In plain words
I must follow my conscious. I must recognise my own Satya. I must keep my own vow. I must stand by my own word.” Only one who lives in a resolve of this kind is a real human being. To change your word as you please, to make your mind still more fickle, to root out the human, to grow the animal, to forget the divine and take up the demonic: this is today's education. This is not what education is about. I founded these educational institutions only to give this right education; we did not start them as some line of business. The Sathya Sai educational institutions are not rest-houses or way-stations. They are not for just coming and going, coming and learning, learning, taking degrees and going away. That is why we do not take a naya paisa from the children. We ourselves give, and teach them. So if our ideals, our holiness, our manners, our behaviour and our discipline are agreeable to you, you may stay. We do not ask anyone by force. We will not keep for even a moment those who are not like that. The reason is that we must not turn ourselves into an institution that turns out children like that. Even if we find two such children, that is enough for us. They must be ideal examples. Wherever they go, they must be ones who keep the name of this institution high. Each must be one who brings honour to himself and honour to the institution. Not only this much: they must teach their parents good sense. If your parents teach you something contrary, you must be ready to teach them too: “Father, this is not right; this is the Satya in it; what Swami teaches is for our good, not for harm.” Even if we find a single Prahlāda, that is enough for us. Prahlāda was one who taught his father in that way. “Father, your ideas are very bad. Your hopes are born only to destroy your son. If you are truly a father, you must wish for your son's welfare; you must not add in any way to your son's wickedness. I am following the path of Satya, the right path. There is nothing holier than this.” With that kind of courage you must make every effort to teach them. Only when it is like that will the country too come right. If, instead, you swing this way and that like a clock's pendulum, you will never be a person fit for the country. So in our dress and speech, in our conduct, in our words, in everything, we must become ideal students. If not, all this learning is of no use.
The learning and the holiness that are not in our Bhārata are not in any country either. The parents are simply turning their children into beggars.