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Priya Sanjay Tandon

What Goes Around – Comes Around

I had the meanest mother in the whole world. While other kids ate candy for breakfast, I had to have cereal, eggs and toast. When others had coke and candy for lunch, I had to eat a sandwich. As you can guess, my dinner was different too from other children.

Face Difficulties With Fortitude

There was once a gardener who nursed his master’s garden with great care, brining water for each sapling in a pot from a distant well. With such dedication, he earned the love and respect of his master. One day he was weighed down by family problems. Putting the pot

Be Like A Pencil

The Pencil Maker took the pencil aside, just before putting him into the box. “There are 5 things you need to know”, he told the pencil, “Before I send you out into the world. Always remember them and never forget, and you will become the best pencil you can be.

Christ Was Love

Christ Was Love

Each December, I vowed to make Christmas a calm and peaceful experience. I had cut back on non-essential obligations – extensive card writing, endless baking, decorating and even overspending. Yet still, I found myself exhausted, unable to appreciate the precious family moments, and of course, the true meaning of Christmas. My

The Compassionate Acharya

Ramanuja was the favourite disciple of his guru who sensed in the youth a great spiritual strength. When the time came for the young man to take leave of his guru, the teacher took him aside and said he will give him a mantra which if he recited with devotion

Nourishment For The Soul

Nourishment For The Soul

A Churchgoer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. “I’ve gone for 30 years now,” he wrote, “and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of

Be Like The Coffee Bean

There was a little boy by the name “Ryan” who was always complaining to his teacher in class. He could never complete his homework because there were too many distractions at home… guests kept coming over, his sister wanted to see cartoons on the television, his parents wanted him to