The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s8.t2.2

c14.s8.t2.2

The sayings⁵ in these 200 *samāsas* deal with such topics as *bhakti* (faith), *rajoguṇa* (activism), *tamoguṇa* (inertness), *dukkha* (pain), *mrityu* (death), *Brahma*, *mokṣa* (liberation), *ātmā* (self), *anātmā* (not-self), *yuga-dharma* (duties or mores of the Kali age). It is necessary to observe that of politics there is hardly anything in this treatise. There are but just a few references to *rāya-* *karaṇa* (king's functions) in this work, voluminous as it is. Its make-up is non-political.