Whenever thou feelest that thy feet are becoming entangled in the
interlaced roots of life, know that thou has strayed from the
path to which I beckon thee: for I have placed thee in broad,
smooth paths, which are strewn with flowers. I have put a light
before thee, which thou canst follow and thus run without
stumbling. KRISHNA.

I have received your letter and two numbers of your periodical,
both of which interest me extremely. The oppression of a
majority by a minority, and the demoralization inevitably
resulting from it, is a phenomenon that has always occupied me
and has done so most particularly of late. I will try to explain
to you what I think about that subject in general, and
particularly about the cause from which the dreadful evils of
which you write in your letter, and in the Hindu periodical you
have sent me, have arisen and continue to arise.

The reason for the astonishing fact that a majority of working
people submit to a handful of idlers who control their labour and
their very lives is always and everywhere the same--whether the
oppressors and oppressed are of one race or whether, as in India
and elsewhere, the oppressors are of a different nation.

This phenomenon seems particularly strange in India, for there
more than two hundred million people, highly gifted both
physically and mentally, find themselves in the power of a small
group of people quite alien to them in thought, and immeasurably
inferior to them in religious morality.