Table of Contents
Disciples' questions and answers
- Question: Why is it so hard for us to become one with you, Guru?
- Question: Guru, does the soul cry?
- Question: When we have feelings of 'my' and 'mine,' how can we make that 'I' feel as small as an ant?
- Question: Guru, what should we do about our pride?
- Question: Why doesn't the mind listen to the heart and the soul?
- Question: What is humility and how can we achieve it?
- Question: Guru, could you explain the difference between God-revelation and God-manifestation?
- Question: What is the difference between divine authority and human authority?
- The eternal seeker
- The reality within
- Simplicity, sincerity, purity and divinity
- Happiness
- Spirituality
- Possession and satisfaction
- Meeting with the Bishop of Adelaide
- Greeting
- The West
- Meditation
- The path of the heart
- Studying with Sri Chinmoy
- Public meditations
- Other teachers
- Meditation is natural
- Pope Paul
- Each religion is a house
- Interview on This Day Tonight television show
- Introduction
- Interviewer: It is an extremely hectic life you are leading, flying all over the world to give your lectures. It must be a change for you from the twenty years you spent in the spiritual community.
- Interviewer: What part do you most enjoy?
- Interviewer: So which life do you prefer?
- Interviewer: You have probably heard of the fate of another famous Guru, Guru Maharaji, who was admitted to a hospital with an ulcer. Do you think that could ever happen to you?
- Interviewer: You don't. Have you found that people here are generally hospitable towards you?
- Interviewer: They are not seeing you as just another Guru, then?
- Interviewer: How is your message different from any other religions?
- Interviewer: Now, meditation is a crucial part of your teaching. Do you think one can reach a state of inner perfection without meditating?
- Interviewer: Then our traditional religions are in trouble, in your opinion.
- Interviewer: Is there a difference between them?
- Interviewer: As well as a Guru you are also an artist and a prolific writer. I understand you wrote 800 poems in one night. Why do you write so many poems?
- Interviewer: Do you feel that if you wrote perhaps a few less, you might reach even a higher standard of poetic quality?
- Interviewer: You live from donations, I understand, and from the sale of your books. Is that enough to live on?
