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What: “Golf for Enlightenment: The Seven Lessons for the Game of Life.”

Author: Deepak Chopra.

Publisher: Random House.

Price: $21.

Deepak Chopra, a pioneer in the area of mind-body medicine, has written many books about the body, mind and spirit. In this one, which is also available on cassettes and CDs, he tackles golf in spiritual terms. He concentrates on golf as a mind game.

The result is an intriguing read that will almost certainly improve your outlook toward golf -- and may improve your game as well. Chopra’s seven lessons can also be applied to life in general.

Still, a 200-page book of lecturing and teaching can be boring, no matter how well written. SoChopra intertwines a story with his teachings. Adam, a weekend golfer from Boston. is struggling with his game. He has a mystical experience on the golf course one day when a stranger steers him toward a mysterious teacher named Leela.

The story of how the young woman is able to turn Adam into a master of the game keeps one flipping pages.

In the book’s foreword, golfer Jesper Parnevik writes: “Deepak mixes Eastern philosophies with Western logic in a way that is easy to comprehend. He showed me new ways to think, eat, sleep and practice. My biggest realization was that golf -- and life -- was not a game I could control, nor could I dominate it. It is a game of letting go. A golfer’s biggest opponent is not the golf course or other players. It’s that little voice in your head whispering, ‘Don’t hit it in the water.’ ”