Dad accidentally cooked up a stronger brew of cousins and offspring than he had probably intended one day. They started running amok all over china and causing tons of trouble, but one day he heard that some of them had taken an interest in India. He assumed they were sacking and pillaging, but when he found them after a much longer search than he expected (he thought it would be easy to find them from the mayhem and carnage) he found them sitting still and peaceful doing nothing more annoying than trying to join a few closed ashrams and when told to go away they actually went to a more public and accepting temple down the road.
This got him to thinking as he had been very concerned that he had used too much of limited resources to put them togeather at that time and that they were sure to be stomped down and eradicated before they could be put to better use at a far later time. But seeing how they responded to spiritual teachings he realized they could be saved for later after all.
