In plain words
Into an empty head you can put anything at all; a head full of this and that cannot be filled; can a skull full of the teachings of Kali be emptied? unless the skull is emptied, can good deeds be filled into it here on earth!
These are not what we should fill our heads with! Only what is needed should we keep. It is not good to keep in the head what is not needed, all that we have seen, all that we have done. In a village a teacher had gathered all the children and was teaching them in an old shed. He told them: ‘3 + 3 + 3 - 2 makes how much?’ he said. That boy was looking somewhere else, poor fellow. The teacher asked, ‘Hey, what are you doing? Has all that I said gone in?’ As the saying goes, ‘The citta on Śiva, the devotion on others’, his mind was somewhere else. ‘Sir! All of it has gone in; only the tail is outside,’ he said. In that old shed there was a hole. A rat had gone into it. The rat had gone right inside, but its tail was left over. What the teacher taught was one thing; what this boy told of what he saw was another. The head was not given for taking in things like these. What is ideal for life? We must find that out.
We Need Teachers Who Teach Ātmavidyā
You must become students who give society an ideal. What does vidyā mean? Ya: which; vidyā: Jñāna. That which gives Jñāna alone is vidyā. Today they do not give Jñāna anywhere. It is all Ajñāna! Once the two scholars, Caṇḍa and Amārka, went to the river to bathe. There before them was the sight of Prahlāda, who had gathered the boys of his age, leading them in the bhajan ‘Nārāyaṇa bhaja Nārāyaṇ, Nārāyaṇa bhaja Nārāyaṇ, tan man rañjana bhava bhaya bhañjana asura nighaṇḍana Nārāyaṇ.’