Table of Contents
Part I — Ten divine secrets
- Miracles
- The reality of the inner world
- Insecurity and complacency
- Fighting in the inner worlds
- Inner work
- Feeding the disciples' souls
- Disciples who have left the path
- The eternal newness of life
- Dealing with wrong forces
- Fulfilment of desires
Part II — Talk
Part III — Questions and answers on marriage
- Question: What is the spiritual purpose of marriage?
- Question: What do you see as being the current basis for most marriages?
- Question: Do you feel it is necessary for a couple to be legally married?
- Question: What is the importance of the marriage ceremony and what is its inner meaning?
- Question: Why do you feel marriage is compatible with the spiritual life?
- Question: What do you feel is the place of sex in a spiritual marriage?
- Question: Do you feel fidelity is necessary in marriage and, if so, why?
- Question: What do you feel are the necessary ingredients for a marriage in which both partners develop spiritually?
- Question: Do you feel that some kind of formal spiritual practice is of benefit to the harmony of marriage? If you do think so, what kind of practice would you recommend?
- Question: What should a householder's attitude be towards working in the world?
- Question: When do you feel divorce is the best course of action?
- Question: Do you have any recommendations for dealing with quarrelling and misunderstanding in a spiritual marriage?
- Question: What should be the attitude of the husband towards the wife and of the wife towards the husband?
- Question: What is the proper attitude towards money and possessions for householders?
- Question: When do you feel divorce is detrimental?
- Question: Do you feel ritual is of benefit to a harmonious family life?
- Question: What do you see as the main reasons why people desire children?
- Question: What do you see as the main reasons why people do not desire children?
- Question: What is the spiritual purpose of having children?
- Question: When do you feel a couple should have children?
- Question: When do you feel a couple should not have children?
- Question: What is the best attitude for bringing up children?
- Question: What is the mother's duty in bringing up children?
- Question: What is the responsibility of the father in bringing up children?
- Question: How should parents work together in bringing up children?
- Question: What is the parents' responsibility for the formal education of their children?
- Question: What advice can you offer to single parents?
- Question: Do you feel that having only one parent affects children, and, if so, how?
Part IV — General questions and answers
- Question: What is the date when I will realise God?
- Question: Why don't I wake up in the morning?
- Question: What should I do to receive the most?
- Question: What is the quality that I need most?
- Question: How can I manifest my spiritual name?
- Question: How can I forget my body-consciousness and enter into your consciousness?
- Question: What can I do to please you most?
- Question: Guru, it seems to me that I hardly do anything. I don't meditate as much as I should. I don't do anything right, and still you are so nice to me.
Part V — Other questions and answers
- Question: Sometimes I feel I am making a lot of progress and then, during the night, something happens, and I know it's happening even while I am asleep. I feel like something is interfering with my progress, and when I wake up I know that I have lost something. Is there any way that I can protect myself while I am asleep?
- Question: How can we tell if we are making good progress?