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SHANTINIKETAN
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wherever it wishes. Come then let us forget everything and all go together to see the Ashram[1] of the Rishis[2] in that wood of ancient India. You are Brahmacharis[3] and you can for a time go with me and exchange thoughts with the Brahmacharis of those days.

  1. Ashram: a forest school where the teachers and their families live with the boys in some retired spot.
  2. Rishis: saints.
  3. Brahmacharis: students brought up to a life of discipline in an atmosphere of religion.