Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.278

c16.278

**Different Philosophical Systems have a Common Scheme of Discipline.** It will be seen that while each System presents its own view of the Universe, this is to be realized by a common scheme of discipline implied in all the Systems. That scheme involves, as we have seen, (*a*) a course of study of select texts and the intellectual discipline that such a study involves; (*b*) reflection on the inner meaning of the texts studied, coupled with the achievement of a moral discipline resulting in (*c*) a re-orientation of the desires and impulses and (*d*) a transformation in the character of behaviour. As has been already pointed out, each System of Philosophy prescribes its own course of preliminary and preparatory training which is differently emphasized in the different Systems. For instance, the Yoga and the Pūrva Mīmāṁsā present themselves as more self-contained systems which do not depend upon much of preliminary training. On the contrary, they proceed directly from the third and fourth stages of the above scheme to an enunciation of their special philosophical outlook.