Priya Sanjay Tandon

The Sunday – school teacher asked her class to learn an appropriate phrase from the Bible and recite it as they were putting their pennies in the collection box. On the following Sunday little Lucas came up with, “It is more blessed to give than to receive,” as he dropped his

One day in Yervada Jail, Gandhi noticed that one of his associates in the Ashram, Kaka Kalekar, was in the habit of breaking off whole branches of the neem tree even if he needed only four or five leaves. Gandhi said to him, “This is himsa. Others might not be

Some small boys planned to steal the Mulla’s slippers and run away with them. They called him and pointed to a tree, “Nobody could climb that tree.” “Any one of you could” said Nasrudin, “and I shall show you.” Removing his slippers he tucked them into his belt and

There is a story about the sufi fakir – Junaid. If someone cursed him or called his name, he would say, “Tomorrow I’ll come and reply.” The next day he would go and say, “Now no reply is needed.” If the person would ask, “Yesterday I called your name why

Why we read the Bhagavad Geeta, even if we can’t understand it? An old farmer lived on a farm in the mountains with his young grandson. Each morning, Grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen table reading his Bhagavad Geeta. His grandson wanted to be just like him

A man had a beautiful horse that was so rare that even emperors had asked the man to sell it to them. They were willing to pay whatsoever the price, but he refused. One morning he found that the horse had been stolen. The whole village gathered around his house