The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s6.33

c14.s6.33

While dealing with the Vaiṣṇava love-poetry of the Bengali people it is appropriate to observe that humanism in India as in classical Hellas and in the modern West has ever been an expression of all-round secularism or positivism. And of this humanism sex-interest has been a great part. The sex-element is as important a factor in Hindu culture as the folk-element. Instead of starting with the hypothesis that Vaiṣṇava poetry is the metaphysics or allegory of God and the soul it should be more reasonable to begin with the objective anthropological foundations of daily sex-life among the cowherds, cultivators, and other teeming millions.