The learning process yields best results during the early years of life. Then, what is taught is easily assimilated. The qualities that are fostered during this tender age last until the very end. Childhood, boyhood and youth are, assuredly, invaluable stages of one’s life. When they are used to the best advantage, man can shine as a well-educated person and earn respect and fame in society. Consider the amount of effort and sacrifice a person undergoes to procure even some trivial thing. He cannot get from the market an article he desires without parting with some money. Give and take is the rule of life. When one willingly renounces things of value in order to gain such paltry possessions, why should he lament when he has to renounce the low, limited pleasures that his senses can give, in order to gain the Awareness of the Atma  which confers immeasurable Bliss? (SSE, p. 4)