The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-07-20
THE BHAGVAT GEETA.

lDCGu WTllLCH hUOuo uVSs GuDuSdHu year
ago and to consist OF ever hundre
thousand metrical stanzas, giving til
genealogy and general history Of tn
house of Bhaurut, and relating NOR
particularly the dissentions and wars o
the two great branches of it called th
Kooroos and .Pandoos. The Pandoos hat
I been banished from Hastenapooi
at that time the seat of Government 0
Hindostan, and, after time, the exile
returned with a powerful army to aveng,
their wrongs, and assert their pretention
to the empire by right Of their father
The Bhaggat of Geeta opens here anc
lis an episode, called The Geeta O
Bhagvat,' which is one Of she names 8
Kreeshna. Arjoon is represented as the
favorite and pupil of Kreeshna her,
taken for God himself, in his last Ootar
or dissent to earth in mortal form" It
is in the form of dialogues by KreeShna
andArjoonin eighteen lectures Ii was trans
lated from the Sunskreet by Mr.. Charles
Wilkins in 1884, and published under
the authority of the Court of Directors OF
the EastIndia Company, by the particular
desire and recommendation of the Gov
ernor General of India Warren Hastings,
ESQ. An edition Of only 261 copies was
y
published by subscription at very high
price, in London in 1885. The copy
before US is a reprint from the london
Edition and is published by the Religio-
Philosophical Publishing House Chi
cago, S. S. Jones, Proprietor. 1t is
- OF. Is mo. of1a9 pages, paper aud print
good, bound in embossed cloth with guilt
back. Price $I.25, Postage l9 cents We
received tire book with compliments
from S. S, Jones and in return tender
him thanks.
We have been very much interested in
reading hastily Bhagvat Geeta We had
seen notices of it and had read uuo,
tations from it, before its republication
and when there were but few copies of 1t
ia he English language extant, which
had excited our curiosity and anxiety to
read it. And, sit was written ia the
Oldest known language, the Sanskreet, or
as more usually written, Sans
krit or Sanscrit, and an ex
tract from one of the oldest, and possibly
the oldest. written work in the world. we
became the more interested il reading it.
And when we found shat in ethical, moral,
religious and spiritual doctrines it antic.
ipated much and perhaps in some res
poets surpassed, Judaism and Christiani
", we became deeply interested in it It
has beer said that Krceshna became
incarnate and was born ola virgin. Anh
those who claim that history furnishes
evidence Of at least seven Saviors Of the
world, each of whom became incarnatc,
and was born Of virgin, reck on Kreesh-
ma as one Of he seven Kreeshna fully
and clearly taught the doctrines OF rein
ca rnation and immortality Those who
were able to distract or abstract their
minds from things of sense and contem
plate the Deity without regard to works
ar reward, and were in Kreeshna and he
IN them, would pass into eternal If.
without having to bee me re -incarnatei
But those who could not or did not, and
died without doing so, would Eave to be.
come incarnated, ana some would have
to become again and again re-incarnat ed
Itlii they succeeded. And by learning
ivvotion, and spiritual application of soul
and laboring with all their might, they
became purified Of their offcnses, and
after many bigths, made perfect
and would at length 90 t.
the supreme abode. Kreeshna thus
taught The doctrine Of Immortality NOR,
clearly Than it is taught IN either old O
New Testament. And, as the Bhagya
Geeta was written Observation-Disclosures
OF years before either the Old or New
Testament, Kreeshna could not hav
been indebted to either for the doctrin
Of Immortality. The only questio
which could arise in this respect i.
whether the Bhagyat Geela is what
processes to be. And we believe tina
every one who has examined the subiee
and is capable Of coming to an intelliger
conclusion admits it. KS II T4a sg1