ONCE, a tigress attacked a flock of goats. As she sprang on her prey, she gave birth to a cub and died. The cub grew up in the company of the goats. The goats ate grass and the cub followed their …
When All Teeth Fell
LET me tell you a story. A man used to celebrate the Durga Puja at his house with great pomp. Goats were sacrificed from sunrise to sunset. But after a few years the sacrifice was not so imposing. …
What the World Makes of Men
As a boy, at Kamarpukur, I loved Ram Mallick dearly. But afterwards, when he came here, I couldn't touch him. Ram Mallick and I were great friends during our boyhood. We were together day and night; …
In the Forest of the World
Once, a man was going through a forest, when three robbers fell upon him and robbed him of all his possessions. One of the robbers said, "What's the use of keeping this man alive?" So saying, he was …
This is Indeed the World!
Once, Hriday1 brought a bull-calf here. I saw, one day, that he had tied it with a rope in the garden2, so that it might graze there. I asked him, "Hriday, why do you tic the calf there every day?" …
Ramait Monk’s Vision of Sri Ramakrishna
Sri Ramakrishna’ s elder brother’ s son Ramlal narrated the following incident: ‘A young Ramait monk in Ayodhya had a vision that God had again incarnated on earth, somewhere in the east. In order …
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