The Samhita (Sanskrit: "joined" or "collected") is the basic text of each of the Vedas, comprising collections of hymns and ritual texts. This term was originally used in reference to the style of recitation used during hymns and chants. In the Vedas the Samhitas are supplemented by later explanatory commentaries, notably the Brahmanas and Upanishads.
That is to say, divinities, gods or angels are present in the hearts, in the core of the being of everything, though you may call it animate or inanimate, organic or inorganic, as the case may be.
The idea behind it is that a transcendent element is present in the outlook that is adumbrated in the VedaSamhitas and it is not to be seen with the physical eye of a written notebook or a printed literature.
The vision of the VedaSamhitas is to be considered as an outward panegyric or encomium poured on God as manifest in this vision of the cosmos.
However the Samhitas are supplemented by many commentaries and explanations, forming the 'Shruti' as a whole.
Each of these four text-books has attached to it a body of prose writings, called Brdhmati, intended to explain the ceremonial application of the texts and the origin and import of the sacrificial rites for which these were supposed to have been composed.
Two of the Samhitas, tile Saman and the Yajus, owing their existence to purely ritual purposes, and being, besides, the one almost entirely, the other partly, composed of verses taken from the rigveda.
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