Part I

• Service
• Renunciation
• Friendship
• The practical reality
• What has life taught me?
• Transformation, liberation, revelation, manifestation
• Just for today
• The existence of God
• Beauty
• Philosophy, religion and spirituality

Part II — Questions and answers: University of Arkansas

• Question: What do you concentrate on?
• Question: Do you respect other religions?
• Question: How can one work for God?
• Question: I am a vegetarian but I work as a meat handler. Is this increasing my karma?
• Question: How do you see the physical body as entering into the scheme of things?

Part III — Questions and answers: University of Tulsa

• Question: Is it necessary to transcend all emotions for the spiritual life?
• Question: Is it important for spiritual seekers to spend time with one another?
• Question: How many levels of initiation are there, and how many times will a Master initiate a disciple?

Part IV — Questions and answers: Southern Methodist University

• Question: How important do you think it is to have a spiritual teacher if one is very eager to make fast progress? And also, how long does one have to stay with the teacher?
• Question: How is it best to cope with the occasional fears and doubts that plague us?
• Question: For spiritual beginners, it seems that it is necessary to make some compromise between their family life and their spiritual life. Do you think that this compromise will always have to exist, or can it be transcended by some other kind of relationship?

Part V — Questions and answers: University of Nevada

• Question: How can one know the God inside himself without becoming confused by the mind?
• Question: Is there but one Satguru in any one age or are there many Satgurus at one time?
• Question: If we fall asleep during meditation, does that mean we should sleep more at night so we can stay awake?
• Question: How can we see the divine in another human being when each human being has so many faults?

Part VI — Questions and answers: Stanford University

• Question: I've heard that when one accepts a spiritual path, there is a point at which one must surrender oneself to a Guru who is higher than himself. But I've also heard that one must constantly question his teachings and listen to his own inner voice. These two injunctions seem to conflict.
• Question: How does one begin on the spiritual path?
• Question: Why is it that you always speak of God in masculine terms?
• Question: What is the nature and purpose of the soul?
• Question: Was the Christ an avatar?

Part VII — Questions and answers: Portland State University

• Question: Is there a difference between sleep and meditation?
• Question: Could you tell us what Christ is?
• Question: Why is it so difficult to unite one's worldly work with the spiritual life?
• Question: How should one meditate?

Part VIII — Questions and answers: North Idaho Junior College

• Question: When a disciple meditates on you or on your photograph, how much does he actually feel your presence?
• Question: What is the Will of the Supreme?
• Question: How can we achieve peace in our outer life?

Part IX — Questions and answers: University of Montana

• Question: What is the difference between seeing God and realising God?
• Question: Could you please talk about attachment and detachment in love?
• Question: How may one realise God?
• Question: How do we deal with negative emotions like anger, jealousy and fear?

Part X — Questions and answers: University of Colorado

• Question: Could you please tell us about your path to God-realisation?
• Question: How does a person surrender? What does a person do to achieve divine surrender?
• Question: In the highest state of samadhi, when you look at other human beings, what kind of consciousness do you feel in them?
• Question: If God is the only doer, what is the role of man's free will?
• Question: Why must a seeker love God?
• Editor's preface to the first edition