Lecture Sialkot — Page 39
LECTURE SIALKOT 39 God has appointed me the Promised Messiah for the Muslims and Christians, so am I the Avatar for the Hindus. For the past twenty years or so, I have been proclaiming that just as I have appeared in the spirit of the Messiah son of Maryas for the purpose of re- moving sins which have filled the earth, so have I come as Raja Krishna-one of the greatest Avatārs of the Hindu faith. In other words, I am the same per- son by virtue of spiritual reality. This is no fancy or speculation on my part. The God of heaven and earth has revealed to me, not once but a number of times, that for the Hindus I am Krishna and for the Muslims and Christians I am the Promised Messiah. I know that the ignorant Muslims, on hearing this, will im- mediately say that by assuming the name of a kafir, I have openly accepted disbelief. But this revelation is from God and I have no choice but to proclaim it. To- day it is for the first time that I am announcing it before such a large gathering, for those who are from God are never afraid of the reproaches of faultfinders. Let it be clear that Raja Krishna, according to what has been revealed to me, was such a truly great man that it is hard to find his like among the Rishīs and Avatars of the Hindus. He was an Avatāri. e. , Prophet of his time upon whom the Holy Spirit would descend from God. He was from God, victori- ous and prosperous. He cleansed the land of the Aryas