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Similarities between The Bible and The Bhagavad Gita, Part 3

This is not a direct correspondence between the two texts. There is, however, a correlation on the level of ideas.

This is how I see it.

A child makes no distinction between valuable and invaluable. Similarly a man of discipline, in Bhagavad Gita, has become indifferent to a piece of gold, a piece of clay and a piece of stone. These are all of similar value to him. He has become a child, just as a person who desires to see the kingdom of God should – according to Jesus.

– Markus

The child Krishna

Self-contented in knowledge and judgment, his senses subdued, on the summit of existence, impartial to clay, stone, or gold, the man of discipline is disciplined.

Bhagavad Gita 6:8

Saint Anthony of Padua adoring the Christ Child. Oil on canvas, 1622 by Antonio de Pereda.

And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 8:13

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When the Almond Tree Blossoms – Ecclesiastes (Bible Quote)

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed, and the doors on the street are shut—when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low— they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets— before the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all is vanity.

The Bible: Ecclesiastes 12:1‭-‬8 ESV