This is pure reason—indeed, reason beyond reason. It is so lofty, and so difficult to exercise. Therefore, soon this Self, the Absolute, the Atman, people began to consider, as one’s little self. I go back to the texts (they said to themselves) and make them speak whatsoever I want them to say. Life and death are processes. I enact the process that I be what I am to be, my dharma, my Law. Winter and summer are circles of rituals. The whole universe, as the Vedas say, is rta, the Law. The gods are symbols of the Law. The gods represent forces. And how beautiful is liturgy and worship. In performing worship, any worship, I am one with the Law, so with this vast and rolling universe. Sahasrasirsham Devam—the god has a thousand faces, Vishwaksham Vishwa shambhuvam—He is the Eye of the Universe, He the blessedness of the Universe, etc., etc. The god so addressed to is the sun. And once again this is the paradigm of the Primal Man, who also has a thousand heads. Glory to the gods. Glory indeed to the shining gods.