A History of Sanskrit Literature c11.58

c11.58

How generally accepted the pantheistic theory must have become by the time the disputations at the court of King Janaka took place, is indicated by the form in which questions are put. Thus two different sages in the *Bṛihadāraṇyaka* (iii. 4, 5) successively ask Yājnavalkya in the same words: "*Explain to us the Brahma which is manifest and not hidden, the Ātman that dwells in everything.*"