Baba Nanak- Incarnation of Oneness

When Nanak was born, the entire villagers gathered and rejoiced. As He was delivered, the villagers felt a blissful surge of joy within their hearts. They experienced that some Divine being had come to the world. His mother also felt different. The positive vibes could not hold the people, and they felt attracted towards the …

Sail via faith

Once upon a time, there lived a teacher, who taught the science and practice of sailing across the oceans in grand seas. He was a being, enriched with humility. Whenever he set on the voyage, he bowed and prayed to Lord. The students, who accompanied him on the journey, often ridiculed him, and flaunted about …

Limitless Hope

One day, Sri Krishna was sitting and conversing with Uddhav. Uddhava said, “O Lord, Is there still a possibility in life of a person, who emerges in the world, and lives a life full of bad deeds, nothing worth humanity exists in him, then is there any scope for his salvation?Sri Krishna said, “Uddhav, there …

Form-Formless

Compendious Devotion This story is very interesting. Why do we worship? Why do we pray? Why do we do pooja? Why do we offer Namaz? Why do we recite Quran, Gita? Why do we perform all these external affairs? Who should do this? And when should we do this? One day, Totapuri Ji was sanyaasi, …

Diverse Devotions

This was the time when the Pandavas were sent on exile, and were forced to live in jungles for several nights. Krishna never left them. They wandered in the forests. One day, Krishna and Arjuna were trekking along the forest trails and soon slipped into a tiny town. In that town, there resided an affluent …

Receiving End needed

The underlying excerpt has been picked up from “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”. Since childhood, Sri Ramakrishna has heard of Vidyasagar’s acts of charity. In the Kali Temple at Dakshineswar, he learned of his scholarship and compassionate nature. M. (Mahendranath Gupta, one of the eminent disciples of Thakur Ji) is a teacher in Vidyasagar’s school. Learning …

Two Tales

Faith Preserves One of Her disciples had gifted a shawl to Rabya Basri. Though She never accepted anything from anyone, but on several requests, She agreed. Material profits never stirred Her, only prayers and reminiscence swirled in Her. There was a thief, who had a habit of stealing petty items, for trivial survival. He used …