LECTURE IV.

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The Great Interest Felt in this Poem by a Certain Class of
Readers--Its Alleged Parallels to the Scriptures--The Plausibility
of the Recent Translation by Mr. Mohini M. Chatterji--Its
Patronizing Catholicity--The Same Claim to Broad Charity by Chunder
Sen and Others--Pantheism Sacrifices nothing to Charity, because
God is in All Things--All Moral Responsibility Ceases since God
Acts in Us--Mr. Chatterji's Broad Knowledge of Our Scriptures, and
his Skill in Selecting Passages for His Purpose--His Pleasing
Style--The Story of Krishna and Arjuna Told in the Interest of
Caste and Pantheism--The Growth of the Krishna Cult from Popular
Legends--The Origin of the Bhagavad Gita and its Place in the
Mahabharata--Its Use of the Six Philosophies--Krishna's
Exhortation--The Issue of the Battle in which Arjuna is Urged to
Engage--The "Resemblances" Explained by their Pantheistic
Interpretation--Fancied Resemblances which are only in the Sound of
Words--Coincidences Springing from Similar Causes--The Totally
Different Meaning which Pantheism gives them--Difference between
Union with Christ and the Pantheistic Pervasion of the
Infinite--The Differentials of Christianity.


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