Priya Sanjay Tandon

Once a traveller going on his journey approached a hermitage near which there was a cemetery. He sought shelter there from the heat of the day. The Guru (Preceptor) of the hermitage was giving a talk to his disciples. The traveller welcomed the opportunity to listen to a sacred discourse.

Abdullah was sleeping in a corner of a mosque in Mecca, when he was awakened by the conversation of two angels above his head. They were preparing a list of the blessed and one angel was telling the other that a certain Mahbub of Sikandar city deserved to be ranked

“Gita Govinda”, the book of songs of Govinda (Krishna) by the great mystic and poet Jayadeva of Orissa, is the immortal portrayal of Radha Bhakti in its manifold manifestations. Jayadeva could express it with such charm and clarity that even the man behind the plough sang those songs and filled

The path of devotion and dedication is the royal road, the smoothest path to spiritual success! There were two brothers, Jnanadeva (noted for his mastery of the path of wisdom) and Bhaktideva (noted for his mastery of the path of devotion through the constant recital of the Lord’s name)

The ancient sages regarded sense-control as a form of penance. Disciplining of senses calls for an understanding of how the senses function. A Christian priest learnt a lesson in sense control from the driver of a horse carriage in which he was travelling. The priest noticed that the driver

There was a woodcutter, once who collected and bundled a heavy load of fuel one day, since he needed extra money that day. On the jungle track, he waited long for someone who could help to lift the load on his head. Pining over his tragic poverty he cursed his