Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

trouble. He himself eats and sleeps in a very selfish manner. What is
the use of the education which he has received if it does not teach him
to look after the welfare of the mother and father when they are in difficulties?
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This land of ours has earned fame beyond its borders. It has given birth
to men of great reputation, has driven away western rulers and earned
for itself independence; this land of ours has given birth to many sons
who are learned and scholars; it has shown great capacity and
achievement in many fields such as music, sacred teaching, fine arts
and sculpture. We have also promoted and sustained things which are
aesthetic and beautiful. This land of ours has been the source of Divine
conduct. Bharata, our motherland, had the great fortune of generating
Divine law and good conduct. The responsibility of maintaining these
and protecting them in the future rests on the shoulders of you young
people. Students, boys and girls! Other people who are assembled
here this afternoon, our country Bharata is one which has handed over
spiritual strength to all other parts of the world. While civilisation, under
the pretext of modernity, is spreading all over the world and bringing
about many changes in man's life, yet you see that the basic spiritual
aspects are not undergoing any change. From this, you should learn
and understand how strong and how very deeply rooted the spiritual
aspects are. It is not possible for anyone to stop or slow down this
stream of spiritual wisdom. As this spirituality goes further and further
you will recognise that the so called individual freedom advocated by
modern civilisation leads one only to paths of ignorance. How long will
this kind of foolishness sustain the spiritual aspects? How long can
walls which have no foundation stand? From time immemorial our ideas
and traditions have stood firmly on the foundations of Vedas and religious
aspects and you have had the strength of spiritual gems behind
them. Such foundations cannot be shaken by modern ideas. The so
called educated people are caught in the fangs of lust and desire and
are not able to come out of their clutches. What one learns these days
cannot to called education as it is not accompanied by the necessary
purification. From time to time it is necessary to introduce reforms in
education. If man is not able to take good education to his heart and if
his education has no culture behind it, he will be worse than an uneducated
washerman. A person who is educated in many branches thinks
he has great wisdom but in reality, he does not know himself. Such a
person cannot give up the meanness of his manner. If one really goes
into the details of the kind of education which one gets today, one finds
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