A woman traveled a great distance to bring her son to Gandhiji and said “Please Bapu, tell my child not to eat sugar”. Gandhiji asked the woman to leave and come back in thirty days.

She agreed returning in 30 days with her son. “We are back Bapu”, she said, “please tell my son not to eat sugar”. Gandhiji tenderly looked at her son and said, “My son, stop eating sugar”. The boy immediately agreed.

Confused, his mother asked Gandhiji, “Bapu, why did you make us go away, only to travel the long distance and return in 30 days?”. Replied Gandhiji, “Because 30 days ago, I was still eating sugar.”