The Vedantic ideologies at the time of the Mahabharata had become stale and retained only an oral flavor. Srimad Bhagavad Gita as the renaissance in Hinduism endeavored to weed out the inessential ritualism in Hinduism, which by now had divorced from the actualities of practical life and become a priestly cant. The Path of Knowledge suggested a man-of-wisdom, not rooted in religious rituals, but showing an assimilation of scriptural wisdom.