QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 

 

1929

 

 CONTENTS 

 

PRE CONTENT

 

Publisher's Note

 

 

 

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

 

1930 - 31

 

The Ordinary Life and the True Soul

Vital conversion-Memory of Past Lives

Knowledge of the Scientist and the Yogi

Surrender, Self-offering and Consecration

Resurrection

Knowledge of the Scientist and the Yogi

Renunciation

Reincarnation-Memory of Past Lives

Chance

Aspiration in the Physical for the Divine's Love

Psychic Presence and Psychic Being-Real Origin of Race Superiority

Different Kinds of Space and Time-Fearlessness on the Vital Plane

Aspiration in Plants

Faith

Knowledge by Unity with Divine - The Divine Will in the World

Union with the Divine Consciousness and Will

Power of Right Attitude

Supermind and Overmind

Endurance-the Vital's Hunger for Praise-Signs of the Converted Vital

Power of Imagination

True Humility-Supramental Plasticity - Spiritual Rebirth

Victory over Falsehood

Selfless Admiration

The Supramental Realisation

Difficulties in Yoga

Stepping Back

The Supramental Descent

 

On the Dhammapada

 

 

APPENDIX

Appendix

 

The Supramental Descent                   

 

Do you know what the flower which we have called “Successful Future” signifies when given to you? It signifies the hope  nay, even the promise  that you will participate in the descent of the supramental world. For that descent will be the successful consummation of our work, a descent of which the full glory has not yet been or else the whole face of life would have been different. By slow degrees the Supramental is exerting its influence; now one part of the being and now another feels the embrace or the touch of its divinity; but when it comes down in all its self-existent power, a supreme radical change will seize the whole nature. We are moving nearer and nearer the hour of its complete triumph. Once the world-conditions are ready the full descent will take place carrying everything before it. Its presence will be unmistakable, its force will brook no resistance, doubts and difficulties will not torture you any longer. For the Divine will stand manifest – unveiled in its total perfection. I do not, however, mean to say that the whole world will at once feel its presence or be transformed; but I do mean that a part of humanity will know and participate in its descent – say, this little world of ours here. From there the transfiguring grace will most effectively radiate. And, fortunately for the aspirants, that successful future will materialise for them in spite of all the obstacles set in its way by unregenerate human nature!    

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