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controller who makes manifold (multiplies) the one seed, (sperm) of many, inactive by nature, He who like the wise man, sees him dwelling in him. He, alone, no other is externally blessed (serene).
THE EARLY THEISTIC VEDANTIC...
So as remarked in the beginning of this essay, Rgvedic theistic tendencies completely disappear in the ritualistic literature of the Brahmaṇas and in the age of the Upanisads, they took altogether a different form. Further, in the Upanisads, the relentless pursuit of the unflinching rigorous monism, at times, did slacken yielding to the theistic longings and ultimately to Bhakti.
Thus we can perceive the gradual, almost, imperceptible flowering of the Bhakti without ever shedding the philosophical ground-support provided by the Upanisads.
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REFERENCES
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See Peter Peterson in A Second Selection of the Hymns From the Rgveda, Bombay Sanskrit and Prakrit Series No LVIII, Appendix IV, P. LXXXVI and also S. K. Belvalkar and R. D. Ranade, in History of Indian Philosophy Vol II, The Creative Period, 1927, P. 409 Deussen, in Fundamentals of Philosophy of Upanishads, Translation by Geden A. S., 1989, P. 173
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Jain Education International
English Translation of the Sanskrit quotations mostly by Deussen, from Sixty Upanishads of the Veda, Vol 1, 1980, P. 499, Translation by V. M. Bedekar and G. B. Palsule
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