Educare also reveals to us the tools essential for achieving self-transformation. It stresses the importance of service before spirituality and practice by oneself before preaching to others. We must learn, within the framework of the Sathya Sai Organisation, to practise the techniques of Educare: prayer, silent sitting, Jyothi meditation, group singing, satsang, study circle, community service without expectation of reward. An understanding of the 'Soham Mantra' which proclaims the inherent divinity of man is also essential. What is perhaps equally important is a periodical process of self-audit which keeps asking the question: To what extent have I travelled on the road to progress?

To sum up, the process of Educare is the process of one's transformation during which the five fundamental values are brought out from within and influence all of one's thoughts, words and actions. The results of this transformations are: recongnition of the Divinity in oneself and in others, veneration of nature and all objects in creation - animate or inanimate, unity of the head, heart and hands and finally, merger with the Divine.

As Swami points out, at the end, when transformation is achieved, you will find that you have travelled only from youself to yourself with God all the while in you, around you, with you and beside you. We are but sparks of the divine and this realisation is true self-transformation.