The Sage and the Housewife

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Price: Rs. 98.00......Page 3 CONTENTS......Page 5 Mid-March, l980: My first interview with U.G.......Page 6 Trying my hand at the culinary art:......Page 7 After the picnic he was looking dull..........Page 8 He sticks to the subject least wanted..........Page 10 How rich are you?......Page 11 Going Dutch..........Page 12 I Never walked, but ran everywhere..........Page 13 Why are you turning this into a problem?..........Page 15 We all gave him credit for such ingenious ideas..........Page 16 She had three burning questions..........Page 17 Thoughts are emotions and emotions are thoughts..........Page 18 Crimelessness would lead to joblessness..........Page 19 What's so happy or new about the New Year?......Page 20 None of us here have a criminal record..........Page 21 Of sleeping men, magicians, and avatars..........Page 22 Paralysis, feet kissing, sthitaprajna, and headaches..........Page 23 The independent woman..........Page 24 Thymus glands, pigeon holes, and devoted wives..........Page 25 Boredom, U.G.'s problem, getting nothing..........Page 26 CHAPTER 4......Page 28 Ram Nam, munching papads, and natal charts..........Page 29 Hanging out with the Poornakuti gang..........Page 30 Of horrible men, palaces, and chanting slokas..........Page 31 Bhujangas, special treatment, and a devoted friend..........Page 32 Jack Nicholson, sex cassettes, and cheap fuel..........Page 33 Dead palmists..........Page 34 Throwing it all away..........Page 35 Deterioration in human values..........Page 36 Purging U.G. out of the system..........Page 37 Controlling emotions..........Page 38 Telepathy..........Page 39 Your fear is your obstacle..........Page 40 Offerings to gods a waste of money..........Page 41 Wanting to be free from boredom is the cause of misery..........Page 42 How each of us met U.G...........Page 44 I just met a man..........Page 45 Wanting moksha is part of wanting..........Page 46 Not love but terror will keep us together..........Page 47 If I had liked a variety of dishes, I would have liked a variety of girls..........Page 48 Using doggie sense to find the way..........Page 49 Beauty is framing done by thought..........Page 50 Sewage water sold in fancy plastic bottles..........Page 51 The largest rope and the tallest tree..........Page 52 When the reference point is gone there is no knowing..........Page 53 You can gobble up your neighbor's baby and yet be spiritual..........Page 54 What I say destroys the foundations of culture..........Page 55 Parting words..........Page 56 U.G. addiction..........Page 58 Willing victims..........Page 59 You can't own people like you own furniture..........Page 60 Why I don't want to see people who are interested in enlightenment..........Page 61 The roar of the sea is silence..........Page 62 God said "Let there be light," and there was a power-out!..........Page 63 Gaudapada did not stumble into that by reading the Upanishads..........Page 64 "Where have his teachings left you?" "Nowhere.".........Page 65 If you cannot part with a single photo, how can you ever speak of detachment?..........Page 66 I want you to stand on your own two feet, however shaky they may be..........Page 68 The spiritual man is the worst egocentric man..........Page 69 U.G. is responsible for the miracle; I am just a surrogate..........Page 70 If thought is not there, you would not hesitate to sleep with your mother, sister or daughter..........Page 71 There is noise inside you wherever you go..........Page 72 Don't worry, be happy!..........Page 73 When the knowledge is not there, you will drop dead!..........Page 74 Steal, but don't get caught!..........Page 75 Practicing kindness will only bring about cardiac arrests..........Page 76 A seventy-year-old baby..........Page 77 Profess the philosophy of Love?..........Page 78 I did need U.G. after all..........Page 79 Experiences are a stain on consciousness..........Page 80 Every miracle is an accident. But people want to believe. They need to believe..........Page 81  ......Page 82 My wife would rise from the grave if she saw me laughing like this!..........Page 83 Chalk and cheese have something in common..........Page 84 Fragrant faeces..........Page 85 We all experience a fatal attraction for U.G..........Page 86 You have to throw God out of your system..........Page 87 J.S.R.L.Narayana Moorty......Page 88