In plain words
He eats like us. He goes about like us,’ they think. But He is not one of us. He is just Himself! Whoever grasps the truth of this kind: that is true education.
Education gives humility; from humility comes worthiness; from worthiness, wealth; from wealth, Dharma; and from that a man gains this world and the next.
So the first thing to grasp is this: study is not for earning money. ‘Vidyādadāti vinayaṃ’: education without humility is no education at all. A student without humility is no student at all. He is a viṣayārthī. It is not possible for anyone to recognise Divinity in this world. Whoever, without stepping beyond it, bows to God's command and binds himself to it, he alone can experience Divinity in full.
Not everyone can grasp the principle of the Avatāra
In Shirdi, Mahalsāpati always slept in the same room as Sai Bābā. There was a chāvaḍi. In that chāvaḍi Sai Bābā tied up a small wooden plank and lay on that plank. Do you know how big that plank was? Only five inches wide. On it slept Sai Bābā, whose arms reached to His knees. He was a very tall man. Under it Mahalsāpati lay. At the very first, fear used to come over Mahalsāpati. Sai Bābā had tied even that plank up with old cloths, so that it would not fall down! Mahalsāpati was very afraid, wondering when it might snap. He was thin. ‘If such a big man falls on me, can I survive?’ he was terrified. All night long he would not sleep. At the slightest sound anywhere he would run off. But in the end Bābā went on proving His Divinity to Mahalsāpati alone. ‘Mahalsāpati! Get up!’ He would call.