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If you are a guest in someone’s home, should you not
behave as a guest, with humility? If I am a guest in your house,
should I not be polite and mindful? If you tell me that I have to
sleep in a certain place, do I not have to obey? If my lunch is
served at 2:00 p.m., then I should eat quietly. I should eat
whatever is served to me. I should not complain about the food,
because I am a guest. Now how does it look if a guest goes
into the kitchen and starts to cook? If as a guest, you interfere
in household matters, who will allow you to stay? Eat whatever
they put on your plate; if they serve you basoondi (dessert),
just eat it. You cannot say, “I do not eat sweets.” Eat leisurely,
whatever they serve you. If you are not too fond of what they
serve you, eat little, but eat you must! Be mindful of all the
regulations a guest must comply with. The guest cannot do
raag-dwesh (attachment-abhorrence). Can a guest do raag-
dwesh? The guest always maintains his boundaries.
At home, I live like a guest. All my needs are met.
Wherever you live as a guest, you should not trouble the host.
Everything I need comes my way, all I have to do is think about
it, and it comes. If things do not come my way, I have no
problems. I am a guest of nature. If nature does not will
something for you, know that it is in your best interest and when
it does, that too is in your best interest. If things were in your
control, what would happen if your beard were to grow only on
half of your face? If the control were in your hands, you would
make a mess of everything. The control is in the hands of
nature. Nature never makes any mistakes. Everything is in exact
order. Take your teeth for example, each have different
functions. You have teeth for chewing, teeth for cutting, teeth for
grinding. Just look at how wonderful everything is. Upon your
birth, you are given the whole body, hands, feet, nose, ears, and
eyes. You get everything. And when you put your hands in your
mouth, you find no teeth! Did nature a mistake there? No.