PURUSHARTH: AN INTEGRAL CONCEPT OF VEDIC EDUCATION
Dr. Somnath Das
Page No. : 10-14
ABSTRACT
Max Muller said, "one thing is certain namely, that there is nothing more primitive more ancient that the rymus of the Rig Veda, whether in India or in whole Aryan world."Man is the most intellectual being in the creation. He is endowed with the power to receive knowledge, to think, to imagine, reflect & speculate about his past as well as his future. Down through the ages knowledge has been handed down from the matter of this master to discipline & this master to discipline & thus from generation to the next. In this hierarchy of education, the Vedas are the first to revealed, the other being evolved from them.
The Purusharthas are described as the psycho-moral bases of Vedic theory. They are concerned with the understanding, justification, management and conduct of affairs of the individual
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