In plain words
Love is God, live in love. We must regard that very Prema as the true God. This itself has been called ‘Educare’. Satya, Dharma, Śānti, Prema, Ahiṃsā: these have been called ‘Educare’. Desire, anger, pride and envy have joined with ‘Education’. All these are traits of the material world. But ‘Educare’ has no connection whatever with the world. Where did you study Satya? It is not something learnt through letters. It has arisen from the Ātma. When Satya stays in us as our very form, it brings Śānti in every way. Dharma too arises in that very Satya.
Students! Many do not regard Satya, Dharma, Śānti, Prema and Ahiṃsā as inner feelings. These themselves are the foundations that form the base. Without them, all these outer studies are useless. Having read all studies and grown very clever, the dull-witted one does not know himself in his mind. The heart of a man without Satya, Dharma, Śānti and Prema is no heart at all. This Satya is not ours. It is a gift God has given. It is in everyone. He has given it to everyone. But some cannot recognise it. Some others think that Satya is of the material world, not spiritual. Satya is not something one learns. It is not something one hears when another tells it. First of all, we must install Satya in the heart. If we develop Satya, its fruit is nothing but Prema. That very Prema is the fruit of Satya. Ahiṃsā grows in the very form of Prema. The Buddha went out only to achieve Ahiṃsā. Where is Ahiṃsā? After searching and searching: ‘Fie! Fie! Forgetting what is with me, I am searching somewhere else. I myself am Satya. This very Satya has been nourishing Ahiṃsā.’ Ahiṃsā arises only in those who have Prema. We must not think we have learnt everything merely because we have studied.
You must not carry pride, saying, ‘I have mastered learning’; that learning of yours, what is it worth? For learning, humility alone is the true form; what is still to be learnt is so much, so saying, cast off pride and wicked egoism, and keep pondering it in your heart, O fortunate one! O lord of ignorance!
Why be proud, saying, ‘I have studied’? What have you studied? In the world you have read descriptions that someone or other has written. For this there is a teacher. It does not come through the teacher. Who is your teacher? The Ātma itself is your teacher. Everything arises from the Ātma alone.
Out of Satya all things were made; into Satya the whole creation subsided; where is the place without the glory of Satya, search as you may? This is pure sattva; come and see!
We listen to everyone's words. But however many studies one pursues, that ‘Educare’ is not there. One who has ‘Educare’ takes not the slightest liking to ‘Education’. We go about proud that we have studied.
Students! Teachers!
Teachers too must recognise this well. Physics, chemistry, botany have won renown. They are subjects, but not objects. ‘Educare’ is joined with objects. There is nothing to equal it. That ‘Educare’ pushes out from within. Ānanda has welled up in you. Where did it come from? Did they bring it from above and put it in? Did they bring it through a pipe and put it in? No, no. Ānanda comes naturally. So there is a great difference between worldly study and spiritual study. Yet when you think spiritual study most essential, you must not give up these worldly studies. This is negative, that is positive. Each one who lives in the world must study the learning of the world itself. If this is gone, the inner meaning of this ‘Educare’ will not be clear to us. God alone provides everything. Then whom do they call a pativratā? She who follows her husband is a pativratā. She is not one who follows others. One who follows Satya is a satyavrata. He alone is a man of Satya. It is not something that came from another. We must try to understand even these small matters. In the world it is not possible to push the worldly aside and keep it there. The worldly too must be there. Giri is here. I called, ‘Giri’. It is a name given in the world, a name his mother and father gave.