Passage 8

In English

Liberation Is Everlasting Bliss

As the village teacher was telling this story to the students, an inspector of schools came there. The inspector told the teacher not to teach the students by telling stories like this. He asked him to teach them only what was given in the textbooks. The teacher then said, “Sir, the spoken word has good effect on students. Sound is, in fact, responsible for feelings of happiness, sorrow, anger, etc”. By way of acting upon what he said, the teacher ordered a small boy to get up and tell the inspector to get out of the classroom immediately. At this, the inspector got very angry. The teacher then said, “You see, how you are angry. Nobody has hit you or beaten you; you got angry just by hearing one sentence.”