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father’s insistence on his staying at home on a holiday, and his
having to clean the table or to do a sum, and he wants to escape into
the freedom of “full being” as opposed to the disciplined social
existence. “Since Saturday and Sunday came so rarely, to Swaminathan it seemed absurd to waste at home, gossiping with granny
and mother or doing sums. It was his father’s definite orders that
Swaminathan should not start loafing in the afternoon and that he
should stay at home and do school work. But this order was seldom
obeyed.” (Swami 23-24) Again, before the examinations he felt
the same: “Staying at home in the evenings was extremely irksome.
He sighed at the thought of the sand-banks o f Sarayu and M ani’s
company. But his father had forbidden him to go out till the
examinations were over.” (56) Even after the examinations when
the father insisted on his home study, Swami felt helples