We can preach to youngsters to teach them morals. But a better way of doing it is by telling them little stories with a moral in it.
Even one such episode can change the directions of a young boy a girl’s life. Be it tales from the Panchatantra Aesop’s Fables, Yogiji Maharaja’s Satsang stories or episodes from the lives of great souls all of them are able to shape humanity.
So these 108 stories selected from the lives of Shriji Maharaj the Gunatit Guru Parapara and other sadhys and devotees will help in shaping the character of youngsters and make them responsible citizens of tomorrow.
Dear Children
Read Something new
Discover something new
Learn something new
Who doesn’t like it?
Everyone like to read new things and learn new things. So we take pleasure in placing this booklet in your hands.
This booklet is called Prasangmala just as a mala has 108 beads this booklet contains 108 stories. These inspiring episodes from the lives of Shriji Mahraj the Gunatit Guru Parampara sadhus and devotees will delight and inspire you.
These lessons will increase your knowledge about or Sampraday.
They will inspire you to become ideal boys and girls. Your young minds will grow along the right lines.
This booklet has been prepared for those who have taken pledges as part of the BAPS centenary celebrations. So you should undertake to read at least one chapter daily. By doing so you will be able to read the booklet three times during the year.
So let’s begin
Turn one bead from this mala
Read each chapter with care and think over it
Then practice the inspiring messages in your life to please
Maharaj and Swami
Introduction | iii |
The Ideal way to read | iv |
Contents | v |
Compassionate Nilkanth | 1 |
The age to worship god | 2 |
Serving Sevakram | 3 |
Pragji Bhagat’s Childhood | 4 |
I Will teach you Brahmavidya | 5 |
These are our vows | 6 |
Battle with the mind | 7 |
Fearless from childhood | 8 |
Supreme Bhagwan Swaminarayan | 9 |
Love for Austerities | 10 |
The Queen of Udaipur | 11 |
President yet servant | 12 |
Poor Animals! | 13 |
Swaminarayan from every leaf | 14 |
Coming to fetch his devotees | 15 |
Didn’t have fifty rupees | 16 |
Absorbing the 24 Avatars | 17 |
Would a lion eat Jalebi? | 18 |
Matchless scholar | 19 |
May you attain salvation? | 20 |
Have compassion for me | 21 |
My life is for swami | 22 |
fasting on Ekadashi | 23 |
Faith in the Guru’s words | 24 |
Introducing Yogi and pramukh | 25 |
Being Economical | 26 |
Shun superstition | 27 |
The Swaminarayan Mantra | 28 |
I will always reside within you | 29 |
Seeing god in all | 30 |
Ghanshyam everywhere | 31 |
The Atma will become weak | 32 |
Our prestige is preserved | 33 |
Controlling your mind | 34 |
Glory to the father and son | 35 |
Touched with the stick | 36 |
Nilkanth tames a wild lion | 37 |
Seva according to inner wish | 38 |
A whole night to katha | 39 |
Blessings for persecutors | 40 |
Signs of Greatness | 41 |
Without Puja we will be cut | 42 |
No one can bead god | 43 |
Cheating is deceiving god | 44 |
My Rotlo | 45 |
I have God | 46 |
Gunatit Guru Parampara | 47 |
Vicharan despite pain | 48 |
The Miracle of humility | 49 |
The Force of Devotion | 50 |
Maharaj Eats’a Cucumber | 51 |
Maharaj will take you to dham | 52 |
Five days | 53 |
I am a servant | 54 |
Miracles alone Don’t Make god | 55 |
Taming a Mischievous mind | 56 |
Pride of Following Agna | 57 |
Spreading the knowledge | 58 |
Sagram’s Niyam | 59 |
Full Faith in Swaminarayan | 60 |
Compassionate Swamishri | 61 |
Born for Mandirs | 62 |
Kalyan is nowhere | 63 |
The Truth always wins | 64 |
Sarmat Patel’s Sacrifice | 65 |
A Midnight Prayer | 66 |
It is Shriji’s Doing | 67 |
This is our culture | 68 |
Learn Virtues from all | 69 |
Defeating the Vedantis | 70 |
Arti | 71 |
To Gadhada in an instant! | 72 |
Twice as many steps | 73 |
Pleasing the Devotees | 74 |
All that we do will shine | 75 |
The Walking log | 76 |
I won’t part with god | 77 |
God Accepts the thal | 78 |
He Left only half shaven | 79 |
A great meal | 80 |
Sahajanand the sun | 81 |
The servant’s servant | 82 |
Be careful Not to let go | 83 |
Dandvats to the reader | 84 |
Sahajanand Swamini Jai | 85 |
The Reputation of our stable | 86 |
The best boon | 87 |
Gunatit! Wake up | 88 |
Devivalo Magniram | 89 |
The Bottle of oil | 90 |
What Yogiji Maharaj Dislikes | 91 |
The Mandir survives on Jholi | 92 |
Naja Jogia was saved | 93 |
My chest is hurting | 94 |
Harvesting Millet | 95 |
Maharaj please Bathe | 96 |
Shriji Maharaj’s Paramhansas | 97 |
Two Kalshis of Millet | 98 |
Call this true devotion | 99 |
But god is watching | 100 |
Your action will speak | 101 |
Go and call Girnar | 102 |
Human yet divine | 103 |
What pain does the Atma feel? | 104 |
The wise deviji bhgat | 105 |
Two words over a phone | 106 |
Ghanshyam’s daily Routine | 107 |
One who does seva is the mahant | 108 |
Reader’s daily note | vii |
We can preach to youngsters to teach them morals. But a better way of doing it is by telling them little stories with a moral in it.
Even one such episode can change the directions of a young boy a girl’s life. Be it tales from the Panchatantra Aesop’s Fables, Yogiji Maharaja’s Satsang stories or episodes from the lives of great souls all of them are able to shape humanity.
So these 108 stories selected from the lives of Shriji Maharaj the Gunatit Guru Parapara and other sadhys and devotees will help in shaping the character of youngsters and make them responsible citizens of tomorrow.
Dear Children
Read Something new
Discover something new
Learn something new
Who doesn’t like it?
Everyone like to read new things and learn new things. So we take pleasure in placing this booklet in your hands.
This booklet is called Prasangmala just as a mala has 108 beads this booklet contains 108 stories. These inspiring episodes from the lives of Shriji Mahraj the Gunatit Guru Parampara sadhus and devotees will delight and inspire you.
These lessons will increase your knowledge about or Sampraday.
They will inspire you to become ideal boys and girls. Your young minds will grow along the right lines.
This booklet has been prepared for those who have taken pledges as part of the BAPS centenary celebrations. So you should undertake to read at least one chapter daily. By doing so you will be able to read the booklet three times during the year.
So let’s begin
Turn one bead from this mala
Read each chapter with care and think over it
Then practice the inspiring messages in your life to please
Maharaj and Swami
Introduction | iii |
The Ideal way to read | iv |
Contents | v |
Compassionate Nilkanth | 1 |
The age to worship god | 2 |
Serving Sevakram | 3 |
Pragji Bhagat’s Childhood | 4 |
I Will teach you Brahmavidya | 5 |
These are our vows | 6 |
Battle with the mind | 7 |
Fearless from childhood | 8 |
Supreme Bhagwan Swaminarayan | 9 |
Love for Austerities | 10 |
The Queen of Udaipur | 11 |
President yet servant | 12 |
Poor Animals! | 13 |
Swaminarayan from every leaf | 14 |
Coming to fetch his devotees | 15 |
Didn’t have fifty rupees | 16 |
Absorbing the 24 Avatars | 17 |
Would a lion eat Jalebi? | 18 |
Matchless scholar | 19 |
May you attain salvation? | 20 |
Have compassion for me | 21 |
My life is for swami | 22 |
fasting on Ekadashi | 23 |
Faith in the Guru’s words | 24 |
Introducing Yogi and pramukh | 25 |
Being Economical | 26 |
Shun superstition | 27 |
The Swaminarayan Mantra | 28 |
I will always reside within you | 29 |
Seeing god in all | 30 |
Ghanshyam everywhere | 31 |
The Atma will become weak | 32 |
Our prestige is preserved | 33 |
Controlling your mind | 34 |
Glory to the father and son | 35 |
Touched with the stick | 36 |
Nilkanth tames a wild lion | 37 |
Seva according to inner wish | 38 |
A whole night to katha | 39 |
Blessings for persecutors | 40 |
Signs of Greatness | 41 |
Without Puja we will be cut | 42 |
No one can bead god | 43 |
Cheating is deceiving god | 44 |
My Rotlo | 45 |
I have God | 46 |
Gunatit Guru Parampara | 47 |
Vicharan despite pain | 48 |
The Miracle of humility | 49 |
The Force of Devotion | 50 |
Maharaj Eats’a Cucumber | 51 |
Maharaj will take you to dham | 52 |
Five days | 53 |
I am a servant | 54 |
Miracles alone Don’t Make god | 55 |
Taming a Mischievous mind | 56 |
Pride of Following Agna | 57 |
Spreading the knowledge | 58 |
Sagram’s Niyam | 59 |
Full Faith in Swaminarayan | 60 |
Compassionate Swamishri | 61 |
Born for Mandirs | 62 |
Kalyan is nowhere | 63 |
The Truth always wins | 64 |
Sarmat Patel’s Sacrifice | 65 |
A Midnight Prayer | 66 |
It is Shriji’s Doing | 67 |
This is our culture | 68 |
Learn Virtues from all | 69 |
Defeating the Vedantis | 70 |
Arti | 71 |
To Gadhada in an instant! | 72 |
Twice as many steps | 73 |
Pleasing the Devotees | 74 |
All that we do will shine | 75 |
The Walking log | 76 |
I won’t part with god | 77 |
God Accepts the thal | 78 |
He Left only half shaven | 79 |
A great meal | 80 |
Sahajanand the sun | 81 |
The servant’s servant | 82 |
Be careful Not to let go | 83 |
Dandvats to the reader | 84 |
Sahajanand Swamini Jai | 85 |
The Reputation of our stable | 86 |
The best boon | 87 |
Gunatit! Wake up | 88 |
Devivalo Magniram | 89 |
The Bottle of oil | 90 |
What Yogiji Maharaj Dislikes | 91 |
The Mandir survives on Jholi | 92 |
Naja Jogia was saved | 93 |
My chest is hurting | 94 |
Harvesting Millet | 95 |
Maharaj please Bathe | 96 |
Shriji Maharaj’s Paramhansas | 97 |
Two Kalshis of Millet | 98 |
Call this true devotion | 99 |
But god is watching | 100 |
Your action will speak | 101 |
Go and call Girnar | 102 |
Human yet divine | 103 |
What pain does the Atma feel? | 104 |
The wise deviji bhgat | 105 |
Two words over a phone | 106 |
Ghanshyam’s daily Routine | 107 |
One who does seva is the mahant | 108 |
Reader’s daily note | vii |