Here are some inspiring stories about spirituality, inner strength, inner peace, spiritual growth and the powers of the mind.
Once a saint who was on his death bed called his disciple and said, “Remember one thing.. Never Allow a Cat in Your Life..” Just after saying that saint died. Disciple was perplexed by those last words. He was not able to understand it’s meaning. He thought to himself, “Why would i allow a cat…
Once a sage who was on pilgrimage came to a village. Just on outskirt of village, there was a temple. Sage decided to stay in that temple for a while. Few days passed by, villagers got familiar with that ascetic and started to come to meet him. With time villagers started to come to meet…
Once in city of Rome lived Jews who used to study Torah (Sacred Scripture) everyday. They all loved to study and cherish learning from Torah. Roman authorities started to see learning of Jews as a threat and one day issued an order that – “No one is permitted to study Torah and anyone who is…
Once there was huge temple built in center of lake. There lived great master and 20 of his disciples who would learn Buddhism teaching’s. There was a precious string of wooden beads which was sacred and was enshrined in temple. As temple was in middle of lake it was connected to rest of world with…
In town lived a man who had a parrot which used to live in a cage. Once in town visited a Sage who used to do Satsang. Man used to go to Satsang everyday. One day his parrot asked him, “Where do you go daily??” He replied, “I go to Satsang to learn good things.”…
Once Swami Vivekananda was traveling by train, in same compartment a rich business man was sitting just next to Swami ji. Rich man who was traveling with him was helping himself to varieties of eatables. He saw that Swami ji was carrying nothing and seemed tired. (Being Sanyasi, Swami ji had control over senses. During…
Once a saint visited a town for some days. During his stay saint would pray silently sitting under a tree. People got to know about him and would come to visit him to ask solution for their problems. In that town lived a very wealthy merchant. After observing saint for few days, was deeply touched…
During Akbar’s reign, a great saint was born. His name was Surdas. He was born blind and because of that he was neglected by everyone during his childhood. One day while Surdas was sitting in front porch of his house, a group of singer passed by his house singing praise of Lord Krishna. Surdas was…
Once a person wanted to seek for the truth of life. So in search of truth he went from place to place. At one place someone advised him to go a cave and look there. Man went to the cave where he met a sage. Sage told him about a village and said, “On crossroad…
Lao Tzu spent years meditating to understand essence of life. In reign of Zhao he realized that war would break out and will destroy place where he lived. So he made simplest possible choice and decided to move to another place. He took few of his belongings and set off. On his way to leaving,…