True qualities like Compassion, Truth and Love are unseen - Swami

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"Matrudevo Bhava, Pitrudevo Bhava, Acharyadevo Bhava, Atithidevo Bhava", revere your mother, father, preceptor and guest as God. This was the teaching given to the students at the time of leaving the portals of Gurukul in ancient times. This act of benediction is termed Convocation today. Education is the very form of God. The word 'education' has originated from the root word 'educare', meaning 'to bring out' or 'to elicit'. Educare has two aspects: that which relates to the head and that which relates to the heart. That which emerges from the head is pravritti (external) and that from the heart is nivritti (internal). Unless the head is empty (free from evil) it cannot be stuffed with good. Modern education relates to the head, but true education relates to the heart. Sacred qualities like Compassion, Truth, Forbearance, Love originate from the heart. Here is a small example. Physical features like height, weight, complexion can be

seen by the naked eye, whereas there are innumerable qualities like compassion, truth, love which are unseen. Merely acquainting oneself about the physical features of an individual does not make one aware of his/her true personality. - From Bhagawan's 1998 Convocation Discourse