The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s6.38

c14.s6.38

While in the atmosphere of the Bengali poetry of *śakti* and *bhakti* it is desirable to observe once more that the external paraphernalia of gods and goddesses, rituals and ceremonies, i.e., the apparently religious or mythological scaffolding should not blind one to the genuine literary qualities of these productions. The authors are real artists, i.e., creators of characters and situations. Indeed, the gods and goddesses themselves are to be treated as the creations or inventions of these poets, representing as they do the folk-consciousness or rather the constructive capacities of the folk-imagination. The Hindu god-lore is essentially an item in the creative achievements of the human brain,—and hence an aspect of positivism in the most profound sense of the term.