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Questions and Answers 1957 – 1958
1957
2 January Can one go out of time and space? 1 
Not a crucified but a glorified body 3 Individual effort and the new force 5
9 January God is essentially Delight 7
God and Nature play at hide-and-seek 9 Why, and when, are you grave? 13
16 January Seeking something without knowing it 15
Why are we here? 16
23 January How should we understand pure delight? 20
The “drop of honey” 23 Action of the Divine Will in the world 25
30 January Artistry is just contrast 27
How to perceive the Divine Guidance? 29
6 February Death; need of progress 33
Changing Nature’s methods 35
7 February Individual and collective meditation 37
13 February Suffering; pain and pleasure 41
Illness and its cure 43
20 February Limitations of the body and individuality 44
6 March Freedom, servitude and love 50
8 March A Buddhist story 53
13 March Our best friend 55
15 March Reminiscences of Tlemcen 59
20 March Never sit down; true repose 65
22 March A story of initiation: knowledge and practice 67 
27 March If only humanity consented to be spiritualised 73
3 April Different religions and spirituality 76
10 April Sports and yoga 80
Organising one’s life 83
17 April Transformation of the body 85
24 April Perfection: lower and higher 90
1 May Sports competitions: their value 96
8 May Vital excitement; reason; instinct 99
15 May Differentiation of the sexes 104
Transformation from above downwards 107
29 May Progressive transformation 108
5 June Questions and silence 113
Methods of meditation 115
12 June Fasting and spiritual progress 117
19 June Causes of illness 121
Fear and illness 122 Mind’s working: faith and illness 124
26 June Birth through direct transmutation 128
Man and woman 132 Judging others; divine Presence in all 134 New birth 136
3 July Collective yoga: vision of a huge hotel 138
9 July Incontinence of speech 144
10 July A new world is born 145
Overmind creation dissolved 149
17 July Power of conscious will over matter 153
24 July The involved supermind 157
The new world and the old 158 Will for progress indispensable 159
31 July Awakening aspiration in the body 161
7 August The resistances: politics and money 166
Aspiration to realise the supramental life 170
14 August Meditation on Sri Aurobindo 172
21 August The Ashram and true communal life 173
Level of consciousness in the Ashram 174
28 August Freedom and Divine Will 176
4 September Sri Aurobindo: “an eternal birth” 178
11 September Vital chemistry: attraction and repulsion 180
18 September Occultism and supramental life 185
25 September Preparation of the intermediate being 191
2 October The Mind of Light 193
Statues of the Buddha 196 Burden of the past 198
9 October As many universes as individuals 200
Passage to the higher hemisphere 203
16 October Story of successive involutions 205
23 October The central motive of terrestrial existence 209
Evolution 211
30 October Double movement of evolution 214
Disappearance of a species 217
13 November Superiority of man over animal 219
Consciousness precedes form 222
27 November Sri Aurobindo’s method in The Life Divine 224
Individual and cosmic evolution 227
4 December The method of The Life Divine 231
Problem of emergence of a new species 233
11 December Appearance of the first men 236
18 December Modern science and illusion 239
Value of experience: its transforming power 240 Supramental power: first aspect to manifest 241
1958
1 January The collaboration of material Nature 245
Miracles visible to a deep vision of things 246
Appendix Explanation of New Year Message 247
8 January Sri Aurobindo’s method of exposition 249
The mind as a public place 251 Mental control 252 Sri Aurobindo’s subtle hand 254
15 January The only unshakable point of support 255
22 January Intellectual theories 256
Expressing a living and real Truth 257
29 January The plan of the universe 259
Self-awareness 261
5 February The great voyage of the Supreme 264
Freedom and determinism 267
12 February Psychic progress from life to life 268
The earth, the place of progress 270
19 February Experience of the supramental boat 271
Appendix The Censors 279
Absurdity of artificial means 281
26 February The moon and the stars 284
Horoscopes and yoga 285
5 March Vibrations and words 286
Power of thought; the gift of tongues 289
12 March The key of past transformations 291
19 March General tension in humanity 295
Peace and progress 298 Perversion and vision of transformation 300
26 March Mental anxiety and trust in spiritual power 302
2 April Correcting a mistake 306
9 April The eyes of the soul 308
Perceiving the soul 309
16 April The superman 312
New realisation 315
23 April Progress and bargaining 316
30 April Mental constructions and experience 319
7 May The secret of Nature 320
14 May Intellectual activity and subtle knowing 324
Understanding with the body 326
21 May Mental honesty 327
28 May The Avatar 331
4 June New birth 335
11 June Is there a spiritual being in everybody? 339
18 June Philosophy, religion, occultism, spirituality 341
25 June Sadhana in the body 347
9 July Faith and personal effort 350
16 July Is religion a necessity? 353
23 July How to develop intuition 357
Concentration 360
30 July The planchette; automatic writing 362
“Proofs” and knowledge 367
6 August Collective prayer; the ideal collectivity 369
13 August Profit by staying in the Ashram 371
What Sri Aurobindo has come to tell us 374 Finding the Divine 374
15 August Our relation with the Gods 376
27 August Meditation and imagination 378
From thought to idea, from idea to principle 382
3 September How to discipline the imagination 385
Mental formations 386
10 September Magic, occultism, physical science 389
17 September Power of formulating experience 397
Usefulness of mental development 400
24 September Living the truth 403
Words and experience 406
1 October The ideal of moral perfection 408
8 October Stages between man and superman 410
22 October Spiritual life; reversal of consciousness 412
Helping others 416
29 October Mental self-sufficiency; Grace 417
5 November Knowing how to be silent 421
12 November The aim of the Supreme 424
Trust in the Grace 427
26 November The role of the Spirit 428
New birth 430
See also