4 June 2025
Wednesday
When students listen to inspiring accounts of pure souls (from texts such as Bhagavatam), their tender hearts can be transformed. There are many changes in the world today. Human life itself is a series of changes — from infancy to adolescence, then to middle age and senility. An egg becomes a bird. A seed grows into a tree. These are all effects of change. Change is necessary not just in Nature but in humans also, especially in youth. What kind of change? Ideal transformation. To pride yourself on changing from a boy into an educated man is not an ideal change. Ego is not a sign of true transformation. Education must result in the blossoming of humility and obedience. Humility is the jewel of students. Unfortunately, it cannot be found nowadays. In the days of the Bhagavatam, students developed human values, contemplated Divinity, and earned the Vision of God.
From Swami’s discourse of 23 May 1995
Also on words from this discourse: Bhakti, the Force That Gathers Every Need into God, 9 June 2025
When students listen to inspiring accounts of pure souls (from texts such as Bhagavatam), their tender hearts can be transformed. There are many changes in the world today. Human life itself is a series of changes — from infancy to adolescence, then to middle age and senility. An egg becomes a bird. A seed grows into a tree. These are all effects of change. Change is necessary not just in Nature but in humans also, especially in youth. What kind of change? Ideal transformation. To pride yourself on changing from a boy into an educated man is not an ideal change. Ego is not a sign of true transformation. Education must result in the blossoming of humility and obedience. Humility is the jewel of students. Unfortunately, it cannot be found nowadays. In the days of the Bhagavatam, students developed human values, contemplated Divinity, and earned the Vision of God.