In plain words
That itself will be the best education. Study, study: it does not mean merely being acquainted with books. We must keep the well-being of society in view. We must shape ourselves into students who are an example to the world. When there is no such exemplary life, what is the use of our studies?
Though they may have studied to gain M.A.s and B.A.s and become great men of renown, though they may have wealth and be generous givers, men of merit who have won fame on earth, though they may have long life and health without end and be men of full strength, though they may be brahmins who do japa and tapas always and teach the Vedas, he studies study upon study and grows very wise, yet the dull-witted man does not, turning back, know himself; however much he studies, in whatever way he lives, the base man cannot give up his bad qualities. Study as he may, searching through it, it is only argument; he can never gain full Jñāna. Why study study upon study only to die? You must study the study that has no death.
Is it for logic that you are studying! Is it for argument that you are studying? Through dispute, enmity grows. “Vāde vāde vardhate vairam”: for those who dispute, enmity grows; friendship does not come. So we must give no room at all to dispute. We must recognise how to bring things into harmony with forbearance and with Prema. Such a feeling of harmony we must hold to be education. We must recognise the oneness in the many. Only then will divinity shine in humanness. Divinity is not separate from man. Divinity is a part of man. It is because of attachment to the body that they forget divinity.
The body made of the five elements is a weak frame; it is only a leather bag with nine holes, not a gleaming diamond pot. From moment to moment only filth oozes out of it; civet and musk will never come from it.
The body is a tool. Why has this tool come? “Paropakārārtham idaṃ śarīram”: the body came into being for helping others. We must do service to society. It is through that service alone that the radiance of the Ātma that has arisen in us blazes forth. So we must make the body fulfil its purpose, root out the dirt of the mind, dedicate our life to the principle of the Ātma that is divinity, and bring our humanness to fulfilment.