The Aryan Path August 1950

It is for this reason that the Buddha stressed the indispensable necessity of the eraication of the egsense in the spiritual life and laid down the doctrine of Anatta or Sunyata as the ultimate philosophical foundation of His religion. [...] But the real essence of the matter is not the establishment of the reality of the world or its phenomenal reality the theory of evolution or of apparent evolution. [...] The Purusha Sakta of the Rigveda and of the Yajurvecla are identical and in their 7th mantra of the Sakta state :- From the primeval self-sacrifice of the Purusha Logos were born the Riks the Samas the Chhandansi and the Yajus. [...] The 13th mantra of the Atharva Veda Purusha Sakta which differs matrially in the number and order of the mantras uses the plural for the first two the Samas and the Riks but uses Chhando ha (also the Chhanda) and the Yajus. [...] " As Brahma's silent recitation consisted of the full half of the ritual the collective unvocaized portion of the three systematiz-"362 THE ARYAN PATH [ August ed Vedas in the words of the Aittareya Brahmana or Atharvangrasa in the words of the Gopath Brahmana discharged the spiritual or intellectual half the esoteric function of sacrificial rituals.