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Shukr, Isar and Sabr
Story from The Sabad Project Shafeeq al-Balkhi and Ibrahim ibn Adham were two prominent figures in early Sufism, both celebrated for...
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Madhusudan
- Aug 22
Tale Of The Ringless Ring
Story from : https://www.awakin.org/v2/read/view.php?tid=2655&lang=English Nasrudin was a spiritual leader and teacher in a small...
Madhusudan
- Aug 22, 2023
Death of a Hero
Leonard Cohen said his teacher once told him that the older you get the lonelier you become, and the deeper the love you need. This is...
Madhusudan
- Jul 4, 2021
To learn that could not be taught – Story of Shvetaketu
Story credit We come to understand in the Chandogya Upanishad that SHVETAKETU learned everything that could be learned, then there was...
Madhusudan
- Jun 6, 2021
Love of Jahanara
This is a story about a beautiful woman. Her name was Jahanara. What was her beauty like? As Mir sahib wrote in a sher: Everything’s...
Madhusudan
- May 2, 2021
When Rumi and Ghalib met
(The following passage is from the book ‘Dozkhnama’ by Rabisankar Bal. An imaginative meeting of Ghalib and Mevlana Rumi) There come...
Madhusudan
- Nov 24, 2020
Half A Pomegranate
by – Brian Conroy (From Awakin.org ) Early one morning, the Buddha and his disciples set off on an alms round. He announced that on that...
Madhusudan
- Mar 14, 2020
Watermelon Seeds (Stories)
I am from the village of Parra in Goa, hence we are called Parrikars. My village is famous for its watermelons. When I was a child, the...
Madhusudan
- Feb 13, 2020
The Story of the Wounded Wall (stories)
In a story from Nigeria, an old man who knows his time is near decides to complete one last project to bless his relationship with his...
Madhusudan
- Jul 7, 2019
To love other is to know yourself
During my pilgrimage I had heard a story. One young monk, seeking knowledge goes from one teacher to another, finally he finds a teacher,...
Madhusudan
- Jul 7, 2019
Broken Heart
There lived a Sufi saint, a long time ago. All his life he devoted himself serving others, sharing his love and presence to who ever came...
Madhusudan
- Jul 5, 2019
The Boiling Frog (Short Story)
They say that if you put a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will leap out right away to escape the danger. But, if you put a frog in...
Madhusudan
- Jul 3, 2019
Stone Cutter (Short Story)
A traveler came upon three individuals working with stone. Curious as to what these workers were doing, the traveler approached the first...
Madhusudan
- Jul 1, 2019
Love (Short Story)
A disciple came up to his master one day, and in a burst of emotion, He exclaimed, “My Master, I love you!” The Master, deep in thought,...
Madhusudan
- Jun 30, 2019
The one who plays with fire – Atesbaz-i-veli (Short Story)
Atesbaz was Mevlana Rumi’s cook and also for the dervish lodge (like a community space where all the mevlana’s students did Sema and...
Madhusudan
- Jun 30, 2019
A man on the hill top – Osho (short story)
A man on the hill top Osho – Source There is a very famous Zen story: A man was standing on a hilltop. Three persons saw him; they...
Madhusudan
- Jun 29, 2019
Maktub – Paulo Coelho (Short story)
Maktub from the book Alchemist by Paulo Coelho He was proud of himself. He had learned some important things, like how to deal in...
Madhusudan
- Jun 28, 2019
Letting Go – Richard Bach (Short Story)
Letting Go From the book Illusions by Richard Bach Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river....
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