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 202 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [October, 1873. 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, Vaisyas, and Siidras even —obtain the highest happiness, (ix. 32.) D> ad in me. (x. 9.) I am the seed of all beings. Arjuna! Without me there is no being, moveable or immoveable, (x. 39.) lie who forsakes all he has undertaken, and is devoted to me, is dear to mo....Houseless, firm of purpose, full of reverence, he is dear. (xii. 10, 19.) To be free from inclination, and from love for children, wife, and house...this is called knowledge, (xiii. 9, 11.)* 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.)J Threefold is this gate of lull that destroys the mind,—lusts, auger, and avarice, (xvi. 21.) But the borrowing appears most clearly in the following places, which agree in expression and in meaning with the corresponding passages in the New Testament, and in the most of which III.—Passages which agn Bhagavad-Gita. As they turn to me, so I honour them. Every day, Partha, men follow my steps, (iv. 11.) Let him raise himself by himself The soul is a man’s friendit is also his foe. It is tho friend of him who has conquered himself by it; by its hostility !•> that which is not spiritual, it is like a foe. (vi. 0-6.) 1 am dearer to the wise man than possessions, and lie is dear to mo. (vii. 17.) 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 your 60718 and your daughters shall prophesy. . . and on my servants, and 0)i 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 arc dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (Col. iii. 3.) All things were made by him, and without him teas not anything made that was 77iade. 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. If any man come to 'me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, ami children, ... he can¬ not be my disciple. (Luke, xiv. 26.) Though he (God) be not far from every one of us. (Ads, 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 tho light thereof. (Rev. i xi. 23.) "Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that Icadcth 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. (1 John, ii. 16.) it is impossible to think upon accidental coin¬ cidence, because the context of the parallel sen¬ tences and thoughts is the same. ! in expression and meaning. New Testament. And he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him. (Jolm, xiv. 21.) If any man servo me, let him follow me ; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man servo me, him will the Father honour. (John, xii. 26.) If any man desire to come after me, bit him deny himself . . . For whosoever desircth 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.) He that loveth me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him. John, xiv. 21. Luke, xiv. 33.) t Conf. also Mund'ika-Up-mishad, iii. 1. 7 (Bibl. Ind. vol. XV. p. 126), so also fsa-Upanishad, 5 (ibid. p. 72). X Conf. Katl. j-Upanishad 5, valli 15 ; also S’vet<l<vat'ira• Vpnnishad, vi. 14, and Afundaka-Upanishad, ii. 2,10.
 * Conf. Thomas ii Kempis, de Imit. Christi. I. xx.