The purano tantic stage of the religion was once decried by european critics and indian reformers as a base and ignorent degradation of an earlier and purer religion.it was rather an effort,successful in great measure,to open the general mind of the people to a higher and deeper range of inner truth and experience and feeling.much of the adverse criticism once heard proceeded from atotal ignorance of the sense and intention of this worship.much of the criticism has been uselessly concentrated on side path and aberrations wich could hardly be avodied in this immensely audacious experimental widening of the basis of the culture. 4 there was a catholic attempet to draw towards the spiritual truth minds of all qualities and people of all classees. much was lost of the profound phychic knoweldge of the VEDIC seers, but much also of new knoweldge was developed,untrodden wayas were opened and a hundred gates discovered into the infinite.