Bhakti Stories Be Genuine - That’s Who He’s Waiting For Once upon a time, there lived a potter in a small village. He earned an honest living by making clay pots. He had two pets at home - a dog and a donkey. Every morning, the dog used to bark to wake up his master. The barking of the dog
Bhakti Stories Grace That Arrives Unannounced Because of the devotion he had cultivated in his past lives and his wife’s amiable nature, Srinivasa was very dear to Lord Krishna. The Lord, the embodiment of mercy, sought to deliver him from his material attachment and awaken the dormant devotion in his heart. So, Shri Krishna took
Bhakti Stories Judging Saints? That’s a Mortal Mistake 500 years back, the king of Jaipur desired to meet a saint. One of his ministers told him about saint Haridas, the most revered saint on earth at that time. The king decided to go and pay his respects to Him. The king wanted to take a very special gift
Bhakti Stories Setting the Gold Standard in Humility King Raghu, grandfather of Lord Shri Ram was a very respectable king of Avadh (current Ayodhya) dynasty. The subjects of his kingdom were very proud of their king Raghu due to his generosity. One day he, dressed as an ordinary man, was passing by through the village with the entourage.
Bhakti Stories Redeemer of Sinners Upliftment of Naoroji In a forest named Choranandi, there lived a notorious gang of robbers, headed by a merciless and violent robber named Naoroji. People were terrorized by the mere mention of his name. For this very reason, Mahaprabhu Chaitanya was advised by everyone to not pass through that forest,
Bhakti Stories Taste the Nectar of Leelas, Don’t Tangle in Logic During his descension in the human form in Treta Yug, Bhagwan Shree Ram performed several leelas. In one such leela Bhagwan Shree Ram is acting grief stricken since his virtuous wife Sita is missing. In despair, He is asking everyone including the animals of the forest, birds, plants, trees and
Bhakti Stories Murali Ware Shyam Sundar Ki Jai! Murali Ware Shyam Sundar Ki Jai… All Glories to The Dark Skinned Handsome One, Who holds the flute!!! The flute of Shri Krishna is so magical that the sound of His flute forcibly captures the attention of all deserving souls such as the Gopis of Braj. Although it is extremely
Bhakti Stories When Gopashtami Prank Didn’t Go as Krishna Planned Lord Sri Krishna descended as the son of mother Devaki and father Vasudev in a prison in Mathura. He descended in a jail for Kansa, cruel brother of Devaki, had imprisoned both of them. On a dark stormy night, Shri Krishna appeared in the jail in his divine form which
Bhakti Stories The Immutable Nature of Saints: Forever Gracious Once upon a time, there was a devout and saintly old man. Every morning he used to sit on the banks of river Yamuna for several hours to perform devotion to Lord Krishna. One morning, as the old man opened his eyes, after his daily prayer, he saw a scorpion
Bhakti Stories How Krishna Outsmarted Aswathama to Save the Pandavas This is a leela narration from the great epic Mahabharat, wherein the Supreme Lord performs seemingly understandable actions to protect His devotees. Enjoy! It was the last day of the great battle of Mahabharata. All Kauravas except Duryodhana had been killed. In the face of death, Duryodhana approached his friend
Bhakti Stories How One Soul Sparked Bhakti in an Entire Kingdom King Ambarish was a pious devotee of Shri Krishna, for whom Krishna hurled the Sudarshan Chakra to destroy Durvasa Muni. Raja Ambarish had many wives, but he was not interested in worldly enjoyments. He was a competent and honest ruler. One young princess, who was in love with him and
Bhakti Stories When God Broke His Vow Before the beginning of the battle of Mahabharat, Lord Krishna took a vow that he will not lift a weapon during the battle. This vow was well known to everyone. Bhishma Pitamah was the commander in chief of the Kaurava army and was a God-realized saint. He also knew about
Bhakti Stories Saints Always Forgive Anastasias was the abbot of a monastery in Egypt. The monastery had a large collection of spiritual books. One of those books was a very precious, rare old volume, worth a fortune. One day a monk visiting the monastery saw the book and succumbing to temptation made off with it.
Bhakti Stories Stop Trying to Please Everyone One day a man was going to market with his son and his donkey. They met a couple on the way. "Why walk when you have a donkey to ride?" called out the husband, "seat the boy on the donkey." "I would like that,"
Bhakti Stories Pranky Little Krishna One day Baby Krishna was playing with Baby Radha. As usual Shri Krishna was defeated. Yet He was not ready to pay the wager of the game. Instead He tried to flee. Shri Radha caught Him by the arm and commented, "Where are You running away. Pay the wager&
Bhakti Stories A Devotee's Play with Words Once upon a time, there was a prince named Sudhanva. He was very religious and was a devotee of Shri Krishna. As per the tradition of his dynasty and kingdom all men were bound to have one wife only. Once, during Krishnaavtaar, when Shri Krishna and Arjun were travelling together
Bhakti Stories Flawed Yet Favored Why God Shows Us Mercy? A child - Didi Ji, why does God do Kripa on us, even when we do bad / wrong actions? Didi Ji - God is bestows mercy (Akaran Karun) no matter what happens. That is His by nature. Hence, God grants all the basic necessities such
Bhakti Stories From the Same Dust - Why The Difference? A Child - Didi Ji, You say that our body is made of soil, then why is it that some people are white, some are black and others are brown. Moreover, different parts of our body have different colors such as the color of our teeth is white, lips are
Bhakti Stories Do Barbers Exist? A Witty Answer to Atheism Suffering Exists—But So Does God. Here’s Proof. A man went to a barber shop to get a haircut. As the barber began to cut his hair, the two engaged in a social conversation. They spoke on several topics and discussed various subjects. Eventually they embarked on the subject
Bhakti Stories World is a Mirror Once the disciples of Guru Dronacharya asked him, "How is that Yudhishtra is recognized as an embodiment of virtues and Duryodhana as a wicked man?" Guru Ji did not give any answer. Instead He called out Duryodhana and said, "O Duryodhana, go and seek a virtuous man&
Bhakti Stories Looks Can be Deceptive Sage Uddalaka ran a ashram where he taught teaching Vedic knowledge. Kahoda was one of his best disciples. Uddalaka was so pleased with him that he got his daughter Sujata married to him. In due course Sujata conceived a child and wanted to instill the Vedic knowledge in her child
Bhakti Stories The Only Duty of a Disciple A sage by the name of Ayoddhaumya had his hermitage in the forest. Out of all the students Aruni was the most sincere disciple. Sage Dhaumya himself was very hard working and taught his students the same. All of his students were very obedient and they used to finish their
Bhakti Stories Slow Down, What’s the Rush? Once upon a time there was a Seth Ji (a rich businessman) whose wife was very devotional but Seth Ji had no faith in Saints, religious activities or devotion. Whenever his wife tried to inspire him to get involved in devotional undertakings, her husband would casually brush her off saying
Bhakti Stories Shri Radha is The Sweetness in Krishna’s Lila Our beloved Shri Maharaj Ji advises us to worship both Hari and Guru simultaneously. Guru is Hari in a human form. But since Guru is in human form sometimes we tend to find faults due to our material intellect (बुद्धि लग जाती है). Shri Maharaj Ji is
Bhakti Stories Where Strength Fails, Grace Prevails Once the Kauravas invited their cousins, the Pandavas to their palace for a game of chess. In the game that followed, Kauravas cheated and Pandavas lost everything in the wager - their kingdom and their wife Draupadi. The Kaurava prince Dushasan held a long-standing grudge against Draupadi from a prior
