Dear Choose Happy Community,It can take practice to recognize the patterns that keep us disconnected from our deeper truth. This teaching reminds us that beneath fear, limitation, and human pain, there is a capacity for unconditional love, compassion, creativity, and wholeness. We don’t have to pretend difficult emotions aren’t there. Instead, we can meet them with honesty and ask the source of unconditional love to guide us toward a different choice.Choosing truth and love is a practice we return

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 33Two brothers went to town to buy supplies for a funeral rite, and left a woman alone by a river. And, in some tellings, out of the river's sand a hand rose, and a voice said: I am hungry. Feed me. This is Dharma Katha, Season One, Pitru Paksha. Episode thirty-three, day six. If you have not heard the last episode, it tells how, in Valmiki's Ramayana, Rama offered forest fruit and berries for his dead father, and how tradition says he later went to

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Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 32When Rama learned that his father was dead, he fainted. He was in the forest, in exile, a hermit's dress on his back. His younger brother Bharata had walked all the way from Ayodhya to find him. And Bharata, weeping, told him the news that Rama had not heard in all the years of his banishment. The king, Dasharatha, had died of grief, calling his son's name.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 31 first.Source note. Label: scripture and

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 31There is a town in Bihar where, every autumn, hundreds of thousands of people come with a single purpose. They come to offer rice-balls to their dead. The town is called Gaya. And according to the tradition, it is named after a demon. This is Dharma Katha, Season One, Pitru Paksha. Episode thirty-one, and the start of our sixth day. For five days we have told stories about ancestors, about death, and about the road beyond it. Today we go to a real

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Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 30Every story we have told today has one figure in common. He waited for a hungry boy at his door. He came in person, out of respect, for a good man in a forest. He walked a road with a woman behind him, and gave her back her husband. He was tricked, honoured, and defied. And in the oldest text of the Indian tradition, he is something even stranger.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 18 first.Source note. Label: scripture. The verses are

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 29The forest was very quiet when she came back. Savitri ran through the trees, the way she had come, until she reached the place where her husband's body lay. She knelt down. She lifted his head onto her lap, just as she had before. And Satyavan opened his eyes.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 12 first.Source note. Label: scripture and tradition. The ending, that Satyavan wakes, that they return at night, that Dyumatsena regains his sight,

“In spite of achieving the power to control in all directions and in spite of enjoying all types of dear sense gratification as much as possible, Hiranyakashipu was dissatisfied because instead of controlling his senses he remained their servant.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 7.4.19)

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Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 28A father is offered a choice that no parent should have to make. He has prayed for years for a son. The god Shiva appears and says: I will grant your wish. But there are two kinds of son. One will be good, learned, and devout, and will live only sixteen years. The other will be dull and cruel, and will live a long life. Which do you choose?Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 27 first.Source note. Label: purana and tradition. The legend of

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 27He stopped, turned around, and looked at her. She was still there. Barefoot, dust on her robe, her hair loose from the long walk. She was following him. And Death, who has never in the history of the world been followed by a living person, said: Savitri. Go back.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 26 first.Source note. Label: scripture. This story is from the Mahabharata, Vana Parva, the Savitri Upakhyana, Ganguli numbering around sections

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Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 26Three days before, she stopped eating. She stood, the story says, day and night, in a vow, while her husband and his parents watched her with worry. No one knew why. She had never asked for anything. She had served them, all year, in silence. And now, without explanation, she was fasting and keeping vigil, as though preparing for a battle.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 25 first.Source note. Label: scripture. This story is from the

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 25A princess is told, by one of the wisest sages in the world, that the man she loves will die in exactly one year. She does not weep. She does not argue. She does not change her mind. She says: I have chosen. I will not choose again.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 24 first.Source note. Label: scripture. This story is from the Mahabharata, Vana Parva, the Pativrata Mahatmya section, the Savitri Upakhyana, told by Markandeya to

When something is wrong and we say nothing, our own inner light begins to fade. But speaking up only heals when it comes from a place of love. Raghunath and Kaustubha draw on an old Quaker insight: love endures and overcomes, while hatred destroys, starting with the one who carries it. Online comment threads can drag out our lower nature and cloud our spiritual clarity, and posting is cheap. The more meaningful, illuminating path is not only to speak truth to power, but to live it. Srimad Bhagavatam