ABSTRACT
Christian and Hindu teachers down the ages have made great efforts to lay down what exactly being a Christian or a Hindu means in the context of behaviour. If the moral law consists of exhortations to certain virtues, then the practice of these virtues can hardly admit of exceptions. The chapter discusses the virtues and their classifications in Christianity and in Hinduism. It aims to compare the Christian with the Hindu virtues, notice the distinctive features, if any, of these sets of virtues, and try to indicate what kind of person the realization of these virtues is likely to produce. The Christian virtues of kindness, goodness, gentleness and faithfulness are all comprehended by the two Hindu virtues of Daya and Sraddha; patience and self-control are explicitly stressed in both systems; and the Greek virtues also have their counterparts. The Decalogue is generally divided into two tables, concerned respectively with duties to God and duties to man.
