Questions and Answers 1929-1931
07/12/2024
To run away from difficulties in order to conquer them is not a solution. It is very attractive. In those who seek the spiritual life, there […]
12/28/2023
It is interesting to note the insistence of the Dhammapada on self-control, for according to the Buddhist teaching, excess in all things is bad. The Buddha […]
12/08/2023
Live constantly in the presence of the Divine; live in the feeling that it is this presence which moves you and is doing everything you do. […]
11/19/2023
It is neither by moral precepts and observances, nor by a wide knowledge, nor by practising meditation, nor by a solitary life, nor by thinking”, that […]
09/16/2023
The nature of your difficulty indicates the nature of the victory you will gain, the victory you will exemplify in Yoga. Thus, if there is persistent […]
06/23/2023
In your meditation the first imperative need is a state of perfect and absolute sincerity in all the consciousness. It is indispensable that you should not […]
12/21/2022
Whatever the character of the experience you have, you must give no room to fear; you must keep an unshaken confidence and feel that whatever happens […]
11/23/2022
The very essence of endurance is that the vital should learn to give up its capricious likes and dislikes and preserve an equanimity in the midst of the most trying conditions. When you are treated roughly by somebody […]
11/22/2022
To have a glimpse of the Truth, one must take at least one step back in one’s consciousness, enter a little more deeply into one’s being […]