Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

Education
The end of wisdom is freedom.
The end of culture is perfection.
The end of knowledge is love.
The end of education is character.
There is a desire on the part of all of you to acquire these four qualities,
namely wisdom, culture, knowledge and education and reach the end,
namely, freedom, perfection, love and character. But students should
realise that if these qualities are not properly used, then they cannot
call themselves students. (34-3)
Permanent happiness can be secured only through one science, spiritual
science. That is the science of God-realization, that is the teaching
of the Rishis. That alone can save man and grant him peace. There
is nothing higher than that; this is an indisputable fact. Whatever your
joy and sorrow, whatever the subjects you have specialized in for a living,
keep your eyes riveted on Brahma science. If intelligence alone is
sharpened, without the growth and practice of virtues, and if mere information
is stored in the brain, the world cannot progress and its welfare
will be in jeopardy.
But people now seem to be losing faith in virtues, the educational system
does not assign any place for spiritual teaching or training. True
education does not content itself with filling the brain with cumbersome
junk. Education is beneficial only when it gives full scope to the blossoming
of all the virtues which distinguish man. (4-24/25)
The supreme end of education, the highest purpose of instruction, is
to make you aware of the “universal immanent impersona”. This is the
truth that is loudly proclaimed in the Vedas. The seers and sages of
Bharata courageously entered upon this adventure. The ever-changing
aspects of nature, the appearance and disappearance of its working,
may be a fine subject for study. But, the ancients of Bharata proclaimed
that the science of the transcendent principle that permeates
the universe, the unchanging eternal, the embodiment of everlasting
ever-full bliss, the residence of unaffected undiminished peace, the ultimate
refuge for all time of the individual being, is the highest knowledge
that man must gain.
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