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  There was a fisherman who used to catch a lot of fish from an ocean. He used to throw a fistful of bait in the water. The fishes used to rush to the surface water to get the bait and the fisherman used to throw the net over them. A lot of fish were being taken away from the ocean. The fishes in the ocean were deeply upset because daily they used to lose their near and dear to the net of the fisherman. The helpless fishes finally went to a turtle at the bottom of the sea telling them about their problem and requested it to save them. The wise turtle who is well acquainted with the human beings reassured them and gave them an idea.  One fine morning the fisherman came in his vessel for fishing. The fishes started executing their plan. The first shoal of small fish appeared in front of the fisherman even before he threw the bait. The fisherman was happy to throw the net and he captured them. He felt this catch is enough to fulfil his hunger for the day. He thought of returnin...

  A Raja Guru was asked to train the five princes in Archery. He placed a toy bird on the branch of a tree and asked each one of them to aim at the eye of the bird. The Guru asked each one of them to tell what they could see. The eldest prince said that he could see the tree, its branches, the bird and its eye. The next one told he can see the branch on which the bird is sitting, along with the bird. The third prince told he can see the bird and its eye. The fourth one told he can see only the head of the bird and its eye. Finally, the fifth one told that he can see only the eye of the bird and nothing but the eye. The fifth prince hit the bird's eye while other princes missed their target.  The Guru asked what was running in their mind when they were aiming at the bird. The eldest of them told that he was concerned that the arrow may disturb other birds sitting on the tree. The second one was wondering how good the fruit hanging besides the bird would taste.  Another p...

Once there was a powerful King X. The King Y of the neighboring kingdom wanted to conquer King X’s kingdom. He knows that King X is too powerful to wage war against him. The King Y was struggling about how to plan an invasion. Meanwhile an astrologer visited the King X. He told that his predictions can change the fate of King X and expand his kingdom. King X wanted to give a try and he asked the astrologer to stay in the palace. One day the astrologer predicted that 3 thieves would be attempting a theft in the royal treasury to night. The soldiers protecting the treasury were alerted. As told by the astrologer the thieves came and were caught. The King was surprised. Few days later the astrologer predicted that there would be attack on the eastern border of the kingdom by King Y’s army. The border security was beefed up and the attempt was effectively curbed by King X. The King X felt very happy with the astrologer. The astrologer told that an assassin was sent by King Y. His plan was ...

     There was drought in a village. People were worried because there was no water source for the village. Years of suffering continued. A young man in a village had a plan to solve this problem. He convinced the people of the village to help him in executing the plan. As per the plan the people of the village built a check dam across the nearby river. Each person in the village was asked to give hundred digs per day into the soil with spades. With each day of digging the paths through which the water flows started taking shape.  Finally, the canals were dug towards the village into the channels in the fields. When reservoir of the dam got filled. The water reached the fields through canals and channels. The village became prosperous.     Visible  karma is just the replica of invisible karma: Even before the visible karma (digging of irrigation canals) took place there was an invisible karma (imagining a blue print and having a conviction to execu...

  A boy came across an ant. The ant was relishing a drop of honey on the floor. Suddenly the boy saw a stream of water approaching the ant. The boy wanted to save the ant by protecting it from getting it flushed into the drain. He tried to push away the ant with his finger. The ant was thrown away but once again it came to the honey drop. This happened many times. Finally, when the boy tried to push it again the ant stung him. The boy shook off his hand and the ant fell aside. The crying boy went to his father and complained. The father told; ant is not your enemy. The ant is able to see and experience the honey drop. The honey drop is its truth. You have a different level of vision and experience, so you are able to see the same truth in the background of another truth (the stream of water). The ant is as much certain of its truth as much as you are certain of yours. Truth depends upon the precision of the sense organs. Truth also depends on the level of cognition, which makes...

Once Spiderman went to Himalayas to sharpen his climbing abilities. He was climbing a cliff when he came across an old saint in the jungle. The saint was trying to climb a tree to pick a fruit but his grip was weak and he fell down. The Spiderman laughed at him and said “You have such a poor grip. You need to learn from me”. The saint smiled and said “I am very old to have a firm grip. I bless that your grip should become more strong and firm”. The Spiderman feeling proud looked down the saint and started climbing up the cliff. He felt his grip become stronger. He understood that it was due to the blessing of the saint. By the time he reached the top of the cliff, he found that his grip was so strong that he was unable to release his grip. His hands were glued to cliff and he was unable to separate his hand from the surface he was holding to. He was unable to move forward inspite of his every effort to move. The Spiderman understood having a firm grip will help him hold, but ability to...

Psychic Pain: An energy which lost its way. Where is the psychic pain generated from? There was a king named X ruling a kingdom. The kingdom was prosperous and all the people of the kingdom were happy. There was no specific army to protect the kingdom. However, whenever the kingdom was invaded all the people joined together and formed a people’s army to fight the enemies. The army of the kingdom was self sufficient in which each soldier earned his own livelihood in the war free time. There was another king Y ruling the neighbouring kingdom. He wanted to invade the kingdom ruled by X. He maintained a paid army waiting for a right time for invasion. A newly appointed minister by King Y noticed two unique advantages in the opponent King X army. 1)The army was self-sufficient and never got paid by the King (Unlike King Y 's army which caused lot of financial burden on kingdom). 2) The people’s army was very large when compared to paid army and it used to work cohesively. The ...