In plain words
What does unity give? It gives Purity. And where does this Purity go to arrive? It must arrive at Divinity. What is the use of keeping this Unity and Purity while leaving out the goal? So we must achieve the oneness of these three. That is what is meant by The proper study of mankind is man. We must let pure feelings into the mind. We must do all our actions with śraddhā and Bhakti, in the right way. Only then will good and sacred feelings grow within us. Without Bhakti, all our strength is wasted. However learned one may be, “he reads all kinds of learning and grows very clever, yet the dull-witted one does not know himself in his heart”: what use is it to read all kinds of learning?
Go deep into study, and you get only argument and debate; full Jñāna one never gains. Why read every learning only to die? Study the learning that has no death.
When God's grace is won, everything comes into our hands
We keep looking at ‘marks, marks’. We look at ‘Ranks, Ranks’. But we give no thought at all to the zeroes coming into our life behind it all, or to the unrest breaking out within us. What Certificate do you hold for winning union with God? Win God's grace alone, and everything stays in our hands. Tulasīdās said the same: “O Rāma! If I have Your grace alone, the nine planets are in my hands,” he said. So what we must achieve, we must achieve first of all. In the effort to achieve it, games too are essential, to bring in a measure of discipline. Today these Higher Secondary School children performed very well. I hope these Higher Secondary children will make their lives grow well in everything; and the Higher Secondary School children played volleyball with the Institute students.