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Questions and Answers 1929
7 April 1929
Yoga: for the sake of the Divine
Concentration
Preparations for Yoga: to be conscious
Yoga and humanity
“We have all met in previous lives”
14 April 1929
Dangers of Yoga
Two paths: tapasya and surrender
Impulses, desires and Yoga
Difficulties
Unification around the psychic being
Ambition: the undoing of many Yogis
Powers: misuse and right use of
How to recognise the Divine Will
Vital devotion
Need of a strong body and nerves
Inner being: invariable
21 April 1929
Visions: seeing and interpretation
Dreams and dreamland
Dreamless sleep
Visions and formulation
Surrender: passive and of the will
Meditation and progress
Entering the spiritual life
28 April 1929
Offering: general and detailed
Integral Yoga
Remembrance of the Divine
Reading and Yoga
Necessity; predetermination
Freedom
Miracles
Aim of creation
5 May 1929
Intellect: true and wrong movement
Attacks from adverse forces
Faith: integral and absolute
Death: not a necessity
Descent of Divine Consciousness
Inner progress
Memory of former lives
12 May 1929
Beings of the vital world (vampires)
Money power and vital beings
Capacity for manifestation of will
Entry into the vital world
Body: a protection
Individuality and the vital world
19 May 1929
Mind and its workings; thought-forms
Adverse conditions and Yoga
Mental constructions
Illness and Yoga
26 May 1929
Individual; illusion of separateness
Hostile forces and the mental plane
Psychic world; psychic being
“Spiritual” and “psychic”
Words; understanding speech and reading
Hostile forces, their utility
Illusion of action; true action
2 June 1929
Divine love and its manifestation
Part of the vital being in Divine love
9 June 1929
Nature of religion
Religion and the spiritual life
Descent of Divine Truth and Force
Religion, country, family
Religion and numbers
16 June 1929
Illness and Yoga
Subtle body (nervous envelope)
Fear and illness
23 June 1929
Knowledge of the Yogi
Knowledge and the Supermind
Changing the condition of the body
Meditation; aspiration; sincerity
30 June 1929
Repulsion felt towards certain animals, etc.
Source of evil; Formateurs
Material world
28 July 1929
Art and Yoga
Art and life
Music, dance
World of Harmony
4 August 1929
Surrender and sacrifice
Personality and surrender
Desire and passion
Spirituality and morality
Questions and Answers 1930–1931
The Ordinary Life and the True Soul
Surrender, Self-offering and Consecration
Renunciation
Aspiration in the Physical for the Divine’s Love
Aspiration in Plants
Union with the Divine Consciousness and Will
Endurance—the Vital’s Hunger for Praise—Signs of the Converted Vital
Victory over Falsehood
Difficulties in Yoga
Vital Conversion—Rebirth and Personal Survival
Resurrection
Reincarnation—Memory of Past Lives
Psychic Presence and Psychic Being—Real Origin of Race Superiority
Faith
Power of Right Attitude
Power of Imagination
Selfless Admiration
Stepping Back
Knowledge of the Scientist and the Yogi
Chance
Different Kinds of Space and Time—Fearlessness on the Vital Plane
Knowledge by Unity with the Divine—The Divine Will in the World
Supermind and Overmind
True Humility—Supramental Plasticity—Spiritual Rebirth
The Supramental Realisation
The Supramental Descent
On the Dhammapada
Conjugate Verses
Vigilance
The Mind
The Flowers
The Fool
The Sage
The Adept
The Thousands
Evil
Punishment
Old Age
The Ego
The World
The Awakened One (The Buddha)
Happiness
Pleasure
Anger
Impurity
The Just Man
The Path
Miscellany
Niraya (Hell)
The Elephant
Craving
The Bhikkhu
The Brahmin
Appendix to Questions and Answers 1929
Appendix to Questions and Answers 1929
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