Table of Contents
- Question: How can the knowledge of spirituality help professional people in their effort to help mankind through their work?
- Question: Is it a good idea to use our intuition in our daily tasks?
- Question: Can meditation help cure physical ailments such as high blood pressure?
- Question: But if we are confused and nervous, how will meditation ever be able to help us?
- Question: Is it really necessary to seek help when we are suffering from mental problems? Can't we just meditate by ourselves and find the answer?
- Question: You speak of night and light. Do you believe that parts of life are dark and imperfect?
- Question: How can we overcome our ego-motivated life and self-centredness?
- Question: Is there any relationship between the light that the seeker receives and the light the earth receives?
- Question: What is your view on the equality of the sexes?
- Question: After we stop meditating, how can we maintain the level of consciousness we reached during our meditation?
- Question: From the spiritual point of view, does the new year have any specific significance?
- Question: How can I know the quintessence of Infinity?
- Question: Is there any real difference between one religion and another?
- Question: Can you define the soul?
- Question: You say that when the body dies the soul goes back to its own world. What is the soul's world?
- Question: Can the soul experience sorrow?
- Question: If a soul is more evolved, will it take on a body that is more physically beautiful, or is there no correlation between physical beauty and spiritual development?
- Question: When someone feels a beautiful poem inside, what prevents its outer expression?
- Question: Will the consciousness of all the individuals in the world have to be transformed before we have world peace?
- Question: I was wondering if there was a spiritual reason why earth is suffering from disasters at this time.
- Question: Is the mind jealous of the heart?
- Question: When several individuals form a committee to do a project, you have five different people discussing something with their own backgrounds and ideas. And in the U.N., you might have five different countries or even more discussing one topic, each country with its own firm belief. What is the best course to follow in such cases?
- Question: Is it possible for us to be consciously aspiring and yet somehow not be aspiring in parts of the being that we are unconscious of?
- Question: What is the best way to establish joy in every part of the being?
- Question: Which is the best way to inspire others to the spiritual life?
- Question: It seems that there should be only one moral code. How can everyone recognise and accept one moral code for the whole world?
- Question: Is the difference between materialism and spirituality that in the one case we try to possess the outer world and in the other case we try to possess the inner world?
- Question: What is the purpose of Yoga?
- Question: What is the importance of mantra?
- Question: What can we do to bring God to people in the world?
- Question: What is the vital?
- Question: How do we become aware of truth?
- Question: What is the relationship between Yoga and religion?
- Question: What is the sound of "Aum"?
- Question: Why did God create evil?
- To be of service to you
- Appendix: these quotes, from other writings of Sri Chinmoy, were included in the first editions.
- Editor's preface to the first edition
