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is hence not insisted upon in their case. They may however utilise their spare time for the purpose. That is a special allowance in their case. Besides, if they go on with their household work with the thought that they are doing their duty in compliance with God's command, it shall all be transformed into puja and they shall be with it all the while without any conscious effort on their part.
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RAMAKRISHNA PARAMAHAMSA
You say that you often get irritated for petty reasons. you must have read in your books a lot against this evil, still you are not able to overcome it. Then of what avail is your learning to you? It is related of Swami Ramakrishna Paramahamsa that while still a boy at an infant school, he was one day given a certain lesson to learn. It was, ̳Always speak the truth'. He went on with it. Whenever the teacher asked him whether he had learnt the other day's lesson or not, he only replied, ̳Not yet, Sir'. After some time he told the teacher that he had learnt the lesson well. In a sense of surprise the teacher asked
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