In English
THE day is , and it is also celebrated throughout India as . The importance of the day has been explained now by the lawyer from in Telugu, by in Kannada, and by the Editor of in English. Well, I shall also speak now. Whatever My language, I speak not to inform but more to heal. I administer medicine for your minds, not food for your brains - or, rather, it is both. Like honey, it is both food and drug. There is nothing specially related to Sage that makes this day attached to his name. He was not born on this day, nor did he ‘leave’ on this day; it is just dedicated to his memory and to the worship of all . For is the the first and the source of all spiritual teachers. He recognised and declared the Truth in a variety of ways and helped to open the inner eye of humanity. He described in beautiful, simple, clear terms the glory of the Lord and of the means of attaining Him. He saw that unless the mind is negated or destroyed, the Lord will not be manifest. He prescribed the paths by which this could be done. So he is the world teacher (), the greatest teacher (). He collected the hymns, collated them, and put them into the four ; he assembled the later Vedic literature and composed the (Aphorisms on Supreme Reality) to expound the philosophy that was inherent in it. He wrote the , which includes the universal specific, the . Then, when he was sunk in sadness, in spite of all this knowledge and scholarship and teaching, advised him to sing the glory of the personalised aspect of Godhead, to waken the emotions and guide them Godward through devotion. That gave him and the world great joy and peace, for then wrote the .