Table of Contents
Part I
Part II
- Question: How can we avoid criticising someone?
- Question: How can we be tolerant of the people around us when we see they are not so perfect?
- Question: There are disciples who are faithful to you, but they do not believe in God.
- Question: When I meditate at the Centre, it is good, but when I meditate alone, I often have the feeling of fear.
- Question: Is it good to leave my son and family and go somewhere else to meditate when I cannot meditate at home?
Part III
Part IV
- Question: The hostile forces seem to be increasing and making progress, and the good forces seem to be losing strength. How is it possible that the good forces will ever win?
- Question: In your New Year's Message you mentioned in the last two lines 'My Transcendental Silence-Crown and my Universal Sound-Throne'. Can you say something about that?
- Question: Could you give us a meditation or concentration technique to develop discrimination-power?
- Question: My father committed suicide eleven years ago and it still disturbs me. He had cancer and had three months to live, so he took his life.
- Question: At the public meditation you talked about the crying child within. If we are concentrating on your Transcendental picture, can we try to see the crying child in that and identify with it there?
- Question: Are there certain pieces of music that are best to listen to at certain times of the day?
- Question: One of the older disciples in my Centre is very discouraged by something she read in one of your books. You said that older people in their fifties very often cease to make spiritual progress because at that age the vital is either impure or tired and it stops giving determination to the mind. This disciple got discouraged and said, "What hope is there? I am in my fifties."
- Question: How can we know if we are trying to work on too many projects and not getting enough sleep?
- Question: How is it that the memory of first seeing you has such capacity to lift our consciousness up very quickly?
- Question: I have been taking driving lessons and I wonder if I am going to pass.
- Question: In one of your poems you say to try to be pleased with yourself all the time. If you feel sad, frustrated or disappointed because a lot of things you didn't do or you did wrong, then how can you be pleased with yourself?
Part V
- Question: Yesterday you were talking about the prayer "Let Thy Will be done." Is it wrong to pray for something specific?
- Question: Lately I've read many things about the power of positive thinking. If you really want something, should you say, "Supreme, make it happen if it is Thy Will," or should you affirm, "This will happen"?
- Question: Is it wrong to pray for any desire?
- Question: Does God necessarily fulfil your desire if it is based on greed?
- Question: My question is regarding manifestation and spirituality. Often, I find that more manifestation means less opportunity to become spiritually stronger. How does one find the proper balance?
- Question: What is the best way to distinguish between the mind's desire and the soul's will?
- Question: What can we do when the body always obstructs our spiritual achievement in the outer world, like swimming the English Channel?
- Question: What is the best way for me to make progress in the battle against lethargy and self-indulgence?
- Question: I am wondering about the advisability of a very small Centre having public meditations as a form of manifestation.
- Question: How can I know if I am making progress?
- Question: In some kinds of manifestation I find that I don't often have as much fun because they are more competitive. Should those certain things not be done?
