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They who follow a divine nature honour me with their whole heart. (ix. 13.)

They who honour me go to me. (ix. 25;

conf.

also v. 37.)

They who come to me, though they come from a sinful womb—women, Vaiśyas, and Södras even —obtain the highest happiness. (ix. 32.)

I)ead in me, (x.9.)

I am the seed of all beings. Arjuna! Without me there is no being, moveable or immoveable. (x. 39.) IIe who forsakes all he has undertaken, and is devoted to me, is dear to me....Houseless, firm of

purpose, full of reverence, he is dear. (xii. 16, 19.)

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Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart. (Matt. xxii. 37.) Every man . . that hath heard, and hath learn ed of the Father, cometh unto me. (John, vi. 45.) I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh: and gour sons and your daughters shall prophesy . . . and on my servants, and on my handmaidens, I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy. (Acts, ii. 17, 18; also Joel, ii. 28.) Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (Col. iii. 3.)

All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life. (John, i. 3, 4.) They forsook all, and followed him. (Luke, v. 11.) There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, who shall not receive manifold more, &c. (Luke, xviii. 29; conf. also Matt. v. 3-10.

To be free from inclination, and from love for children, wife, and house...this is called knowledge. (xiii. 9, 11.)*

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It (the highest Brahma) is far and yet near. (xiii. 15.)? Neither sun, nor moon, nor fire is the light of the

place, and from it there is no return; this is my highest home. (xv. 6.):

Threefold is this gate of hell that destroys the mind,-lusts, anger, and awarice. (xvi. 21.)

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, . . . he can not be my disciple. (Luke, xiv. 26.) Though he (God) be not far from every one of us. (Acts, xvii. 27.) And the city hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. (Itev. xxi. 23.) Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction. (Matt. vii. 13.) For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the vainglory of life, . . is of the world. (I John, ii. 16.)

But the borrowing appears most clearly in it is impossible to think upon accidental coin the following places, which agree in expression cidence, because the context of the parallel sen and in meaning with the corresponding passages tences and thoughts is the same. in the New Testament, and in the most of which

III.-Passages which agree in eaſpression and meaning. Bhagavad-Gita. As they turn to me, so I honour them. Every day, Partha, men follow my steps. (iv. 11.)

New Testament.

And he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him. (John, xiv. 21.) If any man serve me, let him follow me ; and where I am,

Let him raise himself by himself . . . . . . soul is a man's friend; it is also his foe.

The

It is the

friend of him who has conquered himself by it; by its hostility to that which is not spiritual, it is like a foe. (vi. 5-6.)

there shall also my servant be : if any man serve me, him will the Father honour. (John, xii. 26.) If any man desire to come after me, let him deny himself. . . For whosoever desireth to save his life (soul) shall lose it : and whosoever shall

lose his soul for my sake shall find it. (Matt. xvi. 24–25.) He that loveth his soul shall lose it; and he that hateth his soul in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. (John, xii. 25, also Rom. vii. 23.)

I am dearer to the wise man than possessions, and he is dear to me. (vii. 17.)

He that loveth me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him. John, xiv. 21. Luke, xiv. 33.)

• Conf. Thomas à Kempis, de Imit. Christi, I. xx.

t Conf. also Mundaka-Upanishad, iii. 1. 7 (Bibl. Ind. vol. XV. p. 126), so also Isa-Upanishad, 5 (ibid. p. 72). 3. Conf. Katha-Upanishad 5, valli 15; also Svetášvatara-Upanishad, vi. 14, and Mundaka-Upanishad, ii. 2, 10.