by Madhu | velj. 1, 2016 | Stories about sadhus and sages
One of the great virtues of mankind is helping the needy people. Many persons are considered brave for their virtue of giving away their wealth knowledge and tried with all their might to uphold this virtue. Indian mythology gives many extraordinary instances many...
by Madhu | sij. 26, 2016 | Stories about great devotees, Stories about sadhus and sages
Followed by Suresvaracharya and otherdisciples, Sankara moved southwards. In course of time, the party reached Srisailam hills in Andhra Pradesh. In those days, there lived a sect of religious fanatics called the Kapalikas, who believed in human sacrifice. One day Sri...
by Madhu | sij. 26, 2016 | Stories about sadhus and sages
There lived a great sage named Bharadvaja rishi. He had intense desire to master the vedic knowledge. But he knew that he can live only for a maximum hundred years. So he executed severe penances and pleased Lord Indra. Indra appeared before him and the sage requested...
by Madhu | sij. 26, 2016 | Stories about sadhus and sages
A Hindu saint who was visiting river Ganges to take bath found a group of family members on the banks, shouting in anger at each other. He turned to his disciples smiled ‘n asked. ‘Why do people shout in anger shout at each other?’ Disciples thought...
by Madhu | sij. 26, 2016 | Stories about sadhus and sages
Once there was a sage named Galava and he had to go on a urgent and important mission. He spoke to his friend Garuda, the Great Eagle, who offered to fly him to his destination. After they had flown a long distance, Galava said to his friend that he now felt that...
by Madhu | sij. 26, 2016 | Stories about sadhus and sages, Stories from Caitanya lila
How did the unique bakula tree in the courtyard become known as the Siddha-bakula tree? Every morning the Pujaris offer three twigs of a kumbhatua tree as toothbrushes (danta-kastham) to Jagannath Swami, Baladeva and Subhadra. One day before the offering, a twig was...
by Madhu | sij. 26, 2016 | Stories about great devotees, Stories about sadhus and sages
There used to be a Baba (saintly person) in Mathura who performed arcana of his shalagrama-shila with great love. He did not have complete knowledge of the various limbs of arcana, but whatever arcana he performed, he did with love. He had taken a vow to bathe in...
by Madhu | sij. 25, 2016 | Stories about moral and spiritual instructions, Stories about sadhus and sages
One day a sadhu went to the river to bathe. There he noticed scorpion struggling in the water. Scorpions cannot swim and the sadhu knew that if he did not save the scorpion, it would drown, therefore carefully picking up the scorpion, the sadhu rescued it from...
by Madhu | tra. 26, 2015 | Stories about sadhus and sages
God is our Godfather. He watches our every move and fulfils our every need. He never lets us down if we pin our faith on him. He provides the smallest help to the greatest help to prove our Bhakti on him to the world. Brindavan is even today treated as the holy place...
by Madhu | ožu. 23, 2015 | Stories about great kings, Stories about sadhus and sages
It was in India that Alexander met the only men on earth he couldn’t conquer. The yogis. Greek historians traveling with the feisty commander brought back a record of what they encountered: In the woods, lying on a bed of leaves, Greek soldiers stumbled across...
by Madhu | ožu. 6, 2015 | Stories about glories of holy name, Stories about sadhus and sages, Stories from Ramayana
In his previous life prior to becoming hunter and great sage was young saintly boy rishi kumara studying in ashram of his guru. Near that ashram was living brahmana. So one day brahmana while working with weapon, weapon fall and hit calf who died. Brahmana filled very...
by Madhu | velj. 21, 2015 | Stories about moral and spiritual instructions, Stories about sadhus and sages
There once was a lady who lived in small village. She bought a white saree. He wore it for a long time and when it was no long wearable she cut it up into pieces and used it as dust cloth. This dust cloth became so dirty that she though it away. There the dust cloth...
by Madhu | velj. 10, 2015 | Stories about sadhus and sages
( Earn your wealth properly ) There is wonderfull story of great saint Bilvamangala Thakur. But there is very unknown story of his life before. In his previous life he was great sanyasi and great devotee of Lord Krishna. He was at level of bhava – having intense love...
by Madhu | velj. 10, 2015 | Stories about sadhus and sages
Story: Robber who become sadhu! There was one thief, one robber. He was robbing businessmen and murdering people, and then one day he heard that the king of the country had invited all the sannyasis, sadhus and ascetics for a big meeting. The thief was thinking,...
by Madhu | velj. 10, 2015 | Stories about sadhus and sages
Once a sadhu was sitting underneath a tree with some of his followers and was speaking Krishna katha and doing bhajan and kirtana. The king of that country happened to pass by, followed by his ministers, and many people in a grand procession. The king looked at that...
by Madhu | velj. 10, 2015 | Nekategorizirano, Stories about sadhus and sages
Sage Mrikandu was leading an ascetic life in a forest. His wife was Marudhvathi. They were childless for a long time. Mrikandu performed intense tapas for several years in order to please Lord Shiva to have childrens. Lord Shiva in all his splendour appeared before...
by Madhu | velj. 10, 2015 | Stories about sadhus and sages
Once Agastya Muni was walking through the forest and came to a tree where he saw many persons hanging upside down. He asked, “Who are you?” and they answered, “We are your forefathers. Because you have no son, and are also not perfectly...