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them, we do not see any radiance on your faces and you do nothing but kashays all day long. And when they go to eat at someone’ s house, all they think about is they got a free meal. When these‘ developed’ people of India dine at someone else’ s home, the knowledge that presents to them is,‘ Today I am getting a free meal so I should fill myself up!’ Such are the so called developed elderly of India. And some of these people would starve themselves for a day or two before their day of the dinner invitation so that they would not use up their own food at home and when they eat at other people’ s home, they would eat enough to last them for two more days! All they are concerned with is getting the most out of a free meal. Just imagine how all they are concerned with is getting the most out of a free meal. Just imagine the thieving tendencies they harbor. They invariably suffer the consequences of these very tendencies and actions. The contempt these older people had towards widowed women has come to haunt them. These very widowed women, who were abused, have come as their divorced daughters who come home. These very daughters have brought tremendous misery to their fathers. These very widows have come back as their daughters for repayment. Why do these women not come to my home and harass me? It is because I was not like these people.
A widowed woman is to be called‘ Gangaswarup’( to be revered as the holy Ganges). How can one ever disrespect her? They address these women as,‘ Gangaswarup’, and yet if they happen to come across path with a widow, they curse her and say,“ I am going to have bad luck. I was on my way to a very important job, but now I will have bad luck.” Such wild and uncivilized people! Such people should be hung by their necks! But the Lord has said,“ You should not hang them. Do not take this responsibility in your hands.” Natural law always prevails; the law of nature says,“ I will handle these people without fail.” This has always been my principle. Do not take the