Education does not mean the imparting of verbal knowledge alone.
SAI BABAEducation must award self-confidence, the courage to depend on one’s own strength.
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Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.
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The objective of education should be impressed on the children’s minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation.
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Character is the most precious gift of education.
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What is necessary is not EHV, but 3-HV: (Head-Heart-and Hands). The hands should carry out what the heart and approved of the ideas emanated from the head.
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True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between ience on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other.
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Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
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What the head thinks, should be examined critically in the heart and this right decision should be carried out by the hands. This should be the primary product of the educational process.
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Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
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What the world needs today is neither a new order, a new education, a new system, a new society nor a new religion. The remedy lies in a mind and a heart filled with holiness.
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Hands that serve are holier than lips that pray.
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You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.
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Everyone’s God is One.
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I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.
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The nation can prosper and be happy only when education develops in an atmosphere of Truth, Love and Reverence.
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Real education should enable one to utilise the knowledge one has acquired to meet the challenges of life and to make all human beings happy as far as possible.
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.
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You seek too much information and not enough transformation.
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Not living for food, but living for the sake of an ideal, that is the goal of education.
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Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful.
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Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education.
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It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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You are not educated if all you have achieved is the study of ten books.
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Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people.
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The learned man’s life itself shines as the message for mankind.
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Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
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