The Vedic education system focused on developing physical, moral, and intellectual powers, promoting salvation, and was free and exemplary. Education was citta-vrtti - nirodha, controlling the mind, driving it to its deeper layers, its subterranean depths not ruffled by the ripples of the surface, the infinite distractions of the material world by which the mind wears itself out in fatigue. It sought to address the complete growth of the student since intellectual knowledge alone was not accepted as being sufficient for self-fulfillment and spiritual enlightenment. The system helped the development of personality by cultivating self-respect, self-reliance and self-restraint.