The Discovery Of India - pg. 43

These Vedic hymns have been described by Rabindarnath Tagore "as a poetic testament of a people's collective reaction to the wonder and awe of existence. A people of vigorous and unsophisticated imagination awakened at the very dawn of civilization to a sense of the inexhaustible mystery that is implicit in life. It was a simple faith of theirs that attributed divinity to every element and force of Nature, but it was a brave and joyous one, in which the sense of mystery only gave enhancement to life without weighing it down with bafflement - the faith of a race unburdened with intellectual brooding on the conflicting diversity of the objective universe, though now and again illumined by intuitive experience as: 'Truth is one: [though] the wise call it by various names.'"