Education is nothing if it does not train our faculties to capture all our opportunities, to be useful to all others and to be happy always in ourselves. The crest of all education is in the study of the scriptures. If we are proving ourselves more and more useful to others around us, and if we come to discover more and more joys in ourselves, these certainly are the daily tests of our growth and progress and of our open-eyed adventures in the living of the sacred pages of the scriptures. If each new day we find ourselves more trustingly helpful to others, and do our increased load of work with mounting joy and interest, then we can be sure that our education is taking us in the right direction.
Today we are young, inspired, dynamic. We have thousands of fields in which we can serve. To live in such challenging times is a great privilege. Therefore, a momentous and sacred obligation rests upon us all –to make perfect use of all our opportunities.
(Chinmaya Lahari – Swami Chinmayananda –Tapovana Prasad –September 2009)
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