![]() The Vedic poets while personifying the power of nature into gods, never allow this nature worship to be stiffened into mere admiration, fear and adulation of personal f^ods, and never become forgetful of the origin from which sprang the gods. Fifthly-It is characterised by what may be described as Arrested Personification. ![]() It is a spirit of healthy joy in the life we live that dominates while such pessimistic ideas as that life is uncertain and unsubstantial, that death is nature while life is only an accident, are conspicuous by their absence. It is not immortality or heaven, but a long life for a full hundred years, prosperity, warlike offspring, in short all the blessings of this life, that the worshipper or the householder asks for. Thirdly-It is a religion of the upper classes who are well-to-do, presupposing an established household of considerable extent, a wealthy and liberal householder, elaborate and expensive materials, and many priests. Give and take is the simple law which is applicable to the dealings between men and gods and 4 reciprocity, frank unconditional reciprocity becomes an accepted motive.’ Secondly-As a consequence, it is essentially a religion of priests, a hieratic religion. ![]() Firstly-It is practical and utilitarian in nature, in that the hymns, though highly poetic and inspired in character, are most of them at the same time incidental to the sacrifice. ![]()
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