Every morning while Swamishri returned to his residence after his puja, youths performed brief skits to please him. This morning, they enacted a real-life situation that arises in pols on the day of the kite flying festival. Then in their hectic pursuit to claim a severed kite a group of youths accidently knocked off an elderly man riding his bicycle. When one of the youths claimed the kite the others started roughing him up.
Swamishri tried to check them from the spat by saying aloud, “Brothers, do not fight, don’t fight! Why are you fighting for a mere kite!” By that time the youths came upto Swamishri. One of them told the group, “Why are you after kites? Why don’t you catch what is really to be caught?” Another participant replied, “We have really got what we want.” Then a youth with a ball of entangled kite string prayed to Swamishri, “There are a lot of entanglements in our householder’s life. Please disentangle them for us.”
Swamishri took the entangled ball of kite string in his hand and said, “Observe moral instructions (niyam-dharma) properly and take firm refuge (ashro) in God, then all be well.”
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