Once a woman came to Ramakrishna and said her son is fond of sweets and he overeats and is not stopping this habit, inspite of repeat advice to do so and he says "if swamiji tells me to stop, I will stop it". So she says to Ramakrishna Paramahamsa to tell her son to stop his habit. So he says to her, fine, bring him to me tomorrow at my ashram. The next day she arrived to the ashram with her son and Ramakrishna did not advice anything to the boy but said to the woman to come the next day. Again, she did the same the next day and swamiji asked her to come the next day. This continued for almost 30 days and on 31st day he said to the boy to stop overeating sweets and he immediately agreed. The woman thanked Swamiji and left the ashram.

 

Swamiji's disciples were surprised with this behaviour of Swamiji and asked him what made him to wait for 30 days before giving his advice and to this he said" I too am fond of sweets. I first wanted to control my desire to eat sweets before I could advice the boy and that took me 30 days"