 | The next story is called “The Navab chandelier”. Navab means “rich one”. There used to be a class of very wealthy men in Bengal who had this title. First they were Muslims, then later the British were also called Navabs when they became very wealthy plundering Bengal. So there was a Navab who had so much money that he didn’t know what to do with it. This Navab had in his house a very beautiful crystal chandelier, very, very big and the crystals were actually real glass quartz crystal. So it was very expensive chandelier. I don’t know about this one (showing on the ceiling), it maybe plastic. I don’t know. Very often the chandeliers are made just plastic. But his was real… This is also real, O.K. So, you can look at this chandelier and think about this story. So as the servant was cleaning the crystal chandelier one crystal fell off and it crashed onto the marble floor. And as it crashed and broke into little pieces it made a very unusual tinkling sound. The Navab was sitting in the next room. He was just sitting, smoking his hookah, looking out the window, he’s completely bored and when he heard the sound he came in. The servant very afraid and he was standing with folded hands, he was trembling and the Navab said: “What was that sound?” And the servant said: “I am very sorry, but while cleaning the chandelier one crystal fell and it broke, I am very, very sorry.” And the Navab said: “It was a very interesting sound. Go up there and throw down another one. So he climbed up and he dropped another one and the Navab went: “Oh, I like the sound. Throw down another one.” So one after the other, they were thrown down and then the whole chandelier was finished and the Navab was very happy. “Today my day was interesting”. This also illustrates modern civilization, it is like that. They have so much opulence, but they waste it uselessly.
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