WORDS OF WISDOM: Satya Sai Baba delivering a discourse at Prashanti Nilayam on Tuesday.

PUTTAPARTHI: Satya Sai Baba observed that selfishness was predominant in today's education system and has called upon the seekers of education to shun selfishness to attain meaningful learning. He suggested the students to come out of self-centred thinking.

In his discourse during the 24th convocation of Sri Satya Sai Institute of Higher Learning held at the Sai Kulwant Hall in Prashanti Nilayam here on Tuesday, he advised the students to inculcate a spirit of service to make their education complete in all respects.

Apt foundations

Truth and righteousness were the foundations of meaningful education.

One's association with education and family should be in unison to bring out the divinity in him, he said. Unfortunately, no qualities were found in human beings today to help others nowadays, the spiritual leader said.

Spiritual education

Physical and secular education would also be meaningless until it was provided in combination with spiritual education, which, he said, was essential.

Earlier, Karnataka Governor T.N. Chaturvedi said in his convocation address that the integrated education being offered in Satya Sai educational institutions would help in the total development of students.

By providing free education completely, Sai Baba was democratising the sector, he said.

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