Category: Tales

Lord Shiva is said to be beyond birth and death, and that he first manifested as a pillar of light when Brahma and Vishnu were arguing between themselves as to Continue Reading →

Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya is known as “Mahbub-e-Ilahi”, beloved of God. There are many lovers of God but there are only two Sufis known as Mahbub-e-Ilahi. They are Shaikh ‘Abdul-Qadir Jilani Continue Reading →

Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya is said to have told the tale, that a certain Pir well acquainted with the Sufi path had a son, let us call him Mohammed, who had Continue Reading →

A farmer came to a Buddhist priest and asked him to recite sutras for his wife, who had just died. The priest did so, and when the recitation was over, Continue Reading →

It happened once upon a time that Mullah Nasruddin encountered a friend he had not seen for years. They greeted each warmly, and began to talk, catching up on all Continue Reading →

After years of struggling with his donkey, Mullah Nasruddin began to lose patience. It seemed the animal was more lazy and stubborn every day, not lifting a hoof off the Continue Reading →

A young student of zen, who felt he had accomplished a great deal, presented himself before a zen master, and to show his zen, declared, “The mind, Buddha, and sentient Continue Reading →

Once, long ago, there was a great sage whose name was Parnada. Through study, abstinence, holy sacrifices, long meditation and difficult disciplines he had trampled human limitations underfoot and earned Continue Reading →

It happened once that two students came and greeted their guru, and respectfully requested that he resolve an uncertainty they had. ‘Guru-ji,’ said one, ‘we have a doubt about the Continue Reading →

It happened once long ago in Japan that there was a storyteller who was famed for his skill. Those who listened to his stories seemed to experience the events as Continue Reading →