In plain words
Concerning Wealth
From learning you must gain humility; from humility comes worthiness, and from worthiness it becomes possible to earn wealth. When you put wealth to use, Dharma grows. Through Dharma it becomes possible to gain the fruits of this world and the next.
But as time has gone on, in every institution and in every field, rearrangements and changes of every kind have come about in the name of reform, and they are emerging in a distorted form. In education too, the influence of such reforms has made people forget the true meaning of education itself and has covered over humanness itself; the gathering of information alone is taken as the chief aim, and the teaching of the spiritual principle has been cast aside completely. Education as it is spread today looks very much the opposite of learning as it was taught in those days. Today every person who does not pay the money due from him for each month loses the right to receive learning. Teachers too receive their salary month by month and give learning, and so, if the salary for any one month does not come, they are unable to give that month's full teaching. Students who pay money and receive learning, teachers who take money and give learning: if teaching goes on in this way, where in it will Prema find a place?
Gokak said: “If we love the children, the children will love us.” Prema itself is the bond that should exist between teachers and students; when you love for money, for the sake of some object, it turns into an artificial feeling. From that you get only the object; you do not get Ānanda. When you love for the sake of Prema, that Prema stays pure, steady and selfless.
Learning and Blossoming
In the Bal Vikas classes you are not people who teach for money, and so you have every right and every opportunity to make the children's hearts blossom. As a rule the teachers of today have all studied Western learning, and so they do not know even the meaning of the spiritual; in them selfishness alone has grown; their thoughts lean only towards atheism. But you must recognise the inner meaning of the word vidyā and act in the way that befits it. True education is precisely this: making known the Divinity hidden within humanness and making it blossom. This is the very essence of Indian culture.