The Brahmanic priesthood rejected personal religion for a distant metaphysical idea of an all-encompassing Absolute, seeking true reality amidst debasing cults and creeds. [1]
During the compilation of the later scriptures of Hindu faith, the Brahmanas and the Upanishads, the Brahmans sought true reality by deanthropomorphizing the Indian concept of deity, but inadvertently depersonalized the idea of God into an all-encompassing Absolute. [2]