The Scented Garden

Introduction 15 translated literally into Sanskrit, word by word, reads like a mutilated but unmistakable passage from some lost Upanishad. Such follies as Sri Parananda’s lunatic commen- taries on Matthew and John could never have been perpetrated but for the fact that after all his fun- damental theory — that Christ was a Yogi — is cor- rect. And our hymn : “ For ever with the Lord ! Amen ! so let it be ! Life from the dead is in that word : ’Tis immortality.” may be rendered by paraphrase : For ever Timeless : an epithet only used of the Atman. with the Lord sam Adhi. Amen Aum. Life from the dead an expression constantly and exclusively employed to de- note the yogic attainment. that word to Aum is attributed the great power of regenera- tion. It has the sense of the Greek Logos. immortality a-mrita, the same idea glyphed as a dew : the Christian Graal, cup, blood, etc. In short, every single word in the verse is literal- ly and even in two cases etymologically identical with a technical mystic Sanskrit phrase. This is not a carefully chosen and exceptional case : on the contrary, I challenge any orthodox divine to produce any passage of scripture or any decent hymn which is free from identities of this kind.