Contents

Section One

Realisation—Past and Future

The Spiral Universe

This Expanding Universe

The World Serpent

This Mystery of Existence

Record of World-History

Freedom and Destiny

Section Two

The Divine Truth—Its name and form

The Symbolic Ignorance

Diseases and Accidents

The Problem of Evil

This Ugliness of the World

Divine Justice

The Divine Suffering

"Divine Disgust"

Section Three

Things Significant and Insignificant

Why do we forget things?

How to get rid of troublesome thoughts

Bad Thought Formation

Why are Dreams Forgotten

To the Children of the Ashram

Section Four

On Occultism

Mysticism and Occultism

Meditation and Some Questions

Meditation and Meditation

Prayer and Aspiration

Offering and Surrender

Equality of the Body—Equality of the Soul

Personal Effort and Will

How to feel that we belong to the Divine

Sincerity is Victory

Images of gods and goddesses

Section Five

Yogic Centres

The Inner and the Outer

And This Agile Reason

The Force of Body Consciousness

The Body and the Psychic

The Psychic Being—Some Mysteries

The Past Lives and the Psychic Being

The Homogeneous Being

Service Human and Divine

The Divine Family

Section Six

The Nature and Destiny of Art

Music—Its Origin and Nature

Indian and European Music

Specialisation