Passage 2

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In plain words

Education is what opens the way for man, not bound by creation, to make manifest in himself the Godhood that is master of creation. Education is what proves the fundamental principle that spiritual transformation is far higher than moral transformation. The aim of education is the sameness that binds human beings too, all of them too, into oneness throughout the whole of creation. Education is what makes us recognise the sameness that brings out, through the individual himself, the Godhood that is in society. To enter the Ātma-principle from Prakṛti is not the teaching of education. The aim of education is to make man enter Prakṛti through the Ātma. The consciousness of Prakṛti can never be worthless. Only when we tie this consciousness of Prakṛti to the thread of Ahaṅkāra does it turn into deformity. Only when we bind it with the Ātma-principle does it take shape as the well-formed. Education is what shows the differences between the deformed and the well-formed. That which binds man with desires and makes his freedom worthless can never be education. The aim of education is to protect the sameness of the nation and the integrity of the country, and through its spreading and teaching to bring the country peace and security

When they had taught them such sacred learning and were sending them back into the householder's āśrama, they gave them teachings of this kind; at the time of their entering this worldly life they held a gathering, so that in that gathering they might develop the sacred paths and the sacred feelings by which they were to live from then on: that is what the Convocation was set up for.

While learning is imparted in this gurukula, one must make one's life sacred, serene, pure and selfless, and develop one's own nature. These three āśramas, called gṛhastha, vānaprastha and sannyāsa, all rest on this brahmacarya āśrama itself. Student life is like the foundation of the three āśramas above it. Students! As much as your mother grieves when you fall behind in your studies or in science, a thousand times more than that does Mother Bhārata grieve when She sees children who have fallen behind morally and spiritually. The responsibility lies on the students to seek the peace of the mother and the motherland, to seek their safety, to root out their anguish and bring them Ānanda. Jananī janmabhūmiśca svargādapi garīyasi: only one who has rightly recognised the principle of these two, this mother and this motherland, is a student.