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To support these teachers the wealthy families on certain occasions,

such as a marriage festival, or at the ceremonies for the dead, made

gifts to them. They were considered the first and foremost claimants

to certain gifts; and they in their turn had to maintain their

students. So whenever there is a marriage, especially in a rich

family, these professors are invited, and they attend and discuss

various subjects. This boy went to one of these gatherings of

professors, and the professors were discussing various topics, such

as logic or astronomy, subjects much beyond his age. The boy was

peculiar, as I have said, and he gathered this moral out of it: " This

is the outcome of all their knowledge. What are they fighting so

hard? It is simply for money; the man who can show the highest

learning here will get the best pair of cloth, and that is all these

people are struggling for. I will not go to school any more. "

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Sri, Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita

 

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