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Part II — Translations from Bengali poems

• Editor's note
• The awakening of dawn
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Part III — Essays

• India: Her consciousness and light — Part I
• India: Her consciousness and light — Part II

Part IV — One hundred beloved sons and daughters of Mother India: Avatars, seers, saints and sages

• The Vedic seers
• Vasishtha
• Maitreyi
• Kapila
• Dhruva
• Bhrigu
• Agastya
• Sri Ramachandra
• Sita
• Sri Krishna
• Radha
• Lord Buddha
• Lord Mahavira
• Sri Chaitanya
• Shankaracharya
• Ramanuja
• Madhava
• Guru Nanak
• Gorakshanath
• Kabir
• Mirabai
• Swami Dayananda
• Debendranath Tagore
• Sri Ramakrishna
• Sarada Devi
• Swami Vivekananda
• Sister Nivedita
• Nag Mahashay
• Troilanga Swami
• Shyama Charan Lahiri
• Gambhirananda
• Bhaskarananda
• Devadas Maharaj
• Ramdas Kathiya Baba
• Swami Nigamananda
• Bama Kshepa
• Bijoy Krishna Goswami
• Sri Aurobindo
• The Mother
• Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga
• Ramana Maharshi
• Anandamayee Ma
• Pir Vilayat Khan
• Mother Teresa

Part V — Cultural luminaries

• Valmiki
• Vyasa
• Kalidasa
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
• Michael Madhusudan Dutt
• Sarat Chandra Chatterjee
• Girish Chandra Ghosh
• Dwijendra Lal Roy
• Dilip Kumar Roy
• Sarojini Naidu
• Bharati
• Dr. Sisir Kumar Ghose
• Ustad Ali Akbar Khan

Part VI — Patriots

• Raja Rammohun Roy
• Lala Lajpat Rai
• Bal Gangadhar Tilak
• Bipin Chandra Pal
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Deshabandhu Chitta Ranjan Das
• Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
• Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
• Rishi Rajnarayan Bose
• Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
• Deshapriya
• Master-da Surya Sen
• Sarat Chandra Bose
• Lord Mountbatten

Part VII — Builders of modern India

• Sri Jagadish Chandra Bose
• Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray
• Vidyasagar
• Ashutosh Mukherji
• Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri
• Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
• Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
• Prime Minister Moraji Desai
• President R. Venkataraman
• K. M. Munshi
• Dr. Satyendranath Bose
• Kaji Mohammad Maharshin
• Max Muller
• Margaret Wilson
• C. V. Narasimhan
• Siddhartha Shankar Ray
• Dr. L.M. Singhvi
• Lakhan Mehrotra

Part VII — Historical figures

• King Janaka
• Arjuna
• Kunti
• Gandhari
• King Ashoka
• Babar
• Humayan
• Akbar
• Shah Jahan
• Aurangzeb
• Shivaji

Part VIII — Reflections

• To my Indian brothers and sisters
• On India's past and present
• On India and the West
• On India and America
• On Indian music

Part IX — Humorous poems

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Part X — Questions and answers

• Question: I would frankly like to know what India's spirituality has ever done for her. How is it that, in spite of her yogis and saints, she is still a poor and backward country?
• Question: Do you feel that there is a revival of the principles of non-violence in our present-day world?
• Question: What made you decide to come to the West?
• Question: You are able to combine the spirituality of India with Western dynamism. This is quite unheard of for a teacher of Indian spirituality. Do you follow a prearranged plan, or do you try to conform to the world while bringing good into it?
• Question: With which spiritual Masters did the dynamic approach to spirituality begin in India?
• Question: If someone has deep love for India in this life, does it mean that the person has incarnated there previously, or is it something that could have developed in this life?_
• Question: Modern India is embracing science and technology more and more. Could you tell us what the Supreme wants from India in a modern world?
• Question: From the beginning of His creation, did the Supreme choose India to play the most significant role in humanity's spiritual development?
• Question: How would you describe the difference between the Brahmin's approach to spirituality and the Kshatriya's approach to spirituality?
• Question: Some people feel that India's poverty helps her open her heart to spirituality. Is there any truth to this theory?
• Question: The Western world sees Indian society as chaotic and underdeveloped. Is Western society any better?
• Question: What was the best service the British did for India?
• Question: Which country or countries have received India's light the most?
• Question: What qualities of India has America adopted and embodied?
• Question: When someone is an "Indian soul", what qualities do they manifest?
• Question: Have any of the spiritual truths that the ancient rishis revealed changed since those days?
• Question: When the political boundaries of India became smaller, did India's consciousness disappear from the places that used to be part of India?
• Question: The Supreme has poured such special Grace on India in the area of spirituality. Why after all these thousands of years do people still live in such miserable conditions?
• Question: Did the Supreme instil India's spirituality into the very earth of India or just into the souls that take incarnation there, or both?
• Question: Indian culture places a lot of emphasis on the family unit. Does this contribute to its spirituality?
• Question: If India had not been the conveyor of spirituality through her Vedic seers, how would spirituality have arrived on earth?
• Question: Why has the Supreme's Light shone so brightly on India and so many souls have been receptive to that Light?
• Question: The first Europeans who landed in America were actually seeking a short cut to India. Does this have a divine significance?
• Question: It seems that India is becoming less tolerant and more fundamentalist. How can this be changed?
• Question: How can India retain its spirituality as it moves into the modern materialistic world?
• Question: What unique qualities does India offer to the world?
• Question: What is India's most ancient and sacred secret in terms of its spirituality?
• Question: Will the consciousness of the world ever shift so that the countries with the most spiritual wealth — like India — as opposed to the most material wealth will be looked to as the world leaders?
• Question: The West tries to blame India's lack of outer progress on her spirituality. How can India defend her soul's righteousness?
• Question: As spiritual souls begin incarnating psychically in the future, will India maintain the prestige of offering them to the world?
• Question: How does ancient Indian spirituality differ from modern Indian spirituality?
• Question: Is the soul of India happy or sad as it is approaching its 50th Anniversary of independence from England?
• Question: Could you please compare the essential truths of the American theory, "All men are created equal," with the Hindu and Vedic theories?
• Question: In a world of increasing homogeneity, how can India go forward without losing her uniqueness?
• Question: What message of India should Westerners care for most?
• Question: What are the most prominent good qualities of the vast Indian soul?
• Question: Does ancient India have a special message for modern America?
• Question: In a complex world, how can we develop the humility, simplicity, devotion and surrender of the true Indian devotee?
• Question: What were the best qualities of the Pandavas?
• Question: Will India rise to a position of world leadership again and, if so, in what capacity?
• Question: Recently I saw a video about the new "Rationalist" movement in India. Will this movement ever affect India spiritually to any real extent?
• Question: Throughout the ages spirituality has been linked to India. Do more advanced souls go there especially to make progress, or is it just due to the Grace of the Supreme?
• Question: From the spiritual point of view, is India's poverty a blessing or a curse? Is poverty there to keep India simple and pure?
• Question: What is the spiritual significance of India's independence?
• Question: Who was the first person the soul of India chose to begin the independence movement?
• Question: If Indians lose their devotion for the cosmic gods, will the gods lose their ability to help humanity?
• Question: Have most of India's ancient sages and heroes continued to take incarnation?
• Question: In what ways has the physical presence of the Himalayas helped Indians to become more spiritual?
• Question: Could you speak about the impact on the human consciousness of India's age-old heritage of devotional music?
• Question: Why has the India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir never been resolved?
• Question: If an Indian couple that is living abroad has a child, does this child have different blessings since it was not born on Indian soil?
• Question: Who were the Aryans? Where did they come from?
• Question: When the Christ was in India, where did he go and what did he do?
• Question: What actually brought about India's independence?
• Question: You have said that it was spiritual power that brought about India's liberation. How does Netaji's militaristic approach fit in?
• Sri Chinmoy, you are a man of peace. Was it difficult at any stage for you to identify with my father because, after all, he was not strictly a man of peace. He was a man of military action.
• Question: Do you foresee that India and Pakistan will one day become one again, like Germany?
• Question: What has India gained by the introduction of the English language?

Part XI — August 15th, 1945

• Editor's note
• August 15th, 1945
• Editor's introduction to the first edition