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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.