Hindu Medicine c7.210

c7.210

It is the individual transference, as much as learning and being trained to use learning, that counts in the Hindu educational system. Through the intimate personal contact between master and pupil, living for years together in the master’s household, a spell is cast on the impressionable youth. The master infuses, as it were, the secret of his personal proficiency and mastery into him. Some kind of transformation is worked on the very substance of the obedient pupil. He has to be turned into the very double of his master, into a new vessel which may be filled with the wisdom and the skill of the teacher, and with the ancient spiritual inheritance transmitted through him. It is in this way that true mastership, according to Hindu belief, is handed down through the ages.