saidevo
14 August 2007, 08:16 AM
There is way too much heavy discussion on varied topics going on all around in HDF. They are very useful and enlightening of course, but a neophyte like me who wishes to partake most discussions often resort to rack my brains and roam the Internet kicking at the sides of my poor mouse with my fingers, as if it were a horse!
So I needed to take some time off, often, and indulge in some leisure and passtime, in the Hindu way. Since there is not much by way of spiritual entertainment in the Indian secular media, I opted to ride my mouse again through the information highway, and found some collections of witty Hindu stories, old and new, that make us laugh, and then think. Here we go with some of them. Members may also post such light, spiritually useful stories and add to our collection here.
The compiler-author of these stories has not his slightest intention to slight any path or ways of Hinduism, only to highlight some truth, picking it up with the forceps of humour.
This is from the author's Introduction
"MAN must laugh or else he will grow prematurely old, and not all the doctors of rejuvenation can really make him young. To lose the faculty to laugh is as great a calamity as to lose the faculty to weep. Smiles and tears are Nature's great restoratives. In India there is too little healthy laughter. Tears are with us seen much oftener than smiles. This partly accounts for the fact that most Indians grow old before they are young. My primary object in writing this book is to provide some healthy laughter and at the same, time to shake some of our deep-rooted prejudices by exhibiting them in their comic aspect. Many a great truth is more easily taught with a laugh than in a grave and serious discourse."
Note: Most tales in this thread have been moved to the thread 'Hindu Wisdom Tales' here, since they can be told to children:
http://www.hindudharmaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1923
This thread will be used to collect tales and stories that are not suitable for children.
So I needed to take some time off, often, and indulge in some leisure and passtime, in the Hindu way. Since there is not much by way of spiritual entertainment in the Indian secular media, I opted to ride my mouse again through the information highway, and found some collections of witty Hindu stories, old and new, that make us laugh, and then think. Here we go with some of them. Members may also post such light, spiritually useful stories and add to our collection here.
The compiler-author of these stories has not his slightest intention to slight any path or ways of Hinduism, only to highlight some truth, picking it up with the forceps of humour.
This is from the author's Introduction
"MAN must laugh or else he will grow prematurely old, and not all the doctors of rejuvenation can really make him young. To lose the faculty to laugh is as great a calamity as to lose the faculty to weep. Smiles and tears are Nature's great restoratives. In India there is too little healthy laughter. Tears are with us seen much oftener than smiles. This partly accounts for the fact that most Indians grow old before they are young. My primary object in writing this book is to provide some healthy laughter and at the same, time to shake some of our deep-rooted prejudices by exhibiting them in their comic aspect. Many a great truth is more easily taught with a laugh than in a grave and serious discourse."
Note: Most tales in this thread have been moved to the thread 'Hindu Wisdom Tales' here, since they can be told to children:
http://www.hindudharmaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1923
This thread will be used to collect tales and stories that are not suitable for children.