The New Alchemy: To Turn You On

Talks On Meditation, Chapter 1 is called the “Preface” in the book, chapters 2 - 17 correspond to Chapters 1 - 16 in the book. Chapters 18 - 34 correspond to the Appendix of the book, 1 - 17. 1 - 17 were recorded in the Bikaner Palace Hotel, Mt Abu, 18 - 34 are recorded at Anand Shila Meditation Camp in Bombay.

Talks given from 09/02/73 pm to 14/04/73 pm English Discourse series

1 Surrendering to What Is 2 The Sense of Separateness 3 The Desire for Sensation 4 Desiring the Unattainable 5 The Power That Shall Make You Nothing 6 Seeking the Way 7 Fragments with No Coherence 8 The Silence That Follows the Storm 9 Thou Has Reaped 10 Obeying the Warrior Within 11 The Song of Life 12 The Lesson of Harmony 13 Penetrating the Hearts of Men 14 To Loosen the Bonds of Personality 15 The Path is Found 16 The Final Secret 17 The Voice That Is Soundless

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3 The Desire for Sensation

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 The Desire for Sensation 7 April 1973 pm in Bikaner Palace Hotel KILL OUT DESIRE FOR SENSATION.… LEARN FROM SENSATION AND OBSERVE IT, BECAUSE ONLY SO CAN YOU COMMENCE THE SCIENCE OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE, AND PLANT YOUR FOOT ON THE FIRST STEP OF THE LADDER. KILL OUT DESIRE FOR SENSATION. We live for sensations, we hanker for sensations. We go on seeking newer and newer sensations; our whole life is an effort to obtain new sensations....

4 Desiring the Unattainable

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 Desiring the Unattainable 8 April 1973 am in Bikaner Palace Hotel DESIRE ONLY THAT WHICH IS WITHIN YOU. IT LOOKS ABSURD, PARADOXICAL, ILLOGICAL: DESIRE ONLY THAT WHICH IS WITHIN YOU. Desire is basically for that which is not within you. Desire means the desire for something that is not within you. If it is already within you, then what is the need to desire it?...

5 The Power That Shall Make You Nothing

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 The Power That Shall Make You Nothing 8 April 1973 pm in Bikaner Palace Hotel DESIRE POWER ARDENTLY. ... AND THAT POWER WHICH THE DISCIPLE SHALL COVET IS THAT WHICH SHALL MAKE HIM APPEAR AS NOTHING IN THE EYES OF MEN. WE WILL BE MOVING more and more in contradictions. The language of religion is bound to be contradictory. On the face, it looks irrational....

6 Seeking the Way

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 Seeking the Way 9 April 1973 am in Bikaner Palace Hotel SEEK OUT THE WAY. “... PAUSE AND CONSIDER AWHILE. IS IT THE WAY YOU DESIRE, OR IS IT THAT THERE IS A DIM PERSPECTIVE IN YOUR VISIONS OF GREAT HEIGHTS TO BE SCALED BY YOURSELF, OF A GREAT FUTURE FOR YOU TO COMPASS? BE WARNED. THE WAY IS TO BE SOUGHT FOR ITS OWN SAKE, NOT WITH REGARD TO YOUR FEET THAT SHALL TREAD IT....

7 Fragments with No Coherence

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 Fragments with No Coherence 9 April 1973 am in Bikaner Palace Hotel ... THE WHOLE NATURE OF MAN MUST BE USED WISELY BY THE ONE WHO DESIRES TO ENTER THE WAY. EACH MAN IS TO HIMSELF ABSOLUTELY THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIGHT.… SEEK IT BY THE STUDY OF THE LAWS OF BEING, THE LAWS OF NATURE, THE LAWS OF THE SUPERNATURAL: AND SEEK IT BY MAKING THE PROFOUND OBEISANCE OF THE SOUL TO THE DIM STAR THAT BURNS WITHIN....

8 The Silence That Follows the Storm

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 The Silence That Follows the Storm 10 April 1973 am in Bikaner Palace Hotel LOOK FOR THE FLOWER TO BLOOM IN THE SILENCE THAT FOLLOWS THE STORM: NOT TILL THEN. ONE OF THE MOST BASIC laws of life has to be understood. Life is based on polarity; everything exists with its polar opposite. Otherwise is not possible. Mind exists because of matter; mind is the polar opposite....

9 Thou Has Reaped

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 9 Thou Has Reaped 10 April 1973 pm in Bikaner Palace Hotel THE SPIRITUAL SEARCH starts as a seeking for eternal bliss, as a seeking for eternal liberation, as a seeking for divine light and divine life. But the center remains with you. In the beginning it is a self-centered search. Whatsoever you are seeking you are seeking for yourself. This self-centeredness ultimately will prove a barrier, because you cannot be in total ecstasy if you are self-centered....