Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c6.s3.28

c6.s3.28

The reply of Sanatkumāra to this appeal of Nārada is interesting: "Whatever you have studied is mere words." Similarly. Śvetaketu spending twelve years in a "thorough study of all the Vedas" is found by his father, Rishi Uddālaka Āruṇi, only "full of conceit and confidence in his study and wisdom, without the knowledge of the One through whom anything is known" (Chhāndogya, vi, 1).