If a person’s fulfilment of the three purposes of life is devoid of obligations then what remains is a creature of animal instincts and passions, not humanness. “Samskāra” (literally meaning rendering whole) is the transformation of the animal man to human man through “addhā vidya – right education, correct knowledge and proper understanding”.

The word ṛta means “cosmic law and order or an orderly occurrence” and is synonymous with dharma – “that which is right, immutable, pervasive, and capable of supporting”. This essay does not elaborate on ṛta , but it certainly instigates us to look it up.