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Entertainment versus enlightenment

by Sri Chinmoy
First published by Aum Press, Puerto Rico in 1973. Published on srichinmoylibrary.com with the permission of Sri Chinmoy. This is the 55th book written by Sri Chinmoy after he came to the West in 1964.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • The foolish and the wise
  • The darkness of the mind
  • The power to punish
  • Universal jealousy
  • Heaven and hell
  • Akbar is superior to Indra
  • Legacy: the problem of problems
  • No alternative, the King had to laugh
  • Divine business proposition
  • The eye specialist
  • Mockery returns home
  • The miser
  • The son of an ass
  • Stand up then!
  • Of the same caste
  • Only the coat, and not the donkey
  • Four first-class fools
  • The marriage of courage and fear
  • The depth of gratitude and the height of ingratitude
  • The blind always outnumber the men of sight
  • You are worse than a ghost
  • Don't insult a fool
  • As much and as little as possible
  • The distance between truth and falsehood
  • The power of the magic stick
  • At least in one way I must please you, Master
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