In plain words
A small example. An animal saw a green crop. It goes into it to satisfy its hunger. But, ‘Oh! Is anyone guarding it? Whose crop is this? If we eat, will they beat us?’ It has no enquiry like this. Because it breaks into the crop without this enquiry, it comes in for blows. It is only because we have turned into animals that we fall into troubles. Then the second is the mind. Because Manas does not follow the Ātma, which is lasting, eternal and Satya, but follows only the body, that is, follows only the senses, it is turning into the demonic. It cannot think of the principle of the Ātma, Satya and eternal. It is only because body and Manas become one that it turns into the demonic. The principle of the Ātma, which has no bond with the body or with Manas and always remains the Sākṣī, becomes divinity. He in whom body, Manas and Ātma all three are joined is a man. He who follows only the body is an animal. What follows both body and Manas is the demonic. What stands as the Sākṣī, bound to nothing, and stands as its own true form, is divinity. Animality, the demonic and divinity, all three, are in the one man. So you must make the effort fit for whatever you aspire to. Are you trying to live as a man? Or are you trying to turn into an animal? Are you trying to take the form of a rākṣasa? Or are you trying to be the embodiment of the Ātma? By your effort you reach your place. Your good and bad places depend on your effort. So you must examine what is eternal and what is not, and enter into that. To follow such a path, learning is needed.
Learning is for Jñāna; labour is for food
Learning is not only for filling the stomach. Learning is for Jñāna; labour is for food. So, students!