Samnyasa Upanishads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation c5.s2.t6.1

c5.s2.t6.1

When alternative definitions of reality are created within a single society, there results an inevitable conflict of worlds. The alternative definitions, as Berger and Luckmann (1966, 106–107) point out, pose a threat not only at an ideological level but also at a very practical and institutional level; they threaten the privileges enjoyed by the guardians of the old world: