In English
Avoid bad company and develop spirit of sacrifice
Students! Your secular studies will help you in worldly life, but will not promote your spiritual progress. Without spirituality, all worldly accomplishments are worthless. With all his prowess, why did come to a bad end? Because of his association with the evilminded . If he had not made common cause with , would have become an effulgent star in the firmament. All his native good qualities turned into ashes because of bad association. Your company determines your character. Hence from the outset, cultivate the company of godly men. Without it, all other things are useless. Today wherever you turn in you see only disorder, violence and fear. What is the reason? People have lost their faith in the Self. They are fostering attachments to worldly objects. They are forgetting that true bliss is derived from the Divine. Students! Develop broad mindedness. Cultivate unity. It was because of lack of unity, came under the rule of a small nation like the British, though it did not lack great warriors, scholars and administrators. Today the nation is afflicted with two bad qualities lack of unity and insatiable greed. Education should be pursued for the sake of wisdom and virtue, and not for securing jobs.