The rulers who frame and foster the educational system of the country are responsible for the discontent, disillusionment and consequent delinquencies and disturbances of the students. They pay attention only to the physical and intellectual training of the youth; they forget that attention must also be paid to mental, moral and spiritual development, so that an integrated personality can emerge. Now, a child is put to school so that years later he may get a cushy job! Schooling is thought to be for gaining a living, not for gaining the ultimate in life. Nowhere the youth are trained to earn shanti (equanimity, peace); everywhere, the aim is a comfortable life. The search for comfort, riches, fame, power over others - these make one so egoistic that one is a danger to oneself and others. The only safe path is to seek bliss within oneself, not in or through others. There is great joy awaiting the person who radiates compassion, truth, patience, humility, reverence and piety.

- Divine Discourse, Jul 30, 1967.