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Once two monks were walking down a path, eager to reach the monastery before the dark. They came across a river with water current unusually high. They decided to cross the river nevertheless. They saw a young and beautiful woman who was trying to cross the river as well but had a worried look on her face. She felt relieved on seeing the monks and requested if they could...
When Swami Vivekananda first visited Ramakrishna Paramahansa he asked “I have read the Bhagavad Gita and other scriptures many times, I lecture and give discourses on the Gita and Ramayana. Do I still need the refuge of a saint; do I still need a guru?” Ramakrishna didn’t reply to Vivekananda’s question. After a few days, Ramakrishna called upon Vivekananda and handed him a parcel to be delivered at a...
So, they sought it out and went to the place where the elephant was kept. Each of the blind men touched different parts of the animal. In the case of the first person, whose hand landed on the trunk, said “This being is like a thick snake”. The second one whose hand reached its ear, to him it seemed like a kind of fan. As for another person, whose...