Once a man went to a village. After entering village, On his way, he saw a cremation ground. There he saw stones with people name and age written on them. When he read them, he found that age of people who died was written on stones in the cremation ground as 5 years, 8, years,…
Once upon a time, there was a King who decided that he would feed kheer (milk pudding) to 100 blind people every day. But one day a snake entered royal kitchen and put its mouth in the milk containing kheer and poisoned it. That day, all blind people who ate that kheer died. When King…
Once a man was walking on a rope holding a long bamboo stick. He had his son sitting on shoulder while doing this. Hundreds of people were watching this with bated breath. Man was carefully taking steps, battling strong winds, risking his life and his son’s life. When man walked over the rope and reached…
Long ago, there was a girl who despite being born in King’s family, had feelings of renunciation. When the princess got at age of getting married, King was not able to find a suitable groom for her marriage. Understanding the feelings of his daughter, the King, after much thought, got her married to a poor…
A pair of sparrow made a nest on the branch of a big dense tree in forest. For years, they were living happily there. On a day of cold weather, when pair of sparrow was resting in their nest, strong cold wind was blowing and suddenly it started raining heavily. In such situation, a monkey…
Seeing grandfather sitting alone and sad, his grand kids asked, “What happened? What are you thinking about? Why you look so sad?” Grandpa relied, “Nothing wrong, I was just thinking about life.” “Please tell us about it.”, insisted kids. Grandpa kept thinking for sometime and then said, “When i was young, there was no responsibility…
A poor man saved every penny for twenty years and used all that money to build a house for his family. Finally, his house was built and ready. After that, an auspicious date was chose to shift in his new house with his family. But just two days before that day, a earthquake occurred and…
It was early in the morning. In the Gurukul, Guru ji was teaching his disciples about “Soul”. Explaining about the soul, Guru Ji explained a verse from Bhagavad Gita: No weapon can pierce the soul, no fire can burn it, no water can melt it and no wind can dry it. This soul can never…
A beggar woke up early to go out to beg. Before going out, he put a hand full of barley in his bag because of superstition that beggar should not keep their bags empty while going out to beg. Beggar got out of his hut thinking that, with God grace, today his bag will be…
Once in a kingdom, a person became famous for his face being very wretched (ill omen/ unlucky for people around them). People complained about him to their King. King didn’t believed it, so he decided to check it for himself. One day, King called that person in his palace and gave him a place to…