NLP through stories – story 46
Once upon a time a foolish brahmin came to visit
Birbal with a strange request.
He wanted to be addressed as ‘pandit’.
Now, the term ‘pandit’ refers to a man of learning.
But unfortunately
this poor brahmin was uneducated.
Birbal tried to explain the difference
to him saying that it was not correct to call an uneducated man a
pandit and because of this very reason it would be improper to call him
so.
But the silly brahmin had his heart set on this title.
So, as
usual, Birbal had a brilliant idea.
He said that as the brahmin was an
uneducated man he should hurl abuses and stones at anyone who dared to
address him by the very same title he wanted.
Then Birbal called all his
servants to himself and ordered them to call this lowly brahmin a
pandit.
The brahmin was very pleased.
But the moment the servants
started calling out to him as ‘pandit’
he pretended to be very angry and
started to abuse them loudly.
Then he picked up a few stones and hurled
them in their direction.
All as per clever Birbal’s advice.
All this shouting and screaming drew a crowd.
When
people realised that this brahmin was erupting every time anyone called
him ‘pandit’,
they all started to tease him.
Over the next couple of
days, he would constantly hear ‘pandit’ wherever he went.
Very soon the whole town started referring to him as ‘pandit’ much to
his delight.
The foolish brahmin never realised why people were
calling him in this manner.
And was extremely pleased with the result.
This Pandit thanked Birbal from the very bottom of his foolish heart.
What you resist always persist.
The more you are conscious of what you don’t want, the more it appears to be present.
Nature abhors vacuum;
So the more you pay attention to what you dont want, the more strongly it stays with you;
whereas if you can start focusing on what you want then will start moving towards you, to stay with you.
‘The easiest way to kill a foe is to make him a friend’ ( unknown)
According to the principle of NLP, ” Everything has a purpose/ meaning for its existence’
Even our so called ‘negative’ has a purpose to fulfill, a positive intention;
if one can, you know, acknowledge its presence with open mind, understand the positive intention and manipulate accordingly, then it becomes easy to modify behavior.
