Cultivation of Virtues is very important - Swami

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Cultivation of Virtues is very important.Never lose courage in the examination hall or outside. Courage is the fertilizer which will make the plant of scholarship grow. The field may be good, but manuring is also necessary.You must all become heroes, adventurous and bold; prepare for that role from now on. Man has inside him a whole set of animals: the dog, the fox, the ass, the wolf. But he must suppress the tendencies of all these animals and encourage the human qualities of love and friendship to shine forth. Friendship that is cultivated from childhood onwards is more lasting and so try to cultivate real friends now. Above all, begin the cultivation of virtues; that is more important and beneficial than mere book- learning. That gives real Aanandha; that is the essence of all knowledge, the culmination of all learning.

- From Swami's Discourse in Chitoor on 4th March'1958.

 

Om Sai Ram