Table of Contents
Part I
Part II
- Question: What is your path all about?
- Question: How can I tell if you are meant to be my Guru?
- Question: Sometimes you speak of the human and the divine or the Supreme in yourself and distinguish between these two aspects. Should a disciple try to distinguish the two or regard them as one and feel that everything is divine?
- Question: Is it possible for a disciple to learn from a more advanced seeker?
- Question: In your life do you show negativity?
- Question: When I am not meditating and when I have no work to do, there are vacant spaces which I can no longer fill with things I used to do before I became a disciple. I don't know what to do with this spare time.
- Question: What is the best way to think of you and the Supreme during the day?
- Question: The love that we have for you, Master, is it the same love that we should have for Mother Kali?
- Question: Why is it that whenever you ask for questions my mind suddenly goes blank?
- Question: What is the significance of children in the fulfilment of your mission?
- Question: Sometimes we want to do something for the mission which requires money, but we have difficulty getting it. Is it the Will of the Supreme or the hostile forces?
- Question: How can we maintain our inner cry and intensity when we are not around you?
- Question: When we feel joy in working for you, can we take this as pleasing you in your own way?
- Question: Could you talk about the meaning of the line in the Invocation, "My breath, Thy Vision's kite"?
- Question: Sometimes I am very happy and joyous, like at circus practice when I am having fun with my brothers and sisters, but I don't feel that I am soulfully happy because I am not consciously thinking of you.
- Question: It seems in my office that the people most receptive to you are the people I have the most conflicts with.
Part III
- Question: How can I know if I am executing God's Will or I am fulfilling my own ego?
- Question: What is the difference between desire and aspiration?
- Question: What is the significance of marriage, and can a married couple follow spirituality together?
- Question: Why has God made women so insecure that it is hard for them to become detached?
- Question: What is the best way to deal with dry periods in one's sadhana? That is, how does one maintain aspiration and good feelings while one experiences a dryness in his meditation?
- Question: What is the quickest way to silence the doubting mind?
- Question: Right now I am under psychoanalysis, but it seems that the more I become involved in spirituality, the harder it is for me to talk about it with my analyst. I feel that the things offered by analysis are not really what I want. And yet my analyst, who seems to be a very strong person, is reluctant to let me go free. And I don't know if there is any reconciliation between myself and him.
- Question: Does one use a mantra during meditation?
- Question: In the last couple of days, when I have been meditating I have been getting a desire not to breathe. Can you tell me what this is?
- Question: Sometimes when I am meditating I see different visual perceptions, shaking and concentric circles that seem to rise up. What are they?
- Question: How many incarnations do souls usually have to go through before they realise God?
- Question: Why is it that limited light has to expand into the unlimited Light?
- Question: What is the relationship between morality and the spiritual life?
- Question: Why do so many Americans, especially young men and women, seem to be turning to Indian spiritual leaders when there are so many churches and religions in the West?
- Question: Guru, what is the difference between a soul leaving the body when someone dies and our souls coming to you to give you a message?
- Question: Can a soul transmit messages without leaving the body?
- Question: Is it better to go deep within or to go high during meditation?
- Question: How does one best move the consciousness from the mind to the heart?
- Question: Is it difficult for intellectual people to have faith?
- Question: Why does our evolution go so slowly that it takes us many hundreds of incarnations to realise God? Why do we have to go through so much struggle?
- Question: I have been getting sensations in the middle of my forehead and I wanted to know if this indicates that my third eye is opening?
- Question: While I am working, is it possible to meditate?
- Question: Should I meditate on my navel to purify the vital?
- Editor's preface to the first edition
