In English
Ritual sacrifice is correlated with human aspirations
The ritual sacrifice () has a deeper meaning, the meaning that symbols have, the meaning that is really valuable for human progress. Every rite is a symbolic act. is correlated at every step with human aspirations and spiritual practices. It is kept in touch with human life and aspirations in its minutest detail. Butter is the product of the churning of the emotions, impulses, impressions, and instincts of people; the purest and the most authentic essence of the divine in people. That butter, when it is still more clarified, becomes , and that is what is offered to the Gods. You may ask how it reaches the Gods. Well, the itself is the authority for that belief. You cannot demand any other; for it will be as foolish as asking the eye to prove by some authority unconnected with the eye the validity of what it has seen. How can the ear give some other authority to prove the genuineness of the sound that it alone can hear? The eye is its own authority, the ear is its own testimony. The that has probed into the science of propitiating the Gods says that the sacrificial fire conveys the subtler aspects of the offerings. And the is its own testimony.