Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.279

c16.279

**Its Common Aim.** It may also be noted that the different Systems agree as to the end of all education and knowledge, the attainment of *mukti* or final release from the bonds of existence. They insist in common on this, the only, aim of learning. Each System is at pains to discover its own way and approach to that common goal and presents its own view and definition of that goal. Thus there is a choice of roads opened up by several independent lines of investigation, but all roads lead to one goal about which there is no choice. The very growth of such a varied and valuable crop of philosophical speculation points to the intellectual tendencies of the times, to the existence of any number of circles or schools of thinkers who concerned themselves with the Quest of the Ātman, to the exclusion of the pursuit of other interests or secondary and intermediary truths.