There is a story of a boy who had a good heart. Once this boy saw a caterpillar in his garden. He began to carefully observe it. He found that the caterpillar was in a difficult situation. It was bound by a cocoon and was struggling to release itself from this cocoon. It strove very hard to come out of it…
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The Honeybee and the Fly
The honeybee flies from one flower to the next, drinking only the sweetness and the essence of the nectar of that flower without disturbing the flower in the slightest, and then going to the next flower and drinking the nectar there. So, we have much to learn from the honeybee; it is teaching us the… Continue reading The Honeybee and the Fly
Radhanath Swami on the Special Opulence of Human Beings
There are 8,400,000 species of life within the world and each species of life has a particular power that makes it unique among all other species. Take the little worm. When we see the worm crawling in the ground we do not think so much about it. But can we crawl in the ground like the…
Radhanath Swami on the Spider’s Web
Our guru Srila Prabhupada defined maya: maya is that which is not. We are attracted to the various temptations in the world thinking theywill make us happy—if I have this, if I am this, if I get this, I’ll be happy. But actually, it is like a spider’s web…