In plain words
With this delusion it is not possible to know Brahman.
Be it today's teaching, today's reading or today's learning, they only swell our delusions and bind us; they cannot make the Brahman principle known. If the Brahman principle is to be attained, we must give up these delusions. Today learning is multiplying in the world. Students! Even without learning, we lose nothing at all. This learning prepares us only for the life of the body. But did not great souls without this learning live lives of distinction and virtue even in ancient times! Today the educated fools, more than the uneducated fools, are plundering the country. From the uneducated, even if there is no help, there is no harm. But from educated fools there is no help, only harm.
Prahlāda too said this very thing. "Father! You conquered all the worlds in a single hour, yet you cannot conquer the host of the senses and the mind." Conquer all the worlds, and you may become an emperor. One who has conquered the senses is the king of kings, the emperor of emperors. He alone is the king maker. Without conquering the senses, what use is it to master any number of kinds of learning? Learning is what rids the base man of his vices. It must bring man out of a narrow circle into a wide one. What is today's education doing? Through this education a man gains only argument; full Jñāna he can never gain. What do we gain by argument? Only a fool who knows nothing stoops to argument. One who knows everything does not enter into argument. Stooping to argument is a folly that parades one's intellect; it is not the Viveka that goes with knowledge. We may acquire knowledge, but along with it we must acquire Viveka too. Knowledge without Viveka is useless.
Learning is what teaches humility. If humility itself is lacking, learning has no true value. Humility itself bears witness to our conduct. It makes our goodness known. Viveka raises our fame and standing. Respecting elders. Loving father and mother, weighing good and bad, worshipping God: these are the chief signs of humility. This is our good character; this is our nobility. Even after taking a sacred human birth, "He who sowed the seedlings will not fail to water them," we must not crane our necks after mere money, riches, fame and power. If you do your own duty, power comes to you of its own accord.
You must draw close to the Prema of God. If the Prema of Paramātma becomes yours, the whole world comes under your sway. A slave to desire, you are a slave to everything. To one who conquers desire, all the people of the world are servants for ever: we must recognise this truth. Within this truth we must learn every branch of learning.