Chapter XIII

Students! The Ageless Person, beyond delusion and darkness, has to be cognised by every person through one's own effort. You have taken birth as inheritors of this estate of Eternal Bliss. You are the dearly loved children of the Lord. You are as pure and as sacred as air. Do not condemn yourselves as sinners. You are lion cubs, not sheep. You are wavelets of Immortality, not bodies compounded from matter. Material objects are there to serve you and do your bidding; you should not serve them and do their bidding.

Do not think that the Vedas lay down a bundle of frightening rules and regulations and laws. Every one of them has been laid down by the Lord, as a law-giver. All elements in the Cosmos, every particle everywhere, are acting every moment as ordered by Him. This is what the Vedas inform us. No worship can be higher and more beneficial than serving such a Lord. One has to offer Love to Him, more Love than one bears to anything else in this world and the next. He must be loved as the One and Only. He has to be remembered adoringly with such Love. That is the fruit that real education must result in.

The lotus leaf is born under water; it floats on water; but it does not get wet. Man, too, must be in the world likewise - in it, by it, for it, but not of it. This is the special feature of higher education, to prepare you for this role.