In plain words
You must not cause pain to anyone. These are what children must learn today. If they learn them, they can make great progress. Only what drives away Pollution is true Education. Getting high marks alone is not the main thing; you must see that you get no bad remarks. Only then will the marks you get have value.
Are all who have learned to read and write educated? Do those who gain college degrees become educated? Can learning without Sujñāna and good deeds be true learning? If learning is only for making a living, do the beasts and birds not live?
The goal of education is to foster purity. Mere reading and writing is not education. Worldly learning comes and goes; the learning of the Ātma alone is what truly matters.
Empty-Handed You Will Have to Go
Today great men of learning and men of wealth neglect the spiritual. For them wealth alone is the main thing. But wealth does not give Ānanda. There must be devotion to God. Because devotion to God is waning in the people today, the country itself is going to ruin. For money they will give even their lives, but for God they will not give even a single moment. Wealth there must be. But if it goes beyond limits, it brings danger. When you foster Prema for God, wealth comes of its own accord. God has the name Kālātmaka. Time is the form of God. How far are you making good use of such time? In a day, are you doing sacred work for at least five minutes? You read newspapers, you watch TV, you pass the time worrying about this one and that one. What gain comes from these? How much time you are wasting! To waste time is the same as wasting life! You may win a name as people of great wealth. But without virtue, however much wealth there is, it is useless. From the time you were born until you die, you scramble after money. But you were not born for money. “Were there no kings?