Values for Education:

Education for Life;

Life for Love;

Love for Man;

Man for Service; 

Service for Spirituality;

Spirituality for Society;

Society for Nation;

Nation for World;

World for Peace

(SSS Vol.29)

Develop a sense of proportion, a due sense of values. Love the things of the world with the love that is their due, and not more. (SSS Vol.7, p. 243)

The undue importance now attached to the satisfaction of sensual desires must diminish as the result of your association with sacred books and saintly personages. Therefore, have a sense of values, a scale of values; rather, give everything, everyone its worth or his worth not a whit more. (SSS Vol.2, p. 23)

Students should understand how the four values: Satya, Dharma, Shanti and Prema, are interrelated. If a bulb is to shed light, it has to be connected to a switch by a wire and current.

‘Without having Satya, Dharma, Shanti and Prema,

the value of all kinds of education will be a cipher;

In the absence of Satya, Dharma, Shanti and Prema,

the result of holding high positions will be a zero;

Devoid of Satya, Dharma, Shanti and Prema,

the merit of philanthropic acts will be naught;

Bereft of Satya, Dharma, Shanti and Prema,

the gain of undertaking pious activities will be nothing;

To support the mansion of our Sanathana Dharma (Eternal Religion),

these four values are the foundation walls.

What else can I tell You O! Virtuous members of this August assembly!’

(Uniq, pp.192-193)

The five values of Satya (truth), Dharma (Righteousness), Shanti (Peace), Prema (Love) and Ahimsa (Non-violence) are related to different inner instruments of the body. The value of Truth is expressed through speech or words. The value of Dharma is expressed through the body. This is related to the Annamaya kosha (physical sheath). Shanti can be experienced only in the mental plane - Manomaya kosha (Mental sheath). For Satya, Dharma and Shanti one has to purify the instruments of speech, body and mind. This is called purity of ‘Mano, Vak, Kayam.’ Prema (Love) comes of Anandamaya kosha (mental and bliss sheath). Ahimsa (Non-violence) comes from Bliss sheath. Prema flows as an undercurrent in all the inner instruments and purifies them. So all the five values are having relationship with the five sheaths.

Now these values are mostly absent in human beings. Thinking in one way, talking in another way, and indulging in action not related to the talk or thought is the mark of a wicked person. He may be in human form but he is to be deemed to be a demon only. Because such people are in abundance, the world is in turmoil.

Satya is full of sanctity if one deeply enquiries into this value. Sat means Prana (life force). Ya means Ahaaram (food). ‘M’ stands for Sun. It is a combination of life, food and sun. For life, food is essential and food comes from the sun. The greenery in the world subsists because of Sun’s rays. It is the duty of man to make use of the food created by the Sun to sustain life. If you analyse this word Satya in the reverse order, ya stands for Yama, ta stands for tapas and sa stands for ‘Sarveshvara’. It conveys the truth that by practising Yama and tapas one can realise the Almighty. Yama is not the God of death but is the five-fold discipline one should maintain. They are Ahimsa, Satya, Brahmacharya, Asteya and Aparigraha (Non-Violence, Truth, Celibacy, Non-stealing, and Non-covetousness).

God is said to be of blue colour. It does not mean that His skin is bluish! He is Jnana Bhaskara (the embodiment of wisdom or shining with the light of wisdom). He is also Ananta (endless) like the sky or fathomless like the Ocean. Since both are of blue colour God is also described as bluish. He is not born with blue-coloured skin. He is infinite and fathomless. (SSS Vol.26, pp.135-137)

Values for Education; Education for Life; Life for Love; Love for Man; Man for Service; Service for Spirituality; Spirituality for Society; Society for Nation; Nation for World ; World for Peace. (NNSG Vol.4, p. 168)