Passage 11

In English

Modern students consider bookish knowledge as education. Education is not eking out livelihood, or for bookish eminence. Real education is that which exhorts upon truth and the goal. Education should foster sacred biographies. This is the principle of Geeta. This is our constant companion and protector. Discipline and restraint are important aspects of education. Discipline involves a principled approach. Restraint means the ability to bear all losses, profits, sorrows, and joys in a spirit of equanimity with faith. One example for this. We all know about looking at the golden deer and asking to fetch it; went after the deer leaving the . stands as an ideal for a principled and regulated way of life. It was his avowed principle to obey ’s command at any cost. While leaving the , told him not to leave alone.