Questions and Answers 1954
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Questions and Answers 1954
27 January Does the body express one’s character? 1 
Children and the psychic 4 The power of observation 8
3 February The senses and super-sense 10
Children can be moulded 12 Keeping things in order 12 The shadow 16
10 February Study a variety of subjects 18
Memory 20 Memory of past lives 21 Getting rid of unpleasant thoughts 22
17 February Experience expressed in different ways 24
Origin of the psychic being 27 Progress in sports 28 Everything is not for the best 29
24 February The manifestation is progressive 31
Depression 32 Psychic contact 33 Liberation and humanity 34 ABC of the transformation of the body 35
3 March Occultism 38
A French scientist’s experiment 43
10 March Death 46
Death and determinism 47 Fear 49 The domain of death 52 Stones falling on Sri Aurobindo’s house 57
17 March Ascetic practices 63
Two kinds of submission 63 The Kali of Virampatnam 64 Kali 67 Cruelty 70 Rodin 72
24 March Dreams and the condition of the stomach 74
Tobacco and alcohol 74 Nervousness 76 The centres and the Kundalini 77 Control of the senses 78
31 March Three sources of vital energy 81
Educating the senses 82 A child brought up by a wolf 91
7 April Communication without words 93
Uneven progress 95 Words and the Word 97
14 April Love 100
Can a person love another truly? 101 Parental love 106
21 April Physical transformation 109
Activity and passivity 111 The body: most capable of perfection 114
28 April Aspiration and receptivity 115
Resistance 116 Purusha and Prakriti: not masculine and feminine 118
5 May Faith, trust, confidence 120
Insincerity and unconsciousness 125
12 May The Purusha 128
Surrender 129 Distinguishing between influences 129 Perfect sincerity 132
19 May Affection and love 134
Psychic vision 134 Divine Love and receptivity 135 Get out of the ego 136
26 May Symbolic dreams 142
Psychic sorrow 143 Dreams: one is rarely conscious 147
2 June Learning how to live 151
Work, studies and sadhana 153 Waste of the Energy and Consciousness 155
9 June Dreams do not transform the nature 157
Eating habits in the Ashram 158 The earth and the psychic being 160 Mother’s awareness of people 164
16 June Influences: Divine and other 168
Adverse forces 169 The four great Asuras 172 Aspiration arranges circumstances 175 Wanting only the Divine 176
23 June Meat-eating 178
Story of Mother’s vegetable garden 181 Faithfulness 182 Conscious sleep 184
30 June Occultism 189
Religion and vital beings 193 Mother’s knowledge of what happens in the Ashram 197 Asking questions to Mother 199 “Drawing” on Mother 201
7 July The inner warrior 203
Grace and the Falsehood 205 Opening from below 207 Surrender and inertia 208 Exclusive receptivity 213 Grace and receptivity 216
14 July The Divine and the Shakti 219
Personal effort 220 Speaking and thinking 222 Doubt 224 Self-giving, consecration and surrender 226 Mother’s use of flowers 230 Ornaments and protection 233
21 July Mistakes 236
Success 238 Asuras 240 Mental arrogance 241 Difficulty turned into opportunity 242 Mother’s use of flowers 244 Conversion of men governed by adverse forces 245
28 July Money 249
Ego and individuality 253 The shadow 262
4 August Servant and worker 266
Justification of weakness 267 Play of the Divine 267 Why are you here in the Ashram? 269
11 August Division and creation 273
The gods and human formations 274 People carry their desires around them 279
18 August Mahalakshmi 282
Maheshwari 282 Mahasaraswati 283 Determinism and freedom 283 Suffering and knowledge 287 Aspects of the Mother 289
25 August Ananda aspect of the Mother 291
Changing conditions in the Ashram 296 Ascetic discipline 301 Mother’s body 302
8 September Hostile forces 305
Substance 306 Concentration 308 Changing the centre of thought 310 Peace 313
15 September Parts of the being 316
Thoughts and impulses 317 The subconscient 319 Precise vocabulary 321 The Grace and difficulties 322
22 September The supramental creation 327
Rajasic eagerness 328 Silence from above 328 Aspiration and rejection 329 Effort, individuality and ego 330 Aspiration and desire 336
29 September The right spirit 339
The Divine comes first 341 Finding the Divine 342 Mistakes 342 Rejecting impulses 343 Making the consciousness vast 344 Firm resolution 346
6 October What happens is for the best 349
Blaming oneself 350 Experiences 350 The vital desire-soul 355 Creating a spiritual atmosphere 356 Thought and Truth 358
13 October The witness position 360
The silent Self 361 Experience of “All is Divine” 362 Illness is remembered by the body 366 Personal conflicts and the divine Will 369
20 October Stand back 374
Asking questions to Mother 375 Seeing images in meditation 377 Berlioz 379 Music 381 Mother’s organ music 383 Destiny 386
3 November Body opening to the Divine 388
Concentration in the heart 389 The army of the Divine 389 The knot of the ego 390 Strengthening one’s will 391
10 November Inner experience: the basis of action 393
Keeping open to the Force 393 Faith through aspiration 394 The Mother’s symbol 395 The mind and vital seize experience 396 Degrees of sincerity 397 Becoming conscious of the Divine Force 398
17 November Impersonal and personal Divine 401
Looking at oneself 402 Faith and trust 403 Abhimana 404 Physical suffering 405
24 November Aspiration mixed with desire 409
Willing and desiring 410 Children and desires 411 Supermind and the higher ranges of mind 415 Stages in the supramental manifestation 417
8 December Cosmic consciousness 419
“Clutching” 420 The central will of the being 421 Knowledge by identity 423
15 December Many witnesses inside oneself 426
Children in the Ashram 426 Trance and the waking consciousness 427 Ascetic methods 428 Education: spontaneous effort 430 Spiritual experience 432
22 December Possession by hostile forces 434
Purity and morality 438 Faith in the final success 440 Drawing back from the path 442
29 December Difficulties and the world 446
The experience the psychic being wants 447 After death 448 Ignorance 450
31 December 1955 – 1956: fourteen difficult months 453
Human will and the divine Will 457 Difficulties and the Divine 461