Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.90

c16.90

**Vaiśeshika Discipline.** The Vaiśeshika view of discipline may be gathered from the *Nyāya Kandalī*. A man's experience will bring home to him the truth that his Self is quite distinct from external objects or internal processes which are sources of pain and suffering. Then he develops an attitude of detachment from life, and even its pleasures. His sole aim in life is now to know the means of removing pain. He approaches a teacher to learn the means. "He hears the knowledge from the lips of his teacher, but it is pointed out that he must carry out *Manana* and *Nididhyāsana* for a direct perception of Truth."