This morning, during Swamishri’s personal counselling hours, a teenager asked a couple of questions.

Teenager: I always desire to impress people and I know it is wrong.

Swamishri: One should not have such desires. If you perform good acts and have character in life, then people will automatically be impressed by you. If you are good then people will not say otherwise.

Teenager: Sometimes I do bad things.

Swamishri: When you desire to impress anyone you will feel like doing bad things. So you must have character and live by God’s laws. Then people will appreciate you and you will not think of doing bad things.

The teenager appreciated Swamishri’s counsel.