Whenever a deserving guest seeks the hospitality of a householder and is not respected by him, he takes away all the virtues of the latter giving him his sins.
पात्रं त्वतिथिमासाद्य शीलाढ्यं यो न पूजयेत्। स दत्त्वा दुष्कृतं तस्मै पुण्यमादाय गच्छति॥