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Bhagavad Gita 7.7

Chapter 7 · Edwin Arnold’s Song Celestial (cited by classical reference)

“Than me there is no other Master, Prince! / No other Maker! All these hang on me / As hangs a row of pearls upon its string.”
Bhagavad Gita 7.7 · Arnold

Translation: Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial; or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ (1885), public domain, via Project Gutenberg (ebook 2388). Arnold’s Song Celestial is continuous English verse in 18 chapters, without numbered slokas; each passage is an exact excerpt, located by content and cited by the classical chapter.verse reference it renders. The key passages 2.20, 4.7-8, 9.26 and 18.66 were validated against the source before publishing. Poetic line breaks are shown with a slash.

Christian comparison

How this connects to Jesus

There is no other Maker, Krishna says; all things hang on me as a row of pearls upon its string. The New Testament says something strikingly close of Jesus: in him all things were created, and in him all things hold together (Colossians 1:16-17). Where the Gita points to the Divine sustaining all, Christians confess that this sustaining Word took on a face in Jesus of Nazareth.

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