In plain words
We must not give up worldly learning. We must merge all the learning of Prakṛti in spiritual learning. Only then does it grow into learning that is fulfilled. Every student must take shape as an ideal figure.
Students! You are not mere lambs or kids. You are all tiger cubs and lion cubs. You must believe that you are all children of God. Only then does this purity enter you. If you think, “I am a boy,” you must not forgive yourself, thinking you are young. You must enquire, “If I commit these faults even at this tender age, how many more faults will I commit when I am grown up?” However small our faults, we must set about punishing them without forgiving them. But the state of children today has slipped into weakness. Whatever faults you commit, you try to justify them. It is through this justifying that humanness is going to waste. Do not justify them. As important as Self realisation is, so important is Self punishment. We must try to live at least as ordinary human beings. But we hang back even from living as ordinary human beings. In such conditions, education helps neither us nor our country in any way. We must show the excellence of our education by our conduct.
Students! Above all, we never ask ourselves the question, “What are we doing, what are we studying, how are we striving?” Only this: once our studies are over, a job must come our way. We study with a job as our aim, not with learning as our aim. A job and study have nothing whatever to do with each other. Education is for knowledge; toil is for food. So if you hold a lakh of rupees in your hand and ask it to satisfy your hunger, it cannot satisfy hunger. Food alone satisfies hunger. True health, true wealth, is our Ānanda itself. This Ānanda we can never obtain by any path other than the spiritual.
What does spiritual mean? Through the spiritual we must grow in self-confidence. We must offer everything to God. You know this. The weighing of Kṛṣṇa is a great drama. What led to this weighing of Kṛṣṇa? Satyabhāmā longed to make Kṛṣṇa her own. Kṛṣṇa resolved to root out her Ahaṅkāra and her selfishness. Nārada came in and said, “Mother, if you want to win Kṛṣṇa, you may give Him away to someone and take Him back by paying that much wealth.” “Nārada! Afterwards Kṛṣṇa will not leave me and go, will He?” she said, and took a promise from Nārada. There was that much selfishness in her. There was also the Ahaṅkāra that said, “I can weigh Him and bring Him home.”