A beggar would go to a door every day and cry for alms, and when the owner of the house came out, he would give dirty abuses and taunts, die, why don't you work, you will keep begging for the rest of your life.

Sometimes he would push him in anger, but the beggar would just say, God forgive your sins, one day Seth was very angry, maybe there was a loss in business, that beggar came to...

Spring comes and goes. Fall comes, it goes. Happiness comes and goes. Sorrows come and go. The coming and going of happiness and sorrow is just like the coming and going of spring and autumn. Coming and going is the eternal law of this world. One who knows this eternal law, his life gradually becomes free from bondage.

One dark...

Markandeya, the son of the sage Markandu, had pleased Lord Shiva for a long life by doing severe penance in the month of Sawan itself. Yamraj, the god of death, also bowed down in front of the mantra powers received from Lord Shiva.

According to mythological belief, the sea was churned between the gods and the asuras in this month of Sawan. Lord Shankar had preserved the creation by...

There is a very beautiful mind in the Yajurveda, he says that initiation is attained only through celibacy etc. i.e. one gets admission in theology or any other discipline. Then, from initiation, Dakshina means wealth, prosperity etc. is attained.

To get dakshina here means to give dakshina, Vedas have believed that the deity gives more to what he gives. The deity snatches away...