Priya Sanjay Tandon

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

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