Part I — Talks

• Thought-waves
• Realisation, revelation and perfection
• The world within and the world without
• You
• Self-examination
• Choice
• Meditation and the inner education
• Experience
• The heart
• Time

Part II — Questions and answers: New York University

• Question: Is the potential that anybody has for spiritual growth limited by astrological possibilities or some other possibilities which are available to them, or can everything be overcome with a great enough effort?
• Question: Why is there creation?
• Question: If I am God and I have God, then why do I need God and want God?
• Question: Does the divine Will predetermine what will happen in our life?
• Question: What does God have to do with suffering, pain and sickness?

Part III — Questions and answers: University Of Connecticut, Storrs

• Question: How can a person be sure that he really has aspiration?
• Question: When we find ourselves encountering difficulties in the spiritual life, is the best thing just to surrender to God's Will and leave it all up to Him?
• Question: What is the cause of ignorance?

Part IV: Questions and answers: University Of Maryland

• Question: Is there any reason for doubt?

Part V — Questions and answers: University Of Delaware

• Question: What is the difference between the inner teacher and the outer teacher?
• Question: Why is it that so many Indian spiritual Masters come to America instead of trying to help the people in their own country, where there is so much poverty and hunger?

Part VI — Questions and answers: Princeton University

• Question: How can we have more joy and less tension in our daily life?
• Question: If we have a job that involves a lot of thinking and activity, how can we maintain any sense of spirituality or light?

Part VII — Questions and answers: University of Pennsylvania

• Question: What dies?
• Question: Can we make as much spiritual progress living in the world and leading the life of a householder as we would living an ashram life?

Part VIII — Questions and answers: Marlboro College

• Question: When you speak of someone seeking enlightenment, doesn't that imply that the person does not have it inside him? And how can one ever attain it by seeking it?
• Question: Do you have any idea of why it was lost?
• Question: Why are we more attracted to temptation, or the unreal coin?
• Question: Is meditation the only way to achieve enlightenment?
• Editor's preface to the first edition