Human Values cannot be practised by studying books or listening to lectures. They have to be cultivated by individual effort. Students! True education consists in sanctifying everything you utter, as well as purifying every thought and action of yours. Humility is the bedrock. Cultivate humility as the first step. Bend the body. Mend the senses. End the mind. This is the key to immortality. Human values are not essential for students alone. Everyone has to practise human values as a mark of a true human being. When a human being declares that he is a man, it is only a half-truth. He must also declare that he is not an animal. To give up animal qualities and practise human values will make a man fully human. Today we have made prodigious progress in various fields of knowledge – in mathematics, physics, chemistry, bio-sciences and so on. But no attempt is being made even to approach the study of the spiritual. All our knowledge ends with the study of matter, plants and living creatures. Education must go beyond these to an understanding of the Divine. Only that is true education. The task of education is to develop man into an ideal and exemplary person. – Divine Discourse, Sep 24, 1987