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THE WAY OF LIFE
said: "You must keep an eye on the door". We sat watching that door. At about one o'clock, someone knocked on that door. Then we heard a noise as if somebody was trying to open the door of the ground floor. We two stood up and slowly stepped towards the stair-case. We heard some noise at the door downstairs. Slowly, we went down the steps. The door was not bolted. We bolted the door. The door was completely shut. We stood there for about ten minutes. The noise also stopped. We went to sleep. No untoward incident occurred.
In the morning, after performing our daily spiritual austerities, when we got ready to leave the house, we said to the watchman, "Brother! We are going away. We had no trouble in the night. No ghost appeared. We saw no ghost. Yes. We heard some noise at the door but that was because the wind caused the door to creak. The door was not bolted. We bolted the door; and then there was no noise at all. Therefore, you need not fear that there is a ghost in this house."
The omens should be properly examined and understood. The features and potentialities of a site or a house can be known only by a careful scrutiny of the omens. The man who scrutinizes them should possess an exact knowledge relating to them. His mind should be calm and wholesome while examining the significance of the omens. The significance of the omens should be clearly and exactly understood.
A family known to me lived in a town in Gujarat. Formerly, they were living in a small village but they came to live in the town. They rented a house and a shop. They began to live in the town; and the head of the family started his business in the shop; but he incurred a loss of one lakh rupees within one year. This event took place forty years ago. There was no peace in the house in which they lived. Sickness prevailed in the family. Always, someone or the other would be ill; and they often saw ghosts in the house. Then they changed their house. The head of the family closed his shop; and sent his two sons to Bombay. After going to Bombay; they recovered their health; they settled down there; and achieved some economic improvement also.
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