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and your merits that help in making you advance forever. I was once a guest in a house of one millionaire. He had two daughters-in-law. Both the mother-in-law and father-inlaw were taking food on a dining table. One daughter-inlaw was cooking food and the other was serving them. There were also many servants at home but this pious work was being done by the daughters-in-law. The other things of kitchen can be done by the servants but cooking should be provided only by the daughters-in-law. A house where such manners are existed, resides Lakshmiji, the goddess of wealth there. If there are many daughters-in-law in any family but if the food is cooked by the old parents, is not a house in real. It is a symbol of hellish life.
The great parents are not those who give birth or properties to their children but the great are those who give worth and good breeding to their children. The manners will become the identity of the family, otherwise there remains no difference between you and the others who use abusive words. If, inspite of being educated, you smoke, then what difference is there between you and an uneducated? You know the right things but you perform the wrong things. If I were not a saint, and I would do something wrong, perhaps I would be forgiven. But now if being a saint, if anything wrong is done, I will never be forgiven.
Let us develop good virtues in us. An empty sack can not be kept straight in standing position. It can be spread but to make it straight standing, it is necessary to fill something in it. To make our life rising up, we will have to fill good values into the sacks of our life. We should pracitse good manners and good behaviour.
Once I was in a town. There was a meeting of trustees of a society. Two kinds of people were specially invited there, one very rich and the other very ordinary. Those who 58
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