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Three Secrets - A bird reveals three important principles to a greedy man

A Wise Song-bird reveals three deceptively simple, but important principles that we may already know, but seldom practice! Once upon a time there was a golden songbird that lived in a beautiful garden. It spent all its days singing the loveliest songs to the honor of its creator and maker and the delight of all the people who heard it. But the keeper of the garden, who was a foolish and greedy man, coveted the little songster, and one day he made a cunning net in which he snared it. The little bird begged the man to release him and promised to tell him three great secrets if only he would let him go. Now the gardener really was a very greedy man and rubbing his hands eagerly, he released the bird. Then the songbird told him it's three secrets: "That he should never believe all that he hears; Never regret what he has never lost, And never to throw away that which he has in his keeping." The gardener was furious when he heard this and said...

Does God Exist? The story of the Buddha, a religious person and an atheist

One day in the early morning Gautama Buddha was sitting in a garden quietly with his disciples. A man arrived silently and stood in the shadows, that man was a great devotee of Lord Rama. He had built many temples across the country, he had devoted many years in the service of Lord Rama. He would always chant Rama's name and contemplate on Rama's greatness. He was old and close to his last years. Even after many years of dedicated spiritual effort he was not realized. He wanted to know for sure if there is a God or not? When he heard about the realized one (Buddha) , he came to get his doubt cleared. When he felt nobody would notice him talking to Siddhartha, the Buddha. He asked Gautama " O enlightened one, Please tell me the truth! and truth only .  Is there a god ?" Buddha, from his intuition knew that man to be a great devotee of Lord Rama, he looked at that man with seriousness and said " No, My friend. There is no god ".  Buddha's disci...