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Chapter 19: The New Life

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1) Beg only for food for individuals and for the whole party of 20 members, and not for anything else. 2) While begging for food, accept anything and everything offered — solid, liquid, cooked, raw, vegetarian and non-vegetarian food. 3) Do not ask for anything in particular or any special kind of food. 4) While begging you can persuade, request and, if necessary, impress by spiritual or moral talks. 5) You should, however, emphatically declare that we are not spiritually perfect, nor do we have any spiritual experience, but only what we hear about spiritual or moral things is what we understand to be right. 6) Do not talk about me as the Master, a Sadguru or the Avatar nor about yourselves as my disciples, but only refer to me and yourselves as companions. 7) Never tell a lie or do anything which might be against the conditions. 8) You can speak with women and girls, if necessary, only for begging and bazaar purposes. 9) We cannot steal or kill [animals] to satisfy our hunger. 10) Without prearrangement, we can take advantage of friends, acquaintances and relatives whom we happen to come across on our route and even by suggestions according to my instructions, if and when such occasions arise. 11) If offered without asking, you can accept ready-made and unstitched [cloth] clothing and wearing apparel of all kinds, cotton and woolen. 12) If offered, do not accept money, shoes, hats, caps, pens, brass and copper pots, toilet accessories, watches, jewelry, belts, eyeglasses, dentures and medicine. 13) Food and clothing, and any of the above-mentioned acceptable things, when received, should first be brought to me. 14) Both you, the receivers, and they, the givers, should definitely understand it as bhiksha. 15) Fodder, ropes, iron shoes for the bullocks and anything relating to the animals and carts can be asked for and accepted as bhiksha. 16) Do not accept any animals if offered. 17) Fuel in any form can be asked for and accepted as bhiksha. 18) Unlike previous restrictions, begging can now be done from shops, private houses, ashrams, and sadavarts [charitable organizations which provide food to travelers]. 19) Tobacco in any form can be accepted if offered without asking. 20) You may beg for living accommodation and conveyances.
After this meeting, Adi was sent to Delhi by train to arrange their residence in Moradabad with the help of Harjiwan Lal and Keki Desai.
That same day, the cows and calves were sold for Rs.260, and the camel and camel cart for Rs.750.
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