Well read in the Vedas, he was not very well satisfied with the speculations of his instructors on the nature of the Soul, and in their teachings of his extinction upon the dissolution of the body or of re-birth after death.
स तेषां प्रेत्यभावे च प्रेत्यजातौ विनिश्चये। आगमस्थः स भूयिष्ठमात्मतत्त्वे न तुष्यति॥