The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s3.71

c19.s3.71

72. By interiorization I do not mean to suggest a dichotomy between “external” and “internal” sacrifice or the replacement of the former by the latter. The ritual act is both, as is shown, e. g., by *ŚB* 10. 4. 3. 9, where the agnicayana ritual is both “internal” knowledge (*vidyā*) and “external” act. The differentiation arose as a result of the ritual’s interiorization and could be valid only from the point of view of the individualized sacrifice (cf. J. F. Staal, *Advaita and Neoplatonism* [Madras 1961], 71f.)