The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c9.37

c9.37

The point where development sets in is the impulse toward transcendence, a reaching out toward absolute life beyond the alternation of life and death. This means cutting the Gordian knot of complementary antithesis, resulting in the atomization of the world. The unity of the world has to be realized either by arranging the disconnected elements in discontinuous series or by bringing them under the same denominator through identification. Instead of antithetical connection, *bandhu* now means identification.