GiG: Guest is God.

GiG: 

Guest is God. 

I think India is the only country which has culture and tradition to treat guest like God. In Sanskrit ATITHI DEVO BHAVAH means guest is like God. Tourism department of India has adopted this as a tag line and is promoting tourism around this theme. However over a period of time, due to hectic life of cities and augmentation of materialism, there is a considerable decline in

honoring guest. Now days, in most of the houses, guest is treated as burden. At the same time when we go at someone's place as guest, we do not follow simple etiquettes of being guest. Over a period of time

focus has been shifted from what I can do for others to what others can do for me. We have become opportunist hence the people who are useful to us, we treat them well and people who are not useful, seems burden when they come to our home. In present time it may not be

possible to treat all guests as God but treat them as human being and do not leave your humanity.

5 Tips for treating the Guest:

1. Use your wisdom in differentiating between genuine and unauthentic

guests.

2. Extend your warm hospitality to genuine guests.

3. In case your work schedule is clashing, make sure they get proper

comfort and feeling of home at your place.

4. In case a guest is taking undue advantage of your hospitality, be firm and polite.

5. Never discuss your personal problems in front of your guest unless

and until they are close family members or friends.