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Questions and Answers 1950 – 1951
1950
21 December The Mother of Dreams 1 
Acting without preference and desire 1 Knowing the Divine Will 2 The teacher’s mission 3
23 December Concentration and energy 4
25 December Christmas: festival of Light 6
Energy and mental growth 6 Meditation and concentration 7 The Mother of Dreams 10 Playing a game well, and energy 10
28 December Correct judgment 11
30 December Perfection and progress 14
Dynamic equilibrium 15 True sincerity 17
1951
4 January Transformation and reversal of consciousness 18
8 January True vision and understanding of the world 22
Progress, equilibrium 24 Inner reality; the psychic 25 Animals and the psychic 27
11 January Modesty and vanity 29
Generosity 30
13 January Aim of life; effort and joy 31
Science of living; becoming conscious 33 Forces and influences 35
15 January Sincerity; inner discernment; inner light 38
Evil and imbalance 40 Consciousness and instruments 40
20 January Developing the mind 43
Misfortunes, suffering; developed reason 44 Knowledge and pure ideas 47
25 January Needs and desires 49
Collaboration of the vital; mind an accomplice 50 Progress and sincerity; recognising faults 52 Organising the body; illness; new harmony; physical beauty 54
27 January Sleep; desires; repression; the subconscient 58
Dreams; the superconscient solving problems 60 Ladder of being; samādhi 61 Phases of sleep; silence, true rest 62 Vital body and illness 63
3 February What is Yoga? for what? 64
Aspiration; seeking the Divine 67 Process of yoga; renouncing the ego 70
5 February Surrender and tapasya 72
Dealing with difficulties; sincerity; spiritual discipline 73 Narrating experiences 76 Vital impulse and will for progress 77
8 February Unifying the being; ideas of good and bad 80
Miracles; determinism; Supreme Will 82 Distinguishing the voice of the Divine 87
10 February Liberty and license; surrender makes you free 90
Men in authority as representatives of the divine Truth 92 Work as offering; total surrender needs time 93 Effort and inspiration; will and patience 94
12 February Receiving the divine force 96
Signs indicating readiness for the path 97 Weakness in mind and vital 98 Intense concentration for breaking through 100 Divine perception and human notion of good and bad 101 Conversion and consecration; progress 102 Signs of entering the spiritual path; meditation of different kinds 103 Mounting aspiration; concentration in the Playground 105
15 February Dreams, symbolic; true repose 107
False visions 108 Earth-memory and history 110
17 February False visions 113
Offering one’s will 114 Equilibrium; progress; maturity 116 Ardent self-giving: perfecting the instrument 117 Difficulties, a help in total realisation; paradoxes 118 Sincerity; spontaneous meditation 120 Ashram meditation and Playground concentration 122
19 February Exteriorisation: clairvoyance, fainting, etc. 124
Somnambulism; Tartini; children’s dreams 127 Nightmares; guru’s protection 129 Mind and vital roam during sleep 130
22 February Surrender, offering, consecration 132
Experiences and sincerity 135 Aspiration and desire; Vedic hymns 136 Concentration and time 137
24 February Psychic being and entity; dimensions 139
Psychic in the atom 141 Death; exteriorisation; unconsciousness 142 Past lives; psychic can progress only upon earth 144 Psychic’s choice of birth 145 Consecration to divine Work; psychic memories 147 Individualisation; psychic organises for progress 149
26 February On reading books; gossip 152
Discipline and realisation 153 Value of imaginary stories 154 Private lives of big men; relaxation 156 Understanding others; gnostic consciousness 157
1 March Universe and the Divine 160
Freedom and determinism; Grace 161 Time and Creation: in the Supermind 162 Work and its results 163 The psychic being; beauty and love 164 Flowers: beauty and significance 166 Choice of reincarnating psychic being 168
3 March Hostile forces; difficulties 169
Individuality and form; creation 172
5 March Disasters: the forces of Nature 175
Story of the “Charity Bazaar” 176 Liberation and law 177 Dealing with the mind and vital: methods 178
8 March Silencing the mind; changing the nature 182
Reincarnation: choice 183 Psychic, higher beings, gods incarnating 184 Incarnation of vital beings; the Lord of Falsehood; Hitler 185 Possession and madness 186
10 March Fairy tales: serpent guarding treasure 189
Vital beings: their incarnations 190 The vital being after death 191 Nightmares: vital and mental 193 Mind and vital after death 195 The spirit of the form: Egyptian mummies 196
12 March Mental forms; learning difficult subjects 198
Mental fortress; thought 199 Training the mind 203 Helping the vital being after death; ceremonies 204 Human stupidities 205
14 March Plasticity 207
Conditions for knowing the Divine Will 208 Illness; microbes 209 Fear; body-reflexes 211 The best possible happens 213 Theories of Creation 214 True knowledge; a work to do 215
17 March The universe: eternally new and same 217
Traditions about Pralaya 218 Light and thought; new consciousness and forces 219 The expanding universe; inexpressible experiences 221 Ashram surcharged with vibrations of Light; new force 222 Differently vibrating atmospheres 223
19 March Mental worlds and their beings 225
Understanding in silence 227 Psychic world: its characteristics 229 True experiences and mental formations; twelve senses 230
22 March Relativity: time 232
Consciousness; psychic Witness 233 The twelve senses; water-divining 235 Instinct in animals; story of Mother’s cat 237
24 March Descent of divine Love, of Consciousness 240
Earth: a symbolic formation; the divine Presence 242 The psychic being and other worlds; divine Love and Grace 243 Becoming conscious of divine Love 244 Finding one’s psychic being 245 Responsibility 246
26 March Losing all to gain all; psychic being 247
Transforming the vital 248 Changing physical habits; the subconscient 251 Overcoming difficulties; weakness, an insincerity 252 Changing oneself to change the world 253 Psychic source and flash of experience; preparation for yoga 255
29 March The Great Vehicle and the Little Vehicle 257
Choosing one’s family, country 258 The vital being distorted; atavism 260 Sincerity; changing one’s character 262
31 March Physical ailment and mental disorder 263
Curing an illness spiritually 264 Receptivity of the body 265 The subtle-physical: illness, accidents 268 Curing sunstroke and other disorders 270
2 April Causes of accidents 272
Little entities, helpful or mischievous: incidents 274
5 April Illusion and interest in action 277
The action of the divine Grace and the ego 279 Concentration, aspiration, will, inner silence 282 Value of a story or a “language” 283 Truth; diversity in the world 285
7 April Origin of evil 286
Misery: its cause 288
9 April Modern art 296
Trend of art in Europe in the twentieth century 301 Effect of the Wars; descent of vital worlds 301 Formation of character 303 If there is another war 303
12 April Japan, its art, landscapes, life, etc. 305
Enchantment of Japan 308 Culture: its spiral movement 309 Indian and European: the spiritual life 311 Art and Truth 312
14 April Surrender and sacrifice 314
Idea of sacrifice; Bahaism; martyrdom 315 Sleep: forgetfulness, exteriorisation, etc. 317 Dreams and visions: explanations 318 Exteriorisation: incidents about cats 320
17 April Unity and diversity 323
Protective envelope; desires; consciousness, the true defence 323 Perfection of the physical instrument; the cinema 324 Choice, constant and conscious 325 The law of one’s being; the One and the infinite Multiplicity 326 Civilisation: preparing an instrument 328
19 April Demands and needs; human nature 331
Abolishing the ego 332 Food: tamas, consecration 333 Changing the nature: the vital and the mind 334 The yoga of the body; cellular consciousness 337
21 April Sri Aurobindo’s letter on conditions for doing yoga 340
Aspiration, tapasya, surrender 342 The lower vital; old habits; obsession 344 Sri Aurobindo on choice and the double life 346 The old fiasco; inner realisation and outer change 348
23 April The goal and the way 350
Learning how to sleep; relaxation 351 Adverse forces: test of sincerity 353 Attitude to suffering and death 354
26 April Irrevocable transformation 356
The divine Shakti; glad submission 357 Rejection, integral 358 Consecration; total self-forgetfulness; work 363
28 April Personal effort; tamas, laziness 365
Static and dynamic power 367 Stupidity; psychic and intelligence 368 Philosophies: different “languages” 369 Theories of Creation 370 Surrender of one’s being and one’s work 372
3 May Money and its use for the divine work; problems 374
Mastery over desire: individual and collective change 381
5 May Needs and desires 383
Discernment; sincerity and true perception 385 Mantra and its effects 388 Object in action: to serve; relying only on the Divine 389
7 May A hierarchy 391
Transcendent, universal, individual Divine 391 The Supreme Shakti and Creation 392 Inadequacy of words, language 394
11 May Mahakali and Kali 395
Avatar and Vibhuti 397 Sachchidananda behind all states of being 398 The power of will; receiving the divine Will 399
12 May Mahalakshmi and beauty in life 402
Mahasaraswati; conscious hand 403 Riches and poverty 403
14 May Chance; the play of forces 405
Peace, given and lost 408 Abolishing the ego 410
Notes are paraphrased from the “Publisher's Note” and “Note on the Texts”.