The canons of Hinduism categorize between the changing and the unchanging aspects of the religious life. Srutis cater to the eternal questions. Smritis deal with the changing problems of the society and human beings. This is quite comparable to the dual aspects of the God Hinduism preaches. God according to Hinduism is both immanent and transcendent in nature. He is even inside an atom. He transcends even the widest stretch of the Cosmos.
aNOr aNeeyAn mahatO mahIyAn. Even in the micro space He resides in total Fullness. Again in the macro space He encompasses the entire details. Perhaps this Vision of God has inspired the very structure of Hinduism.
Hinduism is particular in its Universality and universal in its Particularity. Just because He is immanent in all things, we cannot say the world is spiritual. And just because He is Transcendent to the world, the World in no way becomes secular.
Actually God is the Totality, - the spiritual, the mundane, the cognizing souls, the created objects - everything forms part of the Totality, which is God. In what way all these things share in the Totality makes the inter-related Whole share with the indwelling parts in more than many ways. We have to find out our place in this Totality. Or rather we have to yield ourselves so that the Totality may find its domain inside us.
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