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under the principal ideology of repayment of social debts with the ultimate aim of deliverance from the cycle of births and deaths and social approval continued to be the main motivation The professional social worker now was the Sanyast and the common man, the house holder, (grihastha) continued to be the donor.
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Today it has further dwindled into an institution serving mostly the aims of education. Social services in India are mainly concerned with education, medicine, problems of the handicapped, pilgrimage and recreational activities. The highest emphasis is on education of the traditional type. Sanskrit education is so organised that any student can get it without himself or his family having to pay for tuition, board or lodging. The satra often mispronounced as kshetra is an institution designed to achieve this objective.
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