The brothers are arguing and taking each other’s things. There doesn’t seem to be a solution until Dad discusses spiritual principles that are part of traditional Indian village life.

Increasingly in developing countries such as India, the traditional standards for humane and kind animal care are eroding. This story presents a traditional picture of the cow as part of the family. In this story, Ravi cares for his cow but has to be careful!

At the start of the rainy season, in India’s city of Puri on the east coast, there is a yearly festival where the forms of Jagannath and his brother and sister ride on huge carts through the city. Millions of people come to pull the carts and sing in the streets. Similar festivals are also celebrated in cities throughout the world.

This story from ancient India tells of the fish avatar. A king finds this fish, who at first appears very small. The king tries to give the fish a suitable home but the fish quickly outgrows every place the king arranges.

This is an allegory of the soul (jeeva in Sanskrit) becoming free from illusion and material attachments in order to attain perfection. In the Indic tradition a guru is often compared to a boatman, and human life to a boat used to cross an ocean of material illusion.

Chapatis or rotis are a staple food of north India, often eaten for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Villagers pat the dough into a flat, round shape, and cook the bread on a clay stove, burning cow dung or wood. One day, Vikram decides to have something other than traditional chapatis.

This story of Krishna eating dirt and showing his mother, Yashoda, the cosmos in his mouth is from the ancient Puranas of India. Yashoda decides that sometimes love is all we need when something we experience is beyond our understanding.