Table of Contents
- Question: Guru, sometimes when I don't see you for a long time and I sit down and look at your picture to meditate, I feel there is a block that does not let me feel your love and concern flowing to me; I feel that you are displeased with me and that you have reason to be so.
- Question: Although I am sure that this is my Path and I get intense joy in my heart from my devotion to You and Mother, sometimes I feel a strong longing for a quiet, monastic life. Where does that longing come from and if it has a negative origin, how can I best overcome it?
- Question: Is the longing for achieving Nirvana, that is, the total annihilation of the soul-existence, instead of aspiring for the ever-transcending manifestation of the Divine on earth, also an attitude of the deceptive vital?
- Question: Guru, I wish to share with you an experience I had a few weeks ago. It was an afternoon while I was taking a bath in the river near my house. A voice seemed to call out my name. As I searched for the direction of the sound, a Christ-like figure was sort of delineated in my mind, yet my heart welcomed the vision by saying: "Brother Jesus, I do not need you, your brother Chinmoy is my Master." At this time, the figure in my mind turned into a black bird of prey and flew out of my mind, sounding off its belching screams.
- Question: Guru, I also saw the Christ, full of Love, Light and Compassion. I also received a message from Him. Is this all true or is it an illusion? Was my ego interfering? After the experience I wrote a poem.
- Question: Does evil exist or is it in our minds?
- Question: Does the Inner Light have a power of its own to reveal itself to a seeker even though that person has a Master?
- Question: When I work, I feel very old and it often happens during the night. At that time I also feel everything so clearly. What is that state of clearness?
- Question: I've always thought that the people who did some work using their hands were more conscious than others.
- Question: What should be one's attitude when some disciple is a block to one's manifestation?
- Question: Guru, at times I feel that whenever I am about to attend a Centre activity, a resistance presents itself before me that tells me not to go, not to participate, etc. Am I doomed to feel this resistance, even when I know that the activity will be for my benefit? Sometimes the more I realise the benefit that the activity will give me, the more the resistance presents itself. Why?
- Question: Of all the undivine qualities that I have, there are two that bother and worry me most: impurity and lack of patience that brings bad temper to me. When we come to meditate with you and you look into our souls, do you get a general feeling of impurity or negativity, or do you know exactly if it has been bad temper or impurity?
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- Editor's introduction
