Stories

Ramdas of Bhadhrachalam used to write on palm leaves hundreds of songs on his favorite Deity, Rama; the leaves accumulated into a gigantic pile. One day, Ramdas stood by its side and wondered, “Am I the fellow who wrote all this? Did I write them for my satisfaction or for

In South India, in Tamil Nadu, there was a certain Adigal or Dasa (servant of God), in a village named Thangalur. He heard of the spiritual grandeur of Saint Appar and developed great admiration for him. He built rest houses in his name; named his children after him so that

During the Second World War, a steamer carrying Indian Sepoys (Soldiers) was bombed by the Japanese and it was sunk. Many lost their lives. Only five men managed to row their life-boat and hoped to have a chance to survive, in spite of the surging ocean. They were tossed about

One evening Lord Krishna took Arjuna far out of Dwaraka City and while they were alone together, He pointed at a bird flying over their head and asked him “Arjuna, isn’t that a dove?” Arjuna agreed; he said it was a dove. Suddenly, Krishna turned towards him and said,

Though endowed with power and authority, prosperity and wealth, Sibi was a genuine Sadhak (seeker of spiritual path) having attained a high stage in detachment and the spirit of renunciation. God decided to discover whether his achievements were deep-rooted and unshakeable. Agni (the God of Fire) and Indra (God of

There was a lady from Pahalgaon, a simple illiterate devotee. She stored water in her kitchen in three clean, brightly polished brass pots from three separate wells and she had named the pots Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati (3 holy rivers in India). She always referred to them by those names.