Who will go through those text again...
Just trying to relate some insights here
There are few stories in various major (top 10) reciting how the students learned with their teacher (Bhrigu with Varuna, Indra with Prajapati,Svetaketu with Aruni).
I never thought these stories and their relevance in that particular context.
Upanishad is itself learning in proximity of Guru, wow just wow, and these stories are relating student and their teachers.
Unlike classrom practice or guidance of Guru often prescribed in Smritis where service of Guru is the primary mode of learning or by grace of Guru one should learn,
these stories simply show patience, in all these stories, Teacher(Guru or Bramhabetta) cater knoweledge that the student is capable of handaling or one can say, knowledge take one's mind in the form of insight or cloud that is full of water yet unable to shower, only there Guru strike with his enlightment and only to the extent student's insight, student will yield. However, teacher say it is not enough and do not even deliver any futher knowledge, what is not sufficient, it is the duty of studnet to reach there.
This learning model is quite different from Vedic Karmakanda with repeatition, harsh form of Yoga, dialouge or debate of Greeks where Socarate first question show darkness and then enlighten. Here, knowledge is discovery, teacher dont intervene in the process and the seed is allowed to be tree in its fullest.
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I just don’t have the energy to write against the popular teaching (perhaps I have read the wrong books) that Hindu jurisprudence is contained within the Smriti, mainly the Manusmriti, and the property systems of the two schools — Mitakshara and Dayabhaga (I forget which region each school belongs to). But these are laws, not jurisprudence. I admit I do not know the subject of jurisprudence deeply — such a tragedy — but it seems to me these were laws made for the time and place according to the wisdom of the sages of that era. The Smriti writers themselves clearly said that the source of their understanding is the Veda. So, anyone who wants to understand exactly what truth Hindus hold must study the Vedas. Those who cannot may go through the Upanishads (major texts distilled by sages to teach the essence of the Jñāna part of the Veda). Those who still find that difficult may turn to the Mahabharata (which is in itself a “great battle” to understand), or they may study Mīmāṁsā, Nyāya-śā...
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