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This book is a comparative study showing the common ground of both Hindu and Christianity. In the Hindu Holy Book, The Bhagavad-Gita 12 (2) it says:  "The Supreme Personality of the Godhead said: those who fix their minds on My personal form and are always engaged in worshipping Me with great and transcendental faith are considered by Me to be most perfect," Jesus said the Father and the Son were connected; then know your Father. We have all read the first page of the Christian Bible, Genesis 1 (3): "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light."

His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada says, in the Hindu Holy Book Sri Caitanya Caritamrta 1 (50) in the purport:

"When Brahma [of Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, and not Brahman the Creator] was first created, he could not apply his creative energy

to arrange the cosmic situation. At first there was only sound ..." There should be no walls around us to prove our religion is more truth. Is not the above ringing similarly? Luke 23 (39-43): "And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him saying, 'If thou be Christ save thyself and us.

But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost thou not fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. And he said unto Jesus, Lord remember.