Questions and Answers 1929–1931

Questions and Answers 1929 – 1931
with Commentaries on the Dhammapada

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

	The Ordinary Life and the True Soul	123
	Surrender, Self-offering and Consecration	126
	Renunciation	128
	Aspiration in the Physical for the Divine’s Love	130
	Aspiration in Plants	132
	Union with the Divine Consciousness and Will	133
	Endurance — the Vital’s Hunger for Praise — Signs of the Converted Vital	136
	Victory over Falsehood	141
	Difficulties in Yoga	143
	Vital Conversion — Rebirth and Personal Survival	144
	Resurrection	147
	Reincarnation — Memory of Past Lives	148
	Psychic Presence and Psychic Being — Real Origin of Race Superiority	150
	Faith	152
	Power of Right Attitude	154
	Power of Imagination	156
	Selfless Admiration	158
	Stepping Back	160
	Knowledge of the Scientist and the Yogi	161
	Chance	163
	Different Kinds of Space and Time — Fearlessness on the Vital Plane	165
	Knowledge by Unity with the Divine — The Divine Will in the World	167
	Supermind and Overmind	173
	True Humility — Supramental Plasticity — Spiritual Rebirth	175
	The Supramental Realisation	178
	The Supramental Descent	180

Appendix to Questions and Answers 1929

Notes are paraphrased from the “Publisher's Note” and “Note on the Texts”.

See also