Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.23

c16.23

In fine, Śaṅkara's scheme of Vedantic discipline is that thought and feelings, attitudes and dispositions, impulses and behaviour, are all to be shaped into new configurations. Conscious reflection on the background of these mental patterns brings home to the disciple a new order of values, other than those of ordinary life. Thus the study of the Vedānta is to proceed on the basis of such a re-oriented personality.