Samnyasa Upanishads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation c5.s2.8

c5.s2.8

Heesterman's work remains the best argued and most developed exposition of the former position.² He sees the emergence of renunciation not "as a protest against brahmanical orthodoxy" but as "the orthogenetic, internal development of Vedic thought," the final and logical outcome of the internal maturation of the Vedic sacrificial theology that sought ultimate autonomy and transcendence (Heesterman 1964, 24).