The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c13.s3.t1.11

c13.s3.t1.11

Brihaspati is thus a pluralist. He is not prepared to discover the roots of anything in one particular force, but finds each and every force as of some value in the making of man's personality, *dharma* and what not. And this position is in keeping with what in the domain of religion is known as heinotheism as contrasted with polytheism. In heinotheism every god is adored for the time being as the Supreme Being, so to say, in regard to man and the universe. No one god can claim this status exclusively. On every occasion we have to remember "the other gods" who are equally to be adored in the same terms. *Artha* is thus nothing more than a god of this heinotheistic Hindu *nīti* philosophy.