'no'🔗

You can see, when you tell children not to do something, they will be most tempted to do it. As long as you don't mention anything about doing it or not doing it, they may not even be bothered about it. But the moment you tell them not to do something, they will be looking to do it.

A Small Story: One man says, 'I found three ways to get things done.' His friend asks, 'What are the three ways?' The man replies, 'First, do it yourself. Second, hire someone to do it. Third, tell your kids not to do it. That's all, it will be done!' Actually thereis ataste,athrillin doing what youarenotsupposedtodo. Mostofthetime, youdevelopaninstanturge for somethingifyouareasked not todoit. Youfeelakind of joy or satisfactionbydoing it. That is thebasictendency ineveryhumanbeing.

Only life can teach

People come and ask me, 'How do I make my son do what I advice him to? I know it is good for him but he won't listen to me.' You have to understand two things. First thing, if they feel that something is giving them happiness, just let them be. Only life can teach them, you cannot teach them. You cannot teach anybody, only life can teach. You can put a few words into them so that it echoes when life teaches them the same thing, that's all.

Second thing, unless they need help, your help cannot help them. When they need your help they will come. See, your idea of happiness and unhappiness has come out of your experience. Just think, did you listen to your father when you were young? No. You did not. Taking Responsibility for your choices-The only way to raise consciousness of self and others. When something is told to you, if you take full responsibility of deciding whether it is right or wrong, you can avoid all guilt feelings

If you don't take responsibility for your decision, you will feel discontented whether you do the action or not. If you do as you are told, you will feel that you are being dominated, that you are not being assertive, that you are being exploited. If you don't do as you are told, you start feeling guilty that maybe it was the right thing to do.

. There is no need for this unnecessary dilemma. Just be simple. Respond intelligently. Take responsibility for doing whatever you are going to do. Then there is no question of guilt. If you are not going to do it, explain clearly to the person why you are not going to do it. When you explain, the other person may agree with you and may even be thankful to you for it

Or he may have stronger and better reasons than you to justify what he is saying, then you will be thankful to him for raising your intelligence. In this way, you could use every opportunity, every moment in life to raise your intelligence, to raise you consciousness.