Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.62

c16.62

These various basic Defects are rooted in Ignorance, i.e. a wrong conception of the objects of cognition [ib., iv, 1, 68]. This Ignorance is to be dispelled or destroyed by true Knowledge. And true Knowledge can only come from Meditation [iv, 2, 35; 3, 38]. Meditation means (1) that the mind is withdrawn from the sense-organs, and (2) is kept steady by effort towards concentration, and then (3) it comes into contact with the Self, and (4) is filled with an eagerness to get at the Truth. Such Meditation will not allow any cognitions with reference to the objects of the external world.