Part I — Yoga

• Question: You say that you teach Yoga. Could you please explain what Yoga is?
• Question: Recently I read about a person who was buried alive for eighteen days and came out unharmed. Does the kind of meditation you teach enable one to eventually perform such feats?
• Physical postures (Hatha Yoga)
• Proper breathing
• Vegetarian diet
• Drugs
• Concentration, meditation, contemplation
• Mantra

Part II — Importance of a Guru

• Question: Do you think that an aspirant needs a living Guru in order to realise God?
• Question: How does a real spiritual Master actually teach meditation?

Part III — Choosing a Guru

• Question: How can a person recognise a genuine spiritual Master?
• Question: Can you tell me how to choose a Master?
• Initiation
• Living in society
• Giving up old friends

Part IV — Marriage and the family life

• Question: Do you think that marriage is necessarily an obstacle on the spiritual path?
• Question: If meditation is the only way of seeing God face to face, what advice would you give to the man who has a family to look after?
• Sex
• The world's imperfections

Part V — Why some are not accepted as disciples

• Question: Why is it that you do not accept everybody who wants to become your disciple?
• Question: But don't you feel it is your responsibility to help all men?
• A disciple's responsibilities
• Sri Chinmoy Centre meetings

Part VI — Cleanliness

• Question: Is it important to take a shower before coming to meditate at the Centre?
• Question: For girls it is sometimes a complicated process to wash their hair every day. Is it necessary to do so before coming to the Centre to meditate?

Part VII — Short hair and beards

• Question: Why do you ask your male disciples to have short hair and not to wear a beard?
• Question: But Jesus Christ had long hair.
• Question: Why do your women disciples wear saris and your men disciples wear white?
• Flowers, candles and incense
• Removing one's shoes