Holidays time for rapport

January 12, 1986

[A] Sahaja Yogi should not behave like other Westerners do that at every holiday, they’re out. They never sit in the house. Gruhastha, the one who stays in the house. We are all Gruhasthas, householders, we are married people. As soon as you get a holiday you’re out. Now you might give an explanation, “Because you see our houses are like this and, we think that our houses are just suffocating us.” Have you seen the houses of the poor people here? Have you seen the houses of the labor in Bombay? Nobody goes out for a holiday. All my life I don’t think I’ve been ever out for a holiday with My husband. Only once we tried for two days and we were back from Scotland all the way.

We just go for a wedding or a festival or something like that. If there’s some collective happening or else you can go for a picnic, all of you together. But you must sit down in the house and talk to each other nicely, there should be some rapport. There’s no rapport between the children and the parents, there’s no rapport between the husband and the wife, no rapport between the in-laws, other people, no rapport at all.

So you become people who are absolutely secluded, shooting off this way, that way, that way. Sit down and talk.