It was the sort of idea that might easily decondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes - make them lose their faith in happiness at the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere, that the purpose of life was not to maintain the well-being, but some intensification and refining of conscioussness, some enlargement of knowledge.
It was the sort of idea that might easily decondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes - make them lose their faith in happiness at the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere, that the purpose of life was not to maintain the well-being, but some intensification and refining of conscioussness, some enlargement of knowledge.