The Eternal Quest

Talks given from 1967 to 1972 Original in Hindi

1 Religion: The Door of Feeling 2 Discovering Your Own Path 3 A Psychological Approach 4 Hatha Yoga: A Valid Approach?5 Freedom From Suppression 6 Religious Scriptures: History or Myth?7 The Disease Called Seriousness 8 A Quest, Not a Questioning 9 The Need for Authenticity 10 If You Take the Whole out of the Whole 11 A Meeting with the Hare Krishna People 12 Right Questioning 13 Moving Between Polarities 14 The Alchemy of Religion 15 The Last Flowering

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5 Freedom From Suppression

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 Freedom From Suppression Date Unknown Question ONE DAY – IT WAS A FRIDAY WHEN ORTHODOX JEWS ARE BUSY PREPARING FOR THE SABBATH – A MAN WHO DIDN’T LIKE JEWS MET AN ORTHODOX RABBI ON THE STREET. IN AN ATTEMPT TO TORMENT HIM HE ASKED HIM TO EXPRESS THE ENTIRE PHILOSOPHY OF JUDAISM WHILE HE STOOD ON ONE FOOT. THE RABBI STOOD ON ONE FOOT AND SAID, “DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE OTHERS DO UNTO YOU....

6 Religious Scriptures: History or Myth?

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 Religious Scriptures: History or Myth? Date Unknown Question MANY WESTERN HISTORIANS FEEL THAT HUMANITY IS CONSTANTLY MAKING PROGRESS. IF THIS IS THE CASE, THEN HOW IS IT THAT HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS IS SO UNEVOLVED? The progress of humanity and the progress of human consciousness are two quite different dimensions. The progress of history is in time and the progress of consciousness is not in time....

7 The Disease Called Seriousness

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 The Disease Called Seriousness Date Unknown Question LIFE IS TREMENDOUSLY SERIOUS... Life is not serious. You are serious. Life is not anything serious; nothing can be more nonserious than life. Life is absolutely nonserious! Question BUT CERTAIN THINGS HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED ONLY BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE HAVE BEEN – MAYBE THE WORD ‘SERIOUS’ IT IS NOT GOOD, BUT, RATHER, ‘INTENSE’. Intensity is a very different thing from seriousness....

8 A Quest, Not a Questioning

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 A Quest, Not a Questioning Date Unknown Question WE KNOW FROM MANY SOURCES, SUCH AS THE BIBLE, THAT GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE. IF HE HAS CREATED EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING MUST BE GOOD. THEN WHERE DOES THE IDEA OF WICKEDNESS COME FROM. So many things will have to be taken into account. Firstly, to think of God as the creator is to divide reality into two: the creator and the created....

9 The Need for Authenticity

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 9 The Need for Authenticity Date Unknown Question IS REINCARNATION A PART OF YOUR TEACHINGS? I don’t talk much about doctrines. I am not very interested in intellectual gymnastics. Reincarnation is a fact, but I don’t talk much about it. I may help you to remember your past lives, but I don’t make a doctrine out of it. If you can remember them than it is okay....