THE BHAGAVAD GITA AND THE NEW TESTAMENT 111

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.

Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 · 第 12 / 58 题