Passage 14

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In plain words

I would go into a room and sit. There would be no one to feed us. Her not getting an education is a help to me,’ he said. So even scientists have much unrest within. So Vijñāna has not given Ānanda. The father sent him off again to find out what the root cause of that Ānanda is. He went, and sat. He went on, thinking and thinking of Ānanda. He did not come back. Two days, three days, a week, fifteen days, a month: the father waited. Then he went searching for him. He sat down there. The son was in Ānanda. ‘My son! Why did you not come home?’ he asked. ‘One who is in Ānanda needs nothing. For Ānanda, Ānanda alone matters. Where does this Ānanda dwell?’ asked Varuṇa. The father: ‘God alone is Ānanda, divinity alone is Ānanda. That purity itself is Ānanda, sacrifice itself is Ānanda. Advaita itself is Ānanda’: in this way he went on naming one after another. At last, ‘This itself is Ānanda,’ he said. Then Varuṇa

Eternal Ānanda, the giver of supreme happiness, Jñāna itself in form, beyond the pairs of opposites, like the sky, the goal of ‘Tat tvam asi’ and the rest, one, eternal, stainless, unmoving, the witness of every mind, beyond all feeling, free of the three guṇas ....

so he described it.

Along with education, we must also learn certain skills needed for daily life

How does Ānanda come? We cannot have it from anything but divinity alone. Above all, students today must ask themselves, ‘For what are we studying?’ They say it is in order to be happy in daily life. What is happiness? ‘Food to fill the belly, sleep to fill the eyes, clothes to cover the body, children to fill the house: this is my happiness,’ they say.