The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c10.25

c10.25

culminated in the identity of the Âtman, the All-One, with one’s own self did not proceed from Brahmanical circles but that we have to look for the intellectual originators of this doctrine in the ranks of the Khattiyas. To them also fell not a small share in the further development of the ideas contained in the Upanishads, in the building up of the doctrine of the migration of souls and emancipation, and after the ground had been prepared, through a growing influence of pessimistic views, for a doctrine of salvation which showed the way out of the painful circles of the migration of souls, it was reserved for a Khattiya to show this path, namely, Gotama of the family of the Sâkyas of Kapilavatthu.