Passage 7

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In plain words

When they do not … the parents who bore them, reared them and raised them, who gave them blood, gave them food and nourished them in every way, what more can they do for them? This is merely an artificial action. That is not …. Art is outside. Heart is inside. All this art has come from the heart. Art must come from the heart. Everything comes from the heart alone. So follow the heart.

Follow the Master, Face the Devil; Fight to the end; Finish the game. This is the royal road to true humanness. Study without refinement is no study.

Are all who have learnt to read and write educated? Does one become educated by gaining college degrees? Without true wisdom and good deeds, do learnings not turn to ignorance? If learning is only for a living, do the beasts and birds not live?

So we must develop this true wisdom and good deeds. We must become ideal boys. All of today's learnings are nirāhīna learnings.

Today's learning sharpens only the wits, it does not grow good character in the least; if there are wits but no character, what is its fruit, what is its worth?

The end of Education is Character. 3/4 Character is Life. So … you must go on cultivating refinement along with your studies. The current is powerful. … positive. Without negative, useless. Positive alone being in condition. … no use. Useless. Only when negative and positive both join does it become useful.

When your own strength and ability and God's grace both come together, brahmavit brahmaiva bhava…ti. The two together become one. In every matter you must make the two one. In life itself these two become one. There are many doctors. In our body all our … come as two and two. In this world both are there. … this is divinity. Positive and negative. Both are there. We cannot … this world. Following the world while in the world, we must awaken the world that is within us. … that itself is this world's reflection of inner being. What is within, that very thing we see outside as ….