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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 ΂