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previous pious deeds but if they are involved in legal affairs against each-other, it is also the result of their previous sinful actions. A house does not mean a construction of four sided well built walls but it is a place where children, having been got up early in the morning, get blessings of their parents and elders by touching their feet. A house is that in which all the brothers live together happily and support each-other whenever any assistance is required. Do you think we can call a house a family where there is a wall of jealousy among brothers, where a daughter-in-law doesn't speak to her mother-in-law, where nephew and niece do not play together, where parents have to cook their food by their own old age trembling hands? I don't think such a house will be considered a family. What an irony of circumstances that four persons do not live together in a house whereas even in a crematory four persons live together. We should not live a life of any graveyard dead bodies that neither talk nor speak anything to each-other and do not see even the faces of one-another. If four persons are living in the same way in your house, I request you not to let your house turn into a graveyard. Convert your house into heaven, not into hell. A house where a father smiles seeing his son, where a daughter-in-law givers her parental saree to her mother-in-law, where a son when comes from duty, talks to his father first and then to his wife, is infact a paradise of life.
We have decided to add one more day in the week, i.e. family day. It should be considered the eighth day of a week. If the eighth day i.e. the family day is safe, the rest seven days of a week will automatically become safe and useful. A family is that where some great epic like 'The Ramayana' is composed not that one where the play of 'The Mahabharata' is played every day. The family in which four brothers live and if they feel proud of themselves like Lord Rama, devoted to each-other like 'Bharat' and dutiful like
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