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Questions and Answers 1957
2 January 1957
Can one go out of time and space?
Not a crucified but a glorified body
Individual effort and the new force
9 January 1957
God is essentially Delight
God and Nature play at hide-and-seek
Why, and when, are you grave?
16 January 1957
Seeking something without knowing it
Why are we here?
23 January 1957
How should we understand pure delight?
The “drop of hocney”
Action of the Divine Will in the world
30 January 1957
Artistry is just contrast
How to perceive the Divine Guidance?
6 February 1957
Death; need of progress
Changing Nature’s methods
7 February 1957
Individual and collective meditation
13 February 1957
Suffering; pain and pleasure
Illness and its cure
20 February 1957
Limitations of the body and individuality
6 March 1957
Freedom, servitude and love
8 March 1957
A Buddhist story
13 March 1957
Our best friend
15 March 1957
Reminiscences of Tlemcen
20 March 1957
Never sit down; true repose
22 March 1957
A story of initiation: knowledge and practice
27 March 1957
If only humanity consented to be spiritualised
3 April 1957
Different religions and spirituality
10 April 1957
Sports and yoga
Organising one’s life
17 April 1957
Transformation of the body
24 April 1957
Perfection: lower and higher
1 May 1957
Sports competitions: their value
8 May 1957
Vital excitement; reason; instinct
15 May 1957
Differentiation of the sexes
Transformation from above downwards
29 May 1957
Progressive transformation
5 June 1957
Questions and silence
Methods of meditation
12 June 1957
Fasting and spiritual progress
19 June 1957
Causes of illness
Fear and illness
Mind’s working: faith and illness
26 June 1957
Birth through direct transmutation
Man and woman
Judging others; divine Presence in all
New birth
3 July 1957
Collective yoga: vision of a huge hotel
9 July 1957
Incontinence of speech
10 July 1957
A new world is born
Overmind creation dissolved
17 July 1957
Power of conscious will over matter
24 July 1957
The involved supermind
The new world and the old
Will for progress indispensable
31 July 1957
Awakening aspiration in the body
7 August 1957
The resistances: politics and money
Aspiration to realise the supramental life
14 August 1957
Meditation on Sri Aurobindo
21 August 1957
The Ashram and true communal life
Level of consciousness in the Ashram
28 August 1957
Freedom and Divine Will
4 September 1957
Sri Aurobindo: “an eternal birth“
11 September 1957
Vital chemistry: attraction and repulsion
18 September 1957
Occultism and supramental life
25 September 1957
Preparation of the intermediate being
2 October 1957
The Mind of Light
Statues of the Buddha
Burden of the past
9 October 1957
As many universes as individuals
Passage to the higher hemisphere
16 October 1957
Story of successive involutions
23 October 1957
The central motive of terrestrial existence
Evolution
30 October 1957
Double movement of evolution
Disappearance of a species
13 November 1957
Superiority of man over animal
Consciousness precedes form
27 November 1957
Sri Aurobindo‘s method in The Life Divine
Individual and cosmic evolution
4 December 1957
The method of The Life Divine
Problem of emergence of a new species
11 December 1957
Appearance of the first men
18 December 1957
Modern science and illusion
Value of experience: its transforming power
Supramental power: first aspect to manifest
Questions and Answers 1958
1 January 1958
The collaboration of material Nature
Miracles visible to a deep vision of things
Appendix
Explanation of New Year Message
8 January 1958
Sri Aurobindo’s method of exposition
The mind as a public place
Mental control
Sri Aurobindo’s subtle hand
15 January 1958
The only unshakable point of support
22 January 1958
Intellectual theories
Expressing a living and real Truth
29 January 1958
The plan of the universe
Self-awareness
5 February 1958
The great voyage of the Supreme
Freedom and determinism
12 February 1958
Psychic progress from life to life
The earth, the place of progress
19 February 1958
Experience of the supramental boat
Appendix
The Censors
Absurdity of artificial means
26 February 1958
The moon and the stars
Horoscopes and yoga
5 March 1958
Vibrations and words
Power of thought; the gift of tongues
12 March 1958
The key of past transformations
19 March 1958
General tension in humanity
Peace and progress
Perversion and vision of transformation
26 March 1958
Mental anxiety and trust in spiritual power
2 April 1958
Correcting a mistake
9 April 1958
The eyes of the soul
Perceiving the soul
16 April 1958
The superman
New realisation
23 April 1958
Progress and bargaining
30 April 1958
Mental constructions and experience
7 May 1958
The secret of Nature
14 May 1958
Intellectual activity and subtle knowing
Understanding with the body
21 May 1958
Mental honesty
28 May 1958
The Avatar
4 June 1958
New birth
11 June 1958
Is there a spiritual being in everybody?
18 June 1958
Philosophy, religion, occultism, spirituality
25 June 1958
Sadhana in the body
9 July 1958
Faith and personal effort
16 July 1958
Is religion a necessity?
23 July 1958
How to develop intuition
Concentration
30 July 1958
The planchette; automatic writing
“Proofs” and knowledge
6 August 1958
Collective prayer; the ideal collectivity
13 August 1958
Profit by staying in the Ashram
What Sri Aurobindo has come to tell us
Finding the Divine
15 August 1958
Our relation with the Gods
27 August 1958
Meditation and imagination
From thought to idea, from idea to principle
3 September 1958
How to discipline the imagination
Mental formations
10 September 1958
Magic, occultism, physical science
17 September 1958
Power of formulating experience
Usefulness of mental development
24 September 1958
Living the truth
Words and experience
1 October 1958
The ideal of moral perfection
8 October 1958
Stages between man and superman
22 October 1958
Spiritual life; reversal of consciousness
Helping others
29 October 1958
Mental self-sufficiency; Grace
5 November 1958
Knowing how to be silent
12 November 1958
The aim of the Supreme
Trust in the Grace
26 November 1958
The role of the Spirit
New birth
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