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How Great Monks are to be distinguished from ordinary mendicants? How Great Monks are to be differentiated from common householders? What should be the characteristic features of a Nation-Uplifter? An Indian housewife dropping some stale / hardened chapati (flat pan cake) into the alms-bag of a Great Monk in Calcutta, be quoted as an example in California to American Aristocratic Audience, as an example of his suffering? Did Swami Vivekananda take into consideration, the pitiable state of the poor Indian Housewives, who had dropped stale chapatis into the alms-bags of Indian Monks? Indian Rich Housewives do not have this problem of dropping something into alms-bags, because they ensure that their main-doors/gates are closed all the times. The appeals/beseechments/cries of the monks/mendicants cannot reach into the dining halls of rich homes, several rooms away inside. Still-richer Merchants/LandLords/Industrialists employ watchmen at their gates to ward away alm-seeking mendican...