The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
actual life. And his letters more or less are of a
character representative of the general conditions
of the utter helplessness of the Indian graduates to
win their bread. Education in India started with the
Government services as its highest goal, and there,
too, those were the mere crumbs from the table of
the Higher Imperial services that fell to the lot of
the poor children of the soil; and the main function
of education in India is still to produce slaves to be
driven by the superior will of the Oxford and
Cambridge graduates inflicted upon them as the
necessary result of foreign domination. The
system of education, therefore, prevalent in India,
then and now, must be rotten, which cannot
provide, even till to-day, to its votaries, that much
freedom of choice of vocation which even a
common labourer enjoys. The latter must be
willing to work and his daily bread is his without
fail, and, after a few hours of labour, he is the
master of himself, and while working, he knows he
is his own master and stands no nonsense from his
employers, except perhaps in large cities where
capitalistic combinations are enslaving him and
rendering him helpless. Not so the Indian
graduate! Fie on the very purpose of education in
India! As regards his devotion to the person of
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