Stand by India



The students should, of course, devote themselves to their studies. But they have also to keep in mind that they are Indians. They are not to live somewhere cut off from all other people and shun contact with the people outside. When you do go the settlements or villages round about your place, you will see how people live there and in what a miserable condition! Then you will remember Swamiji's words : "Without making the multitude of masses into real men, if only a handful of people become educated, that is not going to do any good to the country." If the country has to be awakened education has to be brought to all. All those ordinary people have to be trained in work in such a way that they learn to earn their bread and are able to stand on their own feet.



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