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A senior monk and a junior monk had to travel together. As they were travelling, they had to cross a river. The river was flooded due to copious rains in the catchment areas. As the monks were attempting to cross the river, they saw a very young and beautiful woman also attempting to cross the river. The young woman asked if the senior monk could help cross the river. The senior monk carried this woman on his shoulder and crossed the river and let her on the other bank of the river. The junior monk was very upset, as the monk hood demands that they not touch a woman.

Im am sure all of you know about the story in which Jesus Christ gives sight to a blind man.Being what Christ is, why did he choose to give him sight alone and nothing more (meaning riches, etc.,)It seems to me that the only obstacle that the blind man faced is his inability to see, which put him at a disadvantage when comapred to the majority. By removing the obstacle, Jesus helped him to be at par with the rest. And let him decide his course in life.Moral of the story: Help must be only to remove obstacles and nothing more....What do you say?

There lived a man called Mr. Devout. He was so devout that God had saved him during many a disasters in his life.One day when he was walking in the road, he saw a mahout sitting on top of an elephant and screaming, get out of the way, this elephant is mad. Mr. Devout reasoned that God will save him and did not pay heed to the shouting mahout.The mad elephant trampled Mr. Devout and killed him. Mr.

As children we were taught that if we did wrong, then God will come in our dreams and punish us and if we did good then God will do good to us.This concept remained ingrained in my mind till a series of incidents in my life made me sit up and question the very basic premises about my life.It is then I realised, God is a grossly mis-understood being (?). He neither causes sorrow nor bestows happiness. He is.We out of our own ignorance and must I say Ego (the sense of being in control of Nature and the environment around us) perceive, judge and act.

A philosophy exam was being conducted and the question paper contained just one question - "Why?"The students who were appearing for the exam pondered over the question and wrote pages and pages of answers explaining why live? why tradition? why culture, etc..However, the answer that was awarded the maximum marks were two words - Why not?This parable (?) has helped me face lot many situations in my life. When times are tough, I console myself saying Why not?

Devotion can be to any entity. Here I am speaking about the devotion to God - irrespective of how you call him - Christ, Allah, Krishna, etc.,When I look around, I find that most people pray to God when in trouble and seeking help to tide over the trouble. And the more they are dependent on God, the more the people around them consider them to be devoted. Is this necessarily true?Devotion to me is when we establish a direct relationship with God the way we perceive him/her.

My friend's daughter, aged around 7, has a congential disease. A disease which expels protiens along with the urine.At the busstop, once when seeing her off to Belgaum, she said to her father, that she wants to use the restroom. My friend took her to the rest room and as she was entering the rest room, he said to her, 'Plz be careful in the public restroom, you can catch an infection'.This girl after using the restroom, when she came out, looked at her father and said 'Daddy, what if I have a problem with my kidneys, if it comes to it, you would give one of ur kidneys to me.