Despite advanced modern education and societal pride in academic degrees, systemic problems like hypocrisy, corruption, and misery continue to escalate. Alarmingly, even the educated and executive classes frequently succumb to these vices.

This book by Swami Purushottamananda emphasizes that an educational system focused strictly on book-learning and career-building ("bread-winning") fails to address these deeper moral failures and cannot serve as a panacea for society's problems.