In English
Only practice and experience can give intelligence
(science of the Self) by which one can become aware of the Infinite Eternal Absolute Self has to be pursued by everyone. Education must result in this discovery, or else it does not deserve the name. The process by which one gets skill to eke out his livelihood, or to exploit nature and his brethren cannot be education, in the real sense. Books only fill the brain with second-hand stuff; practice, experience, feeling, doing with one's own hand - these give insight and intelligence. Swotting is just waste of time and money. Book-learning helps you to gain marks at school and college. I prefer students, who do not acquire adverse 'remarks' in their records, even if their marks are a little less. Study must endow one with humility; but, today students are afflicted with aggressive audacity. We have in the field of education factions and fights that bedevil relations between students, teachers and administrators. Politicians are at the bottom of it all. Neither the students nor the teachers are to blame. Students have tender, eager, self-denying idealistic, compassionate hearts; that is the reason why I have given each of them immaculate white to wear this day, appropriately, at “”. means Field; your personality and person are the , but you must, by earning and maintaining purity, cognise the , the Master of the Field. How stupid, how wasteful it is to fritter away the glorious destiny, echoing the angry outbursts of vainglorious climbers who misuse your energies for the destruction of the properties of innocent citizens and for terrorising the neighbourhood. When the reservoir is full, the water taps will flow; when the heart is the reservoir of love, sympathy and faith, acts, words and thoughts will help peace and joy. Politicians however do not recognise these needs; they fill the young hearts with hate, envy and greed, and spur them on to violence and vituperation. They draw them away from the classroom, the library and the laboratory and make them tramp the streets. They prod them to injure innocents, damage property and behave wildly, with fury.