Passage 3

In English

One who lives for the sake of eating is a sinner

The education that was practised in ancient India was far superior and far more fruitful, for it equipped the student with a healthy spirit of self-reliance. It endowed him with mental peace and equipose. It never allowed him to be enslaved by the glittering fancies and fascinations of other cultures. It taught him to discriminate between the flippant and the stable, the upgrading and the down pulling. It enthused the student to offer his life at the feet of his Motherland with a glow on his face and a sparkle In his eye. It armed him against all obstacles on the path of self-culture and self-realisatlon. It exhorted him to oppose, without rest or relief, untruth, Injustice and violence. But instead of cultivating these high ideals and incorporarting them in our educational system, we are now borrowing educational Ideals from other peoples with different heritages. We have no faith In the system that has been extolled by our ancestors for millennia. Education is to be valued not as a means of earning one's livelihood, but as the essential requisite for a happy, peaceful and progressive life leading man from the animal stage of existence to the presence of the Divine, where love and light reign undisturbed. He who lives for the sake of eating is indeed a great sinner; he who lives for the sake of reaching the full awareness of his Innate Reality is blessed. The first one is a ( sinner), the second a (blessed one).