Trilok

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
– Lou Holtz

The Fall and Rise of a Merchant

In a city called Vardhamana, lived a very efficient and prosperous merchant.

The king was aware

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
– Benjamin Franklin

Sarai

There was a king, Ebrahim. One night he heard a noise on his roof,

The knowledge in holy scriptures is like a huge sea. For a man with busy life it will not be possible to read and understand everything. He must act like a swan i.e. attain what is useful and leave the rest.
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Every moment has love in it. Every hour has happiness in it. If you lose it, it becomes memory; And if you live it, it becomes life.

Love

If your path is love, then you must be prepared to be mad. Then who the

Happiness & sadness, pride & shame, and willfulness are the factors that deviate a person from his aim of life . One who remains unaffected from those is referred as intelligent.
– Vidur

Matter Is Finished

We

He who fails to prepare prepares to fail.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

This proverb stresses the fact that it is easier to prevent a problem than to spend time / money / energy to find a

Anything based on mind is bogus.
– Osho

Unstruck Sound

It happened once that a seeker who was in continual meditation with his koan persisted in listening to his mind. Finally one day his master said to him,

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.
– Paulo Coelho

Fear

An old sage was passing through a jungle with one of his young monks. The night descended and it began

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
– Norman Vincent Peale

Belief

If a Hindu becomes a Mohammedan, if a Mohammedan becomes a Jaina, if a Jaina becomes a Christian; if someone drops all religions

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
– Elisabeth

Whose education is governed/guided by his wit and his wit by education, and who does not disobeys elderly/educated people is a truly an educated person.
– Vidur

The Trick Of The Crow

Once upon a time, there

Wisdom accepts everything and transforms it; only ignorance rejects. Only ignorance rejects – wisdom accepts everything. Even a poison can become a medicine, but only through wisdom.
– Osho

The Tunnel

Zenkai,

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
– Buddha

Witness

There is a Zen story I have loved very much. Three friends had gone for a morning walk, and then they

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
– William Shakespeare

The King’s Condition

The ruler of Vijaynagar, Krishnadeva Raya had a versatile minister at his durbar, Tenali Raman. He was a poet, jester and the p

Never judge a book by its cover.

All that Glitters is not Gold

Anything that is bright and shining need not necessarily be made of gold. Certain things appear to be valuable but actually they are not. So we have

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
– Khalil Gibran

Step By Step

A conscious man also commits mistakes, but one mistake one time. A conscious man learns even from mistakes. He has

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
– Lao Tzu

Process Of Death

Your death is the ultimate declaration of your existence, how you have lived. If you fall in a coma, that