Passage 10

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Along with that, we must join moral and spiritual values to it and teach them to the students. There are certain quotations. We have no need of the quotations of the West. There are any number of quotations in the daily life of us people of Bhārata. It is good to teach the children moral matters through them. Into the science of matter we must bring that which is beyond matter. Into economics we must bring faith in God. Within botany we must, to some extent, set the tree of life. Within chemistry we must bring the essence of our life. It is this that the Upaniṣads called "Raso vai saḥ". All that is ours is that essence. That is why, in the Upaniṣads and the Vedas, they have long named the essence in us ‘Aṅgīrasa’. The inner meaning of Aṅgīrasaḥ is "God, the very form of that essence, is in every limb of ours."

Our head, food and blood are all a gift of our parents!

We must teach them to honour their mother and father. Every limb of our body has come from our parents! Every blood cell of the parents, too, has entered into us. Our eyes are our parents' eyes. Our ears are our parents' ears. In the same way, all the limbs of our body are our parents' limbs, and these limbs are their reflections, so we must try in some measure to please them. Today the students who are being turned out cannot even honour their own mother and father. The reason is simply that there is no one to tell them this secret! So our head, our food, our blood are all our parents' gift. So if, while enjoying the wealth our parents gave us, we cannot make them happy, what distinction is left in education? We must tell the students this clearly: "Today you may have become a big man. However big you become, to your mother and father you are only their son, not a big man! Only when you honour your mother and father today and make them happy will your children honour you tomorrow.