Passage 15

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In plain words

More than among the town-dwellers who have studied, some morality and honesty are found even among the forest tribes who have had no schooling. Wherever there are colleges, law courts and universities, there injustice, wrongdoing and misconduct are running rampant. Only among those people are some morality, honesty, kindness and compassion to be seen.

Today it is from the educated that the whole world is in greater danger. From the unlettered no harm comes at all. This is how low education has sunk. You must become students who give the world an exemplary life. Recognise your own faults and see that such faults do not arise. Today the educated man is shamed before the rough man who has no schooling. So we must first respect others, and receive respect from them. Only the one who is worthy of God's Prema is a true human being. A man without it is no man at all. He is a man in form only, not a man in conduct.

It is by kindness that one must be blessed, however great one may be, be he a demon, be he a brāhmin, be he of boundless cleverness. (By kindness…) Though one learns and argues, though one sings verses beyond counting, though one lives in mountain caves, though one sits and does japa, (By kindness…) though one practises yoga, though one reads the Bhāgavatam and the like, though one grows a fine beard, though one paints broad nāmam marks, (By kindness…) though one holds one's nose and does japa, though one stands long, bowing low, though one sobs and sobs, though one cries out, Your heart will not melt. (By kindness…) Though one puts on the ochre robe, though one wears a necklace of beads, though one spins the japa beads with a clatter, in the end one must come to You, Bābā. (By kindness…) Though one worships You with Bhakti, though one comes to Puttaparthi itself, though one does pūjās well, though one wanders the whole earth, (By kindness…)