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they had to go through these things but in a very angry mood.
They did not know that I was also a professor that first day. I loved to have a cold bath early in the morning, so I went to the well to take a bath. And the students were so angry: they were using all kinds of four-letter words about the Vice-Chancellor -- not only about the Vice-Chancellor but about God also! Not knowing that I was also a professor, they continued their use of violent, ugly words.
I reported to the Vice-Chancellor: 'This is not right. You are not teaching them prayer. And then after the cold bath they have to stand in a line and pray for hours in Sanskrit. Now, how can they be prayerful? They are angry with God. If they come across God they will kill him! And they are praying, so what kind of prayer can it be?'
But the Vice-Chancellor was an old Sanskrit scholar. He said, 'No, that's not right. They are doing it on their own, we are not forcing anybody.'
I said, 'I know that they are doing it on their own, because if they don't do it their scholarships disappear. You are not forcing them in a direct but an indirect way. And if you want to argue with me, then give me only one day and I will put up a notice saying that whosoever wants to have a cold bath at four o'clock and pray can get up, and whosoever does not want to need not worry about the scholarship; it will be up to him.'
Now the Vice-Chancellor was caught; he had to agree to only one day. And I went to the Vice-Chancellor at four o'clock -- he himself was asleep. I dragged him out of bed. I said, 'Come on! What kind of Vice-Chancellor are you? Your students are praying, taking cold baths, and you are asleep!'
He was very angry at me. I said, 'The same is happening to them. Come on!'
And there was not a single student there! The well was empty, the prayer hall was empty. I told him, 'Now take a cold bath with me, and we will both pray!'
He said, 'I cannot take a cold bath -- I am an old man!'
I said, 'Okay, then I will take the cold bath. You sit here and watch, and then we will go and pray.'
He said, 'But I am feeling tired and I want to go to sleep!'
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