The brahman concept also contains the concept of rta, right order, the orderly course of the world.
In brahman, the creative universal essence and universal Ground, all things come upon the right way, for in it they are eternally dissolved and recreated; all development in an orderly way proceeds from brahman.
The concept of rta is a stepping-stone to the concept of tao in Lao-tzu.
Tao is the right way, the reign of law, the middle road between the opposites, freed from them and yet uniting them in itself.
The purpose of life is to travel this middle road and never to deviate towards the opposites.
The ecstatic element is entirely absent in Lao-tzu; its place is taken by sublime philosophic lucidity, an intellectual and intuitive wisdom obscured by no mystical haze—a wisdom that represents what is probably the highest attainable degree of spiritual superiority, as far removed from chaos as the stars from the disorder of the actual world.
It tames all that is wild, without denaturing it and turning it into something higher. ~Carl Jung, CW 6, Para 192
