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The Problem and Its Solution 9
justify rationally the whole ancient tradition of India; for it will
be found that, in sober truth, the Vedanta, Purana, Tantra, the
philosophical schools and the great Indian religions do go back
in their source to Vedic origins. We can see there in their original
seed or in their early or even primitive forms the fundamental
conceptions of later Indian thought. Thus a natural startingpoint
will be provided for a sounder study of Comparative
Religion in the Indian field. Instead of wandering amid insecure
speculations or having to account for impossible conversions
and unexplained transitions we shall have a clue to a natural and
progressive development satisfying to the reason. Incidentally,
some light may be thrown on the obscurities of early cult and
myth in other ancient nations. Finally, the incoherencies of the
Vedic texts will at once be explained and disappear. They exist
in appearance only, because the real thread of the sense is to be
found in an inner meaning. That thread found, the hymns appear
as logical and organic wholes and the expression, though alien
in type to our modern ways of thinking and speaking, becomes,
in its own style, just and precise and sins rather by economy of
phrase than by excess, by over-pregnancy rather than by poverty
of sense. The Veda ceases to be merely an interesting remnant
of barbarism and takes rank among the most important of the
world’s early Scriptures.