Passage 18

In English

Hence, our students should be exemplars of the . Learning for or a spiritual upliftment, is true education. Students should avoid imitating the silly practices of persons who sport a long hair or go about in "bell bottoms" and "drainage pipes." Students should use their discriminating power in deciding how they should act. They should try to spiritualize their will power. They should realise the infinite powers latent in man. It is these powers which have enabled men to invent the most wonderful kinds of machinery. Men are, therefore, more valuable than the most precious things in the world. It is man who imparts value to things by the changes he makes in them, as in the case of diamonds or a work of art. In the spiritual field, man is enjoined at the very outset to know himself. He should not be a slave of the senses. Nor should he follow others like sheep. "Be a ship and not sheep." A ship serves to carry others and cross the Ocean. Consider the miraculous manner in which various organs in the body, the heart, the lungs, the stomach, the eyes and the tongue, function. Can this marvellous human machine be made by any human being? Students should realise how the divine functions in the body; making the organs carry out their different functions. What the scientists have discovered is an infinitesimally small part of what exists in God's creation.