Namaste Anirudh!

You asked a good question:
Quote Originally Posted by Anirudh View Post
So how can we find differences or developments when there is no change?
First, I'd like to draw your attention to the answer I tried to give in Message #16, in case you may have missed it over the month
(http://hindudharmaforums.com/showthr...149#post129149).

Second, let me try to answer it another way. I think Yajvan gave a logical answer as to how the full word "Ishvara" might not be in the Rigveda and yet we can still find Ishvara in the Vedas.

So in case there is no change, one could propose that the concept still existed at that time in the minds of the writers, regardless of whether they used the term. So the term could be a development and so could the writing and expression of the idea, but it could still have existed in the minds of the authors in a different form. Do you see what I mean?

Peace.