Yayati And God Of Death
There is a beautiful story, a great parable in the Upanishads: One of the great kings, Yayati, was dying. He was a hundred years old, ripe enough to die...
Desire Versus Technique
There is a beautiful story in Hindu annals about a great saint, Valmiki. He was a robber, a murderer. He has written the story of Rama, one of the...
Lifespan Of A Man
I have heard… God is making all the creatures of the earth and is giving out sex lives to each animal. First he turns to the human. “I am...
Town Of The Submerged Temples
I have heard a story. Thousands of years ago, a town with temples of gods got submerged in the sea. The bells of those drowned temples are still ringing....
God Is Dead
These gods go on being born and dying, but these are not the true God. ‘True God’ simply means life — AES DHAMMO SANANTANO — the inexhaustible law of...
No One To Take Responsibility
There is a Hindu story in India… The oldest book on the life of Rama is written by Balmik. Balmik was a robber, thief, murderer — everything that you...
Tree That Survived The Carpenters
Taoists say: That which is not created by man is valuable. That which is created may have a relative value, a market value, but really it is not valuable:...
Hope, Fear And Knowledge
When a great Sufi mystic, Hassan, was dying, somebody asked, ‘Hassan, who was your Master?’ He said, ‘Now it is too late to ask. Time is short, I am...
All That To Rest In The End ?
It is said about Diogenes, one of the contemporaries of Alexander the Great, that even Alexander the Great became jealous of Diogenes. He was just a naked fakir: he...
You Have Been Chosen! — Not Buddha
I have heard: A king went into his garden and found wilted and dying trees, shrubs and flowers. The oak said it was dying because it could not be...