Passage 5

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In plain words

He took a vow to protect Satya and Dharma. For this he poured out all his learning and gave the world an ideal life. It was because this sacrifice, character, morality and honesty were in Him that Rāma became a complete man. But Rāvaṇa put the learning he had acquired only into the enjoyment of the objects of the senses, gave himself over to the senses, and reduced himself and his kingdom too to ashes. However much learning one has acquired, however great a man one is famed to be, ‘sarve lokahite rataḥ’: one must pour out this learning for the good of the world. Only then, ‘sarvejñānaika sampannaḥ’, will he become rich in Jñāna. He grows into one who has every noble quality. It was to give such humanness to the world that this learning came into being in that age.

The education of Bhārata is the education acquired to face injustice, wrongdoing, ill conduct and untruth and to achieve Satya and Dharma

The learning students study today all teaches slavery of the mind and slavery to power; it is not the learning of Bhārata. What roots out morality and honesty, forgets humanness and scrambles only after selfish ends and selfish gain can never be the education of Bhārata. The education acquired to face injustice, wrongdoing, ill conduct and untruth and to achieve Satya and Dharma: that alone is the education of Bhārata. Education in which one spends money in many ways, takes in hand nothing but the begging bowl called a ‘degree’, goes from office to office and begs, ‘A job,’ ‘A job’: that is not the education of Bhārata. The education of Bhārata is precisely what helps one to rely on one's own strength. The education of Bhārata is precisely what teaches one to forget self-interest and take part in the service of society. Education that turns out volunteers who take money and shout slogans along the streets is not the education of Bhārata. The education of Bhārata means ‘Speak Satya, practise Dharma.’ Prema alone is the very life of human existence.