Table of Contents
Part I — Discourse
Part II — Questions and answers
- Question: How can one bring the soul's consciousness into the professional world?
- Question: How do we know whether we are shunning our duties to society or doing the right thing?
- Question: I feel an element of fear rising in myself when I meditate and reach for light. My ego seems to fear its dissolution.
- Question: Once a person becomes your disciple, how does the spiritual enlightenment start? We come here to meditate with you once a week, but what else is required?
- Question: I recently tried to practise non-attachment. I left things that I considered mine and that I loved, and in doing so I felt anger. I couldn't think of God. All could think of was what I had left behind. Could you tell me if I have misunderstood something?
Part III — Discourses
Part IV — Questions and answers
- Question: I feel a trembling in the head during meditation.
- Question: All the great Masters of the past have revealed something or given something to the disciples. Krishna gave to Arjuna. Jesus gave to his apostles. Would this be the same with a Master today?
- Question: Do you see unity in everything?
- Question: What sort of scientific spiritual techniques do you use?
- Question: Can you say that nations have certain animal qualities?
- Question: How can we transform daily anxiety and destructive self-criticism?
- Question: Can we learn more from failure or success?
- Question: How can we know when we do things wrong?
- Question: Do you think Jesus was God's only son?
- Question: Is contemplation what develops when we do breathing exercises?
- Question: When one has a feeling of being completely free in one's body and one's mind and, at the same time, one is completely clear — much clearer than what we are seeing and hearing tonight — and, at the same time, completely still, what kind of an experience is this?
- Question: Is it necessary to see God in His personal aspect?
- Question: Sometimes when we meditate with you, I feel such peace that I fall asleep. Is this good?
