Passage 10

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In plain words

When he forgets the feeling of the one Ātma, man turns into a beast

Students! All must live in unity, in harmony, with the feeling of Prema, with the feeling of the one Ātma. Only when that unity comes in will our heart stay in purity. When this unity is not there, that place stays empty. At once enmity comes and enters. Before this enmity enters, we must merge into divinity. Unity, Purity, Divinity. But unfortunately today there is no unity, no purity, no Divinity; only community, enmity. Only these two are growing in the country. Enmity: say how bad it is! With the faith ‘Sarvajīva namaskāraṃ keśavaṃ pratigacchati’, we must bow to all. The reason: the God who is in all is One alone! Through such a feeling of the one Ātma, man can attain divinity. The day we forget this feeling of the one Ātma, that very day we turn into beasts. We came from the beast. We must not go back again. We must go forward. Leading such a life, you must become students who are an ideal to the world. Today in the world many are becoming slaves to wealth and to power. They are becoming slaves to Ahaṅkāra. They are becoming slaves to name and fame. But our students are not to become slaves to this! They must become slaves to the ideal. Ideal Boys. That is what we must learn today. What kind of ideals should we hold? Sacred ideals. Ideals that are powerful, that do good to others, that give joy to others: those alone are the right ideals. You must hold out the noblest ideals. It is enough to earn that one name, that such-and-such a student is a fine one. The parents will rejoice. Society will rejoice. Swami too will rejoice. If one person in society is good, society too becomes good.

Man must put every limb of his body to good use for the pleasure of God

Students! At this tender age itself you must instil moral, dhārmic and spiritual strengths in yourselves and become ideal students.