"It is a lovely read. I enjoyed and am saving it for an Irish friend." - The Swami

Introduction • The Value of Stories Cluster 1 • King Manu and the Flood • The Serious Nix • The Puffing Tale-teller • Getting aware of the Soap Opera • Cruel indifference comes like a flood that seldom returns • Cosmic Avatar In a Castle of Ice Cluster 2 • The Wood-Cutter Sage • "Go Forward" • The Sheep-Lion • The Troll Who Killed the Old Bear • Two Frogs in Trouble • Two More Frogs • A Puzzled Devotee Cluster 3 • Get more aware - do it yourself • See the ugly foot (Norse) • Twenty Monks and One Nun • Squealing - An Ancient Fable • He had not meditated well enough and as a result became a sectarian Cluster 4 • The Net and the Fish • The Villagers and the Snake • Sleep and more • Meeting a Mad Elephant • All for a fine loincloth Cluster 5 • Four Riddles • The Pool of Water • Cheerful Edwards • The Well-Known Rabbi's even Better-Known Son • Unhappy in Marriage • Must I Live?

Cluster 6 • Master Squirrel • "We thank you for a dead son." • Eyebrows Werewolf • The Little Man at the Angel's Pillar Cluster 7 • No Useless Tree • Strong Mishap • Stages of Pig Living • The Body of the Dear Little Pig in the Dream State • Laws for Material Success • How a Wandering Man's Brain Cells Were Charged Cluster 8 • The Donkey and the Wolf Out of His Waters • Live Fast and the Snake • The Archbishop and the Wolf Cub Cluster 9 • Hindu Myths and Us • A Supreme God Cluster 10 • Grey Beard and the Blessed Child • Kingly deciderata (A Panchatantra story retold) • When Ramakrishna couldn't carry mangoes home • Ramakrishna and Girish Ghosh • Silence can tell well and common speech falter • A Tale on Doing (agency) • As if by Magic Cluster 11 • Some plunderers go about as religious • On a Ferry • A family of Scots felt unlucky and lucky by one and the same thing • Bad Luck? Cluster 12 • Krishna as a Pig

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