A famous painter lived in a city. Thousands of people used to come to see his painting exhibition in the country and would not get tired of praising his work. Once he thought that what if people praise him only on his face and find fault in his work behind his back. Thinking this, he…
One day, King came to meet a scholar and asked, “Is there such a person in this world who is great but people of world don’t know about him?” Scholar smiled and politely replied to King, “We do know most of great people of the world. There are many people in the world who are…
Once upon a time, a sad devotee was complaining to God, “You don’t take care of me. I am such a big devotee of you, i serve you day and night. Still why do i have to suffer the most in my life? There are so many problems. Till i finish dealing with one, another…
When Saint Ramdas prayed, his lips never moved. One of his disciple noticed it and got curious. So, one day his disciple went to him and asked, “When we pray, lips move. Your lips don’t move. You stand like a stone idol. Usually, if you say something internally, even then there is a slight vibration…
A Sadhu used to sit at side of river bank. He would sit there whole day, muttering and shouting in loud voice from time to time, “You will get, whatever you want.” People passing by would think of him as insane. They would listen to him and laugh at him. One day an unemployed youth…
Once in a village, a rich man built a grand temple at center of village. When temple was ready, many visitors started reaching the temple to worship. Seeing the grandeur of temple, people would praise it for beauty. With time, temple became popular. People from far and wide started reaching temple to worship and would…
One morning when disciples and people were waiting for Buddha for discourse, they were amazed to see that he had bought something with him. On closer look they saw that he had bought a rope in his hand. Buddha took seat and without saying anything to anyone, he started tying knots in the rope. After…
Once in a village lived a tailor named Suresh who was only tailor of village, all the people of the village used to come to him to get their clothes stitched. He used to earn a lot. Suresh knew that villagers had no option but to come to him for clothes and became arrogant. If…
Once upon a time in an ashram, Saint was giving discourse to his disciples, just then a man entered ashram and started abusing Saint. Saint didn’t said anything to that man. After a while that man left. A disciple who was present there saw this and got angry. He wondered why Saint didn’t respond to…
Once a Saint was giving a discourse of knowledge and devotion to his disciples. A disciple sitting in the audience, stood up and asked, “We are told that God is present everywhere but if it is so then why is he never visible to us. How can we believe that he is really around us?…