The Religion of the Veda: The Ancient Religion of India (from Rig-Veda to Upanishads) c10.10

c10.10

Here are two statements in two Brahmanical hymns, composed in the *trishtubh* metre, the same metre in which the Vedic poets love to call upon their fustian god Indra, and yet their intention is unmistakable. They herald monism; they claim that there is but one essence, one true thing: it is but a step from such ideas to the pantheistic, absolute, without a second, Brahman-Ātman of the Upanishads and the later Vedānta philosophy.