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  A sound body means one which bends itself to spirit and is always a ready instrument at its service. Such bodies are not made, in my opinion, on the football field. They are made on cornfields and farms. I would urge you to think this over and you will find innumerable illustrations to prove my statement. Our colonial-born Indians are carried away with this football and cricket mania. These games may have their place in certain circumstances... Why do we not take the simple fact into consideration that the vast majority of making who are vigorous in body and mind are simplest agriculturists, that they are strangers to these games and they are the salt of the Earth?'      Read the given passage and answer the following questions (a) What, according to Gandhiji, is a sound body and where is it made? (b) Which games are manias amongst colonial-born Indians? (c) Whom does Gandhiji refer to as the salt of the Earth? (d) What values do you learn from the given passage?

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                  (a) According to Gandhiji, a sound body means one which bends itself to the spirit. This body is always ready to work at the commands given by the spirit. A sound body is made in the cornfields or farms where one performs physical works. (b) The games of football and cricket are manias amongst colonial-born Indi (c) Gandhiji suggests agriculturalist of our country as the salt of the Earth. They consist of the vast majority of mankind and are vigorous in mind and body. They do not play cricket or football, but their regular physical work make them strong and well-built. (d) From the given passage I have learnt, that one should do the physical work to keep body fit and healthy.