In plain words
be transformed. Sacrifice is sweeter than pleasures. Sacrifice alone must be life's ultimate goal. 'From sacrifice comes peace' — only through sacrifice can peace be brought about. If the mind has no peace, sorrows will not leave us; they will dwell within us permanently. For one who has no peace of the Ātma, no matter how much wealth he has, the benefit is nil. Giving up the fruit of action with a desireless mind — this alone is sacrifice. Such tyāga is citta-śuddhi; citta-śuddhi alone brings about Śānti. For that very reason the Upaniṣads have proclaimed aloud, 'By renunciation alone did some attain immortality.' Sacrifice alone is the chief characteristic of the virtuous.
Therefore every student must turn his own life into a life full of sacrifice. He must not fall prey to the disease called pleasure. Unfortunately, today the argument that education is for employment, not for the growth of knowledge, roams freely about. This is very regrettable. Jñāna means illumination, radiance and light — that is its meaning. That which bestows it is education. Such Jñāna alone is true strength for man. Coming to know the antecedents of each and every thing is knowledge; recognizing the connection between persons is knowledge. How, indeed, does radiance, illumination and light come into a person? Through hearing and reading however many important texts — the Vedas, the Vedāṅgas, the Upaniṣads, the Qurʾān, the Bible, the 'king of scriptures' and such great texts, the biographies of great persons, the physical and technical sciences, the psychological sciences and the like — this knowledge arises in a person. The power to think discerningly, with Viveka, arises to some extent. One must not rely on scriptural knowledge alone as the basis; one must make experiential knowledge the root basis.
The outline and shape of the education system must change. What Professor Gunnar Myrdal, who was working as a professor at Stockholm University, said on one occasion — that is, in 1972, when he came to Delhi — Bharatiya students should once