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?" …
It is the Heart that Moves, Truly – Swami Vivekananda
You may make thousands of societies, twenty thousand political assemblages, fifty thousand institutions. These will be of no use until there is that sympathy, that love, that heart that thinks for …
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