Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c6.s3.19

c6.s3.19

Again, an acquaintance through begging with worldly life and its trials makes him realize more vividly the security of his own life. Lastly, begging makes the pupil feel how unattached he is to any ties, and a sense of independence contributing to a sense of self-hood. It is like a ritual for the cultivation of impersonal relations in life. This contact of the recluse with the world is a valuable corrective to the exaggerated subjectivity of isolated meditative life in the hermitage. Isolation and intercourse thus lead to a higher synthesis of the inner and the outer, Purusha and Prakṛiti, Self and the World.