A Constructive Survey of Upanishadic Philosophy c4.3

c4.3

2. It would be interesting to trace in a very brief outline the relation of these "Mystical texts" called the Upanishads to the earliest poetry of the Aryan race, namely the Rigveda, which must be regarded as having preceded them by a period of over a thousand years. In the first place, we must note that the Rigveda is a great hymnology to the personified forces of nature, and thus represents the earliest phase in the evolution of religious consciousness, namely, the objective phase of religion. The Upanishads, on the other hand, mark the subjective phase