There is a Buddhist saying, “Don’t push the river. It will travel at its own pace anyway.” For the purpose of spiritual evolution, it helps to envision time as a river, though we should not measure it chronologically, as we do now, but in terms of lessons learnt on the spiritual path towards immortality […]
Narayana Murthy, no, we are not talking about our well known IT czar from Benagluru, but this lesser known person from the same state, Karnataka, India, excels in helping thousands of patients ailing from different diseases, from kidney stones to heart diseases to different kinds of cancers. Popularly known as Vaidya Narayana Murthy, around 60 […]
Truly Selfless (Nishkaama Karmayogi) We still have a few good human beings around who are doing some yeoman service without expecting anything in return… God Bless Such Souls!!! “I don’t feed beggars. They can look after themselves. The mentally ill won’t ask anyone for food or money,” says N Krishnan who has been […]
They aren’t your regular well-heeled citizens or Pg 3 persons who give away a minuscule percentage of their large earnings to charity (preferably when there’s a camera around). Some of these givers earn barely enough to keep their families going, but are incredibly generous with their time and money. Maharashtra (India) 1) Whenever […]
1) If I rest, I rust. 2) No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that have passed. 3) The tragedy of human history is that there is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts and luxuries. So we are comfortably and luxuriously miserable!!! 4) In life we […]
There is an interesting anecdote concerning the Buddha. Lord Buddha’s directive to his disciples was: “Be a light unto yourself.” King Prasenajit came to see the Buddha. He saw a large number of bhikshu-s (monks) bowing to him, saying Buddham Sharanam Gacchami (I surrender to the feet of Buddha). Prasenajit found a contradiction in […]
There once was a wise sage who wandered the countryside. One day, as he passed near a village, he was approached by a woman who told him of a sick child nearby. She urged him to help this child. So the sage came to the village and a crowd gathered around him, for such a […]
There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy and achieving success. We have to laugh and find humor every day. We have to learn something new everyday. We have to be a student all our life. The day we stop learning our growth and evolution stops. We have got to have a dream. […]
There are two days in every week that we should not worry about, two days that should be kept free from fear and apprehension. One is yesterday, with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. Yesterday has passed, forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot […]
Once upon a time a senior monk and a novice monk were traveling together. They came to the bank of a river and found the bridge was damaged. They had to wade across the river. There was a pretty lady who was stuck at the damaged bridge and couldn’t cross the river. The senior monk […]
