In plain words
Every power lies contained in the student. This student, who has every gift, can in … … an ideal to the world in so many ways. The age of this student is the age that can … all the burdens of the institution. Brahmavit brahmaiva bhavati. The student is one who can attain the very … of whatever he dwells on. So it is most necessary that students keep before them … the ideals that many elders have handed down, and follow them. Being a student does not mean only studying in colleges and in educational institu… . From birth we have to learn about every kind of action too; … learning words from the mother, coming to know things from the father, recog… things with the teacher, offering everything up to God: these are the chief duties of the student. Even the way we … walk is education. Talking with friends is education. Thinking how to … all that is ours in the family is education. Living together with the brothers and sisters at home … is education. Knowing which thing to use, when and in what way, is education. In the student's sta… …, the learning we gain through experience is greater than the learning we gain through books. … does not teach us to wash our face as soon as we get up. How we should dress is something … do not teach. In this way, in every human being there are so many things he is fit to learn, from the smallest matters up to the great … . For everything, śraddhā is most necessary. Lacking … , we cannot learn any kind of knowledge. That is why it was said, ‘Śraddhāvān labhate jñānam.’ If we think to … Jñāna, śraddhā is most necessary. What should this śraddhā be like? What is to be gained? How is it to be practised? For … is it to be practised? In every action we must ask ourselves these three questions. We must know what is meant by why, how and … . Only when we know the answers to these three questions rightly will whatever … we do become a success.
Ratnākara was a great thief. A great robber, who amassed wealth by robbing those who travelled the road, … through the sight, the touch and the converse of the great sages he took up the higher path. ‘My dear boy! All these belong to a …ly livelihood. In this world nothing at all is permanent. Forgetting the … that is the eternal truth, you strive only after this world, which is impermanent and passing.