YOU SPEAK ABOUT LOVE AND COMPASSION. I KNOW OF AND FEEL DIFFERENT FORMS OF LOVE AND COMPASSION. CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENT FORMS OF LOVE, AND WHAT YOU MEAN BY COMPASSION? Love is a ladder, a ladder of three rungs. The lowest rung is SEX, the middle is LOVE, and the highest is PRAYER. Because […]
I will tell you of one incident in Rabindranath Tagore’s life. His father was a great landlord. Their estate consisted of hundreds of towns and thousands of miles, and there was a beautiful river flowing through their estate. Rabindranath often used to go on his small houseboat and live for months on the beautiful river,
Mulla Nasruddin was in love with a lady. But then the relationship was broken. Mulla went to the lady and started asking her to return all the things that he had gifted to her when they were together. He asked for the bracelet, the earrings, the purse and so on… The lady was in a
“A king used to go every night into the city for a round to see how things are going – of course, in disguise. He was very much puzzled about one man, a young, very beautiful man, who was always standing under a tree naked by the side of the street, the same tree every
In the jungles near Gwalior, India, resided a renowned Guru and his disciples. One evening at around twilight, the disciples went into the jungle to get woods for cooking. As they were cutting and collecting them, they heard the roar of a lion from behind the bushes. The disciples were afraid so they ran back
It was a blazing afternoon. Temperature was rising to unbearable levels. The sun was terrorizing the earth as if fumes were coming out of the ground. Every living being was screaming for some relief. In the midst of this boiling afternoon, an old beggar was looking around for some aide. He was tired, hungry and
I lost my Mother on Tuesday, 16th March 2021. She was 83. It was so sudden – Heart Failure. Within minutes she departed peacefully. I went into a deep silence. Life time memories flashed before my eyes and there also emerged this story by Osho. I wish to share today. “A man who has attained
LIFE is in living. It is not a thing; it is a process. There is no way to attain to life except by living it, except by being alive, by flowing, streaming with it. If you are seeking the meaning of life in some dogma, in some philosophy, in some theology, that Is the sure
Man is the only species whose diet is not predictable. The diet of all other animals is certain. Their basic physical needs and their nature decides what they should eat and what they should not; how much they should eat, how much they should not; when they should eat and when they should stop. But
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY !!! It was pre-partition time when a grand gala literary festival was organized in Lahore. As a part of that festival, one evening a grand Mushaira (symposium of poets/shayars) was planned. Many renowned and celebrated poets and shayars were invited from all over the United India. Young and relatively unknown shayars were
