The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c4.s2.4

c4.s2.4

The ritual holds out to man the prospect of a transcendent world he creates himself on condition that he submits to the total rule of the ritual injunction. But at the same time, the open gap between the transcendent order of the ritual and the mundane ambivalence of conflict and interest is all the more obvious.