Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
HINOOO VIEW Of
DIVINE ADVENT
HOW CONSIDERED BY THE
ORIENTAL
Baba Bharati breaches Sermon al
krishna Temple on True Meaning
of Christmas, Even to
"Heathen"


"Heathen"
Baba Bharati delivered a sermon last
night i'm the Krishna temple, his sub
ject being, "The Divine Advent:
Hindoo View" He said in part;
"I have called my subject The Di'
vine Advent and not The Divine Adj
vent i'm Nazareth or 'Christs Advent
on Earth, which should have been the
right words for my title. But l have
put it as it is, purposely. L have put
! 1t merely as The Divine Advent
which means that Christs birth was
the only divine advent on earth, to
make glad even the heart of the or
thodox Christian, who may be glad
that even a heather Hindoo calls
Christ's advent to be the only divine
advent on earth.
I'VE Hindoos do not particularly take
exception to what we are called by
-Hlndoos. We believe with the
| fair Capulet of ii that the rose by
any other name would smell as sweet
| The innately philosophic Hindoo smiles
at the epithet heather flung at him
by his Christian brother, just as rich
man smiles at being called poor. All
that we care for and rejoice to know
| is that he is godly. 1t does not matter
to us in what way anybody worships
God, provided he loves God. If he
loves God, the God that is all love, we
bow to him and beg his blessing
which cannot fail to inspire in us God
love if we have none, or add to our
love for God if we have some already
II greet all Christendom with the
heartiest greetings of this holy season.
Merry Christmasi Merry Christmasn
will be on the lips of every one in
Christendom on Christmas day. Yet
how few will stop to think of the deep
significance of that blessed day. Even
the most devout Christian may miss
the depth of that significance. 1t is
to him the birthday of his Savior. But
what is a savior, and how does that
Savior save the sinner? What con-
stitutes in Christ the saviorship?
"Heathen" Have Rights
His modem ministers are answer
ing these questions daily from all the
pulpits in Christendom TO foster the
faith of the faithful. So long as such
devotee in his Savior they must be
pronounced good. But we of the heart
of the east, who are called 'heathen'
by patronizing followers of Jesus
Christ, have sort of right to interpret
Christ and Christianity, the concept
of which is the offspring of Hindoo
thought as old as Mother Earth. To
us Hindoos, whose religion is original
Christianity, Christ stands out as q
greater personality than his modern
Interpreters proclaim him to be. The
Hindoos concept of God and his in
carnations is scientific, more scientific
indeed than the materialistic science
of our day. Hindoo sicence is mental,
but 1t is not like the mental science
that is now being evolved by anybody
and everybody in the west. The laws
Of Hindoo science are practical, in that
their workings are perceived by we'll
regulated human minds the world over,
in all ages.
''The birth of an incarnation, accord
ing to the Hindoo science, therefore,
is scientific fact. Christ being an
incarnation his birth was a scientific
fact in the worlds mental history It
was revolutionizing event in the
mental world of the west. The birth
of Jesus Christ was the birth of un-
broken od-consciousness to illumine
the darkness of the western mentality.
That unbroken God-consciousness was
encased in a human body called Jesus.
That fiesh-embodied God od-consciousness
was destined to make millions of
minds, who would come in touch with
it, conscious of God. And 1t has proved
so. Through these two thousand years
myriads of minds have caught the light
of that lustrous luminary of the firm
ament within them.
THE Illuminating radiance embodied
as the Babe of Bethlehem was recog-
nized and felt by the purified minds
of three wise men from the east and
by the unsophisticated minds of some
shepherds and by the inner instincts
of some animals who all rushed to the
center of that radiance following q call
that spoke within them. That embod-
led spiritual light was ushered into the
world for matter blinded human beings
who could not perceive that blessed
advent because of that blindness.
Matter for Rejoicing
"There let it stand-Christ was un-
broken God-consciousness in human
flesh. Do not try to gild it. It will
be like gliding refined gold or painting
the lily. Neither will it take on any
gliding. All you can add to that fact
Is that Christs unbroken God-con-
seriousness was one of the rarest in the
world, that it was one of the most
potent of consciousness that his soul
was thousands of God-conscious souls
in one Chrlst's soul was so pure that
the divine soul shone through it in
it's own brilliancy. Hence he was mov-
human shape, of the eternal realm
whose undiminished luster pierced
through the vistas of centuries and is
lighting the world today. The birth of
such Baby of God is matter for the
greatest universal rejoicing. 1t means
the awakening of God d-consciousness
In the world; 1t means peace on earth
and love and good will amopg men.
| The remembrance of this fact through
Christmas day is it's best celebration.
May Jesus keep this remembrance
awakened In you all on this his earthly
birthday and through every human
day is the earnest prayer to him of
the heather Hindoo. May he impress
/ upon the minds of his modern devotees
the fact that the question with which
they should concern themselves most
is not whether they belong to any
Christian church, but whether they
have any Christianity-Christ spirit