One day, Guru Nanakji called his disciple and asked him to build a platform. The disciple obeyed his Guru’s command and built a platform. Guru Nanak saw the platform and ordered his disciple to demolish that platform. In this way, Guru Nanak asked his disciple to build and demolish the platform over and over again. Read more »
Dronacharya was the Guru for the Kauravas and Pandavas. Dronacharya taught them archery. His disciples were gradually gaining proficiency. Dronacharya thought “I am teaching all of them but I have to find out how much skill they have imbibed”. So in order to test their skills, he made a bird out of clay and tied it to a tree branch. Read more »
Samartha ramdas swami used to love Shivaji maharaj more than other of his disciples. The story below shows shivaji’s faith and devotion towards his guru. Read more »
Many disciples have attained spiritual progress by displaying complete obedience to their Guru. Kalyan Swami was one such disciple. Read more »
How Guru Dronacharya showed his disciples that Arjun was his worthy disicple. Read more »
Ramanujacharya was the disciple of Shathakopa Swami. Swami had revealed the secret of God-realisation to Ramanuj and had warned him not to tell anybody about this; Read more »
Swami Vivekananda asked for only spiritual knowledge, devotion and detachment from worldy pleasures from the Goddess Jagadamba. While explaining how this could happen, Swami Vivekananda says, Read more »
The other disciples asked Ramdas Swami, “How is this possible? Kalyan has hardly ever studied with us. How could he Read more »
This story tells us – We can look at every situation as an opportunity to realise and overcome our defects. This is possible only due to the strength of chanting the God’s Name. Read more »
the king thought, “Indeed I am a great king, how well I take care of all my subjects!” The Guru, Read more »