kavim puranam anushasitaram
anor aniyamsam anusmared yah
sarvasya dhataram achintya-rupam
aditya-varnam tamasah parastat
(Bhagavad Gita, 8:9)
(He who contemplates on the all-wise, ageless Being, the ruler of all, subtler than the subtle, the universal sustainer, possessing a form beyond human conception, refulgent like the sun and far beyond the darkness of ignorance, he reaches verily that supreme divine Purusha, God.)
Today people try to know the meaning of sentences without trying to know the meaning of letters and words that constitute the sentences. Even the preceptors today give only the worldly meaning of the sentences, but none gives the moral, ethical and spiritual import of the sentences. It is the responsibility of teachers to disseminate the knowledge pertaining to moral, ethical and spiritual principles. That is true education. Today the students pursue their studies, but if you ask them what they are doing, they reply, ‘Chaduvu-Kontunnamu’, which also means, ‘We are buying education’. That is no education at all. We have to know the meaning of every letter, every word and every sentence and act accordingly. Despite acquiring all this worldly knowledge, one has to meet one’s end which is inevitable. One should acquire that knowledge which makes him immortal. It is the knowledge of the five human values, namelySatya,Dharma,Shanti, Prema andAhimsa. (SSS Vol.39, pp. 251-252)