Bedtime Stories And Meditations For Easing Insomnia

This is a story from an enlightened person's life, that came to him one day five young men, born into religious families, quarrelling about the way to truth. The enlightened person not only soothes them but also inspires them towards the truth.

In this story, an actual incident is shared, which helps us ponder over the question "where is happiness?". In the coming sessions, we will continue with this theme.

An extraordinary story from ancient India. Where Yajnavalkya, a sage and one of the most outstanding scholars of his time, decides to divide his property among his wives and go to the forest to contemplate on the self. But his wife Maitarey is not interested in his property but in his wisdom. So she inquires about very profound & fundamental questions to her husband.

This story shows how we who are truly perfect, become slaves to money and wealth, relationships.

Story of a Sadhu and a King. This word, 'Sadhu' means, ascetic or yogi.

Ribhu taught his disciple Nidagha the Truth of the real Self, The vast without a second, Nidagha, in spite of his knowledge and understanding, did not get sufficient conviction to adopt and follow the path of Knowledge but settled down in his native town to lead a life devoted to the observance of ceremonial religion. But the sage loved his disciple as deeply as the latter respected his Master. In spite of his age, Ribhu would himself go to his disciple in the town, just to see how far the latter had outgrown his ritualism. This Story gives an account of one of such visits.

The story of Shiva where his son dies yet he is not perturbed by it.

Story of a Monk, who was beaten by a landlond.

According to Vedanta philosophy, the Self… the real you are ever free from physicality, which means nothing physical can affect what you essentially are. So it recommends that in life neither seek nor avoid, take what comes. It is the real freedom to be affected by nothing because that's the nature of the real self. Do not merely endure but be unattached. This story will illustrate this.

Karma yoga, also called Karma marga, is one of the four classical spiritual paths in Vedanta, one based on the "yoga of action". Today's story will show what this path is and how this is equal to all other paths.

In Vedanta, Maya is described as a Maya magic show, an illusion where things appear to be present but are not what they seem. Today's story shows how this great illusion keeps us deluded.

We often entrust our spiritual development to the whims of the mind, today's story shows its dangers and how to avoid it.

A man was frantically searching for something in a dark room. He was weeping and shouting. He was making a mess of the things kept in the room. He broke some and tumbled on others. Yet, what he was searching for, he could not get. How he gets back his wristwatch and the necessity of a guide is shown in this story.

A King goes to sleep in royal palace and sees a nightmare.

Through the story of a landlord and his agent, the whole spiritual journey is Shown.