The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s7.3

c11.s7.3

This attitude of Breloer's does not appear to be reasonable. Even supposing that the state and its seven limbs are described in part or in full in certain texts that are known to be religious it does not imply that the state activities are not worldly and materialistic. The Hindu books were as a rule encyclopaedic and almost every treatise tried to deal with the whole duty of man. Naturally, therefore, *kāma*, *artha*, and *dharma* came to be discussed along with *mokṣa* in almost every work. The presentation of all the diverse interests of man in one complex does not render *artha* or *kāma* less positive and non-religious.³¹