Materials for the Study of the Early History of the Vaishnava Sect c9.97

c9.97

The doctrines which Kṛṣṇa learnt from his Guru reappear in the Gītā which is attributed to the former. In the Upanishad Kṛṣṇa learnt that all the acts of life constitute a sort of sacrifice offered to the deities in the case of a man who leads a pious life—a life that enables him to attain to the "god among the gods." With this doctrine we may compare the teaching of the Gītā, ix, 27.