Stories

Once an ochre-robed person was going in a bazaar. School boys and college students followed him, talking flippantly about him. He took no notice of them. He was proceeding from one village to another. The students indulged in all kinds of abusive language with a view to provoking the mendicant.

A goldsmith was once melting gold. He used to do it almost every day, but today he was in a thoughtful mood and he started talking to the Gold. This is how the dialogue unfolded: Goldsmith: Ah! You think you are very valuable, so you have become very high headed.

It is said that once Garuda the arch enemy of snakes went to Mount Kailas, the abode of Lord Shiva. He saw the snakes that Shiva wore round His neck, feet, arms and waist and even in His hair. The snakes hissed and puffed their hoods at the celestial bird.

A teacher was discussing the sense organs of the human body with a class of ten year olds. She told them that man possesses five sense organs namely, the eyes, the ears, the nose, the tongue and the skin. These organs are also called the organs of perception. She told

One day Wisdom and Wealth had a verbal duel about who was more important. Wealth professed that without it, there would be no food to eat, no clothes to wear, no books to read and learn by and thus wisdom wouldn’t come by anyways! Wisdom said that without it,

One day Jesus was sitting in the temple. The box where people offered money was nearby. Jesus was watching the people putting in their money. Many rich men put in a lot of money. Then a poor woman came in. She dropped two little coins into a box. Jesus called