TELL ME A STORY - series BY CHINMAY MISSION





Tell me a story-series-1,2,3

About The Book:

The series ‘Tell me a story’ contains olden historical stories like stories from ‘The RAMAYANA , The MAHABHARATA’ and similar stories of kings, sages, giants, Rakshasas, Gods etc. I was very lucky to get these books as a gift during my visit to Chinmay Mission. The series is written by  SWAMI CHINMAYANANDA and SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA two great ‘swamis’.

What’s in there?

There are amples and amples of stories in each of the three books.   The series is a bit like ‘PANCHATANTRA/AESOPS FABLES/ARABIAN NIGHTS. There are also stories about great people like MAHARSHI VALMIKI, MAHARSHI NARAD and BRAMHADEV, great scholars and foolish people like ‘Kittu – the Wise” – you will understand his foolishness. Oh! That is only if you read the book.
There are stories about how good people turn into bad people and then learn life-changing lessons and become good again. Most of the stories are based on devotion to God i.e Supreme Power or Guru.
There are mantras in some of the stories like ‘Jay Jagdish Hare, Jay Jay Jagdish Hare’. It is fun chanting them again and again. They are like tongue twisters. These books are like a magical flying carpet overflowing with different and beautiful multicolored flowers. No! don’t get me wrong, by flowers I mean stories.
The pages of the books too are filled with interesting, colorful pictures. The print looks beautiful because of its combination with glossy, white pages. And the language is extremely lucid and easy to understand.

My take on it

I really think that this series was mind-blowing. On reading the books I felt like telling my friends, classmates etc. to read this series and understand some spiritual values like ‘Ego destroys’, ‘Be kind to everyone’ and ‘don’t be selfish’. These values are like precious stones and gems found in each story.
So I felt like writing a book review. I wish you would all read these books and enjoy them. If you read for two hours a day you will finish a single book in 2 to 3 days  as the font is big.

My score of Paani Puris:

😋😋😋😋   
 - Ninad, the Greedy reader


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