Talks given from 1972 English Discourse series
1 Inward revolution2 The mystery of meditation3 Sex, love and prayer: three steps to the divine4 Kundalini Yoga: returning to the roots5 Esoteric games: a hindrance to growth6 The psychology of dreams7 Transcending the seven bodies8 Becoming and being9 The fallacy of knowledge10 Windows to the divine11 Right questioning12 Balancing the rational and the irrational
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 Inward revolution 24 July 1970 pm in Question 1 ON MAN’S PATH OF EVOLUTION IS IT POSSIBLE THAT AT SOME TIME IN THE FUTURE HUMANITY AS A WHOLE CAN ATTAIN ENLIGHTENMENT? AT WHAT POINT OF EVOLUTION IS MAN TODAY? With man, the natural, automatic process of evolution ends. Man is the last product of unconscious evolution. With man, conscious evolution begins. Many things are to be taken into account....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 10 Windows to the divine 21 October 1971 pm in Question 1 IN INDIAN PHILOSOPHY, THE NATURE OF ULTIMATE TRUTH HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS TRUTH, SATYAM, BEAUTY, SUNDRAM AND GOODNESS, SHIVAM. ARE THESE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GOD? These are not the qualities of God. Rather, they are our experiences of God. They do not belong to the divine as such; they are our perceptions....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 11 Right questioning 12 March 1972 pm in Question 1 NO QUESTION.! Do not ask theoretical questions. Theories solve less and confuse more. If there were no theories, there would be less problems. It is not that theories solve questions or problems. On the contrary, questions arise out of theories. And do not ask philosophical questions. Philosophical questions only seem to be questions, but they are not....
< Previous | Contents CHAPTER 12 Balancing the rational and the irrational 21 October 1971 pm in Question 4 WHAT FACTORS DO YOU ATTRIBUTE THE WESTERN YOUTH REVOLT TO, AND WHY ARE SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE FROM THE WEST NOW BECOMING INTERESTED IN EASTERN RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY? Mind is a very contradictory thing. It works in polar opposites. But our logical way of thinking always chooses one part and denies the other....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 2 The mystery of meditation 4 February 1971 pm in Question 1 WHAT IS MEDITATION? Meditation is not an Indian method; it is not simply a technique. You cannot learn it. It is a growth: a growth of your total living, out of your total living. Meditation is not something that can be added to you as you are. It can come to you only through a basic transformation, a mutation....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 3 Sex, love and prayer: three steps to the divine 14 February 1971 pm in Question 1 PLEASE DESCRIBE TO US THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SEX ENERGY. HOW CAN WE SUBLIMATE AND SPIRITUALIZE SEX? IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE SEX, TO MAKE LOVE, AS A MEDITATION, AS A JUMPING BOARD TOWARD HIGHER LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS? There is no such thing as sex energy....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 4 Kundalini Yoga: returning to the roots 25 July 1970 pm in Question 1 WHAT IS KUNDALINI YOGA AND HOW CAN IT HELP THE WEST? WHY IS YOUR METHOD FOR AWAKENING KUNDALINI CHAOTIC RATHER THAN LIKE THE TRADITIONAL, CONTROLLED METHODS? Existence is energy, the movement of energy in so many ways and so many forms. As far as human existence is concerned, this energy is kundalini energy....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 5 Esoteric games: a hindrance to growth 26 July 1970 pm in Question 1 IS THERE A DIVISION BETWEEN BODY AND MIND, MATTER AND CONSCIOUSNESS, THE PHYSICAL AND THE SPIRITUAL? HOW CAN ONE TRANSCEND BODY AND MIND TO ATTAIN SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS? The first thing to be understood is that the division between body and mind is abso-lutely false. If you begin with that division you will reach nowhere; a false beginning leads nowhere....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 6 The psychology of dreams 16 September 1970 pm in Question 1 CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT YOU MEAN BY DREAMS? We have seven bodies: the physical, the etheric, the astral, the mental, the spiritual, the cosmic, and the nirvanic. Each body has its own type of dream. The physical body is known in Western psychology as the conscious, the etheric body as the unconscious, and the astral body as the collective unconscious....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 7 Transcending the seven bodies 25 March 1971 pm in Question 1 YOU SAID WE HAVE SEVEN BODIES: AN ETHERIC BODY, A MENTAL BODY AND SO ON. SOMETIMES IT IS DIFFICULT TO ADJUST THE INDIAN LANGUAGE TO THE TERMS OF WESTERN PSYCHOLOGY. WE HAVE NO THEORY FOR THIS IN THE WEST, SO HOW CAN WE TRANSLATE THESE DIFFERENT BODIES INTO OUR LANGUAGE? THE SPIRITUAL IS NO PROBLEM, BUT THE ETHERIC?...