Passage 6

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In plain words

The umpire who watches the match blows his whistle, but nobody cares. Here too a kind of business has begun. If they give the umpires who watch something or other, they too fall in with it. This is not a true game. Those who take part in these games must also be evenly matched. At the time of the Mahābhārata war Dharmaja asked the Kauravas, ‘Choose any one of us five; if you defeat him, I will go back to the forest for twelve years,’ he said. Though the Kauravas were wicked, evil and evil-minded, in this gambling or in any other kind of game they kept the rule and held that their opponents must be their equals in combat. Duryodhana knew nothing at all but the mace fight. Had he chosen Nakula or Arjuna, the Pāṇḍavas would have had to go back to the forest. But he did not choose that way. In the mace fight he asked only Bhīma, his equal in combat, to fight. In the same way, in contests of games both sides must be equal in combat.

Today even the officers do not give such matters a thought. They make undergraduate boys play post-graduate boys as though they were equals. These officers do not know in the least how much the boys suffer when they lose because of this. That is why disappointment and despair are growing in the boys. Who is the cause of this? The officers! Either the officers must know nothing about games, or they must have no interest in games. Apart from these two reasons, there is no third reason one can believe at all. It is because such officers are multiplying that unrest is growing among the students. These sports contests must be organised well. You must consult the professors, the physical directors and the boys, make a plan for how these contests are to be run, and try to have the games played according to it.