What has this story reminded you? For me, I only share things I have found useful or have had experienced or had experience with. Gandhi smiled to her and said “Two weeks ago I had an obsession with sugar. The boy’s mother was curious as to why Gandhi needed two weeks to tell her son that. serve the milk with a bit of sugar to the guests in your home. The boy nodded towards Gandhi and said he would do his best to stop eating sugar. Check out this Hindu calendar and this Chinese Almanac for some key dates to evaluate. This time Gandhi looked at the boy and said – Gandhi looked directly at the boy and said “Boy, you should stop eating sugar. Two weeks later they returned to visit Gandhi. The mother left a little perplexed and wondered why Gandhi had not asked the boy to stop eating sugar straight away.
There, she shared with Gandhi her predicament – “Gandhi, my son consumes far too much sugar, will you please tell him it’s bad for his health?”Īfter listening to the woman patiently, Gandhi thought for a while and refused to give the boy advice and told her to return in two weeks. There she shared with Gandhi her situation – She walked miles, for hours under scorching sun to finally reach Gandhi’s ashram. They walked for miles under the scorching sun to reach Gandhi’s ashram. However none of them seemed to work, so she decided to take her son to go and see his idol – Mahatma Gandhi, in the hope her son may listen to him.
His mother was quite upset with this and had tried so many ways to try and stop her son from eating it. I don’t know where I heard it first or even if it happened, however I enjoy the underlying message.Īpparently during the 1930′s, a young boy became obsessed with eating sugar. Unlike the Abrahamic religions, Hinduism does not have a single founder, one central religious text, or a defined set of teachings followed by all practitioners. Scholars say that the religion traces its roots back to the Indus civilization (c. I was reminded about it this morning in my meditation, so I wanted to share it. About 80 of India’s population practices Hinduism. Many festivals celebrate various harvests, commemorate great historical figures and events, or express devotion to the deities. There is a festival for every reason and for every season. One of the things I love about life is hearing inspirational stories and the following story – Breaking the Sugar Habit – is one that I have used several times in my life. India is a land of bewildering diversity, a unique and colorful mosaic of people of various faiths.
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