ONE should be extremely watchful. Even clothes create vanity. I notice that even a man suffering from an enlarged spleen sings Nidhu Babu's light songs when he is dressed up in black-bordered cloth. …
How’s a Fallen Sannyasi
Do you know how it looks for a Sannyasi to accept money or to be attached to an object of temptation? It is as if a brahmana widow who had practised continence and lived on simple boiled rice and …
The Wine of Heavenly Bliss
THE son said to the father, "Father, you taste a little wine, and after that, if you ask me to give up drinking, I shall do so." After drinking the wine, the father said: "Son, you may give it up. I …
That Pure Love for God
IN the course of his pilgrimage through the southern parts of India, Sri Chaitanya Deva came across a certain devotee who was in tears all the while a pundit was reading from the Gita. Now this …
Enmeshed in Maya, Brahman Weeps!
VISHNU incarnated Himself as a sow in order to kill the demon Hiranynksha. After killing the demon, sow remained quite happy with her young ones. Forgetting her real nature, she was suckling them very …
All Else is Unreal
THE truth is that God alone is real and all else is unreal. Men, universe, house, children — all these are like the magic of the magician. The magician strikes his wand and says: "Come delusion! Come …