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Questions and Answers 1929 – 1931
with Commentaries on the Dhammapada
with Commentaries on the Dhammapada
(Sahana:) “On Sunday evenings [the Mother] went to Dilip's house where an English lady from London, named Miss Maitland, was also accommodated. She had come to spend six months in the Ashram – she used to attend the Sunday meetings and ask the Mother whatever questions she had and get replies from her. Besides Maitland the group was made up of Nolini, Doraiswamy Iyyer (a Madras-advocate then visiting the Ashram every week-end), the American Vaun Macpheeters and his wife Jeanette (renamed Shantimayi here), Pavitra, Dilip and myself. The Mother started with a meditation, sometimes on a particular topic, and enquired at the end of the meditation what its result was in each individual. Then followed questions and answers, which were recorded in shorthand by Shantimayi. This phase begun on 7th April 1929 and lasted fifteen weeks.”[1]
Questions and Answers 1929
7 April Yoga: for the sake of the Divine 1 
Concentration 1 Preparations for Yoga: to be conscious 2 Yoga and humanity 2 “We have all met in previous lives” 3
14 April Dangers of Yoga 4
Two paths: tapasya and surrender 4 Impulses, desires and Yoga 5 Difficulties 6 Unification around the psychic being 7 Ambition: the undoing of many Yogis 7 Powers: misuse and right use of 7 How to recognise the Divine Will 8 Vital devotion 10 Need of a strong body and nerves 10 Inner being: invariable 12
21 April Visions: seeing and interpretation 13
Dreams and dreamland 14 Dreamless sleep 16 Visions and formulation 16 Surrender: passive and of the will 18 Meditation and progress 20 Entering the spiritual life 21
28 April Offering: general and detailed 23
Integral Yoga 24 Remembrance of the Divine 25 Reading and Yoga 27 Necessity; predetermination 28 Freedom 29 Miracles 31 Aim of creation 31
5 May Intellect: true and wrong movement 33
Attacks from adverse forces 33 Faith: integral and absolute 36 Death: not a necessity 36 Descent of Divine Consciousness 38 Inner progress 39 Memory of former lives 40
12 May Beings of the vital world (vampires) 42
Money power and vital beings 45 Capacity for manifestation of will 46 Entry into the vital world 47 Body: a protection 47 Individuality and the vital world 48
19 May Mind and its workings; thought-forms 50
Adverse conditions and Yoga 53 Mental constructions 53 Illness and Yoga 55
26 May Individual; illusion of separateness 58
Hostile forces and the mental plane 60 Psychic world; psychic being 62 “Spiritual” and “psychic” 63 Words; understanding speech and reading 64 Hostile forces, their utility 66 Illusion of action; true action 66
2 June Divine love and its manifestation 69
Part of the vital being in Divine love 72
9 June Nature of religion 76
Religion and the spiritual life 77 Descent of Divine Truth and Force 79 Religion, country, family 81 Religion and numbers 83
16 June Illness and Yoga 85
Subtle body (nervous envelope) 89 Fear and illness 90
23 June Knowledge of the Yogi 92
Knowledge and the Supermind 94 Changing the condition of the body 96 Meditation; aspiration; sincerity 97
30 June Repulsion felt towards certain animals, etc. 100
Source of evil; Formateurs 102 Material world 102
28 July Art and Yoga 104
Art and life 108 Music, dance 110 World of Harmony 112
4 August Surrender and sacrifice 114
Personality and surrender 116 Desire and passion 117 Spirituality and morality 118
Questions and Answers 1930-1931
| The Ordinary Life and the True Soul | 123 |
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| Surrender, Self-offering and Consecration | 126 |
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| Renunciation | 128 |
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| Aspiration in the Physical for the Divine’s Love | 130 |
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| Aspiration in Plants | 132 |
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| Union with the Divine Consciousness and Will | 133 |
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| Endurance — the Vital’s Hunger for Praise — Signs of the Converted Vital | 136 |
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| Victory over Falsehood | 141 |
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| Difficulties in Yoga | 143 |
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| Vital Conversion — Rebirth and Personal Survival | 144 |
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| Resurrection | 147 |
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| Reincarnation — Memory of Past Lives | 148 |
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| Psychic Presence and Psychic Being — Real Origin of Race Superiority | 150 |
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| Faith | 152 |
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| Power of Right Attitude | 154 |
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| Power of Imagination | 156 |
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| Selfless Admiration | 158 |
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| Stepping Back | 160 | |
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| Knowledge of the Scientist and the Yogi | 161 |
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| Chance | 163 |
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| Different Kinds of Space and Time — Fearlessness on the Vital Plane | 165 |
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| Knowledge by Unity with the Divine — The Divine Will in the World | 167 |
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| Supermind and Overmind | 173 |
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| True Humility — Supramental Plasticity — Spiritual Rebirth | 175 |
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| The Supramental Realisation | 178 |
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| The Supramental Descent | 180 |
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On the Dhammapada
Conjugate Verses 183
Vigilance 202
The Mind 210
The Flowers 213
The Fool 216
The Sage 219
The Adept 223
The Thousands 226
Evil 229
Punishment 233
Old Age 237
The Ego 239
The World 243
The Awakened One 246
Happiness 252
Pleasure 255
Anger 258
Impurity 261
The Just Man 266
The Path 270
Miscellany 274
Niraya (Hell) 277
The Elephant 280
Craving 284
The Bhikkhu 288
The Brahmin 292
| Appendix to Questions and Answers 1929 |
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Notes are paraphrased from the “Publisher's Note” and “Note on the Texts”.
See also
- ↑ Sahana, At the Feet of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, translated from the original Bengali by Nirodaran, 1985, p.12