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Whilst I was in the midst of my creative work there came to me an inner message asking me to come out of my seclusion and seek life in the heart of crowd. I knew hot what I could do. I had a love for children, so that I called them round me, in order to rescue them from the dismal dungeons of the educational department, and find for them that atmosphere of sympathy and freedom which they needed most. I chose a beautiful and secluded spot where, in collaboration with Mother Nature, it was possible to bring up these boys in a spirit of wisdom and love.While I was still busy doing service to children I do not know what possessed me all of a sudden. From some far-away sky came to me a call of pilgrimage reminding me that we are all bom pilgrims-pilgrims of the green earth. A voice questioned me ‘Have you been to the sacred shrine where Divinity reveals itself in the thoughts and dreams and deeds of Man?’ I thought possibly it was in Europe where I must seek it and know the full meaning of my birth as a human being in this world. And so for the second time I came to this continent.But, meanwhile I had grown up and learnt much of the history of man. I had sighed with the great poet Wordsworth, who became sad when he saw what man had done to man. We too have suffered at the hands of man—not tigers and snakes, not elemental forces of nature, but human beings. Men are ever the greatest enemy of Man. I had felt and known it; all the same, there was a hope, deep in my heart, that I should find some place, some temple, where the immortal spirit of man dwelt hidden like the sun behind clouds.1. What was the inner message?2. Which place for children’s study was chosen by the speaker?3. Who reminded the speaker about pilgrimage?4. Where did the speaker try to seek the full meaning of his birth as a human in this world?5 . From what had the speaker learnt much?6. Why had the speaker and Wordsworth sighed?7. Why is the speaker still hopeful?8.Find from the passage the words that mean the following :(i) the state of having little contact with other people(ii) basic and important.

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1. The inner message was to come out of seclusion and seek life in the heart of crowd.

2. A beautiful and secluded spot where, in collaboration with Mother Nature, it was possible to bring upon the boys in a spirit of wisdom and love.

3. A call of pilgrimage reminded the speaker about that.

4. The speaker try to seek the full meaning of his birth in Europe.

5. The speaker had learnt much from the history of man.

6. The had sighed because men had suffered at the hands of men.

7. The speaker is still hopeful because the spirit of man is immortal like the sun.

8. (i) seclusion

(ii) elemental.



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