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religion in real. Smoking cigarettes, chewing tobacco and eating gutkha etc. addiction will lead your children to imitate your addictions and thus they will spoil their lives completely. When you eat gutkha, omit 't' from the word gutkha and then pronunciate it and then eat it if you like it better now. You should not give up the addiction for myself that a saint, is telling you but give up all the addictions for the sake of happiness of your family. Determine you will not get addicted to anything and everything will become easier to you. You know a stone has great strength. It can break our head. But iron is more powerful than a stone because it can break the stone. And fire is more powerful than iron because it can melt the iron. Water is more powerful than fire because it can extinguish the fire but the will power of man is more powerful than water because it can turn and change the way of water waves. If man makes his will power strong, nothing will be there in the world for that he will not be able to do it. If he is unable to do it, certainly he would have been lacking in will power as well as resolution capacity.
Develop one more good habit in your family of taking food together; let the members be fourteen or fifteen. It will realise you the pleasure of paradise. Remember if a single branch of a tree gets withered, the rest all the branches will get affected. To keep the family branches full of greenery, maintain unity in your family. Develop a habit of respecting elders as well as providing happiness to the Youngers. Present gifts mutually on some festive occasions in order to have a change in the way of your living. Let all the family members to pay their roles and perform their duties freely. Do not interfere in their way of living life happily provided it is not harmful for others. Guide mutually but do not impose anything on youngers. Follow the duty of all of you properly for the sake of your family happiness.
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