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The Man Who Sold Chips: The Sthitaprajna of the Gita
Paperback
Metaphysical GeneralHinduismSelf-Help
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 23 2026
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Lalaji sells the best chips in Palghar. He is also, by his own assessment, a completely reasonable man.
His blood sugar disagrees. So does his wife. So does the employee he fired in forty seconds after eleven years of loyal service. So does the sea outside his shop, which has been there for several million years without asking his opinion about anything.
The Man Who Sold Chips is the story of one ordinary man in one small Maharashtra town - his samosas, his temper, his comb-over, his daily battles with Dr Deshmukh's diet chart, and his 9pm chai with the woman who has quietly understood everything he is still struggling to learn.
Bhagyawaan, his wife, sings Tukaram's abhangas in the kitchen while making his dinner. She fasts on Ekadashi without drama. She sits before her Krishna idol at 3am with the stillness of someone who has already arrived where Lalaji is spending the whole book trying to get to.
He goes the long way round.
On the shelf - a small Krishna deity, a diya burning steadily, watching it all.
The Bhagavad Gita's Sthitaprajna verses (Chapter 2, verses 54-72) describe a person of steady wisdom - free from craving, undisturbed by anger, unmoved by pleasure or pain. Lalaji has never read them. His wife has never needed to. This is their story.
Warm, comic, and quietly profound - an ordinary family learning extraordinary lessons.
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