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Written by A Seeker
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 In the Vedic scriptures, the human body has been compared with a chariot, one which has 5 horses, the reins, a charioteer and a passenger. A human body has 5 senses ( see, touch, taste, smell and hear), the mind (मन), the intellect (बुद्धि) and the soul (आत्मा). The 5 horses are pulling the chariot through the ropes or the reins which is controlled by the charioteer who holds the reins. Through the reins the charioteer can keep the horses in a proper state. Similarly, through our intellect, we can control our senses. If the reins are let loose, the horses can play havoc. Similarly, if the
mind is let free by the intellect and allowed to be driven whimsically by the senses, we can go crazy. To repeat: the senses are the horses, the mind is the reins and the intellect is the charioteer or the driver. The passenger which is the soul (aatma) is the silent witness.
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Written by Neelam Singh
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 Peter Senge1 provides "Seven Learning Disabilities," of these I found the parable of boiled frog most interesting and so apt for almost all of us!!
As per this parable, you place a frog in boiling water and it will immediately scuttle in desperate attempt to save itself.Now the interesting part, you place the same frog in a pot that contains water at room temperature, put this pot on a stove. Do not scare the frog in the process.Slowly start the fire and let water in the pot change temperature gradually, at a very slow pace such that the change in temperature is hardly perceivable.
You will be surprised to notice as the water temperature rises gradually frog remains parked comfortably doing nothing about the impending danger. In fact, at initial stage, surprisingly it may exhibit signs of enjoying itself!! As the temperature rises to intolerable limits frog keeps getting woozy, unable to climb the pot, though nothing stops it from saving its life
ultimately boiling itself to death!!
This parable makes me wonder why frog chose to meet such a fate that was completely avoidable.
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Written by Rajesh Anand
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 At the end of the Mahabharat war, Maharaj Yudhisthir, the eldest of the Pandava brothers was crowned the king of India, known as Bharat Varsha. After an unchalleged victory in an Ashwamedha yagna and a successful begining of his virtuous reign, he alongwith his brothers would often organize feasts for the poor and hungry. Though, an epitome of goodness, the charitable acts, feeding of the brahmnas and the poor gave Yudhisthir a sense of pride. He wondered if there was another ruler in the whole world as kind to their subject as he was.
During one such function in which he had invited a large number of brahmnas and the poor whom he fed and looked after with great care, a strange incident took place. At the conclusion of the Yagna, he alongwith Krishna was overseeing the departure of the assembled guests. Yudhisthir was sitting in the balcony of his palace and looking at the empty pandal and thinking what a great event it had all been feeding the poor and honouring the brahmnas . Krishna being the God, the omniscient antaryami, seated in every living being's heart, obviously knew what was running in Yudhistir's mind. In his avatar form as Krishna, God was present on earth and in fact seated next to Yudhisthir at that moment. A great devotee like Yudhistir could not have been allowed to fall prey to an evil as harmful as pride. Krishna immediately acted and set up a leela (an act).
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