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Questions and Answers 1950 – 1951
1950
21 December The Mother of Dreams 1 Acting without preference and desire 1 Knowing the Divine Will 2 The teacher’s mission 3
25 December Christmas: festival of Light 6 Energy and mental growth 6 Meditation and concentration 7 The Mother of Dreams 10 Playing a game well, and energy 10
1951
8 January True vision and understanding of the world 22 Progress, equilibrium 24 Inner reality; the psychic 25 Animals and the psychic 27
13 January Aim of life; effort and joy 31 Science of living; becoming conscious 33 Forces and influences 35
15 January Sincerity; inner discernment; inner light 38 Evil and imbalance 40 Consciousness and instruments 40
20 January Developing the mind 43 Misfortunes, suffering; developed reason 44 Knowledge and pure ideas 47
25 January Needs and desires 49 Collaboration of the vital; mind an accomplice 50 Progress and sincerity; recognising faults 52 Organising the body; illness; new harmony; physical beauty 54
27 January Sleep; desires; repression; the subconscient 58 Dreams; the superconscient solving problems 60 Ladder of being; samādhi 61 Phases of sleep; silence, true rest 62 Vital body and illness 63
3 February What is Yoga? for what? 64 Aspiration; seeking the Divine 67 Process of yoga; renouncing the ego 70
5 February Surrender and tapasya 72 Dealing with difficulties; sincerity; spiritual discipline 73 Narrating experiences 76 Vital impulse and will for progress 77
8 February Unifying the being; ideas of good and bad 80 Miracles; determinism; Supreme Will 82 Distinguishing the voice of the Divine 87
19 February Exteriorisation: clairvoyance, fainting, etc. 124 Somnambulism; Tartini; children’s dreams 127 Nightmares; guru’s protection 129 Mind and vital roam during sleep 130
22 February Surrender, offering, consecration 132 Experiences and sincerity 135 Aspiration and desire; Vedic hymns 136 Concentration and time 137
26 February On reading books; gossip 152 Discipline and realisation 153 Value of imaginary stories 154 Private lives of big men; relaxation 156 Understanding others; gnostic consciousness 157
5 March Disasters: the forces of Nature 175 Story of the “Charity Bazaar” 176 Liberation and law 177 Dealing with the mind and vital: methods 178
12 March Mental forms; learning difficult subjects 198 Mental fortress; thought 199 Training the mind 203 Helping the vital being after death; ceremonies 204 Human stupidities 205
19 March Mental worlds and their beings 225 Understanding in silence 227 Psychic world: its characteristics 229 True experiences and mental formations; twelve senses 230
22 March Relativity: time 232 Consciousness; psychic Witness 233 The twelve senses; water-divining 235 Instinct in animals; story of Mother’s cat 237
29 March The Great Vehicle and the Little Vehicle 257 Choosing one’s family, country 258 The vital being distorted; atavism 260 Sincerity; changing one’s character 262
31 March Physical ailment and mental disorder 263 Curing an illness spiritually 264 Receptivity of the body 265 The subtle-physical: illness, accidents 268 Curing sunstroke and other disorders 270
9 April Modern art 296 Trend of art in Europe in the twentieth century 301 Effect of the Wars; descent of vital worlds 301 Formation of character 303 If there is another war 303
12 April Japan, its art, landscapes, life, etc. 305 Enchantment of Japan 308 Culture: its spiral movement 309 Indian and European: the spiritual life 311 Art and Truth 312
19 April Demands and needs; human nature 331 Abolishing the ego 332 Food: tamas, consecration 333 Changing the nature: the vital and the mind 334 The yoga of the body; cellular consciousness 337
23 April The goal and the way 350 Learning how to sleep; relaxation 351 Adverse forces: test of sincerity 353 Attitude to suffering and death 354
26 April Irrevocable transformation 356 The divine Shakti; glad submission 357 Rejection, integral 358 Consecration; total self-forgetfulness; work 363
3 May Money and its use for the divine work; problems 374 Mastery over desire: individual and collective change 381
5 May Needs and desires 383 Discernment; sincerity and true perception 385 Mantra and its effects 388 Object in action: to serve; relying only on the Divine 389
7 May A hierarchy 391 Transcendent, universal, individual Divine 391 The Supreme Shakti and Creation 392 Inadequacy of words, language 394
11 May Mahakali and Kali 395 Avatar and Vibhuti 397 Sachchidananda behind all states of being 398 The power of will; receiving the divine Will 399
Notes are paraphrased from the “Publisher's Note” and “Note on the Texts”.