In plain words
Students read books, write in the examinations what the teachers told them, and get marks. But these marks are not what matters. Only the marks that come from your heart are the real ones. “The work you have done is right”: your Conscience must bear you that witness.
The Body Is Like a Balloon
Conscience, conscious, consciousness: you must learn about these three. What is called consciousness is divinity itself. This is the very awareness that pervades everything. When it enters the body, it is called conscience. That is to say, the principle of the Ātma that is in your body is itself conscience. Then, when you join it with conscience and develop it, it merges into consciousness. Children know this: as you go on filling a balloon with air, it grows and grows, and at last goes ‘phat!’ and bursts. Then the air that was in the balloon merges into the air that pervades everywhere. We can compare the air in the balloon to conscience, and the air that pervades everywhere to consciousness. You live in the delusion that you are the body. The body is merely like a balloon, like a bubble on water. The mind is like a mad monkey. So you must not depend on the body and on the mind. You must follow the conscience. Because you foster attachment to the body, you are growing weak in every way. You depend on property and on power, but you do not depend on the Ātma.
Like Precious Jewels in a Worthless Iron Box...
Embodiments of Prema! Self-confidence is most essential for everyone. On the foundation of self-confidence you must build the walls of self-satisfaction. On the walls of self-satisfaction you must lay the roof of self-sacrifice. Only then will your life attain peace. That itself is the realisation of the Ātma. So for the realisation of the Ātma, self-confidence matters most of all. But your self-confidence is not so steady. What is the reason? Your mind is filled with material cravings. All worldly cravings are worthless. To fulfil such cravings you pursue many studies. Along with these studies, studies that nurture human values are needed too.