The Hindu System of Religious Science & Art

The one widens the range of the view of the Divinity ; the other intensifies the touch of the Divinity. [...] The Karmakanda consists of the hymns and the Mantras which coupled with the prescribed forms of the 7nanas make what may be called the scriptural Art olio the practical religion of the ancient Hindus. [...] The hymns of the Rigveda and the songs of the Shyamveda and the form ulze of the Yoyuveda are mantras. [...] Vat:huh:ha Darshana.45 Though credited with the doctrine of atoms this Darshana is called Vaisheshika because the doctrine of the special as cotrasted with the general practically plays an important part in this philosophy even more than the metaphysical doctrine of the atomic theory as it is the special which leads to the abnormal and as it is between the normal and the abnormal that the [...] The spiritual science of the Upanihads and the Vedanta discloses the moral and spititual order of the Universe and the divine potentialities of man.