Pleasant looks, cheerful heart and sweet words are due to a guest. Rising up, the host should advance towards the guest; he should offer him a seat and duly worship him. This is the eternal Dharma. They who do not perform Agnihotra, they who do not wait upon bulls and cherish their kinsmen, guest, friends, sons, wives and servants, for such negligence are consumed with sin. None should cook his food for himself, none should kill any animal for nothing. Non should eat that food which is not duly dedicated.
चक्षुर्दद्यान्मनो दद्याद् वाचं दद्यात् सुभाषिताम्। उत्थाय चासनं दद्यादेषधर्मः सनातनः। प्रत्युत्थायाभिगमनं कुर्यात्र्यायेन चार्चनम्॥ अग्निहोत्रमनड्वांश्च ज्ञातयोऽतिथिबान्धवाः। पुत्रा दाराश्च भृत्याश्च निर्दहेयुरपूजिताः॥ आत्मार्थं पाचयेन्नान्नं न वृथा घातयेत् पशून्। न च तत् स्वयमश्नीयाद् विधिवद् यन्न निर्वपेत्॥