In plain words
Well, to some extent they still said GOOD BOY with goodness in it. Gradually, as this modern education grew still more, they said GOOD BYE. As it grew and grew further, GOOD went. They said BYE-BYE. Think for yourselves how far the lightness and the ugliness of this education have sunk. Greeting one another with a word of God, Hari Om, or Om, or Sai Ram, whenever people saw each other, was the ancient refinement. They used to say Namaste or Namaskāram. Today, because friends study modern subjects, the moment one sees another he shows a cigarette, Hello, take it, and they greet each other with a cigarette. Or the handing over of a brandy bottle goes on. Going on in a still more modern way, they show a card pack. come on come on. Playing cards. In this way the value of these studies is sinking day by day. That is why we see no use in these studies. These studies leave no chance even of having a full meal. If we look in the paper, they advertise in every way about employment for all the students who have studied. apply, apply, apply, but no reply. Making these applications again and again, even the money they have goes on applications. But this divine Ātma-principle alone gives a reply and hands you the job too, without any application. So first of all, students, along with these physical studies you must trust in spiritual education as your chief support. In today's studies, saying in many ways that we must get a 1st rank, a 1st class, we make great efforts. That is necessary. I do not deny it. But in what way are you bringing a 1st class? A 1st class, a 1st rank comes. In daily life your daily experience and your daily conduct must also, most urgently, get a 1st rank along with it. All of today's ranks: we are following the course of nature, the course of Prakṛti. That is, this goes on only in a mechanical way. You must recognise this mechanical way to some extent. These are not natural. These are unnatural. Some are their own habits. Such things are not right for human beings or for students. Students should not set about studying after ten at night. The reason is that this body, which has toiled and worked through the whole day, needs rest at night. Struggling just to win a rank by hard work, they ruin even their night's sleep and start studying in the subconscious.