Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c19.4

c19.4

It will thus appear that the emergence of temples and *Maṭhas* in Ancient India was not inconsistent with its religious principles and ideas which banned organization, in the Western sense, in the sphere of learning and religion, for fear lest even they, too, be "mechanized". Mechanization is fatal to learning and spirituality where the mind and soul should be left free to grow in the natural way like living organisms.