True education directs and counsels the mind and intellect toward earning pure (sathwic) happiness. Of course, it can be secured only by untiring effort. The scriptures declare, “Happiness cannot be acquired through happiness (Na sukhat labhyate sukham).” Only by undergoing unhappiness can happiness be won. This truth has to be instilled through spiritual education (vidya). When one knows of the bliss (ananda) that pure happiness can confer, spiritual education will become easy and palatable. Having been born as humans, all efforts must be directed to acquiring this education for immortality along with earth-bound material-centred education, for it is only education for immortality that can reveal the Atma and enable people to experience the immortal Atmic bliss (Atma-ananda).
Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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