Priya Sanjay Tandon

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

On one occasion, in the course of his travels, Dakshinamurti (primal Divine teacher of eternal spiritual wisdom) reached the shore of the ocean. The ocean represents the Shabda Brahman (primal Divine sound, Omkara). It symbolises the grandeur and majesty of the Divine. He drew a lesson from the endless waves

How can the Omnipresent Divine be delineated and described? There is a Nepali story which says: A person was asked, “Who is your father”? He answered, “My father is so and so”, “But, how can you assert so? On whose authority do you declare him to be your father?” The

In the Maha Bharat the preceptor, Dronachrya, asked the eldest of the Pandavas (Dharmaja) and the Kauravas (Duryodhana), to go round the kingdom and find out how many good persons and bad persons were there. Dharmaja came back and reported that he could not find a single bad person. He

Once a disciple went to a preceptor and requested him to impart to him the Brahma-Jnana (Supreme knoweldge of self). The Guru gave him a mantra and asked him to recite it continually without any selfish desire. The Guru told him that after he had done this whole heartedly for

There was once a king, who questioned many a scholar and sage who came to his court, “which is the best service and which is the best time to render it?” He could not get a satisfying answer from them. One day, he got separated from his troops, in a