Shabad Surat Sangam Ashram

On the tree outside Sonu’s house, there was a nest. A sparrow had recently laid her eggs in it. One day a terrible storm came as a result of which the nest fell down. One egg survived the storm. Sonu took pity on it. He picked up the egg along with the nest and brought [...]

It happened in Ujjain Nagri. There lived a Brahmin by the name of Vasudev Sharma. He was a thorough gentleman and deeply religious. He had a son named Gunakar. It was the father who had named him Gunakar and had educated and brought him up. But he became a worthless young man immersed in sex. [...]

Who would not be familiar with dharamputra Yudhishtar, the hero of Mahabharat. Seated on the high seat of ‘dharmadhikari’ in heaven, Yudhishtar happened to commit some mistake to atone and compensate for which he had to take birth as a human being on earth. Though whole of his life was religious and full of penance, [...]

In the battle of Mahabharta, the whole body of the great warrior Bhishma had been pierced with arrows. Not a single arrow had hit him on the back. Bhishma was lying on a bed of arrows that had pierced through his body. Every arrow that pierced his body had stuck in the earth and his [...]

There is nothing amazing in attaining the heaven, leaving behind the material body, made of five elements. However, Yudhishthar attained that glorious state alongwith his physical form. Devraj Indra himself came to fetch him in his chariot. This was truly astonishing.
As they arrived at the heaven, the surroundings were replete with chants hailing him..
“I [...]

Deeming yourself successful without passing through a test can, most often, be self deceiving. The tendency to fear testing times is a great hindrance in the path of progress.
The entire life of Mahatma Yudhishthar is a struggling saga of his re-installation on the Satya-pada(The throne of truthfulness). Yudhishthar had to adopt the [...]

Yudhishthar is one of the most well known characters of Mahabharata, the great protagonist of Mahabharata. This Dharamadhikari (Administrator of piety) of the heavens is said to have descended into a material human form as atonement for some mistake committed by him.
In his mortal earthly form also Yudhishthar was regarded as piety personified. [...]

Mansukh was quite famous – for the wrong reasons though. He was famous as the ‘Ill omened one’. It was believed that whoever saw his face, first thing in the morning was sure to go hungry the whole day. Poor Mansukh led a miserable life- ridiculed by all, due to his simplicity bordering [...]

Maharishi Raikya ran a Gurukul, imparting education to scores of students who came to him in the quest of knowledge. However, his son Yavakirti was not very enthusiastic about receiving education, for which hundreds of students knocked the doors of his father’s Gurukul. In fact he was averse to it.
Not that Yavakirti [...]

It is an old story. The editor of a famous Kolkata based magazine went to Prayagaraj to take a holy dip in the Sangam. While bathing, he slipped accidentally and was carried away by the swift river current. A brave young man standing at the shore saw him drowning, and immediately jumped into the [...]