Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.31

c16.31

It is to be noted that in all these authoritative expositions of the system of training and education suitable for the study of Vedānta, a very minor part is assigned to study proper, i.e. study of the prescribed texts or literature to which so much importance is attached in modern and secular education. The pivot of this ancient system is not study of literature but an arduous struggle for realization of truth, a process of the gradual transformation of the mental plane through a progressive purification of the springs of action or action-tendencies (*chittaśuddhi*) as a means of meditation on the heights of which settle the eternal sunshine of the verities of Being. Education here is a living process of growth and not an 'additive' process.