In plain words
‘Enna bhārate tanna bhārata’: the learning that is not in Bhārata is not in any country at all. But people think that those who go abroad and bring back degrees are very great. Many of those who go abroad come back having learnt bad learning and bad habits, but they do not come back having learnt good learning and good habits.
We must put the learning we gain into practice as an offering to God
Indian education is deeply sacred. Indians begin any work only after first remembering God. Even an unlettered lorry driver bows to the steering wheel before he takes hold of it. A musician who plays the harmonium first bows to the harmonium, and only then sets the pitch. In this way, whatever learning Indians acquire, they put it into practice as an offering to God. What people of other countries do is ‘artificial’. Whatever they do, they keep doing merely for an outward, physical ‘show’. Today many go abroad and come back with big degrees. But they themselves do not understand what the real purpose of the learning they have gained is. Truly, Indian students have very pure hearts. When I see Indian students I feel great joy. The radiance of the truly educated dances on their faces. To forget sacred Indian education and learn merely material learning is a great mistake.
What cannot be achieved by machines such as calculators and computers can be achieved by mantra. Through the mantra that is the Name of God we can experience Ānanda that is eternal Satya. But man, fallen into delusion, cannot recognise this Satya. Forgetting the sacred Indian heart and hankering after material, worldly, passing results, the whole world is going to ruin. Even our government wishes to develop merely material learning in India.