If a tree has to be destroyed, there is no use trying to kill it by plucking its leaves one by one. It takes too long a time and, besides, it may not work. The ancient seers realized that this was true even with respect to eliminating bad qualities within us and hence focused their spiritual practices and energies to transform themselves completely. They also won the grace of the Lord. If intelligence alone is sharpened without the cultivation and practice of virtues and the brain becomes a mere storehouse of information, the world cannot progress; its welfare will be in jeopardy. That education alone is beneficial which gives full scope for the blossoming of all virtues that distinguish a human from an animal.
-Divine Discourse, Prema Vahini.
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