In plain words
That is why Cāṇakya gave a fine example here. 'The one who desires comfort … cannot study at all. The one who wishes to study does not seek comfort. Comfort … the two cannot be in one place,' he said. Today, in the educational institutions, comfort …. There must be comforts. Everything must be convenient in every way. The teachers must not … the children. They must not hurt their feelings. They keep asking for comfort of this kind. How can education come to those who ask for … like this? You must concentrate on education. There is mud inside this …. If you want to pour milk into this tumbler, this mud must be thro… away. If you pour milk while the mud is in it, both go to waste. So you … comfort. Education will come and enter. If you want comfort, give up education and … comfort. What kind of education is this education? It must be the education of the Ātma. 'Adhyātma vidyā vidyānām,' it said. Acquaintance with books … can never be education.
Teachers! Today our studying is not for the sake of education. We study for the sake of the authority … through education. So only the one who has gained education for the sake of education becomes a right … student. But studies are surely needed in the world. Taking education as the support, taking teaching as …, you must keep the pāramārthika as your goal. Within the pāramārthika goal, do whatever worldly … you like. But if we merely teach the children what we have studied, we become people who have … the children. He studies something, takes this degree and tries … for a livelihood …; education was not set up for the sake of a job. You must tell them it was set up for life. How must one study, … live? How to get a job? We keep … giving all these guidelines. This is not what the teacher must tell. You must tell them what life is. Not how to …. What is life? But we are teaching for living. That is why … I keep saying now and then: 'Education should be for life not for living.' What is life? Life is life itself. … is no other thing to compare it with. Life is what is worth living. The question is how one must live. To live … as an ideal. What does an ideal mean? We must have in us the qualities that give society a high place. … themselves are the natures of life. Because by our karmas the guṇas … some kinds of changes.. Yesterday I told the children. A mirror shows us how the face is.