Think once

This story was told to me by one of friend. Once a time a father was teaching his son that one should lie, one should speak truth always, one should not cheat anyone, then at a time anyone knock the door. The father tell his wife to see who is at the door, the wife says "its our newspaper boy, may have come for collection." the husband replies "no, no.. Tell him I am not at home, come next time." Then what a waste it is, just few mins ago he teached his son to speak truth. And will that son ever speak truth always. Teachings, speaking doesn't matters, what matters is that our application. Mahatma Gandhiji never tried teach anyone anything, the followers automatically got teached by their work, and by their behaveour.