In plain words
Not only this; there is a small matter. Two days ago we gave Prizes in our Institute. Then came the reading of the names, and the telling of what each had won in. How did they read them? As these prizes were read out, they put them all together and gave them to the children in one go. How ideal that is! Once ‘football’, another time ‘volleyball’, and somehow they kept coming and going: what a commotion there was! There was no discipline. Today, what fine discipline! All the Institute students must learn this discipline. Wherever the good is found and whoever does it, there is no question of young or old. The good is something to be learnt from everyone. The children may be young. But what they have done is a great example. I saw it at the Sports too. In the gymnastics, in the short running races and in many other games besides, most of those who did well were the Higher Secondary School boys, not the Institute boys. More of them took part. So from this there is much for us to learn in future. The older students did not take part in the games. Why? Should you not play games? Do they not need health? A few minutes ago, just now, you saw it. When some fat boys came along, everyone clapped all the more. What is the inner meaning of that? ‘Do not grow fat like this.’ It was to teach them to play and play and bring the body down a little. Must what we eat be digested, or not? Must it not be digested and take hold in our body? If we just keep filling ourselves, the way lorries are filled in loading and unloading, what comes of it? We must work with the body in the proper way. Only then will the learning we have studied take good hold of our heart. This is not against the spiritual. In a way it is also a means of restraining the mind. So every student, older or younger, must take part in these games. Our Habbu said that the students are in the front rank, in cleanliness, in discipline and in unity. But in that he did not mention one thing, namely Divinity.