{"id":2647,"date":"2010-05-31T12:01:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T07:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/?p=2647"},"modified":"2010-05-31T12:02:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T07:02:52","slug":"one-foot-on-loss-of-self-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/devotee-contribution\/one-foot-on-loss-of-self-control\/","title":{"rendered":"One foot on loss of self-control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Radhe Radhe !<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Greece there was a great philosopher named Socrates. One day when he was surrounded by his disciples, a man came up to him and started abusing him in different ways. \u00a0He also pointed out many of his flaws. \u00a0It seemed as if his activities for hours and hours had been worthless ! \u00a0Meanwhile Socrates\u2019 disciples were not feeling happy with that man. Yet they remained calm like their spiritual master. Socrates stayed completely undisturbed in this situation, and even after man had left he made no comment at all. Finally disciples approached him and asked him, \u201cThat man behaved in such an obnoxious manner, yet why did you not refute his false allegations ?\u201d Socrates replied I am glad he showed me all my flaws. Now I will improve.\u201d However the disciples insisted \u2013 \u201c But master, how could you said remain calm and not utter a single word ?\u201d Socrates replied, \u201cWhen the man was talking, all the while I put one of my feet on the brake-paddle of self-control-loss, which is very hard. \u00a0As a result I remained very cool. He forgot to see that my foot on the brake&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Socrates was a poor man and he had a rich friend. \u00a0One day the friend forcefully took him to one of the biggest stores in Greece, just for fun. \u00a0They spent all day in that big store and finally his friend asked him, \u201cWhat do you think about this store ?\u201d Socrates replied, \u201c I am \u00a0glad to see all this, but I am more glad that I am able to live my life without all these items.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Courtsey : Vijay dada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radhe Radhe ! In Greece there was a great philosopher named Socrates. One day when he was surrounded by his disciples, a man came up to him and started abusing him in different ways. \u00a0He also pointed out many of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/devotee-contribution\/one-foot-on-loss-of-self-control\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[312,311,310],"class_list":["post-2647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotee-contribution","tag-self-satisfaction","tag-selfcontrol","tag-socrates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}