Passage 7

In English

Expansion is the keynote of education

The reason which prompted the establishment of this college is the need for women who as mothers will foster the expansion of love to include fellow beings everywhere. The first step for this expansion is the home, where you must revere and please the parents who gave you this chance to live and learn. If you ill-treat them or inflict grief on their minds, how can you ever gladden others by service and understanding? Expansion is the keynote of education. You know that when a balloon is blown, it bursts and the air Inside it merges with the vast limitless expanse outside. Your love too must fill your home and your society, and finally, burst even those bonds and become world-wide. A drop of water held in the palm is soon evaporated; it is too much alone. But, drop it Into the sea; it survives as a part of the sea. It assumes the name and the taste, the majesty and might of the sea! Cultivate Love; sow the seeds of love in all hearts. Shower Love on the desert sands, let the green shoots, the lovely flowers, the luscious fruits, the sweet harvest of nectar be earned by mankind. That is My Wish, My Mission, My Vow. When you earn a degree and go out of' this College, do not ask, "What is the country giving me?" ask rather, "Now, what can I give to my country?"