Students! He who condemns himself day and night as petty and weak can never accomplish anything. He who thinks that he is luckless and low thereby becomes luckless and low. Instead, when you cultivate the awareness that you are a spark of God, that you have as your reality Divinity Itself, you can become really Divine, and you can have command over all powers. "As you feel, so you become" (Yad bhaavam, thad bhavathi). It is how you feel that matters most. That is the basis for all that you are. Have faith in the Atma, the Self. This is a must for man. In its absence, man is being reduced to a monster, revelling in vice and wickedness. Your forefathers achieved prosperity, peace and joy and succeeded in attaining their goals through that faith alone. When people lose that faith, they are certain to fall. For that faith is the very breath of life. When there is no breath, man becomes a corpse (Savam). With the breath of that faith, he becomes Divine (Sivam), the same as Siva Himself. Faith in the Self is the expression of the Siva Principle in man; that faith can endow man with all forms of power and render him full and complete (Poorna.) For the Atma, by its very nature, is self-sufficient and full. No other Sadhana is needed to realise that state.

Purity too is our nature; self-sufficiency (Paripoornathaa) is also the nature of the self. Impurity and insufficiency are alien to man. Students should not ignore or forget this fact. Real education must arouse this faith and infuse the awareness of this fullness in every activity. This is the essential aim, the core of the right type of education.

There is one other truth that we have to keep in mind, more than every other. For Bharathiyas, religion means experience, nothing less. Our position is that no achievement is worthwhile unless one earns it by one's own efforts. Everything valuable must be cultivated by oneself. Divine Grace awaits individual striving and sadhana. The doctrines and directives of religion have to be assimilated by means of actual experience. It is not enough if one learns to repeat them parrot-like.

The Truth has to be identified; this is the very first step. The sooner we understand the Truth the sooner will religious conflicts and credal dissensions disappear. The Paraath-para (Beyond the Beyond), the Omniself, is nearer than the nearest; other entities are all, though near, really far away. Become aware of this fact. Then alone can the knots in which the heart is entangled be loosened.