In plain words
Only when we give up qualities that are impure, untrue and impermanent does the divinity that is eternally true come to us. That is why the Bhagavad Gītā said it at the very start. ‘Anityam asukhaṃ lokam imaṃ prāpya bhajasva mām.’
Controlling the senses is the true education
The whole world is impermanent; the whole waking state is unreal; the whole dream is unreal. What is in waking is not in dream; what is in dream is not in waking. But you are there in both, waking and dream. So you alone are Satya. Man keeps saying, ‘My house, my car, my wife, my son, my friend, my enemy; all of them are mine, it is mine’, but he does not inquire who he himself is. When he recognises himself, he becomes one who has recognised everything. A man with dualistic mind is half blind. Human life rests on balance. Today's education increases cleverness. Along with it, we must develop virtues too. Not only that; it is also feeding the excitement of the senses. Controlling the senses is the true education. So without virtues, however much cleverness there is, it is of no use. How are we using our cleverness today? When we use our cleverness rightly, it stays in balance. Only then do virtues grow. So we must turn our knowledge into skill. But we kill it. That is, we misuse our senses. And so we lose our balance. Then the inward vision goes and the outward vision begins. So though divinity is there in humanness, we are unable to recognise it. We take all that the eye sees to be the world. No, no, all of it is Brahman! ‘Viśvaṃ viṣṇumayaṃ jagat.’ Recognise the meaning of the word ‘jagat’. ‘Ja’ means being born. ‘Gat’ means going.