Questions and Answers 1953

05/06/2026
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Obstacles for sincere people entering a spiritual life

If you come to the spiritual life with a sincere aspiration, sometimes an avalanche of unpleasant things falls upon you: you quarrel with your best friends, […]
04/23/2026
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Latent Powers

How can one know whether one is capable of doing it or not! By trying. That’s the best thing. And if you do not succeed immediately, […]
03/23/2026

Should one work when one feels lazy?

If it is a work that you are doing for the collectivity and not for yourself personally, then you must do it, whatever happens. It is […]
03/21/2026
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Preventing repeat attacks by adverse forces

Q: Sometimes when an adverse force attacks us and we come out successful, why are we attacked once again by the same force? Because something was […]
03/05/2026
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Origin of superstitions

Generally a superstition originates in an experience. For instance, there is a certain superstition in Europe, and you are told: “Never walk under a ladder, it […]
01/07/2026
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Progress from Past lives

If it is not the mind, vital or physical which take birth again but only the psychic being, then the vital or mental progress made before […]
12/24/2025
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Belonging to the Divine

What is the exact way of feeling that we belong to the Divine and that the Divine is acting in us? You must not feel with […]
12/12/2025
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Multitude of Obstacles

Someone has said that when you open the door to Yoga, you are confronted by a multitude of obstacles. Is this true? “It is not an […]
11/02/2025
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Working of Divine Consciousness

The divine Consciousness works always, everywhere and in the same way. The divine Grace is active everywhere, and in all circumstances in the same way. And […]