or "Krishna", ultimately you are addressing the same Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Father Emmanuel: Yes, if we speak of God's actual name, then we must say, "Christos". In our religion we have the Trinity: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We believe we can know the name of God only by revelation from the son of God. Jesus Christ revealed the name of the Father, and therefore we take the name "Christ" as the revealed name of God.

Srila Prabhupada: Actually, it doesn't matter -- Krishna or Christ -- the name is the same. The main point is to follow the injunctions of the Vedic scriptures that recommend chanting the name of God in this age. The easiest way is to chant the maha-mantra: Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare/ Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare. Rama and Krishna are names of God and Hare is the energy of God. So when we chant the maha-mantra we address God along with His energy. This energy is of two kinds, the spiritual and the material. At present we are in the clutches of the material energy. Therefore we pray to Krishna that He may kindly deliver us from the service of the material energy and accept us into the service of the spiritual energy. This is our whole philosophy. Hare Krishna means, "O energy of God, O God (Krishna), please engage me in Your service." It is our nature to render service. Somehow or other we have come to the service of material things, but when this service is transformed into the service of the spiritual energy, then our life is perfect. To practice bhakti-yoga [loving service to God] means to become free from designations like Hindu, Muslim, Christian, this or that, and simply to serve God. We have created Christian, Hindu and Mohammedan religions, but when we come to a religion without designations, in which we don't think we are Hindus or Christians or Mohammedans, then we can speak of pure religion, or bhakti.

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Personal comment: The very meaning of Krishna in sanskrit means all attractive. Akarsana, Akrista etc... are to do with attraction. According to Vedic scriptures Krishna is all attractive due to possessing six opulences in full,viz., all beauty, all knowledge, all wealth, all knowledge, all renunciation and all opulence in complete.

Answer 2

Here's my theory after lots of study on the "issue"... Jesus, as a human being might have been everything the Gnostic books claim he was and what he taught... a person very wise, kinda like the Buddha...

what he was turned INTO by many emerging sects of Christianity after his death, share story lines similar to that of something like 33 other Pagan and old-world stories about "saviors". So his STORY could be very similar, who he really was might have been something vastly different.

Two books to start with if you're interested: "The Christ Conspiracy; The Greatest Story Ever Sold" by Acharya S and "The Jesus Mysteries" by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy. Read with an open mind, do the research into the ancient history of religions, and Gnosticism, how Christianity emerged etc. You'll find it very "enlightening".

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Answer 3

No they are not the same.Krishna is much older. Christ is the younger brother.Actually, 3000years younger.

Huge difference. Krishna was the first prince of the new world.Ruler of the pure world
But Christ did a lot of service for his people but not as much as his older brother.

Answer 4

A good question which had been in my mind before 3 years until a incident which took place in front of my eyes actually cleared my doubts.I would also share this event with you and would like to see if this could answer your question.first i would like you to see the world where we are in , a world where seeing is beliving ,
people who are accoustomed to a practice .follow it more than a religion and faith and are not acceptable to any new faith.
When i was searching for a answer to my question i happened to meet an elderly person in the library and over the conversation put forth my question and he in turn asked me a question which was q)how many names do you have. and when i was unable to answer he said ihad a name to my mother,father,sister,friends, wife , son, grand mother, cousins ............etc.so a person who is a human being has so many identity why not god have so many names (and i add) have lot of similarities.

Answer 5

Lord Krishna predates Christ. That they wish to enlighten mankind to seek a better way to live their lives is the same.

Answer 6

hai,
no matter what the names are and no matter what they look like and what communities they belong to but the one which matters is what they say because every god says the same,respect others because all people are equal and do good things.if you can't, no matter.but don't do harm to any body.
i heared some thing in one film that there are many images, names,belifes with god because every one can not satisfy with one image and name.
lastly i think that god is a positive energy which will be with us when everyone leave us and gives us that confidence to overcome any problem that we face.

Answer 7

Yes, i believe that modern christianity was shaped after that Religion, too many similarities to call a coincidence, after all, so many things in Christianity have Pagan roots already, why not this?

Answer 8

They are asmuch the same as you and I are . Chritians are those who hate people who worship God in the form of their choice .they call the idol worshippers as worshippers of devils .hindus aere those who see God ina ll that god made and call anybody and evry body who worship any god as worshippers of god .hindus are those who see god and god only in evrything in the unuiverse. The difference between Christ and Krsihna are the same as the difference between the Hindus and he chistians.
Krisna's teachings are there in bhagavad Gita and Christs's teachings are reported by his disciples in the Bible . They at totally different from each other. these two , bhagavad Gita and Bible are available in all book stores and libraries . you can read hem and see the differnece between them
The Bhagavad Gita tells you what god id really. no other scripture tells you specifically anything about what god is . in Bhagavad Gita Arjuna asks Krsihna to show him the God in krsihna and the toitality of God .krishna shows him the vast space and ALL HEGALAXIES IN THEM AS HE TOTALITY OF THE SHAPE AND FORM OF GOD ..
No oher religion tells you that God is the space and he univrse and all that are in them without exception. How can Chriast who llived some 2006 years ago and krishna who lived in Dretha yuga which ended some 5106 years ago with the commencement of the kaliyuga be the same persons or the same God while the teachings of both have nothing in common.
jesus tells you toshow your left cheek to one who beat you on the right cheek. But krishna tells you to discharge your duties without fer or favour and without any expectation fo the fruit of your action in a dispassionate manner . Krsihna tell the warior to to fight against the wrong doers even if they happen to be your fathers , grand fathers , blood realties and kill them as your sacred duty.
krihna says hat he would be born every Yuga to eradicate the evil and to establish Dharma and protect the innocents. "PARITHRANAYA SADHU NAAM, VINAYASA CHATHUKRUTHAAM,, dHARMA sAN STHABANAARTHAAYA , SAMBAVAMI YUGHE YUGHE "
when Osama bin laden destroyed the Twin towers killing thousands of people , the christians should have shown Osam another Two towers to be destroyed and anoher four thousand people to be killed by him.if they were to follow the teachings of Jesus christ .But the Christian countries followed the teachings of Lord Krishna and and started hunting for Osam and waged war against some countries in pursuit of Osama to punish him and kill him.as it is the sacred duty of any Government to protect the innocent people by destroying the evils .
Krishna and Jesus christ were diametricall y opposed in thier philosophy . but if you consider them as Gods , you are yourself no less than those two as god is manifest in all animate and inanaimate things according to krishna .so krishna says that you ar also God But ZJesus says that he alone is God .that is the diffenrce between Hinduism , the philosophy of Krishna and christianity , the philosophy of Jesus .White and black ar not he same .whit emeans presence of all the colours and blackmeans the abscence of all colours .

Answer 9

similar as both said to follow their words but not to imitate them.they r not gods they r just humans with great characters.

Answer 10

I do not think so but know little about harry Krishna