Tales of the East is a compilation of folk tales and Puranic histories, gleaned from India's ancient Vedic literatures. Each wonderful and entertaining story reflects one facet of the mystic gem of spiritual truth, demonstrating various features of spiritual conduct, development, and ontology. Although these tales have been told and retold in India for many millenia, they possess such an inexhaustible spiritual vitality that people enjoy hearing them narrated again and again, engendering in listeners an ever-deepening understanding and appreciation for life, death and humanity's ultimate destiny.