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So why have negativity? Instead, let’s just welcome them for a
nice meal.
So you have to solve it this way. If you do not, they are
already here uninvited and they are not likely to leave until their
time is up.
Questioner: We do not feed anyone at night, because
we practice no food intake after sunset (chovihar).
Dadashri: So what do you tell them? Do you tell them
that they will not get anything to eat?
Questioner: We tell them, no.
Dadashri: What if they ask for tea?
Questioner: We will say no to that as well, even if they
asked for it.
Dadashri: Is that so? Then what do people do? They
take them out to eat.
Questioner: It is one and the same thing if you take them
out to eat at night.
Dadashri: Then what else can you do? Should you send
them to bed hungry? Our people of India will never do that.
That is our cultural values (sanskar).
The guests have come, and that is an unfolding of their
karma as well as your karma. And so, they are not likely to
leave until that karma is over.
Now what does the wife tell ‘Chandubhai’? ‘When are
your relatives going to leave?’ So he will say, ‘They are not my
relatives. They could have come from anywhere!’ Then she will
not mention the relatives.
People today are ‘developed,’ are they not? So the wife
will say ‘Your relatives,’ and when her relatives come, he will