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universal Nature, and they managed its expression through a
system of double values by which the same language served for
their worship in both aspects. But the psychological sense predominates
and is more pervading, close-knit and coherent than
the physical. The Veda is primarily intended to serve for spiritual
enlightenment and self-culture. It is, therefore, this sense which
has first to be restored.
To this task each of the ancient and modern systems of
interpretation brings an indispensable assistance. Sayana and
Yaska supply the ritualistic framework of outward symbols
and their large store of traditional significances and explanations.
The Upanishads give their clue to the psychological and
philosophical ideas of the earlier Rishis and hand down to us
their method of spiritual experience and intuition. European
scholarship supplies a critical method of comparative research,
yet to be perfected, but capable of immensely increasing the
materials available and sure eventually to give a scientific certainty
and firm intellectual basis which has hitherto been lacking.
Dayananda has given the clue to the linguistic secret of the Rishis
and reemphasised one central idea of the Vedic religion, the idea
of the One Being with the Devas expressing in numerous names
and forms the many-sidedness of His unity.
With so much help from the intermediate past we may yet
succeed in reconstituting this remoter antiquity and enter by the
gate of the Veda into the thoughts and realities of a prehistoric
wisdom.