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household duties and be a queen in your own palace.
It has been said:
"Whether he be your husband's father or elder brother,
husband's sister-in-law or his revered mother, treat
them as your own father and mother and receive their
blessings, my loving daughter. Treat like a son his
younger brother and like a daughter the younger
brother's wife. These are the best known jewels in life
of the good and gentle girl."
Daughter, as you get accustomed to the duties just men-
tioned you will be accorded an honoured position in the
house.
The stage in life that you have entered is known as the
grihastha.
The head of the house is the
grihi
(householder). The success of the home is dependent
on the
grihini
(housewife). It is not the brick and
mortar that make the home, it is the ideal wife who is
responsible for this accomplishment.
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Na griham grihamityahurgrihini grihamuchyate. It
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is common knowledge that a married person has
a
better chance to rent a house. The landlord usually
asks the question whether a person is married or not.
If you answer in the affirmative, you have no difficulty
in securing the house. Without a wife there is no
confidence.
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.r.It is a fact that when a wife is away from her home
for a few days, the house is quiet and everything is in
disorder. The husband looks for the clothes and finds
them all mixed up. One thing is found and another is
somehow missing; it is time for him to leave for the
office. What about breakfast ? There is no time to
cook. Something is taken hurriedly and he is on his