Rosh Story

“Come on Pa,” Josh was incredulous. “That story can’t be literally true."

"Crows are stupid. Look at that one. He looks stupid, he acts stupid, he talks stupid. Aesop must have seen a special crow.”

Insightful story: This Too Shall Pass

Shakir taught the Sufi fakir that fate doesn't care whether a person is good or bad.

Life is about constant change.

Our education system has become a race. A race amongst all sorts of participants. Fast and slow, bright and dumb.

And it’s not always the fast or bright who get to win this race. Like in the old Aesopian fable about a race between a hare and a tortoise.

Baba Farid’s song ‘Turia Turia Ja Farida’ is a collection of some Sufi Faridi hymns or Farid Bani.

Rosh explained the lyrics as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s soulful voice danced out on the airwaves.

Like Head and Tail, two sides of a coin, does man have two sides too?

Are people good or bad, or is it all in the eye?

Insightful story with pointers from Kabir

Understanding your partner is easy. Just a few simple rules, which a woman should know.

Rosh tells Isha what men want & how to keep men happy.

She reciprocates...

Spiritual Story: Unsoiled By Muddy Paths

How do some walk the murky walks of life without being stained?

Kabir delivers his wife to a lusty grocer to repay debt

"What we do in life, what choices we make in life comes from our perception of who we are."

"But that still doesn't make it clearer for me how I am that?" asked Josh. "How can I be the same as you, or one with Nature or God?"

‘What do we work for?’ Rosh reflects, when his son tries to buy an hour of his time.

For money, or for the ability to spend our time & money with our loved ones...

Funny story: What does Khan eat?

Rosh wants to eat his money’s worth while dining at Valentines – a NZ buffet restaurant.

His antics remind Qosh of Khan’s tale

What is mine? What is yours? Is it borrowed wealth or real capital?

What is this world, this life? These possessions, these relationships?

Insightful Sufi story...

What kinship do we have with the world, asks Kabir, haman duniya se yari kya?

Kabir’s sufi Ghazal: Haman hai ishq mastana, haman ko hoshiyari kya explained.

Josh laughed at the funny joke. Rosh loved it, that he’d got it straight away.

“Wanna play a game?” he asked.

Josh nodded, a happy smile suddenly breaking up on his face.

Am I my body or my mind? My consciousness or my memories? Or am I a sum total of all of these?

Discover some pointers in this old Buddhist story or this Sufi song...

Who packs our parachutes?

Story about recognizing and being grateful to people who support us in our life’s journey.

Also, Rosh’s reflections on 2016 milestones

Funny Story: Who will make Coffee?

Bible is invoked to settle a domestic row between a couple over who should brew the coffee daily.

Retold Bible joke

You might have heard people being fired for not doing well, but there are many whose careers are destroyed simply because they do too well.

Too well for their own good.

The sun had vanished. Rosh sat alone in the dark conservatory. Finally, he could bear it no more. A solitary tear rolled down his cheeks.

As if on cue, the dark clouds opened their hearts and wept with pain all night.