In plain words
We must do it in the feeling that it is service to Swami. Satisfaction for you, satisfaction for the children, satisfaction for Swami. So, with an equal mind like this, with a calm mind, with a broad mind, we must do the fitting work in this committee. Here some Professors too must look into things well. Whether Professors or Lecturers or Deans, you must look well into this: in what place do we stand, and from what place, in what way, are we to shape this? So now and then they must all hold a meeting and consult on how we are to act from here on.
Teachers! You must not think of yourselves as separate. In the matter of money we will not hold back at all. However many lakhs, however many crores, we are ready to give. If we were truly people who craved money, why are we not collecting fees? Why are we not collecting salaries from the government? Neither the UGC nor the government gives a single paisa in salaries. We give it all on behalf of the Trust. We take not a naya paisa from any of the children. The Trust itself gives it all. This is not out of a craving for money. You think, “You are not giving money,” you think. But you Professors are not standing in the place where you ought to stand. That is why you meet with some difficulties. You must ask in the way you ought to ask. The Physics Professor comes. “We need four lakhs.” The Chemistry Professor comes: “We need three lakhs.” The MBA Professor comes. “We need five lakhs,” he says. True, he may ask. But can we give it just as anyone says it? Bring a Proposal. We will surely give. How must we ask? It would be good if you hold a meeting, write down exactly what is needed for what, and how much for each, and bring it. If someone says, “I need four lakhs,” we cannot give it like that. Bring a proposal of what you need for what, and we will surely give. This must come under the responsibility of the Professors. Instead of that, there is no proposal. They hold no meeting on what is needed for what. No committee makes a decision. “We need five lakhs, four lakhs,” they say. Do you take this for a market, or for a Mārvāḍī's house? Get together, the whole department, ask, “What do you need, what do you need?” and make one proposal for it all. On it write down, “So much money for such and such, so much money for such and such,” and bring it. We will give in a minute. How has all this come about? The habits formed here and there in those government colleges in the past are coming back in this way. But between that practice and this practice there is a great difference. There, there is no one at all to ask. They have no great interest. But we have a great deal of interest. Teachers may be here today and gone tomorrow. But we are the ones who stay for ever.