Three short stories from Haryana, maybe an insight somewhere !! Dinesh K Kapila Haryana, the normal perception is that religion or spirituality or being urbane is normally miles away from its residents. Let us see if this theory holds, as I heard these stories, or what I understood of the stories, I am sharing. Now to the first story. A person from Haryana, deep in the hinterland, saw videos about people meditating and said to his friends, just why are we sitting quietly, see all these guys sitting in Benaras and Badrinath and other religious places who have managed to evolve into higher souls. Why the hell should I be left? I am also going to pray, so he decided he was not only going to pray but attain a higher level of consciousness. He decided he was going to go to the nearest hill and climb on top of the highest point in the open and then only he would start to meditate. The second he he started to climb he thought once he reached the peak he would smoke a bidi before ...
Real World Wisdom – Do not Keep a Cat as a Pet. By Dinesh K Kapila This story is from centuries ago. There was a small village, an old wise Sage, as they say in the West, Swamiji as we say, used to live there in an ashram. It was set against a thick forest and a stream. A young man in search of wisdom, serenity and the secret of life came to this ashram (hermitage). He requested the old wise Swamiji to accept him as his disciple. The Sage said I am rather on a different path, my quest for awakening and the connect to divinity is through a lived experience of life with spirituality and meditation alongside. The disciple readily agreed and joined as a young monk and became very soon a devoted disciple, always engaged in acquiring the knowledge of spirituality. After two years the young man had progressed a lot in the quest of spirituality, but was still a novice. He realised that the old Swamiji was very old and declining in health, he would...