Word: krishna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hindus observed last week the 5,000th birthday of Krishna, their epic hero, who traditionally composed the Bhagavad-gita?perhaps comparable to Solomon's Song of Songs?and is now exalted as the full incarnation of Vishnu, a God of the Bright Heaven...
...species Babbitii of Homo Americanus Mukerji's latest offering will seem incomprehensible tosh about an incomprehensible person, one Rama Krishna, whom his followers call an Incarnation of God, as was also Buddha, Mohammed, and Christ...
...this Rama Krishna was a strangely unromantic sort of person. He did not, as did Buddha, suddenly change his course of life from that of a prince to that of a begging friar. He did not lead armies, as did Mohammed. He did not confute wise men, nor die an eternal death upon the Cross, as did Christ. Instead he spent nearly his whole life tending the ritual of the Goddess Kali at her temple on the Ganges. Strangest thing of all for a Messiah, he deliberately avoided founding a cult. Instead he urged all who came...
...Western minds, Rama Krishna, then, is an eminently unsatisfactory religious leader. It is impossible to place him. He did not do anything great; he merely lived. He could barely read and write. Yet he numbered among his disciples the greatest social reformer in the India of the time, the greatest dramatist, and two or three of the greatest scholars...
...farmboys studying in Tokyo, no Boston freshman at Peking or Madras. The self-sufficient Occident has always assumed the teacher's role in its colleges at home, in its Christian missions abroad. Yet lately there have come missionaries to the Christians from the followers of Buddha, Confucius and Krishna. And last week another reciprocity was announced. With money derived from staging their native dramas at International House, Manhattan, Japanese students established the first Oriental scholarship ever offered to U. S. students, open to "the most promising student" wishing to complete his or her studies at a Japanese university...