Introduction 
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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.