ABSTRACT
Man explores reality in a variety of ways through a variety of conceptual schemas that have evolved through his attempt to deal with the pressures that his specific types of concerns and questions bring to bear on him and these constitute different points of view from which and through which what is given appears to him in characteristic ways. In the Hindu tradition religious reality, which in its character as infinite and absolute has no definite shape, is approached in a variety of ways through the use of a variety of models that are conceived in relation to the particular interests and purposes through which religious search is mediated for people of different kinds and temperaments. An examination of the Hindu tradition, which has managed to retain within one fold many types of religious perception and insight, shows that the human need for integration with religious reality operates on three different levels and in two different dimensions.
