The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v2.c40.s8.60.3

v2.c40.s8.60.3

Similarly there is abundant evidence of a naïve realism, which places side by side the facts of the macrocosm and the microcosm without suggestion that there is any but a real relation. The parallelism of the cosmic order (*adhidaivata*) with the disposition of man (*adhyātma*) is constant and wearisome; the space within the heart is parallel to cosmic space;¹ the breath of man to the wind,² the speech to fire, the eye to the sun, the ear to the moon, the mind to the lightning;³ there are five cosmic spaces, five gods of nature, five classes of beings, and correspondingly we have five vital airs, five senses, five parts of the body;⁴ to name, form, and action in the world correspond speech, sight, and man in the individual;⁵ there is Dharma, law, and truth for the world and for the man, and the macrocosm and the microcosm are interrelated in an indissoluble union of reciprocal service and support.⁶ The general attitude of the Upaniṣads must, therefore, be described as realistic, and, accordingly, not incompatible with a rejection of the subjective idealism of the Vijñānavādins.