It is agreat mystery that though the human heart longs for truth in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one hostility and fear. So the Spiritual Tachers of humanity, like Buddha and Jesus, created a device to circumvent the opposition of their listeners: the Story. They knew that the most entrancing words a languagr hold are, "Once upon a time...", that it is common to oppose a truth but impossible to resist a story. Vyasa, the author of the Mahabharata, says that if you listen carefully to a story you will never be the same again. That is because the story you never be the same again. That is because the story you will worm its way into your heart and break down barriers to the divine. Even if you read the stories in this book only for the entertainment there is no guarantee that an occasional story will not slip through your defences and explode when you least expect it to. So you have been warned!