Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c21.4

c21.4

(p. 47) caused by Desire or attachment to the world of plurality. Thus by a natural process is evolved the great doctrine of Karma "as the power which predetermines the course of the migration of the soul from one state of being to another". Deliverance accordingly comes to mean cessation of Karma through extinction of *Kāma* or through extinction of that Ignorance which is the root of all *Kāma* or Desire, and hence through the attainment of the saving knowledge accomplishing the return from plurality to the One. The different schools of Indian thought arise from the different definitions they give of this highest knowledge or Truth, the different solutions they propose of the problem of existence which is held in common to be an unmixed evil. There is thus a common Indian view of life to which all sects or systems of thought including Buddhism subscribe.