"In his book Stri Niti Bodhaka Part 1 on `The nature of ideal moral life for women', Shrimadji has advocated the cause of women's education as essential to national freedom. He advised His brethren to spread education in women, to remove internal quarrels & crippling social customs & thereby expedite the recovery of national independence.
This book was the first of His writings before He was sixteen & it was published in Vikram Samvat 1940 or 1884 A. D.
In this book of 50 pages He has analyzed the causes of backwardness in women, such as child-marriage, forced marriage of the unequals in health, age & intelligence & lastly, endless superstitions & ignorance. The matter of the book is divided into four sections:
The first section deals with prayer to God, devotion, transitoriness of the living body, advice given by a mother to her daughter, avoidance of waste of time, diligence in work & the excellent results obtained by diligence.
The second section deals with learning, advantages of education, select reading of good books & acceptance of good & useful lessons.
The third section deals with self-improvement, adoption of virtues, spread of moral & healthy atmosphere, nature of truth & avoidance of profligacy & debauchery.
The fourth & the last section deals with the description of the wise & virtuous people & it includes a composition of hundred verses on words of wisdom for all.
Shrimadji, from His childhood had a fine command of language & diction, so His style is simple, natural & elegant.
In His writings, words follow the sense..."
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