In plain words
Bring glory to your parents. Bring a good name to your society as well. If this society is to come right, it must come right from the children themselves. I hear that today, wherever our students go, they earn the name of being very good people. Keep up that name. I have no other wish beyond that. Whatever you want, I will give. I have given Myself. Be happy, all of you. Do not quarrel with one another. Do not abuse one another. All of you, be like brothers. True education is what fosters such equal-mindedness. “Why study and study and study, only to die?! Study the learning that knows no death.” First of all, make your parents happy. If you cannot give joy to the parents who bore you, raised you and cared for you, what joy can you give Me?! When you are happy at home beside your parents, that is joy to Me as well. When the children who studied in the Sathya Sai College are known as good, that is a good name for this college and a good name for you.
If you go to Delhi and enquire, you will learn it for yourselves: the Sathya Sai school and the Sathya Sai college have a very great name in the government. Our college has received a recognition that no school or college has received. Many colleges, many years after they began working, still have no recognition. But in the very second year after our college began working, Madhuri Shah (then Chairperson of the U.G.C.) came from Delhi and said it must be made a university. “Not even two years are complete. Can it be recognised as a university already?” many argued with her. Bhagavantam was right beside me, translating. He too was a scientist. Then, softly: “Swami! It is impossible, impossible,” he said. I said firmly, “It is possible.” In the second year the committee came. They all saw it. “This is a college of the highest excellence. So it must be given the name of a university,” they said. Madhuri Shah herself came again and performed the inauguration. Then she said in public, “Bhagavantam!