All education today is related to the physical world. It will not serve to reveal the Divine. It was this which impelled Shankaracharya to teach a pandit who was learning by rote Panini's grammar that at the moment of death, only the Lord's name will save him and not the rules of grammar. Though this teaching has been propagated for centuries, very few practise it. Many read the Ramayana as a daily ritual. But how many carry out the commands of their fathers? How many practise the virtue of fraternal affection and love proclaimed in the Ramayana? Is there anyone standing for the gospel of Dharma as upheld by Sri Rama? Of what use is it endlessly to listen to discourses without putting anything into practice? The Gita is being read and expounded all the time. Is a single precept from it being put into practice? Not at all. The Gita shows the path to God realisation. But simply reciting the Gita is valueless. Follow the Gita and tread the path indicated by it. Only then you will reap the reward.
Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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