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doctrines about it.10 The ritualised sacrifices, bringing affluence of riches in Dāna, accelerated their material progress and happiness and the disintegrating society remained united by sacrificial loot and plunder. Yajña was ritualised. Devas and Ganapati were transferred to the other world. Terrestrial Devas sacrificed Ganapati. Celestial Devas sacrificed celestial Prajāpati who is the same as Puruşa," definitely of the Puruşamedha. But this change also proved wanting and could not fully integrate the newly formed Brahmāryan society. Then the Brahmāryan gods became relegated to the secondary position so much so that they, Indra, Rudra, Bșhaspati and others, became attendants of the non-Aryan spiritual leader Ek-Vrātya highly eulogised in the Fifteenth Kānda of Atharvaveda. This was the complete surrender of the Brahmāryan material faiths and beliefs to the spiritual traditions of Bhārata.
The Brahmāryans did not know the spiritual truths and did not believe in them. Though they had earlier come
in contact with spiritual doctrines in Iran; they Borrowing of
Spiritual were so much busy in planning their military Doctrines
conquests that did not leave them sufficient time to ponder over them. When they peacefully settled in Bharata and found the institution of ritualised Yajña wanting, they held disputations amongst themselve but could not find the real solution. They could not discover the secrets of spiritual doctrines. They sensed the immediate impending disintegration of their society. They went to Ikşavāku leaders for knowing the secrets of spiritualism. They learnt the doctrine of Ātmā from Aśvapati Kaikeya. He taught the Doctrine of Atmā to five learned Brāhmaṇas, sent by Uddālaka Āruņi. Pravāhaņa Jaivali imparts the knowledge of the Doctrine of Transmigration of Soul to
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