Source: Pixabay A senior monk and a junior monk were returning to the monastery in the evening. It had rained and there have been puddles of water on the roadsides. At one place a gorgeous girl was standing unable to walk across the road due to puddles of water.  The elder of the 2 monks went up to her, lifted her and left her on the opposite side of the road, and continued his way to the monastery. Later on, the younger monk came to the elder monk and said, “Sir, as per the rule of monastery, we should not touch a lady .” The elder monk answered, “yes”. Then the younger monk asked again, “Sir, how is it possible for you to lift that woman on the roadside ?” The elder monk told, ”I helped her without occupying things in my mind, you are still carrying her in your mind.” Almost always, we carry tons of things like memories, past events, people, then we suffer. ‘Why me?’ Life is all about abandoning, abandoning all the accumulations we are carrying in our mind. ‘Let go’ of frustratio...

Source: Pixabay The critics do only represent their behaviour by their words and we should not focus too much on them. If we will keep on changing because of them then we can never become stable. We should very careful while listening to criticism. Here is a nice story based on the common criticising people. A man and his son were once going with their donkey to another nearby town. As they were walking along by his side, a countryman passed them and said, “You fools, a Donkey is to ride upon.” therefore the man put the boy on the donkey, and then they went on their way. But soon they passed a bunch of men, one among whom said, “See that lazy youngster, he lets his father walk while he rides.” So the man instructed his boy to get down and got on himself. But they hadn’t gone far once they passed two women, one among whom said to the opposite, “Shame on the lazy man to let his poor little son trudge along.” Well, the person didn’t know what to do, but eventually, he took his boy up befo...

Source: Pixabay There is a Taoist story of an old farmer who had laboured his plants for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon listening to the news, his neighbours got there to visit. “Such terrible luck,” they stated sympathetically. “Maybe,” the farmer replied. The next morning the horse returned, bringing with it three other wild horses. “How wonderful,” the neighbours exclaimed. “Maybe,” answered the old man. The next day, when his son tried to ride one of the untamed horses, he used to be thrown and broke his leg. The neighbours once more came to provide their sympathy for what they called this “misfortune.” “Maybe,” answered the farmer. The day after, military officers got here to the village to draft younger guys into the army. Seeing that the son's leg was broken, they passed him by. The neighbours congratulated the farmer on how well things had turned out. “Maybe,” stated the farmer. Lessons: These events are not final. We should focus on our work instead of making...

Source: Pexels Uddhav was in the service of Shri Krishna as a charioteer since childhood, but he neither expressed any desire nor asked anything from Shri Krishna. When Krishna completed his avatar era and was ready to go to Gaulok, he called Uddhav to himself and said: Dear Uddhav, many people have received something from me in this 'Avatar period', but you never asked for anything! Now ask for something, I want to give something to you   Uddhav did not ask for anything even after this. He only wanted to clear his doubts which were arising in his mind by seeing Krishna's teachings and his gratitude. This way it became a session which not only cleared the doubt’s of Uddhav but also it’s very helpful to clear all common doubts in our mind.   Uddhav’s question:  I could not understand many things in the events of Mahabharata! Your 'teachings' remained different, while 'personal life' looked somewhat different! Will you explain the reason to pacify my knowledge...

Once Tathagat used to be Sitting beneath the Bodhi tree. Already many had adopted Buddhism by that time. At this time, a corpse was carried on that way via a few carriers. Behind the lifeless body, the depressed household had been crying and moving. Tathagata simply looked at that side for a moment and smiled. Sujata, another disciple of him, was sitting close to him. It simply came to her notice. With astonishment, she asked Tathagata that what used to be the cause for his preliminary worry? And after getting concerned why did he smile? Then Tathagat remembered his past. His father tried a lot to preserve Siddhartha away from the mourning of this world. He used to be very cautious so that particularly patients, the elderly, the corpse will no longer come into notice in his son’s direction. Even the dried leaves were not kept in the trees in the royal garden. However, the rule of this world is very astonishing. After the cycle of event series, seeing the corpse on his way and after per...

Image Source: Pixabay Many instances unknowingly we are inviting the troubles and difficulties. But occasionally the hassle comes with our acceptance. This time corona is going to happen to everyone, not due to the fact of the virus however due to our anxieties about the problems. This can be proved by the following example. When a prisoner was once sentenced to death in the United States, some scientists thought that we need to do some experiments on this prisoner. The prisoner used to be informed that he shall be killed with the aid of the assault of toxic cobra as a substitute for hanging. A giant venomous snake was brought in the front of him, they closed the prisoner's eyes and tied him to a chair. He was not bitten by a snake, but two safety pins had been pierced, and the prisoner died within two seconds. Postmortem revealed that the prisoner's body contained venom similar to snake venom. Now where did this poison come from, or what triggered the death of the prisoner? Th...

Image Source: Pexels While returning to home on the way, I saw a paper hanging on an electric pole. On the heading of the paper, it was written in the bold letter, “Please read this carefully”. I went to the electricity pole and started reading.  “On this road, I lost my 50 rupees yesterday. I am not able to see things properly. If anyone gets my fifty rupees, please send it to me on the following address.” After reading all this, a curiosity arose in my mind and the mind said me to reach the address and see this matter for a while. The address was in a nearby slum. I went to the slum and reached the address at the end of a narrow lane. In that address, I saw the existence of a semi-broken hut. As soon as I got there, an old woman came out slowly with a stick. I found that she was living alone. I said, "Grandmom, I've got your lost fifty rupees. So I came to give it to you.” The old woman began to cry when she heard me and told, “Fifty-sixty people had already paid me fifty ru...

Image Source: Pixabay Homeless prince Gautam used to be practising austerity and penance to get self-knowledge. In the disastrous jungle, he was doing deep meditation by giving a lot of pain to his body. But there was no stop in his practising. For a lot of days, he endured this. One day with disappointment, he thought that even after attempting so hard, I still have not received awareness and self-knowledge. What can I do next? It appears not possible to get accomplishment. He became imbalanced, despair and dubious about his target. He became thirsty with all kinds of anxieties. He went to a nearby spring to quench his thirst. He noticed an unbelievable scene close to the spring. On the edge of the spring, two cubs of a squirrel had been playing happily. Mother squirrel used to be observing her cubs and her eyes were fixed on the two cubs. Suddenly an unfortunate incident happened, the cubs fell into the spring water and they swept away with the waves of the running spring water. Moth...

Image source: Pixabay King Jajati ruled over the kingdom for a long time. Being upset with his luxurious lifestyle, he went to the jungle leaving all his kingdom and property in the hand of his sons and relatives. Angerless Jajati made very robust meditation for a long time. The austerity and penance he performed had been very harsh and strict. In the beginning, he began living solely with water, then he lived only with the consumption of air and he meditated by way of standing with one leg. Because of such challenging austerity, he attains the kingdom of heaven. Sometimes he used to stay with demigods and different instances he used to move in the divine places. The demigods got jealous of these sorts of activities. When the king Jajati went to the king of demigod Indra, he used to be sitting with Indra through sharing his throne. The king of demigod Indra used to be additionally not interested to provide any different throne to the ultimate divine soul which is lesser than his own. B...

Image Source: Pixabay Neither kill any animal nor be the cause for the murder of any others. Be respectful of other’s life. Neither steal nor strive to cheat others. Keep your heart pure and proceed to be away from ego and self-admire through means of regular workout in search of the truth. This entirely offers peace and salvation to the soul and this is the only way to liberation. For Tathagata, this used to be the decent truth of a happy life. To get alleviation from grief, Tathagata has proven all these ways. In search of happiness and to get relief from grief, many come to him. Once a woman named Vishakha with her critical circumstance reached Tathagata. Seeing her miserable condition, Tathagata astonished and asked, "Why are you in this situation?" She informed Tathagata that her grandson died. His loss has disturbed her mental stability. With a very sorrowful low tone, she said, it appears darkish everywhere. Tathagata requested can you tell me how many men and women di...

Image Source: Pixabay Once saint Gyaneshwar went to a place for begging. On that day, the villagers did not give him anything but insulted him profusely. Gyaneshwar returned and sat angrily in the room. It's like a fire coming out of every hair follicle. As if the atoms of the body also turned red. Sister Mukuta Bai was watching him from a distance. In a calm and gentle voice, she said to Gyaneswar that the world is fire hearth but a saint is cold. Where did the wrath of the saint come from?  Can fire be extinguished by fire? You see yourself. It will be good for you to find out the reason. Gyaneshwar was enlightened as if a magnetic force was flowing all over his body. His knowledge arose. He understood that the cause of the anger was not out. He was ignorant. Nature causes hot and cold outside. It is inevitable that happiness and sorrow will come from outside. But when the mind does not understand this nature or the truth, its balance will be lost, resulting in a reaction. Causin...

Image Source - Pixabay It is only the mentality which makes the rich different from the poor. Great people always think great. These are some points from the book “How rich people think” by Steve Siebold Saving vs. Earning: Maximum people want to save money because of their scarcity mentality. Because of that, the brain always wants to avoid loss but rich people have an abundance mentality and they don’t want to save money by sacrificing their precious time. They search for the way to earn money.

Image Source: Pixabay Suppose you are married and you have children. Your responsibility is to help them grow, nurture and polish their skills. Everyone will tell that the child will become someone depending on his inner possibilities. But as much as possible, we want to build the child a good human being. If everyone wants this then why is there a drought of a good human being in our society? It is because the person who wants to build the next generation human, is he a beautiful person himself? There is a doubt. How can one build a human being if the same person is not giving the effort to make himself a good human? So the question is that whom we can tell a good human being?? Whatever possibilities are there within a human being,  if all those possibilities are fully utilized for his living and survival then only we can call him as a human being. Human means his body, mind, words, heart and higher consciousness which is a part of spirituality. Nature gave us healthy bodies, toda...

Image Source: Pixabay The quest is to find spirituality within the world and for that, it takes some time to understand the facts. Where there is darkness, there is light. Similarly, there is wisdom in ignorance. The question is? A sailor was sailing in the dark. Another boat collided with his boat. The sailor scolded him. As he did not get any answer, he scolded again and again. In the end, when he put light on the boat, he found no one was there.  His anger vanished. The sailor was completely calm. The question is who makes him calm??? A dark night is a symbol of ignorance. Nothing is visible, so it is difficult to understand the truth. Like the darkness of a sailor, we have ignorance. That's why we do mistakes. The mind did not know what was true. It's as if the sailor has unknowingly scolding, the mind feels that the solution of problems is at outside. So the mind is always running towards outside. The mind thinks that it will find peace if something can be found in some wa...