Life Skills & Value Education – CLASS-III – Unit 3. BE HONEST

Honesty means to be truthful in thought, word and deed, or in other words, honesty is thinking, speaking and acting truthfully. Our honesty is tested when we have a chance to lie, cheat or steal. How would you feel if your friend wins a game of Ludo by cheating?  You may start shouting and calling him a ‘cheater’!

So, would you like your friend to cheat you? No! Then you too should never cheat anyone.

When you cheat or lie, you are afraid. When you are honest, you are not afraid. You become strong in your mind. Therefore, honesty makes you happy and fearless while dishonesty makes you fearful and unhappy.

The Mysterious Seed

There once lived a great king. He ruled his kingdom fairly and wisely and the people in his land were very happy. But the wise king was growing old and he began to worry about choosing a good responsible successor.

The king then summoned all the youths of his kingdom. He gave each of them a seed to plant and asked them to return with healthy plants they grow the following year. He declared that the person with the best, healthiest plant would be the next king. Many people came and took away seeds.

Among them was a young boy, Madhav, who loved gardening.

He was sure that his plant will grow to be healthiest with many beautiful flowers.He sowed the seed and looked after it day and night but, to his dismay, the seed did not grow into a plant. After one year, all the young people gathered outside the castle hoping to become the next king. All of them brought plants with the most beautiful flowers blossoming on them, except a very embarrassed Madhav whose pot did not have a plant , let alone

flowers!

The king observed everyone and admired the plants till he came to Madhav and asked  him why he did not have a plant. Madhav sadly told him that although he had looked after the seed as best as he could, it had not grown at all. To everyone’s amazement, the emperor hugged Madhav and declared him to be the next king. Madhav got rewarded for his honesty and truthfulness.  The king revealed that all those were boiled seeds, so that they absolutely could not grow into plants.

Moral: Honesty brings rewards.

Some of the honest activities you can practice in your daily life are :

1. Don’t take anything from a store without paying for it. In other words , do not steal!
2. Keep your eyes on your own test paper.
3. Tell your parents about a mistake you made earlier.
4. Be truthful with your friends and thank them for being truthful with you. Don’t gossip and pass any unwanted comments.
5. Accept that God is the real proprietor ( owner) of everything.  Thank Him for giving us sunlight, air, water, food grains , fruits etc.
6. Pray to the Supreme Lord for inner strength and good intelligence.

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