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"Supreme Spirit". He suggests that this elevation appears linked to reverence for Vishnu's "third step" or for his "highest place" (paramam pada), described in the Rig Veda as being "seen by the wise" and later reinterpreted in Katha Upanishad as the soul's final goal. Yet, according to Jan Gonda, this interpretation is insufficient to explain the ascendance of Vishnu in post-Vedic times. Gonda argues that the Vedic poets did not give a complete description of his qualities, and that he may have had a

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