Priya Sanjay Tandon

In the Ramayana, when Lord Rama agrees to go into exile and proceeds to the forest for stay of fourteen long years, Sita too gives up all the luxuries she was accustomed to; she braves the perils of jungle life, for the sake of being in the presence of Rama.

To illustrate the disastrous consequences of excessive desire, I will narrate a story. Once a wayfarer, who was making a long journey by foot in the hot sun, was feeling tired and sought the shade of a tree to rest for a while. It so happened that the tree was

Vivekananda discovered the truth by observing the reactions of different persons to the same situation. Seeing a man who had fallen on the wayside after taking intoxicating drinks, two thieves, who were themselves drunk, remarked that the man must be a thief like themselves who had got drunk after a

In the Ramayana, when Rama and Lakshmana were going in search of Sita, suddenly Lakshmana felt tired and told Rama that he was fed up with the search and would like to go back to Ayodhya to have a more comfortable time. Rama smiled and said: “Let us proceed. I

There was a gardener who used to water the plants in the garden carrying a pot on his head from dawn to dusk. One day while carrying the pot he got a headache and wanted to lay down the pot and go home. At that moment, the pot taught him